Arsenal let It Slip Away Again

How still believes in the Wenger way? Time for him go and start again at Arsenal.

@ Jekyll. You’re talking bollox m8. Sometimes you just have accept we were part of a great game of football and for once there were no blatantly poor decisions. Modric could’ve had a pen in the 1st half and VP’s ‘goal’ looked on side.
Personally i’m just glad we weren’t stuffed. The pain has been tough since the CC Final.

It’s not over yet but the league is gone and 2nd place is our only realistic target now.

Still, St Totteringham’s day is ever closer.

Quite right Chrispy. WHL is a difficult place to get a result – Man Utd, Chelsea & Man City all drew there too. Spuds first two goals difficult to do anything about – a bit disappointed that Chesney didn’t see that Lennon was going for the penalty and pull out but, he made a couple of top-drawer saves to balance it up. It was disappointing but there cannot be any complaints.

In fairness Chrispy, it is you who are talking nonsense. Taken in isolation, we were part of a great game. But this is not in isolation – we are producing epic calamatous collapses in virtually every single game. Taken off the top off my head this is the 4th time we have capitulated to throwing away a two goal lead this season. That does not even count farces like Liverpool last week and the League cup final.

Unless you are a fan who has never known another manager at the club (and thats not a critisism by the way), it is absolutely abundantly obvious that Arsenes time is up. He will have to leave someday. Let it be now, when he has clearly lost his nerve to the extent that it has filtered to his players, but when at least we are in a CL spot. Another year of collapses like this and it will become part of what is expecte off Arsenal. We cannot afford that risk. For the sake of himself and the club he should leave this summer.

bigsyisback,,u knob,,what u smokin,,even with a delusional manager and a shite back line,and a far away skipper,,,we gave ye loads on yer own turf….

Once again, I’m fully aware of our fallabilities, so don’t shoot me down. At 3-1 up I was prepared/expecting a capitulation. So I’m as wary as all of us of our short comings, but please …

”A stunning brace”?! A decent near post goal & a routine penalty more like. Seems like you’ve swallowed Sky’s codswallop.

Our fans are becoming too hard on ourselves & too generous to the opponents & refs & people in the studio governing how people think.

A draw wasn’t hideously unfair on either side & I’m weary of making excuses but it seems having a perfectly good goal disallowed isn’t worthy of comment any longer, apparently, as Sky seem to dictate to people what the talking points are. (RVP was clearly onside.) Ones like this are repeatedly swept under the carpet by Sky, and our fans just accept it. Or are too resigned to it to get annoyed. (Wasn’t RVP onside at Newcastle to make it 5-4?) Much like Sky not repeating Darren Fletcher chasing 30 yards after the ref, swearing in his face & shoving him at Old Trafford when we player earlier in the league. That wasn’t repeated properly or even discussed in the studio. (And yes, Sp*rs ‘could’ have had a pen.)Sorry, rant over, I just think some of us need to work out whose side we’re on and fight our corner a bit harder rather than joining in with everyone else by sticking the boot in, to ourselves. And none of the blogs are saying anything new. Do you think Liverpool blogs are teeming with people ranting about not having won anything since 2006? (That’s 1 year after us, yet the media leave them well alone on that.)

Lets be honest. The title race was over weeks ago. and know we are down to 3rd. I have never seen a team throw away so many matches from a leading position. schzeney gave away the pen stupidly but thankfully kept us in the game in towards the end with a couple of good saves. but my word! how many times can this team mess it up. chelsea now have momentum and we can’t seem tp string 2 wins together. we’ll finish 3rd and wenger will have to look at him self and the team. he is a great manager who has done great things for us and would ike to see him given another year but he has to change his style and buying philosophy. defense is week and theo again showed he is a threat down the middle.

oh by the way…. can Diaby get any worse? Can someone in the team please tell him to stop trying to dribble at every oppotunity and just pass it. Went off early in the 2nd. Lets hope he is injured.

Fantastic game, still 15 unbeaten. The critisism is unfair, playing away from home against a team that plays out of their skins when it’s against us who have undoubtedly had their best season for some time.

bigsy,
still in our shadow mate.

Post match interviews, Wenger has to defend a draw, Rednapp almost gets accolades.

It’s not all about tonight is it. It’s about season after season of collapse at this time of year. That’s the pattern that must be recognised. That’s the pattern the manager refuses to recognise. That’s why he must go. Unless you are somehow participating in the profits the club makes.

There is nothing wrong with our attacking force, it’s our defence. No matter how many goals we score, we will squander the lead anyway. When we were 3-1 up, i have never had a sense of relaxation for i know that we will blow away somehow, and i was right. Wenger needs to rebuild the defence. Just dismantle the back five, and build from scratch, sell everyone in the back five, and use the money to get top class players and build the back 5 from zero. Don’t fix it, but rebuild from zero.

Great game, spurs looked more balanced when Bale went off. Our midfield was off the pace in the 2nd half.

Time for Wenger to go, for me he’s lost the plot.
Get in the special 1 or Hiddink who are winners!

Can’t hold on to a lead pathetic!
As an Arsenal season ticked holder i have had it with Wengers tactics.
We need a fresh start because we will never win anything with him as manager!
Time for a change.
Gooner for lifexx

Did anyone else find the sight of one or two of our players grinning as they exchanged shirts on full time infuriating? We’ve just surrendered a two goal lead & probably the title, and THEM, and there’s polite smiles. Where is the ‘over my dead body’ attitude in this team? As if you’d see Rocky, Adams, Parlour, Keown, etc smiling in similar circumstances. I think that’s where a lot of frustration from fans comes from, we seem (I stress seem) to care more than they do. We need a team of Jacks. JW – Arsenal DNA, the future of Arsenal.

love it ..i remember when you were so good this type of comment didn’t get a response…7 years soon…7 Fucking years and no silverware…are you arsenal in disguise ?

are we talking about Newcastle again, West Brom or Spurs ?

Bigsy –

If you listen to Alan Smith regularly you’ll notice that he is actually highly critical of Arsenal. So much that he’s upset a lot of people at the club. He’s one of these former player apologists who go out of their way not to appear biased. (It was interesting to see AS claim it was a pen & TS say it wasn’t. They don’t want to be shot down for being biased.) Brian Marwood is the same (although he has it for the club after he was shown the door for leading a failed player’s revolt.)In fact, Sky tend to pick ex-Arsenal players who won’t do us any favours. Merson is a Chelsea fan & never backs us. Wright is kept away generally as he’s too pro-Arsenal. Charlie Nicholas? fair do’s, but he doesn’t really have much input. Likewise Mclintock. Atleast Spurs get two ex players for their games in Europe – Rednapp & Hoddle for Real Madrid. We get your ex players & often Pleat!

Question…Who do you want to replace him?

Ha Ha Bigsy.

You know your lot are well up for this fixture, you even commented on it a week or so ago. I think you were baiting us to admit that if we were honest we’d be cacking it a bit at this fixture, maybe, maybe not but we knew it would be a tough one, for that reason I thought we came through a hard game with a fair result, obviously totally pissed off throwing away a 3-1 lead but then again we were doing brilliant to be 3-1 up.

The other 2 games you refer to we were plain shit and unacceptable individual performances should have been punished.

Fair comment mate, I cannot argue or attempt to with that statement

Certainly not you, idiot adn ignorant.