Now that might just be in my top twenty favourite Arsenal goals

[Monty91]

Ramsey's standing leg as he prepares to shoot :bow:

An absolutely outrageous technical goal

[Classic Jorge]

[Monty91]

[Classic Jorge]

But in reality I think where we lacked were the structural players, the ones that add rigidity to a team.

We still dont have one of those, Flamini is literally the closest we have to that.

[Monty91]

trying to win an English league and whether this will always be futile.

And whether, despite their equally prominent foreign influence, Chelsea and Man City have both achieved a better balance in this regard.

[Classic Jorge]

The pragmatic nihilism and welath gone mad of the oil titans was always bound to hit home more.

[Monty91]

skews the perception. Because we rely so much on our attacking fluidity, when it breaks down it gives the impression that we are fundamentally an average team.

As a consequence, we are the only club who, in the space of a season, can be seen as both good enough to win the league and also a million miles away.

To give an example, despite the fact that we finished within touching distance of Chelsea (having finished above them last year), no-one talks about them in such terms.

[Mc Gooner]

:thumbup:

[Monty91]

[Mc Gooner]

If by "talking sense" do you mean can you make yourself understood when being a cyber-cünt then I suppose, technically, you can.

But I see no sense (aka justification) in being a cyber-cünt.

[redgunamo]

After all, English clubs have done very well in Europe historically; plenty of European Cups.

Those same clubs have won dozens of league titles between them too. Never heard any of them described as particularly "continental" though.

They were just damn good sides.

[redgunamo]

As have we.

Not sure what ideology has got to do with it.

[Classic Jorge]

The others are just pragmatic, success at all costs focussed juggernauts.

We're happy amateurs, Corinthian gentlemen, in comparison.

[redgunamo]

Die lehre vom möglichen, as they say. That's what governs any ethos or ideology, imo.

[Classic Jorge]

[redgunamo]

[Classic Jorge]

[redgunamo]

[Classic Jorge]

[redgunamo]

Unless that is the whole point of competition :rubchin: