3-0 win and RVP not even on the scoresheet.

It just shows you how quickly things can change in football.

Let's keep beating the lower teams for now. . . .it'll give us some wiggle room if we don't beat the big boys.

third on the table with 7 wins in a row and we cannot say we are contending for the title. Heartrending

Arteta is still waiting for his first cap for Spain. . . Incredible!

^^
Arteta is a quality player but when one considers the quality of the other players vying for a position in Spain's midfield, its not surprising he may never be called to national team

We haven't won 7 in a row since the autumn of 2007. . . .no surprise that was a season where we came third and were top of the league for long stretches.

If we can combine our 'usual' good starts at the beginning of the season with a similar run in Feb/March then we'll have a chance of competing for the title.

I can't remember when last I watched a game with Djourou and it finished without me having cause to rain curses on his head.

^^ True, though i feel he's on about the same level as players like Martinez, woulda probably sneaked a place in the squad for the Euros if he weren't turning 30 next week.

Meanwhile, who needs Cesc when you got Song? His distribution this season has been absolutely top drawer!

Who's the the London Boss now?

^^

We was always the boss, boss

Djorou looked decent today. When you sit on the bench till your drawers start to stick to your butt you appreciate any minute you get. I hope Kos' injury is minor cos the Sagna, Kos, Verm, Gibb combi is just priceless

Excellent, Villa is one team I used to hate playing cos of counter attacks and set pieces. Anyways, we so dominated the game that we didn't even pick up a single card while Villa racked up five. Van Persie now has the attention of all the EPL defenders, good distraction for Theo to exploit.

edoyad: Excellent, Villa is one team I used to hate playing cos of counter attacks and set pieces. Anyways, we so dominated the game that we didn't even pick up a single card while Villa racked up five. Van Persie now has the attention of all the EPL defenders, good distraction for Theo to exploit.

Good point. The Villains were not as good in defense they they usually are. Meanwhile Gervinho really needs to find his way to the quality we know he has the potential of cos its really easy to loose one's spot as a first team member in this current Arsenal squad

edoyad:

Could you Kindly produce any material that can be entered as evidence that such a bet was indeed made?

does he need to show u any bet?

some of us here were ever so sure that the yids would never do one on us . . yet some of you got carried away by their form which some of 'us' know was just temporary . . .now u are asking for a proof of such bets? RIDICULOUS!!!

For all those people that are yet to admit that AW has changed for the better and has been getting some things right of recent, you lot might need to get some perspective . . .gone are the days I used to blame him at almost every loss, but with all of this I am sure it is plain to see that he has brought some kind of freshness of guile, creativity and mental sagacity into this team, the fact that these boys havent yet delivered on their own promises and capabilities boil down to them, they just need to up the ante whilst from next season Monsieur needs to get tough on them on the need to get results . . .YES, THE PHOENIX ROSE FROM THE ASHES!!!

If only we hadn't bungled up so badly @ the start of the season, who knows where we would be now with out current form.

hannie:
For all those people that are yet to admit that AW has changed for the better and has been getting some things right of recent, you lot might need to get some perspective . . .gone are the days I used to blame him at almost every loss, but with all of this I am sure it is plain to see that he has brought some kind of freshness of guile, creativity and mental sagacity into this team, the fact that these boys havent yet delivered on their own promises and capabilities boil down to them, they just need to up the ante whilst from next season Monsieur needs to get tough on them on the need to get results . . .YES, THE PHOENIX ROSE FROM THE ASHES!!!

I really hope he has changed as he's now talking about doing swift transfer business unlike last summer when he was playing transfer poker and leaving it late, that was my main beef with him last summer. The late transfers (in and out) had a catastrophic effect at the beginning of the season.

No one is ever sure of anything in this league. Now that we are ahead of tottenham its easy to say you knew tottenham will never finish ahead of us. Would you also say u knew we'll be about 8 points ahead of chelshit with 8 games to go? Or would you say u knew RvP will go the whole season without a knock? We all know what that would have done to our season. I wouldn't say wenger has changed simply cos we put together 7 straight wins. I will only come to that conclusion if he stops looking for the cheap dross in the transfer market.

This Kos' injury gives me grave concern, I don't think Djorou can give consistently what my KOSCIELNY has

dipo+:
No one is ever sure of anything in this league. Now that we are ahead of tottenham its easy to say you knew tottenham will never finish ahead of us. Would you also say u knew we'll be about 8 points ahead of chelshit with 8 games to go? Or would you say u knew RvP will go the whole season without a knock? We all know what that would have done to our season. I wouldn't say wenger has changed simply cos we put together 7 straight wins. I will only come to that conclusion if he stops looking for the cheap dross in the transfer market.

This Kos' injury gives me grave concern, I don't think Djorou can give consistently what my KOSCIELNY has

The funny thing is that at the same time I was offered the Tottenham bet, I was also offered a similar one for Chelsea but I was not confident in the Chelsea one and did not take it especially as I have lost the Chelsea bet a few times in the past years.

Edoyad, I am sorry but what kind of proof should I be running up and down to provide you? You either believe me or not,simples.
Hopefully at the end of the season I will be able to collect my £50.

its is very possible that you placed that wager at the beginning of the season, but I don't think anyone would have placed same bet at the time when Tottenham was 10 points ahead of us. The likelihood of Tottenham finishing ahead of us at that time was great

Go and stand in the naughty corner if you thought totoyam will finish ahead of us. Seriously, s#!t like that ought to be against the law.

