Mr_TA:

Wesley Brown is the answer.

rio should start tomorrow or start against the scousers on sunday. his latest injury isn't his perennial back injury so it's not really bad. as long as he does not hurt his back, we should coast till may knowing we have a solid defence. mind you, chris smalling is making a strong case. he has been excellent.

chamotex:

They've opened a new thread.

'Trophyless' people

another 100 pages of gnashing of teeth. the last thread opened with them nursing their wounds after nani destroyed arsenal at old trafford. this one opened with obafemi martins carrying juju to beat arsenal. trust me, the next one will be discussing how to get wenger sacked.

Mr_TA:

9 goals in 8 premier league starts.

chicharito has had only 12 shots in the premier league this year. . . .and scored 8. he's simply phenomenal!

biolabee:

nobody talked about kos
my own is that we hv players thatare overpaid for their level of skill and cannot command such wages else where yet AW keeps faith with them
whether it is repeated on the big ben,, defense wins titles.

AWs first titles were won by Tony Adams, Keown, Winterburn and Seaman

are you serious? is koscielny not better than vidic anymore? this defender didn't lose a single tackle in the french league before coming to arsenal. i think he's better than maldini.

Mr_TA:

A quick word on two of our players in yesterday's match. First VDS. Wow. What a keeper. He's going to be a huge miss and considering how we struggled to replace our last great keeper I hope this isnt as bad. VDS was a life saver so calm, assured and a fantastic presence. He might not pull out wonder saves but I wouldnt swap him for anyother keeper in the world.

Secondly is Hernandez, kid is ridiculous. He finishes everything, bet he always finishes his dinner too!

chicharito is quality. by far the bargain of the season by a distance. he should win the young player award. he must have the best goals/min stat in the whole epl.

duduspace:

Is that what the post yu read said or what yur inebriated state suggested?  
enjoy your akpeteshi, yu've earned it courtesy of Birmingham. We shall meet at OT.  

meet us at old trafford? can this team beat leyton orient?

hannie:

Its 100 pages already, tear us a new thread . . .

This is wishing in advance we have cause to smile on that thread . . .

meanwhile . . .I am glad u all can see KOSILEYIN is a fat fool ? how can a defender playing in a cup final be so silly ? kick the effing ball out and dont dummy urself into oblivion, bloody mugun!  

Wenger, u have been due spiritual cleansing at Bar Beach, I wonder if u are trying to argue is Libya is safer than Nigeria ? u seem to be cursed and U KNOW IT, U SET THE STANDARD HIGH URSELF (Like Loyika said on phone, maybe u should honorably resign if u dont win nada this season)  

All in all . . .all hope aint lost . . . .ITS THE ARSENAL, BLOODY HATERZ!!!

 someone has just made my weekend.

duduspace:

As the ever progressive and forward looking person that I am, I can't help but notice that Ryo Miyaichi got 2 assists and won a penalty while Feyenoord beat Groningen 5-1 today. Also Feyenoord have now gone unbeaten since Miyaichi joined them and have since started a steady climb up the Eeredivisie table.
I hereby plead with Japan to cap this boy so we can bring him over in the summer, seems we're all agreed that we need to call time on Rosicky's career with us, we can't have this boy helping Feyenoord while we could be using him at times like this.

still deluded. . . . . miyaichi would have single-handedly delivered a trophy veterans like van persie, rosicky and arshavin couldn't deliver? keep representing arsenal as their most brilliant member on this forum. mad props to you.

debosky:

Y'all should continue your rantings so we can close this edition on this sad note and move on.

debosky spotted by our surveillance cameras on lagos island.

chamotex:

Dudu is not optimistic . . . he is just fooling himself

he is hopelessly deluded

chamotex:

arsenal should just move back to highbury or share white hart lane with spurs. the emirates has been a curse on arsenal fc

chamotex:

#TheLastTimeArsenalWonATrophy obasanjo had abs.

wicked!

presido1:

So Hleb is now a cup winner while Fab4 and the rest are still waiting. HMmmmmmmmmmmm Henry left Arsenal and Touched a trophy, Hleb has done same today(From Barca to Stuttgart to Birmingham) very soon Flamingo will do same at AC Milan. Fab4 what are you waiting for? until wengay and his papa ijebu hand distroy you at young age.

same as seb larsson. the excuse before was that arsenal had no money to spend because they were building a stadium. it's a new era now, there's money, they have the best squad in the league(according to the deluded gooners themselves) and yet they failed to win a cup final against birmingham of all teams.

