yiddo2786
Steed Malbranque
While it would be hilsrious, I personally would feel a bit upset that Arsenal, who are run pretty properly, would fail to qualify, but City and Chelsea wouldn't.
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The Goon Thread
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While it would be hilsrious, I personally would feel a bit upset that Arsenal, who are run pretty properly, would fail to qualify, but City and Chelsea wouldn't.
Arsenal pay very high basic wages, unlike Spurs where it's more performance related. Take away CL income and they're likely to run at a loss.
Morgan isn't really funny, just sad.
SpursLodge
Nicola Berti
Piers Morgan would argue with himself if it got him some publicity. Just click the unfollow button and leave the sad little man on his own.
Klinsmania
Bobby Zamora
Piers Morgan is one of the biggest clams alive, why would anyone be remotely interested in anything he has to say?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...A-Cup-defeat-to-Sunderland.html#disqus_thread
Arsenal manager Ars?¿ne Wenger has a huge mess to clear up after tame FA Cup defeat to Sunderland
Of all the people you might wish to be, Ars?¿ne Wenger is at the very bottom of any list. Nobody, surely, would care to take on the problems he has. Nobody would want to look as crestfallen as him.
Nobody would wish to have a future as unprepossessing.
Humiliated in Lombardy in midweek, the Arsenal manager demanded a response from his players on Wearside yesterday teatime.
Before Arsenal’s FA Cup tie with Sunderland he seemed relaxed, confident, certain the response would be a positive one.
“This is when you determine the character of a team,” he said.
If that is the case, now he knows what characters they are. After 90 minutes in which they played with all the conviction and fortitude of a damp paper bag, his team proved themselves as wretched and hapless a bunch as he can have ever encountered in his career.
Far from playing for him, far from producing a season-defining performance, far from appeasing the growing army of critics insisting they are the weakest Arsenal team in a generation, they surrendered.
For a club of Arsenal’s resource and stature, for a club under the tutelage of one of the greats of football management, it was embarrassing.
Sure, the conditions were not conducive to Wenger’s preferred methodology. The wind whistling round the Stadium of Light was swirly and quixotic.
A plastic bag fluttered across the pitch for much of the game, making pretty, pointless patterns without ever progressing very far. The perfect visual metaphor, in fact, for Arsenal’s passing.
But it was Sunderland’s second goal that best summed up Wenger’s problems. Kieran Richardson had given the hosts a half-time lead, volleying home after a couple of poor clearances. The second, though, will haunt Wenger’s nightmares for years.
A quick break, of precisely the sort that had unhinged the Gunners in Milan, was dealt with in the same spineless manner. It was as if nothing had been learned, no lesson absorbed.
For Robinho on Wednesday, read Stephane Sessignon on Saturday. A speedy ball out of defence found the Sunderland striker, who, as he had all afternoon, sped directly at the visitors’ porous defence.
Running back with him, instead of applying a tackle, Mikel Arteta merely fell over, as abject an act of surrender as you will see on a football pitch.
Sessignon’s subsequent pass across the area was blocked by neither centre back. But then, when did Sebastien Squillaci or Johann Djourou last make a positive, determined intervention?
Nor was there any member of the Arsenal midfield tracking back with Sebastien Larsson as he belted from the halfway line to arrive on the left of Arsenal’s area to connect perfectly with his colleague’s pass.
His firm shot at goal, however, was slightly off target and hit the post. But then, when you are bad, fortune rarely comes to your aid.
When the ball bounced off a post, it struck Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, the only Arsenal player with the urgency to attempt to reinforce the defence, and bounced in. Wretched luck compounded wretched defending. It was typical of Arsenal’s effort.
Just as Sunderland were the on-pitch manifestation of their manager – busy, committed, enthusiastic, chasing and hassling and seizing their moment to discomfort their more vaunted guests – so Arsenal resembled their boss’s current demeanour: hangdog, careworn, miserable.
Long gone are Wenger’s comedy Basil Fawlty interventions in the technical area. No more does he flap albatross arms in the face of the fourth official.
He no longer appears to have the energy to rage against the his dying light. These days he sits on the bench looking like a mourner at a funeral.
And no wonder. According to Roy Keane, watching from the ITV pundit box, the clues were there from the start. Boldly eschewing any possible future commercial tie-in with Thinsulate, the Irishman reckoned it was all obvious from the hand-wear.
“From the first minute when I saw five or six of the Arsenal players wearing gloves I thought they’d be in trouble,” snarled the cold-eyed Irish assassin of reputations.
“No professional footballer worth his salt should enter the field of play in gloves. They should have been worrying about playing for their manager, not worrying about getting cold hands.
"This is the worst Arsenal team I’ve seen in my time in football. They think they can just pass it and mess around at the back. A lack of concentration, lack of desire, a lack of passion.”
Wenger’s problem is he can hardly argue. Keane may be partial, but on this evidence, he isn’t wrong.
Arsenal manager Ars?¿ne Wenger has a huge mess to clear up after tame FA Cup defeat to Sunderland
Of all the people you might wish to be, Ars?¿ne Wenger is at the very bottom of any list. Nobody, surely, would care to take on the problems he has. Nobody would want to look as crestfallen as him.
Nobody would wish to have a future as unprepossessing.
Humiliated in Lombardy in midweek, the Arsenal manager demanded a response from his players on Wearside yesterday teatime.
Before Arsenal’s FA Cup tie with Sunderland he seemed relaxed, confident, certain the response would be a positive one.
