You can't disagree really can you

[Dorset Gooner]

Arsenal could have done with some everyday qualities such as comitment, concentration, organisation & sensible decision making, taken for granted in any workplace never mind one offering £100,000 a week.

[Hillary]

[David Pleat AHADF (Royal Welsher and monkey lover)]

[PSRB]

mins, not going to moan about yesterday as we were f**ked the moment LK6 got sent off.

[Peter]

Better player. It might make him a happier player.

I also like the english preoccupation with attitude. Perhaps we should just acknowledge tht city have better players.

I say perhaps asi didnt see the game.

[7evens]

I'm not overly dispondent that we lost to a set up like Citeh's. The form guide would suggest that it's a fixture we're unlikely to get much from.
There has to be a difference between rolling over or putting up a fight

[Peter]

And very few football fans are able to tell the difference. Even fewer pundits it seems, given the *******s they spew out.

It is very, very rare that i look at a player and feel he isnt trying. In england we expect people to charge arpund for 90 minutes and equate tht with attitude. Actually, football isnt really like that.

More often, a player fails to achieve things in a game because he is up against someone better. More commonly, a team fails because it is up against a better one.

Attitude, commitment, organisation etc are all part of it but so is ability.

[Monty91]

when a team goes down to ten men and instantly starts working harder to compensate (most notable yesterday in Vermaelen.

I know it's a natural human reaction to adversity, but still....grrrr!

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Though the man Wenger did not help the cause with his midfield selection, almost another man down there.

[Peter]

A lot better. After an hour of dross we started playing simple one touch passes with movement, pulling sunderland out of position and creating chances.

Obviously we conceded an equaliser in injury time but that isnt the point. :-)

I think a lot of the game now is about not wasting energy. The crowd love it when someone charges down goalkicks or crunches into challenges to concede a goal kick but really it is a waste of energy.

I didnt see the game yesterday but sometimes when down to ten men you have to work in a different way. It might look like you are working harder but it isnt through choice. It is just that you have to do so in order to stay in the game.

[7evens]

[PSRB]

Were we not 2-0 down to Bolton with 10 men and we came back to win 3-2? City is a slightly different proposition

[Peter]

For the whole game, just too **** to actually do anything properly.

[Peter]

Can change a performance. I didnt see the game yesterday so i wont comment on whether we worked harder after the sending off.

Above i suggest that,aybe city being better than us is a bigger factor here than the vague notions of attitude and commitment that we like to chuck about.

[Monty91]

we played with an extra intensity.

It pretty much ended as soon as City got the ball back and wouldn't let us have it back :-(

[Peter]

This spunds like the same old easy answer, pundit-driven,english horse**** to me.

I shall now watch the goals and return in a moment to complain about our defending.

[IUFG]