Book your room at Dignitas…football is doomed forever

Didnt mind the result to be honest i wasn’t to sure we were going to win with the amount of players we had to rest. Can we please sign a decent keeper Almunia and Fabianski are not close to the talent we have had down the years in that position.

Oh almost forgot well done to JET who was a bright spark out of the young players

To many passengers yesterday as well.

Denilson should never wear an arsenal shirt again, Vela can p*ss off back to Spain and Theo.. well.. Once again nothing offered. Traore was poor, and Fabianski showed us how good almunia is…… :-*

Cannot really blame Wenger for selection, the side just didnt perform. And stoke did out muscle us.. Back to headlines of “weak arsenal” and “they didnt have the stomach for it”..

Tim, you’re right…if we go on to win the title of the CL who will remember a bleak day in the Potteries? BTW, when Whory Delapidated dries the ball, isn’t that wasting time? PS. The stweards were knuts and were trying to reach targets of throwing people out for standing…and as for my ticket, I’m going now! Can get you one if you so wish, though…any yarns from your celeb-shoulder-rubbing missus, mate?

I agree, we are so hypocritical in this country it’s un-real. I’m not going to go over the Gallas incident again, it’s happened, and over. However, we moan at no English talent coming through, we blame the bigger clubs for not producing them, then the eyes, ears, and moths of the public, (the press) congratulate the Stoke method of football.

How is a youngster going to learn to play football, when, his national press are so vocal in their support of the opposite? When the press bemoan that good football won’t win trophies, and, Stoke are exceptional for their guile, a young up and coming player can’t help but be influenced by that.

I have to say that Stoke were very good for this win, and I am generalising. I hope we beat Villa this week, as I had a few texts, from what I have come to call ‘newspaper supporters’.

We should always play our strongest team, we should of gone for this man u are out, and more rubbish to that affect. Had we played our strongest side and lost a CB or CM then the same people would have moaned I’m sure. However, thankfully they don’t run the club. And the guys that do are doing a tremendous job.

COME ON THE GUNNERS

Swedish Gooner, the new rules since last year say that you have to take a 2 meter distance from a player who takes the throw-in.
Danis Gooner, the rules have never don’t mention it to be legal or not (the use of a towel I mean) because nobody ever done it before. They are exploiting a gap between the rule book and the meaning of a game. The only way a ref can react is by giving a yellow card for time wasting (which is an offence and is mentionned in the rule book). It really is up to the ref to make those decisions and the ref was poor. But that is no surprise any more.

vela mexican mate

I know..

He was on loan in Spain though before he came back to play for us.

He did ok there, so can go back where he might be of some use to someone..

Cheers for pointing it out though..

The referee was happy for Stoke to use the towel only as long as it was offered to Arsenal as well.
It’s a horrible, ugly tactic though, just awful.

@AGS Why do Stoke need to prepare a pitch? They never use it.

I failed to see yesterday how drying the ball with a towell is not wasting time when keepers get booked for time wasting when they appear to delay their run up to the goal kick or place it down more than once for a better position. This is down to the ref and Atkinson was a joke.

I have no problem with the throw but feel we make it too easy for Decrap who also steals 10 yards with his marathon run up, as said above put a jumping player 2 yards in front of him to spoil his aim, AW should have been more prepared for the throw ins.

I am obviously in a minority regarding the Stoke game. I watched a team with a number of young inexperienced players go behind to a very physical experienced team by a first minute goal.
They did not panic, they did not flinch they continued to play the way the have been coached and got back into the game. I was just waiting for Stoke to tire in the second half. However, one misplaced pass which deflected out to the right wing and gave Stoke a breakaway goal put new life into Stoke. They then scored with another break away. It was only at this point that I thought Arsenal may lose.
I am so proud of the team and how they played in the game and I know that concentrating on improving skills to play is the way forward. Stoke may have won on the day but who on earth would swap places with them. To those that really believe that winning trophies is what it is ALL about, then I say ‘go support someone else’. Either that or stop listening to the media who try to hype it all up by concentrating on the winning aspect. The gane is the important thing and at this point in time Arsenal are one of the few clubs that don’t seem to have lost sight of this fact.
COME ON YOUR REDS !

The 2 goals you mention were scored when Eastmond moved to RB, to be fair to the new midfield they hadn’t got up to the speed of the game, agree entirely on TW14, he was awful in every aspect.

1. cameroon are out of the anc and will be back by the end of the week. will he play is the bigger question. he has been missed no doubt.
2. use of the towel is a real problem for me. come to emirates do you think they can use a towel? bring their own ball people? and therefore not level playing field. I know ref said we could use it too but the point is all games should be equal with same rules not just those at stoke.
3. stoke scored 2 good goals (1st and 2nd) silvestre and campbell had the ball thrown over head for first and We’re given fabiansky sh*t about it? there is enough blame to go around on that one.

Enuf said on that because the winner of the match got…….

an away tie with manchester city!

thank you very much would rather have lost to stoke and not expend the effort on playing mancity on about february 15. time off and focus on epl and champs league is much more important.