Ramnon.2:

Kildran
Yoruba hardly patronize public unis? This one is a big fat lie.

Come to the US and see Igbo students compared to Yoruba
Go to Germany and Singapore, South Africa just to mention a few, the story is the same
Go to Ghana, our neighbour, the story is similar. Igbos beat Yoruba everywhere

UK has lost attraction as a destination for Niaja student because of cost consideration
Nigerians now even go as far as Australia, Philippines, Canada etc to study
Moreover, an average Yoruba family is poorer than an average Igbo family
So you cannot claim to be able to go study abroad more than the Igbo
If you claim so, please provide the proof.

you are a tool!

norrisman:

Is that Eldee the half baked musician? Since when did what a journey-man Nigerian musician thinks become relevant to how a spaniard plying his trade in the English premier league decides his future? Naija people self and the people they look up to  

StarBoard:

Arsenal-perennial choke artistes.
Quadruple indeed.Ball-less,Spineless,gutless wonders.
Bet on them to win.Instead they gift-wrapped the carling cup to Birmingham.But i blame myself for betting on the lousiest team in the world.

i can't believe you lots placed bets on arsenal. i wouldn't back them against dolphins fc of port harcourt in a cup final.

biolabee:

norrisman u must be pretty dumb to launch a personal attck on my person

I have said it time and time again on this thread we have no leaders in the team and it showed today irrespective of who played
also wenger is a poor tacticianand it showed by removing our most potent threat in van persie and arshavin and keeping rosicky who is evidently past his prime

spitter of bunkum

true words. there is no leader in the team. koscielny is a naive defender. his posture caused the confusion. if you are not going to clear the ball, stay out of the goalkeeper's sight and let him catch the ball. koscielny dummied like he was clearing the ball only to fool his own goalkeeper as well and martins just tapped in. when ferguson went for chris smalling, arsene wenger went for koscielny.

presido1:

WenGAY did not show for post match interview, sour loser. Wasting waiting when he will come and tell us how sharp and mentally strong the lads were.  

wenger is a reetard. you must be lacking something as a club when rosicky wears the captain's armband.

chamotex:

You responded? Where?
Na Shabbie I ask question? I said a detailed report.
You that can write epistles . . . you are now giving me a four-line response . . . .please I'm waiting.

I've said that many times . . . I never take his posts serious.

you have a better chance joining the bnp if you expect fufuface to make sense. notice he hasn't mentioned anything concerning the youth policy today? let them beat southampton with their embryos and you will start hearing how wenger is the best in developing youths. evra's prophesy is coming to pass. "arsenal is an academy. at the end of the season, they won't win a thing".

chamotex:

Duduface, you will not answer me?
I need a fully detailed report on what happened against Birmingham on my desk by tomorrow morning.

arsenal lost because jay emmanuel thomas didn't play.

chamotex:

Arsenal's loss cost me 40 quid though.
What was I thinking?

u bet on arsenal? i knew they were going to lose from the onset. it's a no brainer. those boys don't know how to win titles. none of them has won anything in their career. do you really think a strong man utd, liverpool, chelsea would lose to a bottom side team in wembley?

debosky:

Don't be silly - the offside decision was a MISTAKE - the linesman didn't see the man was onside, and made a genuine error.

