I can't belieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeve the slagging we have received

[Monty91]

for winning a game 1-0 despite playing badly.

For Arsene Wenger's ENTIRE reign we have faced criticism for our inability to do PRECISELY that. Unbelievable!!!!1111111111!!!!!!!1

[modd]

and our second most inform team in the league. we showed we can play great football of late and also battle to 1-0. Sign of potential champions in the future if we build on it.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Winning away, to go third in the league, strikes me as a decent day's work.

[modd]

team like the russians spent double the money we have.

With more champions league money we be force next year man

[LadyG -keeping the spirit of the unbeatables alive]

Why are you surprised?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Monty91]

without the overbearing pressure that would be felt if we were fighting for the title. Hopefully each time we succeed, another building block of confidence is instilled, which we can take into next season.

[Mack]

This may well be true- probably because that's the way leagues work ..

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Remarkable business, this football punditry.

[Monty91]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

To be honest with you, I haven't taken much notice since Cesc left. I don't think I'll ever get over it.

[LadyG -keeping the spirit of the unbeatables alive]

It's hard to watch how poor we are, especially when the real Arsenal way is still so fresh in the memory.

But to still be able to consistently finish in the top four no matter how dross our football has become is a huge achievement and kinda makes you question the teams that consistently finish below us and the PL. Or it should make others question it, rather than slagging us off all the time.

[Berni]

I strongly recommend this course of action.

[Mack]

[Pat Vegas]

matches at all.

Though I still complain when they lose.

[LadyG -keeping the spirit of the unbeatables alive]

[Monty91]

[LadyG -keeping the spirit of the unbeatables alive]

[Supermac1976]

At least it keeps Shearaaa et al in horrible shirts & keeps them off the streets.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I'm getting a bit obsessed with small towns. All this comes from a night out in Leamington last year.

[Berni]

In general, being a football supporter is much better without having to worry about the actual football.

[Pat Vegas]

I think it was in the Carling cup

[Bergkamp's Brain]

[LadyG -keeping the spirit of the unbeatables alive]

So much so I stopped watching and tried to pretend I wasn't there. Even Jack and Arsene Wenger admitted it was not good!

[Pat Vegas]

I used to be checking for updates constantly If i was busy at the time. Now I just wait to see the next day.

[Mack]

[Berni]

[Pat Vegas]

[Luis Anaconda]

and a pub with a massive statue of a horse in the courtyard. Lovely place

[Bergkamp's Brain]

[Berni]

Tension is absolutely rubbish. Tranquility is much better. This should be obvious, but it's only recently occurred to me. Odd, really.

[Berni]

[Ashberto]

it has a fine cathedral, plus all those famous numbers of pubs and churches.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

In a polystyrene carton. Eaten in the street.

[modd]

arsene showing why he one of the best :bow:

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Classic Jorge]

[modd]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Most European capital cities feel like small towns to me.

[Berni]

It's a spectacular culinary invention imvho.

[modd]

:bow:

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

perhaps some avocado?

Do tell.

[barrybueno]

sake they don't follow suit

[Berni]

t'other, one toasted both sides with mayo on both, chicken breast, bacon.

But the real innovation is that, rather than normal lettuce and egg, it contained leftover Caesar salad from lunch - including the garlicky croutons!

Frankly, it was - as the youngsters say - epic.

[modd]

:bow:

[modd]

works

[Mack]

:-|
Saw a sign outside a supermarket in arse-end of nowhere at weekend that one of the 'stars of Geordie Shore was making a special guest appearance to open it. Wtf is the world coming to :-(

[Berni]

For a start, Norwich has a lovely Cathedral and The Adam and Eve pub.

[modd]

wins over stoke, sunderland,wigan and fulham

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I have an enormous lump of pork shoulder left over from yesterday. I'm going to slather it with mustard and jam it between two slices of bread.

[Berni]

All you need is Barbecue Sauce.

[Supermac1976]

Edit: Actually I've been to South Shields that's as bad.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I'm about to cycle to M&S for the bread, though. They might have a bottle of chemicals masquerading as barbecue sauce, I suppose.

[Hillary]

Bolton 2 Arsenal 2 - 26 April 2003.

It ruined my weekend and I thought "why am I doing this?"

[Berni]

ketchup, treacle, honey, tabasco, etc, etc. That way you can pretend you've created it yourself. Or you could just slather it on and shove it in your face. Either way, it's going to be good.

[barrybueno]

NLA Tower! :hehe:

[LadyG -keeping the spirit of the unbeatables alive]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I won't get the raging ****s, will I?

[Berni]

[LadyG -keeping the spirit of the unbeatables alive]

[Berni]

No. You'll be fine. Pork's OK these days, I think. I wouldn't recommend it with chicken, though.

[Supermac1976]

[Hillary]

Of course, it meant that the following, unbeaten, season rather passed me by - but the highs are never as pronounced as the lows anyway, so no great loss.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

It hasn't killed us yet. Surprising, really.

[Berni]

[modd]

:cloud9: come back cesc

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Berni]

When people knew what a thruppeny bit looked like.

[modd]

showed their winners winning without playing well. :bow:

[modd]

:-)

[modd]

:bow:

[Berni]

I remember what he did to us. :-(

[Ashberto]

[modd]

games we won with ten men. it happens.

[modd]

[Monty91]

which will always happen against any team, whether they have 11 or 10 men on the pitch, and I thought we largely dealt very well with balls into the box. They didn't actually open us up once, except perhaps for one ball through to Berbatov for which the otherwise excellent linesladywoman wrongly flagged.

My only complaint was over a couple of soft free kicks we gave away around the box.

We were sterile going forward but that's mainly because our creative players were quiet (Rosicky and in particular Cazorla, who was simply poor) and our best player was on the bench until late on.

[LadyG -keeping the spirit of the unbeatables alive]

[modd]

and look like another year of champions league football again. :-)

[Ashberto]

When I say dangerous, I meant 'more dangerous than us'. Our CBs played well, but they had more to do than they should have. They even had to win the game for us. As you say, our creative players weren't really creating but Theo's policy of closely marking his man when we had the ball and always looking for the run behind could have seen some variation.

[modd]

that all that counts when you look at league table at end of season