It's weeks since I've heard the expression, "papering over the cracks."

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Has Arsene had the Polyfilla out?

[Pat Vegas]

until he gets injured.

[Peter]

Beating an 'impressive' spurs doesnt seem to count.

[ITSUPFORGRABSNOW]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

We're going to get gubbed, aren't we?

[Peter]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

A favourable run of opening fixtures one could say but to use it as a stick to beat us with is silly, one can only play (and beat) the opposition in front of us as the cliché goes.

Tonight shall be jolly interesting.

[Peter]

I know so little about foreign sides that i find it difficult to fear them.

Ignorance is confidence :-)

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

This started the night that lot from Moscow came and gubbed us 2-5.

[Peter]

We havent been tested but spurs have beaten what was in front of them. Apart from chelsea of course. Oh, and us. Oh, and very nearly cardiff save for four minutes of injury time. And only swansea by virtue of a ludicrous penalty.

Impressive :-)

[Peter]

Is our priority :-)

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

We're going to smash them :cloud9:

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

We have started the season well as have Spurs. Sufficient to leave it at that.

Personally I think the media have been extremely kind and positive with regards to us.

[Peter]

I do 'optimism' quite well. After all, it was Me thst called Darkness night. You didnt catch me sitting there moaning and saying it was going to be Human Touch night.

Almost chirpy, i am. :-)

[ITSUPFORGRABSNOW]

Think the game will be a tough one. A good one to win.

[Peter]

I am pointing out that the vast majority pf whst is written about football is ill-informed, cliched rubbish.

It doesnt need to be.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Peter]

Only just stopped himself.

[Maravilloso Marvo]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

did an amazing smorgasbord.

[Luis Anaconda]

stat which must be up there with the playground "We beat Spurs who drew with Chelsea therefore we are well better than Chelsea" drivel as the most meaningless "stat" going

[Maravilloso Marvo]

games this season to last. I was slightly perturbed that 2 out of 3 homes games we have had less than 50% possession.

[Dorset Gooner]

it said on the tin & pollyhiguan was too expensive :-)

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

[Maravilloso Marvo]

[Dorset Gooner]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Maravilloso Marvo]

[Dorset Gooner]

a 100% record, quite outstanding. My fear is that we do lack a striker. But hey, even I can't moan (at the moment).

[Peter]

Arsenal havent been tested yet but spurs, who have impressed him, have spent 100 million.

Can anyone actually link those two points together?

And this is leaving aside the fact that our seriously untesting fixtures include beating the aforementioned 'impressive' spurs.

[Dorset Gooner]

[Peter]

I know this because i heard an interview with brendan rodgers. He spent quite a while on this stat.

I have also heard that the opposition cant score if you have the ball. This seems to ignore the possibility of own goals.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I was as pissed as a lord, d. Pissed as a lord.

[Dorset Gooner]

[ITSUPFORGRABSNOW]

I did have some cracking food when we did a Regent Cruise for our 25th though, different end of the market mind you.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I boycotted it for years as a result. It was nice to be back, though.

[Luis Anaconda]

[Hendon Gooner (Only Easy Day Was Yesterday))]

I'd take a draw against Napoli right now....

[Pokster]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

[Mack]

[Maravilloso Marvo]

[Peter]

Top four but he didnt get anywhere near it. And the piece was littered with logical flaws. It literally didnt make any sense.

I find it irritating that anyone that bad at a job gets paid for it.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

How come we're top of the league?

[Maravilloso Marvo]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

whereas I am noted for my genuinely sunny disposition and live life with my glass positively brimming.

I often detect a note of paranoia among the Arsenal family and I don't like it.

[Peter]

Stoke probsbly could though

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Read 'em and weep, sw. F. A. C. T. FACT.

[Peter]

And it say more about you than the rest of us.

Oh yes :-)

[Mack]

[Maravilloso Marvo]

[Peter]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Mack]

[Mack]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Were I a judge you would be physically ejected from my court, perhaps even a short sentence just to act as a lesson to others.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Him not you.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

There is a level of paranoia on here at times that is laughable.

The FA are against us, the BBC is against us, the entire media is against us ....

It's all *******s.

[Hendon Gooner (Only Easy Day Was Yesterday))]

Let's hope we are top of the league at the end of May before we get all giddy....

:sherlock:

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

won our last 5 league games, God knows how many in all competitions; how come we have the best record in the country over the calendar year, when, according to the likes of you, our players are ****, our tactics are ****, and our manager is senile?

I want to know. How is this possible?

[Peter]

And reflect those prejudices in their punditry?

Sorry, but i call that utter *******s. Such subjectivity invades every part of human experience. The notion that ex-footballers alone are able to rise above it is laughable.

Some people dislike us. Its a FACT.

The media dont think anything as a whole so yes, the phrase 'the media hates us' is *******s. Looks at individuals and their work and the bias is there. And you know it.

So stop being silly