I genuinely don't know what rocket scientists are thinking of most of the time. Does that mean *they* are lacking in the brain department? Or does it mean I am.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
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I genuinely don't know what rocket scientists are thinking of most of the time. Does that mean *they* are lacking in the brain department? Or does it mean I am.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
Mustn't forget Fellaini and PogbaQuote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
That's good enough for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
Really - you genuinely think Arsene isn't annoyed by the amount of times he puts Arsenal under pressure by giving the ball away in silly positions? I say this because we all know you aren't allowed an original thought on football and just swear blindly to what Wenger says (and he has openly criticised him for it before)Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
It's not rocket science, rQuote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
I am sure AW is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
I sent my mate a text a minute before he scored saying how **** he had played in giving the ball away so often.
So, hopefully I positively jinxed it last night. No need for thanks.
That's just banter. The only criticism a player cares about is being left out for an extended period. Wenger must be broadly happy with him, which is why He continues to select him all the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
Alexis makes up for giving the ball away by being our best goalscorer and Wenger seems to have accepted that balance, as every manager has to do as no player is perfect. Except Dennis and Thierry obviously.
:nod: Whisky and cigarettes and floozies.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
wd iufg, wdQuote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
Sir C is talking about football with a round ball... not your North American crapQuote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
I would like to point out I think he is a wonderful player, of courseQuote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
I think you're confused. Football is a team game; there are 11 players per side. Putting two individual players on a pitch with a football won't produce a winner, it will produce a kick about in the park. Which I'm sure you're very good at. You just understand the square root of fúck all about football.Quote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
Nice of you to say so, Charles. :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
It's like Sir Geoffrey's view that the way a batsman plays for the team is by scoring lots of runs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
Oh my days :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
Very accurate summation all the same.
Not if he's so deep he's actually the last man when he loses it! He's a goalscorer, he should be nowhere near our goal, at any time!!Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
Well given that he's from Yorkshire it's probably not surprising that he's that thick.*Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
I'm no cricket expert, but is it not true that at times a cricket team needs a batsman to score runs more or less quickly that at other times? And doesn't that make the wobbly gobbed, thin-lipped, wife beating traitor wrong?
*I have no idea if he's actually from Yorkshire, only that he talks stupid
Says a **** for brains Canadian :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
Don't let the fact you know **** all about cricket stop you.... you still post about football after all
Well, I have argued before that he's not really a striker, as he seems to lack the discipline for it. He's the best goalscorer we have though, so we must accept a little of that.Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
In any case, if he never ever gave the ball away, he would still be at Barcelona.
gpwm ...........Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
Of course Patrick gave the ball away quite a bit too, and we forgave him for that because he was Patrick. He didn't give it away as much as this bloke though, and not as sloppily. Others have mentioned where he is giving it away, and asking what he is doing there when we have other players whose job it is to play football in that part of the field.Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
I joked to my neighbour at the Leicester game, I think, that Alexis gives the ball away every four minutes. Some banter followed about this back-of-an-envelope calculation but at Spurs he did actually give the ball away 20 times, which averages every four-and-a-half minutes. The team pays a heavy price for that, which must be offset against his goal-scoring wizardy. Football matches are not won by the team with the best goal-scorer. They are won by the team which concedes fewer goals.
We've been defending poorly for nearly a decade :shrug:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
Do you remember the FA cup semi-final replay in 1999, a? Dennis Bergkamp missed a penalty and Patrick Vieira gave the ball away, whence Ryan Giggs ran through our defence and smashed the ball into the roof of the net. Manchester United went on to complete a memorable and unique Treble of league, champions league and FA cup, whilst we won nothing. We still haven't won the champions league, you know. United have won it several times, in fairness to them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
Anelka offside :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
No, I'd forgotten all about that. :hehe: Man Utd fans didn't mention it last sunday or anything.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Well, yes, but I do feel that is avoiding my point, somewhat.Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
No, he's right. A match can take up to five days to complete, plenty of time. So ideally you want to bat first, post 850 or 900-2 by just after teatime on the second day. Even if you subsequently "collapse" to 1000-4 at stumps, you still control the game and are on course for a comfortable victory. The batsmen will have done their job, for the team.Quote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
He was talking about tactics and strategery, rather than performance and style.
Equally, Mesut is a wonderful player. Yet, still, Wenger has suggested he score more goals.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
So is he scoring more goals? Not really, no. Is Wenger leaving him out of the team to hammer the point home? Of course not! That's not how it works.
I would argue that, for this team, a goalshy #10 is at least as big a liability as Alexis' blue-arsed fly routine. But at least AS scores goals, which, within the context of "the way we want to play", is the thing we tend to struggle with.
As I said, I think you're making the wrong point. We forgave Paddy not because he was Paddy, but because he had Dennis and Thierry playing ahead of him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
We do not defend poorly because of Alexis giving the ball away in dangerous areas; we defend poorly because it's what we do.
Goes without saying that Giggs should have been decapitated just below the knee mid way between the half way line and our box.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
If we defended like that today people would go all wistful about Adams, Dixon, Keown and Winterburn.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
That team was rubbish though, complete amateurs. This team and these players are supposedly the best we've ever had. They're certainly the most expensive we've ever had.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I think there is always a time and scope for brutally assaulting opposition team players irrespective of the quality and/or aesthetic of one's team.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Are you Brian Clough :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2