Arsenal Banter Archive January 04 2014

04 Jan 2014 23:18:19
Its sort of poetic justice that my wife receive 1 of my Xmas presents in the post on Friday.

It was 71. Repo shirt

I remember that night at the lane I was 8, it brought shivers down my spine, I feel like that tonight

Enough said

Eie

Good stuff bud!

Love it

04 Jan 2014 22:51:03
I would like to start a Daniel levy fan club on here

Any takers

U really are a strange individual Malaga, either u are infact 12 or just a very silly person.

Oh and I see lewandowski is Bayer bound, lol good start to the year mate. Go on, Chuck us another out there Charlie!

Jog on lol :-)

Hi MG :) where to sign up?:) and incidently, you're our MG, a genuine gunner:)
'jog on' what?! that CTR is here again?! telling us all what's what. can't be much happening on their page.
COYG andi

05 Jan 2014 13:44:43
CTR say what you want.

We are top of the league and just mullered are biggest rival

Jog on you lemon

For the life of me I don't understand why spurs looked so bad.

Oh I know, it's because we are better at every single position on the pitch, maybe that's why

Cheers MG!

04 Jan 2014 22:43:26
Wally you beauty you are a true arsenal ledgend, for that 2 nil gesture alone he deserves a bronze statue of his along with Henry, Wenger, adams .
lol

Lol, totally agree.

Some people are moaning about what he did. Jeez, its just a bit of harmless fun.

04 Jan 2014 22:06:04
Gunner62,

My friend, you know I love your opinions and views but i'm going to disagree with something you posted earlier.

You posted " to make FA Cup more interesting, the winner should play-off with the team who finished 4th in Prem League to see who qualifies for Champs League".

now, I totally agree that the FA Cup is not as glamorous as it should be, certainly not to the big boys, ie, Man Utd, Arsenal, Chelsea, Man City etc, but think its a bit unfair to have a play-off.

Teams can win the FA Cup in 6 matches (prem league teams who start from the 3rd round) but to finish 4th takes 38 matches so, in my opinion, very unfair to have a play-off.

Im a little bit old school. I don't agree with the lower league Wembley play-offs. I prefer it how it use to be, top 3 get promoted, none of this 3rd/4th/5th/6th play each other etc.

I remember a few years ago, in the Championship, or league 1 whatever it was, the team who finished 6th got promoted by beating the team who finished 3rd in a Wembley play-off, (even though they finished something like 22 points in front of them after 44 league games.

Just to open this debate up even further, can anybody think of a way to make the FA Cup more glamorous to the bigger teams?

I have a suggestion>>>

All the supporters of the team who wins the FA Cup gets to sleep with Holly Willoughby or Kelly Brook, or both, if you keep a clean sheet in the final.

What do you think? (Im going to assume Jenny Taylor would not agree to this, so Jenny, if the FA agree to this, can I have your turn please?

04 Jan 2014 23:10:09
Or alternately gets to sleep with Mark Wahlberg and Jason Statham, then I'm assuming you wouldn't want my turn! Lol. :-)

LFC fan here in peace. DG, always enjoy reading your posts, both on here and our page.

Clearly never a workable solution, but the FA cup would take on greater significance if the winning team could choose a fellow club to start the season with a 10 point deficit in the league. Imagine how good it would be to see Manchester United (or maybe Spurs for you guys) bottom of the league for the first month of the season!

Like I said, not workable, but will certainly have me smiling should we win it.

Oh and well deserved win tonight.

I think most of us would have a problem keeping a clean sheet on this one dags

Jenny,

jason Statham you say?
Hmmm, that's a teaser lol.

BobbyF,

I like your train of thought my friend, that's thinking outside the box lol, and always a pleasure to make a guest appearance on the Liverpool banter page.

Exiled, are you being rude mate? (or just truthful lol)

Hi DG
I see your point about 4th taking 38 games and all and 6th placed teams winning promotion, I used to feel the same.
I even hated the CL allowing 2nd place teams in and felt it should be called the champions and also rans league.
But times change and for me the play off's and top 4 qualification have made things far more interesting and better.
The FA cup needs the boost that those ideas delivered to get it back to its former glory and A CL place is the biggest prize available hence my idea.
Not ideal I admit but might improve the competition.
I also think the aufa cup sf teams should be in the 1st Qualifying round of the CL runners up in 2nd round and winners in 3 rd to boost that too