Clattenburg sees the foul and yet fails to give a red card - two completely different situations.

clattenburg didn't see rooney use his elbow. he thought it was a coming together of two players. rooney was lucky but then the wigan defender knew what he was doing blocking rooney's path.

presido1:

From HNIC

Which of these two play today? I don't actually know their names.

gallas and kolo toure.

chamotex:

Duduface . . . when will United crumble please?

when arsenal's youth policy comes into fruition.  we will be told wilshere is the youngest player to start a carling cup final. koscielny was 5 when he joined arsenal and djourou was signed as an embryo.

norrisman:

Koscielny played no part in the cock up! It was the rookie keeper that messed it all up,  any decent defender listens to his goalkeeper as the keeper can see what he cant hence the resaon he withdrew form the ball when he heard the shout from Szcezny.We saw this happen between Toure and Hart earlier on in the season.With all of Kolo's experience he left the ball once instructed by Hart and the mix up resulted in a Blackburn goal.

vidic will clear that ball. rio will shoot that ball to the stands. the first rule is deal with the ball first before listening to the goalkeeper especially at that point in the game. until arsene wenger gets quality defenders instead of the buy one get one free tramps he signs every now and then, the club will never win a trophy.

presido1:

Shattap dia, where d quality dey? I go e slap you if you ever type such nonsense again.

Infact no more arsenal thread until una win something.

quality is koscielny kicking the air and sczerseny fumbling a routine catch.

duduspace:

Heart and guts won over quality at the end of the day, our boys can learn a lot from these Birmingham boys. But damn, such a sad and silly way for all these to end, self destruct button pressed once again, for how long lads?

buhahahahahahaha. hearts and guts won over quality? which quality? birmingham outplayed arsenal. arsenal's strongest possible team and you are talking hearts andd guts. it seems we will have to wait till 2019 before arsenal win a trophy.

the trophy dought persists.

HNIC:

All the Haterz
Come out now and post for the last time about trophylessness for half a decade.
We are starting with the CC tomorrow.

this is the kinda arrogant talks that bite people on their backside.

after 90 mins, arsenal are still trophyless.

duduspace:

Heart in mouth moment chei, we are with yu boiz and today is the day.

today is the day? today?

4llerbuntu:

i agree the chap is shyte. but your old fart is playing him constantly, unless u saying u know better than the old man, then he is the best at this moment

i am assuming he got chosen today because rafael will be fresh for stamford bridge and at anfield. there's no way o'shea is better than the brazilian. i dont even know a better right back than rafael in the league. sagna is inconsistent, bosingwa/ivanovic have been shit. micah richards is shyte and corluka has been shyte all season. who else?

DAY11.:

Happy Weekend!!!

where are the pictures?

chamotex:

Nice win but we have to start killing teams off early though.

P.S - O'Shea's ball control is really poor. I wonder if he could control a REMOTE.

unless fergie rested rafael for the big games coming next week, then oshea's inclusion today was lethargic. john o'shea's logic process is delayed by at least 15 seconds. it takes more seconds for his brain to function and do the right thing. he cannot pass, he cannot run, he doesn't mark tight and i still don't see what he adds to the defence. people say he's got height but i am yet to see him compete aerially and win.

flak:

hi nairalanders, i just joined this forum hoping to get some useful advice.

I have been married for 5 years with a dose of the happy, good, bad and ugly moments. I really need help on how to cope with a verbally abusive husband that i have endured all these while.

i have left the house once to go to a friends place when i got tired of his rantings only to come back and get beaten up while i was 4 months pregnant.

He apologised but i cant seem to get it off my mind. The last straw is trying to paint me as a 'witch' because he lost his job (nationwide bank layoffs) recently with the help of some false prophets who rally around him because of money. He is still very much financially ok  cos he is was a part of top management team and has good prospects of getting another job. I think he is using that as a weapon because i insisted i want to get a job.He believes because he did not allow me get a job i am using my 'imagined evil powers' to bewitch him and his job.

I am a chartered accountant and was previously working with stanbic ibtc. I had to leave when he almost suffocated me with complaints. I resigned hoping he would change his mind about his position but no after 3 years.

I have my own faults because i am not a kind of person that pretends i am happy when i am not. i have insisted that either i get a job or nothing else. i have lost all trust in him and he is smart enough to notice it. Any mention of my job it is another rain of verbal abuse but i really am past caring.i have lost all confidence in him because i find it strange that after 5 years he now thinks i am evil becuse i want a job.

truth is i am beginning to break down with his incessant abuses, control freakish attitude and always right attitude.
i have 3 children . pls advise me on coping strategies.

marriage is an entrapment.