Just watching the highlights. Alexis was a bit shooty wasn't he

[Luis Anaconda]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Get the monkey off his back and other cliches.

He must have been close to a drought, or whatever the term is for the period just before a drought is called.

[Classic Jorge]

Lovely goal, all the same

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

He's no Hleb

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

[Luis Anaconda]

Useless Chilean c**t

[Luis Anaconda]

[Billy Goat Sverige]

Ozil gets relative to his performances.

[Rich]

Sometimes I have to pinch myself.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Bergkamp and Vieira.

The concept of world class footballers at the Arsenal is not entirely foreign.

[Classic Jorge]

[Rich]

Bergkamp was but he's the exception rather than the rule.

Both Alexis and Ozil were considered some of the finest footballers on the planet before they came to us.

Sometimes I wonder what they must think when they turn up to training and get paired with someone like Flamini :-(

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

[Classic Jorge]

I mean, if only he'd be deployed as a 'proper' winger in a 'proper' formation like a four fo........oh, they played that for the last few months, you say?

[Jake]

Christ I'm willing Welbz to be the new Sylvain, it's not happening atm.

[Brentwood]

[Classic Jorge]

[PSRB]

a few more goals wouldn't go amiss, mind

[Jake]

[Brentwood]

What a disaster that could have been

[Rich]

He's like a crap Ox/Theo that defends more and wins more headers.

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

was the French wunderkind before he went to Juventus. Both were very much at the top of European football to say the least.

[Rich]

Ugly seens imo.

[Monty91]

I wonder how we'd be doing if Weng had left.

[Classic Jorge]

[TRENT COLTON]

We really must let him out for the night more often.

[Rich]

bench at Juve?

I also remember him being **** when he first joined us. Although I did enjoy it when he'd play with Suker.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Vieira I 100% give you.

[Luis Anaconda]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

As glorious as the glorious FA Cup win was, and it was glorious, there was an element of seats of the pants about it.

[PSRB]

[Ashberto]

[PSRB]

on the way

[Rich]

their back I expect them to romp home to FA Cup glory if we beat United.

Maybe even the CL with a fairly large slice of good fortune.

[PSRB]

we're going to get gubbed*

*actually get robbed or make some epic mistake to lose by a goal in a match we should have won comfortably

[Ashberto]

He'd be at Liverpool. :-|

We'd probably be defending better if we got someone like Pulis in, though.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

As in totally irrelevant.

If you won the CL and did not face one of the Spanish sides or Bayern the win would not be lessened.

Ultimately the final result, win or loss, is all that defines a cup campaign.

[PSRB]

as plenty have said it was only Hull and the argument back was look at who we beat on the way

[Ashberto]

we stole it, even though we shouldn't. Double-winning FA Cups are the sweetest, and last year was more relief than glory for me.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Either way I expect the world would still be spinning and we would still be comfortably better than about 75% of the PL.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

We won the cup.

The game may not stick out in the mind as gloriously as 2002 v Chelsea for example but that is just personal memories of a great day out, the actual 'winning' of the cup itself is in no way diminishd.

Nobody every suggests the ECWC win was diminished in any way despite being outplayed for huge parts of the game.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

A cup win is what it is, you win by beating a succession of clubs in usually one-off games. You cannot influence the clubs you are drawn against.

Had we not f**ked up royally in 2004 against Chelsea I doubt ultimate success would have been any less sweet because of the sides we faced, or didn't face.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[PSRB]

as was on a flight to NY when the match was on

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Usmanov wants to take over and buy us a few leagues you won't find me complaining.

Oh no, I will be the one dancing in the streets.

[Ashberto]

Almost embarrassing.

[PSRB]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

We had to drive from Cardiff to Hemel Hempstead for a birthday party afterwards. When we walked in we were approached by a United fan asking, 'Aren't you embarrassed?'

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

I expect this is not the angle you are trying to work.

[PSRB]

of booting lumps out of us rather playing anything remotely like attractive football

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

I am quite sure it would be used by members of the Arsenal family in a way to detract from any Spurs success for example.

I'm fully aware that all clubs supporters would do it. Doesn't make it any less silly.

[Ashberto]

[Pokster]

but at no stage did I ever hear anyone say he was ****

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Jake]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Not pretty I will give you but a side that played to it's strengths. Why wouldn't you choose to by-pass midfield when said area was occupied with Hillier, Selley and that ilk.

Certainly not embarrassing.

You sound like some nouveau fan of the Wenger era, which I know you are not.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

You're wrong. Move on.

[Ashberto]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

You and Ash are both wrong.

[Ashberto]

Some people find it easier than others to listen to the taunts and jeers of other fans who hold your team in contempt. I'm one of those that prefers my team to be respected by others. Just a preference.

Also worth pointing out that Monty would deride *any* FA Cup win on the grounds that it is an utterly meaningless tournament.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

A person that holds us in contempt will do so irrespective of the football we play.

City for example are widely held in contempt by those who choose to do so because of their financial model, the fact they can at times play sublime football is overlooked as it is all "bought" as a result of some ill gotten gains.

A person will choose to hate us simply because they hate us, football in the end has very little to do with it.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

football. Since Arsene took over we have gained enormous amounts of respect from fans of other teams.

[Ashberto]

in the way that hating Chelsea is so effortless. Maybe because they have played some lovely football, maybe because the are not Man Utd.

Sure, some will hate us regardless, others will base their views on how they see us as a club and a team at that time.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

But a person that chooses to hate us "for being us" will do so irrespective of the football we play.

Similarly you can like watching football clubs play, and admire footballers from other sides (even bitter rivals) but not actually like them.

[Berni]

Now that they're rich, it's a thousand times worse.

City were never obnoxious (despite being Mancunians), but give it time.