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    I reckon I've only ever been angered by 4 football matches.

    One I played in, for a team who thought they would lose and duly rolled over and accepted their hammering.

    One was the Mike Riley show at Old Trafford.

    Another was losing at home to Chelsea in '05, I believe. When Joe Cole scored their second, that game. On that evening we were clearly beaten before the first whistle. We lay down and let them have their way with us.

    Last night goes on the list, and possibly near the top of it. I can't remember seeing a side accept their fate with quite such a degree of passivity. It was shameful, really.

    Ospina, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Koscielny and Mustafi were prepared to work up a sweat; the rest of them, not at all. Sanchez' arm-waving and sulking is all about Sanchez, nothing to do with the team. Iwobi sort of hung out with Gibbs in an approximate left back position as if to give him some support, but when the ball went there, did nothing at all to interfere with Robben and Lahm. Xhaka and Coquelin seemed entirely uninterested in attempting to make a tackle. Ozil made Tony Cascarino appear perceptive.

    By the time I am appalled by a lack of pashun, something is very, very wrong.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
    One I played in, for a team who thought they would lose and duly rolled over and accepted their hammering.

    One was the Mike Riley show at Old Trafford.

    Another was losing at home to Chelsea in '05, I believe. When Joe Cole scored their second, that game. On that evening we were clearly beaten before the first whistle. We lay down and let them have their way with us.

    Last night goes on the list, and possibly near the top of it. I can't remember seeing a side accept their fate with quite such a degree of passivity. It was shameful, really.

    Ospina, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Koscielny and Mustafi were prepared to work up a sweat; the rest of them, not at all. Sanchez' arm-waving and sulking is all about Sanchez, nothing to do with the team. Iwobi sort of hung out with Gibbs in an approximate left back position as if to give him some support, but when the ball went there, did nothing at all to interfere with Robben and Lahm. Xhaka and Coquelin seemed entirely uninterested in attempting to make a tackle. Ozil made Tony Cascarino appear perceptive.

    By the time I am appalled by a lack of pashun, something is very, very wrong.
    Has he 'lost the dressing room' and similar clichés?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
    Has he 'lost the dressing room' and similar clichés?
    Well... God forgive me, but you really ahve to wonder

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
    Well... God forgive me, but you really ahve to wonder
    It really was woeful, not really sure any of them could look AW in the eye today and say they gave it 100% (except LK6)

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    Dear dear me Charlie. We seem to be doing an awful lot

    Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post

    By the time I am appalled by a lack of pashun, something is very, very wrong.
    of pants pissing this morning over the fact our team were beaten by one of Europe's top sides. Perhaps you would prefer the managerial acumen of Mr Sam Allardyce and perennial mid table finishes?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Herbette Chapman - aged 15 View Post
    of pants pissing this morning over the fact our team were beaten by one of Europe's top sides. Perhaps you would prefer the managerial acumen of Mr Sam Allardyce and perennial mid table finishes?
    U no read to good do u?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
    U no read to good do u?
    Oh calm down you miserable old cvnt. That was a perfectly good parody of you at your most pompous when anyone else gets pissed off with a hammering.

    What next c - Wenger out?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Herbette Chapman - aged 15 View Post
    Oh calm down you miserable old cvnt. That was a perfectly good parody of you at your most pompous when anyone else gets pissed off with a hammering.

    What next c - Wenger out?
    Third in the league, still in the FA cup, it's hardly a crisis. But that display was really disturbing; something isn't right there.

    Wenger knows. He knows what's wrong and he knows whether he can fix it. He'll decide.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
    Third in the league, still in the FA cup, it's hardly a crisis. But that display was really disturbing; something isn't right there.

    Wenger knows. He knows what's wrong and he knows whether he can fix it. He'll decide.
    Maybe we need a crisis. Would liven things up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
    Third in the league, still in the FA cup, it's hardly a crisis. But that display was really disturbing; something isn't right there.

    Wenger knows. He knows what's wrong and he knows whether he can fix it. He'll decide.
    Ah, the "Wenger should choose his own departure date" stance. Why exactly?

    He is an employee of the club . Our toilets, as you rightly say, are state of the art and pristine but if the man charged with ensuring they remain so began failing to notice skid marks in the bowls then he would be quickly replaced.

    Have you never worked in a firm where the CEO, usually a founder owner, hangs on well into his seventies and starts to hold the outfit back, usually by being incapable of adapting to the evolving market? If they don't die you have to sack them c.

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