“This is when you determine the character of a team,” he said.
If that is the case, now he knows what characters they are. After 90 minutes in which they played with all the conviction and fortitude of a damp paper bag, his team proved themselves as wretched and hapless a bunch as he can have ever encountered in his career.
Far from playing for him, far from producing a season-defining performance, far from appeasing the growing army of critics insisting they are the weakest Arsenal team in a generation, they surrendered.
For a club of Arsenal’s resource and stature, for a club under the tutelage of one of the greats of football management, it was embarrassing.
Sure, the conditions were not conducive to Wenger’s preferred methodology. The wind whistling round the Stadium of Light was swirly and quixotic.
A plastic bag fluttered across the pitch for much of the game, making pretty, pointless patterns without ever progressing very far. The perfect visual metaphor, in fact, for Arsenal’s passing.
But it was Sunderland’s second goal that best summed up Wenger’s problems. Kieran Richardson had given the hosts a half-time lead, volleying home after a couple of poor clearances. The second, though, will haunt Wenger’s nightmares for years.
A quick break, of precisely the sort that had unhinged the Gunners in Milan, was dealt with in the same spineless manner. It was as if nothing had been learned, no lesson absorbed.
For Robinho on Wednesday, read Stephane Sessignon on Saturday. A speedy ball out of defence found the Sunderland striker, who, as he had all afternoon, sped directly at the visitors’ porous defence.
Running back with him, instead of applying a tackle, Mikel Arteta merely fell over, as abject an act of surrender as you will see on a football pitch.
Sessignon’s subsequent pass across the area was blocked by neither centre back. But then, when did Sebastien Squillaci or Johann Djourou last make a positive, determined intervention?
Nor was there any member of the Arsenal midfield tracking back with Sebastien Larsson as he belted from the halfway line to arrive on the left of Arsenal’s area to connect perfectly with his colleague’s pass.
His firm shot at goal, however, was slightly off target and hit the post. But then, when you are bad, fortune rarely comes to your aid.
When the ball bounced off a post, it struck Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, the only Arsenal player with the urgency to attempt to reinforce the defence, and bounced in. Wretched luck compounded wretched defending. It was typical of Arsenal’s effort.
Just as Sunderland were the on-pitch manifestation of their manager – busy, committed, enthusiastic, chasing and hassling and seizing their moment to discomfort their more vaunted guests – so Arsenal resembled their boss’s current demeanour: hangdog, careworn, miserable.
Long gone are Wenger’s comedy Basil Fawlty interventions in the technical area. No more does he flap albatross arms in the face of the fourth official.
He no longer appears to have the energy to rage against the his dying light. These days he sits on the bench looking like a mourner at a funeral.
And no wonder. According to Roy Keane, watching from the ITV pundit box, the clues were there from the start. Boldly eschewing any possible future commercial tie-in with Thinsulate, the Irishman reckoned it was all obvious from the hand-wear.
“From the first minute when I saw five or six of the Arsenal players wearing gloves I thought they’d be in trouble,” snarled the cold-eyed Irish assassin of reputations.
“No professional footballer worth his salt should enter the field of play in gloves. They should have been worrying about playing for their manager, not worrying about getting cold hands.
"This is the worst Arsenal team I’ve seen in my time in football. They think they can just pass it and mess around at the back. A lack of concentration, lack of desire, a lack of passion.”
Wenger’s problem is he can hardly argue. Keane may be partial, but on this evidence, he isn’t wrong.
chancer
Gudni Bergsson
spurspinter1
Paul Stalteri
I thought you rated him chancer?
chancer
Gudni Bergsson
yiddo2786
Steed Malbranque
Because when Arsenal lose he's hilarious. Which is quite frequent nowadays.
Finney Is Back
Luka Modric
Agents fees for both buying and selling players and also the fact that when a player is sold the club often have to pay the remaining installments on his loyalty (hah that's a laugh) bonus.... Or 'signing on fee' as it is more commonly known - that is generally spread equally over the length of the contract and payable unless the player submits a written transfer request (I don't think any of the players mentioned submitted one of those?).
Yay, Anelka it was of course. I may have jumped the gun, but I remembered (or tried to at least) some old Match magazines with Wenger's transfer bonanza, and thought Bergkamp and Anelka (for ?ú500.000?) and some other french/dutch bloke with three names was amongst them as well.
My bad, sorry!
El Guepardo
Rafael Van Der Vaart
I think the Dutch player was Giovanni Van Bronkhorst?
El Guepardo
Rafael Van Der Vaart
Given that the Fabregas move to Barcelona was inevitable, I find it odd if he managed to get all his bonuses.
butcherboy
Gilberto
Can anyone help me ? I can't seem to find any of my goon supporting mates . Could you tell me if they have all been abducted by an alien space ship ? Not sure what's going on as they are always in my face before a NLD ?
Thanks for your kind help :-"
Thanks for your kind help :-"
markysimmo
Johnny nice-tits
Hahahaha RVP says he will stay, like fook he will
Arsenal are ready to open fresh contract talks with winger Theo Walcott, midfielder Tomas Rosicky and striker Robin van Persie after the trio indicated they are keen to stay at the club
http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/footba...bin-van-persie-and-theo-walcott#ixzz1n3oKHSA6
Arsenal are ready to open fresh contract talks with winger Theo Walcott, midfielder Tomas Rosicky and striker Robin van Persie after the trio indicated they are keen to stay at the club
http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/footba...bin-van-persie-and-theo-walcott#ixzz1n3oKHSA6