Wenger giving the game away talking about 600 mouths to feed at the Arsenal

[Rich]

He's turned into Scrooge. Working late at Highbury Counting House, personally overseeing every penny the club spends. I bet he doesn't even give Boro and Mickey a day off at Christmas.

The staff dread the final working day of the month. Arsene tells everyone that nobody goes home until every single penny has been accounted for. Sitting at his desk with piles of receipts becoming irate when he sees that petty cash is down £1.12.

[Ash]

Bored of it all to be honest. Didn't even watch the game at the weekend. Completely lost interest.

Went to the pub in the end to watch it but was tempted to watch the T20 cricket final instead.

Bit concerned that there's not much of the domestic cricket season left on Sky. One used to be able to mindlessly watch county trundlers lobbing the ball at each other well into september to take the mind off football.

[Sir C]

Went to the pub in the end to watch it but was tempted to watch the T20 cricket final instead.

Bit concerned that there's not much of the domestic cricket season left on Sky. One used to be able to mindlessly watch county trundlers lobbing the ball at each other well into september to take the mind off football.

I watched an Inspector Morse episode last night, 'Deceived By Flight', in which cricket featured heavily.

Our hero was unimpressed by the game, to put it mildly.

[Ash]

I watched an Inspector Morse episode last night, 'Deceived By Flight', in which cricket featured heavily.

Our hero was unimpressed by the game, to put it mildly.

Don't remember that one, though I can picture Lewis trying to explain it to him. "You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out. "

[Sir C]

Don't remember that one, though I can picture Lewis trying to explain it to him. "You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out. "

You'd know it if you sw it. Lewis goes undercover as porter of Lonsdale College and plays in the old boy's cricket match. Some geezer gets it with scissors. There's a chap in a wheelchair.

Not the best. It's certainly no, 'Last Bus To Woodstock' or 'The Wolvercote Tongue.'

[7sisters]

Bored of it all to be honest. Didn't even watch the game at the weekend. Completely lost interest.

Which perfectly illustrates the point. Imagine if everyone did the same ?
You're evidently one of the more balanced voices, not given to knee jerk reactionary outbursts.

Something clearly isn't working.

[Bergkamp Was Best]

I wish the man would stop wasting his energy prattling on about why he hasn't signed someone and use it to...erm...sign someone!
Have Arsenal become a bit boring in general or is it just me? No realistic chance of winning the league, not spent sufficiently in the transfer market, it's just the same old *******s again

[Billy Goat Sverige]

Which perfectly illustrates the point. Imagine if everyone did the same ?
You're evidently one of the more balanced voices, not given to knee jerk reactionary outbursts.

Something clearly isn't working.

I'm just sick of his *******s. Fair enough if he thought the squad was good enough. I'd still be annoyed we're not signing anyone but at least the message from the manager would be consistent. He's bid for two strikers this summer after saying at the end of last season the squad needed more goals, said he wanted to sign a defender when Mertesacker got injured 5 weeks ago, and here we are still with Giroud as the only real striker in the squad and two kids backing up our only fit centre back. All this is happening because he refuses to acknowledge where football is at financially these days and won't spend sums he considers to have no value.

[Ash]

I'm just sick of his *******s. Fair enough if he thought the squad was good enough. I'd still be annoyed we're not signing anyone but at least the message from the manager would be consistent. He's bid for two strikers this summer after saying at the end of last season the squad needed more goals, said he wanted to sign a defender when Mertesacker got injured 5 weeks ago, and here we are still with Giroud as the only real striker in the squad and two kids backing up our only fit centre back. All this is happening because he refuses to acknowledge where football is at financially these days and won't spend sums he considers to have no value.

Spa this weekend though.

[Sir C]

Spa this weekend though.

Facial, pedicure, that sort of thing? wd a.