Meanwhile RvP dey vex me, 2matches no goals G, abeg Baba Ijebu sell the dead wood jor

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dipo+:
its is very possible that you placed that wager at the beginning of the season, but I don't think anyone would have placed same bet at the time when Tottenham was 10 points ahead of us. The likelihood of Tottenham finishing ahead of us at that time was great

Was like 74.8% . Even Arseblog was already preaching that it wouldn't be such a bad thing to play the UEFA cup. If Arsenal had scored 4 against Milan and managed to go through on Penalties, na only God know wetin we for hear.

Meanwhile its not Uhuru yet, all it takes is for us to lose to City and Chelski to be back in the red.

slimshay: Go and stand in the naughty corner if you thought totoyam will finish ahead of us. Seriously, s#!t like that ought to be against the law.

I thought they'll finish ahead of us and I also thought Chelsea would finish ahead of us. Did you think Chelsea will finish below us?

slimshay:

Meanwhile RvP dey vex me, 2matches no goals G, abeg Baba Ijebu sell the dead wood jor

Nucca must be the deadwood with the highest transfer value in the history of the game

I dont know what crap u al are talking about . . .

if anyone bothers to find out, there was no way I would ever have accepted that the Yids will end up higher, not to even talk of the Chavs . . .

why are the standards so piss-poor amongst gooners these days?

It'll be something if anyone here claims he thought we'll finish ahead of Chelsea at the outset.
Standards fell at our darling club when we had to depend on a useless Ramshit for creativity especially wrt the kind of football we play. Harsh as I may sound, Ramshit's injury is one of the reasons (if not the main reason) we have done so well in recent games. Now that he is back on his feet let's see how well we fare if Wenger continues giving him an undeserved place in our starting line-up.

Ramsey is all at fault yet he contributed to bringing us from the brink of relegation back into the top 5 eh?

I'm not saying he was a superstar or anything, but he did a job when it was required - when Rozzi's form improved/Ramsey got injured he was replaced and the team moved on.

If we're determining improvement by the absence of a player, we could also lazily say that Mertesacker and Gervinho's absences from the starting lineup are the factors for our improved form, not Ramsey's absence.

Just set aside your pet hates and appreciate the form the team has shown.

Lastly, dunno what the hang up is with being able to say 'I told you so' - either negatively or positively. Y'all like to act like Kitstradamus' love child when you're all really pissing in the wind with your predictions 90% of the time.

debosky:

Lastly, dunno what the hang up is with being able to say 'I told you so' - either negatively or positively. Y'all like to act like Kitstradamus' love child when you're all really pissing in the wind with your predictions 90% of the time.

Help me ask them, Funny thing is that there are still 8 more games to go, so mission is not even almost complete yet. We could as well find ourselves 11 points behind again by mid next month, if we don't do what we ought to.

debosky: Ramsey is all at fault yet he contributed to bringing us from the brink of relegation back into the top 5 eh?

I'm not saying he was a superstar or anything, but he did a job when it was required - when Rozzi's form improved/Ramsey got injured he was replaced and the team moved on.

When Ramshit got injured, the team didn't move on - it blossomed.


As an aside, Kos will have to avoid any cards in our next two games or risk a two-match ban. Our daring defender is currently on 9 yellows and will serve a punishment of a
2-game ban if he gets anor card in any of our next two games.

sorry guys I dont seem to get the responses by email like before.. any info on that

Kay-Dee:
If only we hadn't bungled up so badly @ the start of the season, who knows where we would be now with out current form.



I really hope he has changed as he's now talking about doing swift transfer business unlike last summer when he was playing transfer poker and leaving it late, that was my main beef with him last summer. The late transfers (in and out) had a catastrophic effect at the beginning of the season.

On point! Same issue i had with le prof! At least he is now identifying his targets and aiming to bring them to complete the puzzle as quickly as possible. That i beleive is the right way to go.

^^ Don't believe everything you hear. This is the same way we heard about making 'Hazard's dream come true' last season before the departure saga began.

The truth is that Arsenal cannot be trusted with transfers till they are concluded - Arsene has said the same thing he is saying now for years - he will go for quality or 'super quality' as he claims, only to go back and say there isn't anyone who can add quality to his squad or there is no value in the market.

I'm not convinced he has changed his ways. . . .

Papa Wenger isn't changing shitt. We are on the verge of finishing stronger than we did last season after selling two players the world thought we couldn't cope without. If anything, Wenger will feel vindicated. All the noise about signings is an effort to keep the most lethal striker in the world, RvP at Arsenal.
I think RvP will stay anyways

Didnt you guys think it was the pressure from fans that forced Wengers hand.

Just assume if you had won the first 3 games of the season before the market closed, Do you think Wenger would have gone to do 7 last day deals?

You should be thankfull to the likes of man utd, liverpool and Newcastle for those early season whooping which forced a near mutiny at the Emirates

When was the last DK visited this thread and rolled out his broken drums?

Totally agree Arsene's hands were forced into doing his last minute buys. Despite what some think, I still see them as panic buys. We were lucky 'quality' like Arteta and Per were available. I think AW thought he could ride the storm without Cesc and Nasri with Jack, Ramsey and Gerv. Good thing we got the lessons from Liverpool/ManU. Ive always said my problem with AW is his stubborness. He needs prayers.

Like debo, I refuse to believe any hype until I see the player on www.arsenal.com. Asides that, apart from players like Almunia, Arshavin, JD20, Squillacci, we should work hard to keep the current squad no matter the summer additions.

Most of those deals woulda been done anyways. Traore left the day after the United game = Santos, obviously even Arsene isn't dumb enough to have one left back(Gibbs) in his squad. Park came cos Bendtner went to Wearside. Mertersacker came after the Cahill deal fell through which had already been on the cards for ages. Arteta I'm not so sure about.