The Official Arsenal Thread (Volume2)
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How about this for a stat from the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/mar/24/ars...
Theo Walcott doubled the lead nine minutes later when he brought down a wonderful lobbed assist from Alex Song – which is becoming his speciality – and finished with a neat sidefoot. Incredibly, that signalled the first time that two English players have scored for Arsenal in the same league game since 1997 . Wenger was keen for Song to get credit. "You do not see many defensive midfielders with so many assists. His numbers are top in Europe," the manager said.
Also nice to see that Wenger is "singing Song's"
praises for his assists....something I've mentioned a few times 
Theo Walcott doubled the lead nine minutes later when he brought down a wonderful lobbed assist from Alex Song – which is becoming his speciality – and finished with a neat sidefoot. Incredibly, that signalled the first time that two English players have scored for Arsenal in the same league game since 1997 . Wenger was keen for Song to get credit. "You do not see many defensive midfielders with so many assists. His numbers are top in Europe," the manager said.
Also nice to see that Wenger is "singing Song's"
praises for his assists....something I've mentioned a few times andyjo1982 said:
Walcott is a good a player, but he's got to become more consistent. He's been better lately, but he's just so unpredictable.
Ramsey has been brilliant for you lot this season. He's come back so much stronger and fitter from that injury. With Wilshire, Ox, Walcott and Ramsay, you have a very exciting future, as long as you can keep them injury free and as long as you can compete for the big prizes...
100% agree on Walcott. Ramsey has been brilliant for you lot this season. He's come back so much stronger and fitter from that injury. With Wilshire, Ox, Walcott and Ramsay, you have a very exciting future, as long as you can keep them injury free and as long as you can compete for the big prizes...
It seems like Arsenal have been in a perpetual "if we can hold onto our best players and add two or three more of proven quality we could really challenge" for the last five years...this year will not be any different. Hopefully staring in to the abyss at the beginning of this season has concentrated the minds......please, please, please off RVP as much money as he wants and go out and sign a couple more attacking players and a better reserve keeper. I reckon we might just have to make do with Podolksi and offering a pot of gold to RVP though.....Wenger will have Miyachi and Joel Campbell available in addition to the current squad next season.
Still that is not a bad situation....when you look at the squads that Spurs and Chelsea have...both have got some major squad investment to do. Harry's done a good job but he does like the bargain elder statesman which is great in the short term but not so good in the long term.
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essexplumber said:
MrMagoo said:
Interesting fact: Arsenal have had more different goalscorers than any other team in the Premier League so far this season.
Not intersted.HTH.
I think thats a very interesting fact tbh we all give Arsenal a bit of stick at times for being so reliant on RVP but that shows that they are getting goals from elsewhere too, a couple of smart buys in the summer, Wilshere back, the OX with a full pre season under him and things start to look a bit interesting for next year
Personally I would welcome a challenge from Arsenal again rather than city or the chavs
Panclan said:
Harry trying mind games
"They’ve got Man City at home, Chelsea at home. It’s all to play for still.
"We found ourselves suddenly from being 10 points clear to being behind Arsenal now.
"It can all change. We’ve got to keep picking up results."
Keep picking up results? Surely he means 'start'"They’ve got Man City at home, Chelsea at home. It’s all to play for still.
"We found ourselves suddenly from being 10 points clear to being behind Arsenal now.
"It can all change. We’ve got to keep picking up results."
Panclan said:
Harry trying mind games
"They’ve got Man City at home, Chelsea at home. It’s all to play for still.
"We found ourselves suddenly from being 10 points clear to being behind Arsenal now.
"It can all change. We’ve got to keep picking up results."
Harry doesn't need to stop playing mind games....he just needs to stop talking about the England job. For some reason (which is brilliant as an Arsenal fan) he seems to discuss it at every press conference. If he just played a straight bat it would soon go away but he doesn't http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17493075#ass..."They’ve got Man City at home, Chelsea at home. It’s all to play for still.
"We found ourselves suddenly from being 10 points clear to being behind Arsenal now.
"It can all change. We’ve got to keep picking up results."
Cheib said:
Harry doesn't need to stop playing mind games....he just needs to stop talking about the England job. For some reason (which is brilliant as an Arsenal fan) he seems to discuss it at every press conference. If he just played a straight bat it would soon go away but he doesn't http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17493075#ass...
Agreed. As a Spud I think you lot were there for the taking this season, if we had played it right at your place from 0-2 up your exellent run may not have snowballed.As it stood you obviously took great confidence from the result and have took it from there. Harry has engineered his own downfall with his constant media whoring.
It would have been great to finish above you but I'll settle for 4th although your run in is tough and 3 points isn't much of a lead. At least Chavski are f
ked 
essexplumber said:
At least Chavski are fked
Indeed ked They don't have an easy run in and have some shocking fixture congestion....I sooooo want them to beat Benfica as they will then have to play Barca a in the midweek before they come to The Emirates....having played Spurs or Bolton the weekend before in the FA Cup The thing is with Chelsea I hate Abramovich and what he stands for more than I dislike Chelsea as a football club. If he'd come in a built a legacy I might actually have some respect for him but he clearly didn't see a day when he'd have less money than anyone else so didn't invest in the club/stadium...cos he's an arrogant
. If they don't get Champions League football next year they're fked I reckon.....they already lose £50 mil a year and on the basis of the numbers people were talking about with Arsenal they'll have £25 to £45mil less income next season.....how they are going to rebuild and ageing squad, stay competitive and stay within UEFA FFP is beyond me. Shame 
They were apparently going to break even by 2010 http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/feb/22/new...
Cheib said:
Indeed They don't have an easy run in and have some shocking fixture congestion....I sooooo want them to beat Benfica as they will then have to play Barca a in the midweek before they come to The Emirates....having played Spurs or Bolton the weekend before in the FA Cup
The thing is with Chelsea I hate Abramovich and what he stands for more than I dislike Chelsea as a football club. If he'd come in a built a legacy I might actually have some respect for him but he clearly didn't see a day when he'd have less money than anyone else so didn't invest in the club/stadium...cos he's an arrogant. If they don't get Champions League football next year they're fked I reckon.....they already lose £50 mil a year and on the basis of the numbers people were talking about with Arsenal they'll have £25 to £45mil less income next season.....how they are going to rebuild and ageing squad, stay competitive and stay within UEFA FFP is beyond me. Shame They were apparently going to break even by 2010 http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/feb/22/new...
Good website on the FFP They don't have an easy run in and have some shocking fixture congestion....I sooooo want them to beat Benfica as they will then have to play Barca a in the midweek before they come to The Emirates....having played Spurs or Bolton the weekend before in the FA Cup The thing is with Chelsea I hate Abramovich and what he stands for more than I dislike Chelsea as a football club. If he'd come in a built a legacy I might actually have some respect for him but he clearly didn't see a day when he'd have less money than anyone else so didn't invest in the club/stadium...cos he's an arrogant
. If they don't get Champions League football next year they're fked I reckon.....they already lose £50 mil a year and on the basis of the numbers people were talking about with Arsenal they'll have £25 to £45mil less income next season.....how they are going to rebuild and ageing squad, stay competitive and stay within UEFA FFP is beyond me. Shame They were apparently going to break even by 2010 http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/feb/22/new...http://www.financialfairplay.co.uk/
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