Decent article from the Tele on why everything is so much better under Unai

[Burney]

Haven't we always trained on the pitch the night before foreign matches?

Some decent points in the article but that one appears a little generous.


I was reading at the weekend how he likes us to train the day before a game at the exact time of kick-off the following day and for home games said session is on the Emirates pitch.

Still you know, new manager new ideas. Hardly rocket science stuff.

Also, we've played a real bunch of sh1t since he lost his first two. Mind you, it seems increasingly clear that there are only six decent sides in the league at the moment.

[Pokster]

Also, we've played a real bunch of sh1t since he lost his first two. Mind you, it seems increasingly clear that there are only six decent sides in the league at the moment.

Are you counting Wolves or Man U as number 6

[Burney]

Are you counting Wolves or Man U as number 6

As a great man once said 'Ask me in May'.

[SWv2]

Also, we've played a real bunch of sh1t since he lost his first two. Mind you, it seems increasingly clear that there are only six decent sides in the league at the moment.

9 wins in a row for a new manager including a few away league games is not to be sniffed at irrespective of the sides we have played. The Chelsea game is really the only one so far we have managed to allow slip away. Next up we have Palace and Leicester which if we won both would take us to the Scousers and a more serious test.


The post-Fulham euphoria is perhaps excessive however it is also understandable.

[Burney]

9 wins in a row for a new manager including a few away league games is not to be sniffed at irrespective of the sides we have played. The Chelsea game is really the only one so far we have managed to allow slip away. Next up we have Palace and Leicester which if we won both would take us to the Scousers and a more serious test.


The post-Fulham euphoria is perhaps excessive however it is also understandable.

Is it churlish to wish there were a few more clean sheets in among that lot, though?

[redgunamo]

Is it churlish to wish there were a few more clean sheets in among that lot, though?

There's not too many rock solid defences about anymore, imo. Not just us. Because of all the attacking quality available, especially at the top but even further down the table, it seems there's an acceptance that the opposition team will score; with your "apparently" better players, you just have to score more.

We won the league in '91 allowing just 18 goals; Manchester City, despite dominating last season, let in almost thirty, I think, which seems about par recently.

[Sir C]

Is it churlish to wish there were a few more clean sheets in among that lot, though?

Yes, ridiculously churlish.

The man has been in the job a few weeks. He has a whole squad, indeed a whole football club, to get operating in line with his plan.

If, at this point, we had lost 4 and drawn a couple, I wouldn't have been in the least surprised.

This bloke may turn out to be utter mince, but to suggest that he is doing anything other than remarkably well at this point is Cascarino-esque.

[Burney]

Yes, ridiculously churlish.

The man has been in the job a few weeks. He has a whole squad, indeed a whole football club, to get operating in line with his plan.

If, at this point, we had lost 4 and drawn a couple, I wouldn't have been in the least surprised.

This bloke may turn out to be utter mince, but to suggest that he is doing anything other than remarkably well at this point is Cascarino-esque.

You’ve made Arsene cry.

[SWv2]

Yes, ridiculously churlish.

The man has been in the job a few weeks. He has a whole squad, indeed a whole football club, to get operating in line with his plan.

If, at this point, we had lost 4 and drawn a couple, I wouldn't have been in the least surprised.

This bloke may turn out to be utter mince but to suggest that he is doing anything other than remarkably well at this point is Cascarino-esque.

Why do you hate him?

[Sir C]

Why do you hate him?

You will note that I have advised against judging him yet. I certainly do not hate him. Just because he lept into Arsene's chair while it was still warm and didn't have the decency to tell Gazidis to go fúck himself, as an honourable man would have done, doesn't mean that I hate the filthy chap.