Took me a day to partially recover from the horrendous performance at toilet bowl, I’m still sad with what I saw! Not particularly interested in going into the match details for this one (sorry!), it was a game to forget but I shan’t let go the two things – game plan and referring.
The level of refereeing in Premier League needs to be fixed. It’s not because Spu*s benefitted of a soft penalty. It’s because the inconsistency we see in Premier League. I don’t give a fuck about other teams but it’s never consistent for us, Arsenal. For every half decisions coming our way, we are denied at least 10.
How many of you can say hand to heart if that same push was done by a Spu*s defender to Martinelli or Nketiah, we would have got a Penalty kick? If Rob Holding was a United or Liverpool player, would he have been sent off?
Why a player from a certain team wasn’t punished after steping on Tomiyasu’s face? Where the fuck was VAR at that time?
It was a soft penalty. If you start penalising them, score line would look like 9-7 every other match. We would have celebrated like an FA cup win if it was in our favour, against Spu*s at Emirates in a game so crucial for Champions League qualification.
Second point, game management. Last time we played against Spu*s, Tomiyasu did a great job in restricuting Son. Almost everyone (you too, if you put down those glasses that has ‘Arteta is great’ written on the sides) knew it would be difficult for Holding to restrict Son. Everyone also knew what a fucking drama he is, the same guy who broke 16 ribs because a dead ball hit him with 0.06 miles / hour.
What were those sideline shouting for, if it didn’t meant for Holding to be careful after a yellow card? I’m a Holding fan, I still feel it was a good decision to play him ahead of Ben White since he is better with headers and can compete with Kane but I have never seen him that aggressive. Was it a game plan? If yes, it was sh*t. If he was not told to keep calm after first yellow, it was sh*t.
We are too good to be competing against Spu*s and United level of bullying and getting away with it. You don’t try it in a crucial game. It backfires!
One last thing, Conte can fuck right off. Isn’t it surprising to complain about someone complaining? I mean if not more, he is on the same level to Mourinho in complaining! Arteta only qualifies as an assistant complainer (pun intended) in front of him.
I’m devasted with that loss. There shouldn’t have bad decisions. There shouldn’t have been a red card. A fair loss after 90 min in a 11v11 is acceptable. This inconsistency should stop. Arteta should stop shouting nonsense and use that energy for his in-game management.
Right, I know you are frustrated too and I’m not helping here but it is what it is. Hopefully this Tuesday, we manage to beat New Castle and then grab a win against Everton in our last game of this season. Europa League is not where I want to see the best club in the world play. If we don’t ask questions if we don’t qualify for Champions League when no one else wants to, that mediocrity which crept in in the later days of Wenger is not gone. If we don’t qualify for Champions League after coming this close, we are just one of those midtable clubs (West Ham, Man United and Spu*s).
Signing off..
Ambarish
True. But if the players can still somehow finish fourth AND make the manager look like a dickhead, it’ll be a utopian moment. Two hours to lift off.
I’ve moved back to an evening shift, which means a late night match is perfect time to watch for me. I should have been excited, but it’s the hope that kills you.
One nil,early goal,hold on like peak Wimbledon ’88. Cue Arteta coronation (followed by next season’s guillotining (is that a word?). Glory days here again(readers may choose appropriate tone for last sentence).
Anyone looking for comforting signs, bookies have Newcastle at 4/1,draw at 3/1 and Arsenal odds on 4/5. They do this for a living……
Then again Arteta manages for a living…..
It’s going to be tough tonight Newcastle will spend big in the summer so players will either be trying to convince that they’re good enough to stay on or putting on a show for a new club.
How we respond to the other night is also massive we tend to have clusters of results if we’re too defensive we’ve got no chance.
Yep,attack a defensively weak team or defend against a team that are offensively very dangerous,Callum Wilson and St Max are real live wires everytime I watch them.Also worried about Bruno G,seems to want to prove he chose correctly in picking the toon (ahead of us?). But they are poor at the back. Can Arteta send a team out away from home to play on the front foot?
Almunia
Arteta’s problem (well one of them anyway) is that he over thinks things and thinks he’s cleverer than everyone else so comes up with plans that are too convoluted and not half as clever as he thinks.
If he could learn to play to the strengths of the players he has he’d do a lot better.
Marc
I think that’s right about Newcastle. They’ll also want to press and compete for possession. No low block. Our front 5 need to be at their threatening, high energy best and I think we should have enough. First goal vital – get it and I sense the barcodes will become passive. I think I’d start ESR and get him running at their back 4.
Aaaagh. Just seen an old Arsenal v Hull game from 08 appear on Sky. Guess who’s in goal Almunia – oh fuck I’ve just given it away.
Sky starts coverage of tonight’s games by replaying the spurs goals. Murdoch owned cunts.
MNF with Neville and Carragher. Monday Night Fuckwits!
I’m genuinely interested though, why is this bias when both Arsenal and Spu*s are London clubs and in fact Arsenal has all the legacy and Tottenham is shit?
I mean if it happens for Manure in that region, it makes sense coz they were better than city almost always.
Is it because Deniel Levy has better connections that our Yanks?
than*
No the media have loved the Spud’s for years – it shouldn’t make a difference if it did the Spud’s wouldn’t be on a longer run without a trophy that we went between 05 and 14 – remember how we were reminded of that constantly?
When was the last time you heard someone in the media say the Spud’s are a joke club for not winning a trophy since 08? And that was the League Cup if it was us it would be shifted to “major trophy”.
Yep, I mean even Arteta as an Arsenal manager has better legacy than Spuds in last 50 years. He won an FA cup which they only dream of.
Is it just because the pundits and media are purely anti arsenal because of our great history and Invincible season, are jealous and would rather support a stone if it competes against Arsenal?
Christ,down to the bare bones. Cedric is the only senior defender on the bench. Any injuries or bookings (or Tavares meltdown) and its Xhaka back in there. That said delighted to see ESR playing,would prefer him central and linking with Saka but Ode slowing everything down might actually help for once, possession going to be precious. For me the biggest factor will be the crowd,just how much will they drive Newcastle on??
Almunia
That’s what happens when you fuck off 80% of your players or fuck them off out of the club. Tell me would Guendozi, Torriera or AMN on the bench be a bad thing tonight?
….. And not buy players in the January window.
Anyone got any good feelings about this so far? No? Thought not.
Not me! It’s been shaky till now
Torture.
Aside from saka going off,that’s probably the worst injury we could have suffered.
Dire, bullshit, shapeless, gutless, slow, cautious ARTETA-FUCKING-BALL. Three more years.
70% to 30% possession to Newcastle definitely being jittery.
I don’t see us winning today unless we get some urgency and stop misplacing passes.
Ode is shit.
The entire team’s passing is awry from Ramsdale up to Eddie. Its making it easy for Newcastle to dispossess us. There appears to be no plan, no energy, no desire for second balls.
What the fuck are we doing with a manager as abject as this? He’s terrible.
I might assuage the pain and switch over to the terriers v hatters…
Get this fucking idiot out of the club tonight.
It’s only dawning on me now,the irony of Arsenal fans saying they’re tired of bring fucked over with fixture lists,dodgy refs and bad luck when in reality nobody fucks us over quite like our own club and the shameless cowboys who run it.We deserve better.