I hear you G62 lol

04 Jan 2014 21:32:49
GET IN! Always love doing the spurs and fully deserved the win. Best part of the night apart from the goals was Theo helping the spud fans by informing them of the score. He's good like that bless him. He played well with some good runs off the ball.
Some quick points.
1) A quick shout out to a unsung hero of this season and the last couple when he's been available, Thomas Rosicky. He has worked his socks off. Closing down the opposition like a fat kid chasing a doughnut down a hill. Quality player who, a es things happen. Over the moon he got his goal today.
2) Every time I see him play he always impresses me. Quick, direct, skillful, strong and exciting. Serge Gnabry. Serge was a scurge on the spurs defence all night, ( see what I did there.)
3) Kos and Per may as well grow a beard and wear a grey wizards robe and hat. With a staff in one hand while the other is raised to inform the linesman that there is an offside while screaming "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!"

Atrocious
Dire
Egotistical
B*ll*cks
Anus
Yellow belly
Ogre
Rubbish

UP THE GOONERS
Flybo

Lol, you the man Flybo.

Love it.

04 Jan 2014 21:19:44
Well that's what £100m gets you. Although fair play to them, they couldn't see the ball, because apparently it's very dark in our shadow.

North London is red!

04 Jan 2014 20:19:18
That Gnabry looked decent again, i'd still have januzaj thou ;-)

Gd win today boys u looked the part, u really did.
Wonder if Theo may come back to regret that bit of banter, he shouldn't but he will imo.

Hi Chris,

Thanks mate, but would rather keep Gnabry than have your boy Januzaj because our boy stays on his feet a lot more (smiles).

04 Jan 2014 19:32:01
Great performance, rosicky was very good full of energy, Walcott with his runs had their 2 defenders running all over the place but for me the young gnarby was the star performer very good on the ball direct and the slide rule pass for our 1st goal was perfection. COYG

Yes good overall team performance, Spurs had the odd moment but by and large we controlled the game. Gnarby made a positive impact and looked composed on the ball. Rosicky always busy and took his goal well. Defence solid good to see TV5 starting to look like his old self. I was not too sure about Walcott up top on his own at the start but he proved today that givingen right service he can can cause damaged as a central striker

04 Jan 2014 19:21:53
How does ITV compare Theo bit of fun to Adebayor's antics in the city game when he ran the length of the pitch to wind up the travelling Gooners?

Ridiculous

Hmmm was that the team that spent 100 million?:) :):) feeling great. well done lads:) super result!:) well done every one of you's:) erm, spudettes:) yawnnnnnn COYG andi:)

I am a Gooner and moaning about ITV!

It was their ridiculous comparison

04 Jan 2014 18:34:43
Great goal from Rosicky

Down to effort, pressure and then composure

:)

04 Jan 2014 18:19:01
Just to get away from the game today, I think people are kidding themselves by thinking Arsene will buy in January, he hates this window, it inflates prices more than the Summer window, Wenger will not buy. his thinking . " why do I need another striker" Giroud and Bendtner out, he still has Walcott and then possibly Podolski, Cazorla has scored which will back his argument up that we have lots of midfielders who can find the net. The money will stay in the bank

I do not know about that.

I think Wenger is actually fairly truthful on his views of the January Window (but not on seeing incidents etc.).

We know Wenger does not like the window. Wenger believes the prices are inflated, it is difficult to integrate someone you buy into the team for the run-in, most of the targets you would want are cup tied, and he only likes buying players he think can make a difference, but he has bought in January before.

All of the above suggests to me that Wenger would buy one of his top targets in January if they become available (at a not too inflated price) or get a loan from one of the other big clubs for a player who has fallen out of favour or has potential but is not getting a game.

BUT Wenger is not going to buy just for the sake of buying, that's why I do not see him buying a Berbatov-type player.

I suppose we just need wait until the end of January though Banbury.

LOL

James most of your post actually suggests you don't think he will buy :)

The 2nd goal proves my point . a scoring midfielder and we have plenty of them. Why would Wenger buy a quick fix striker, he won't buy anyone to play up front until we get rid of Bendover

04 Jan 2014 13:33:17
Come on Theo! let's show the world how good you are today and win over more boo boys!

Come on you Gunners, let's put the Spurs to the sword

04 Jan 2014 12:06:09
Not been on for a while now, just enjoying the feeling of being top dogs and long may it continue.

Happy new year to Ed's and posters alike.

Just wanted to say that if we fancy buying a striker and are probably not going to get any top names till the summer, why we don't go for someone like Jordan Rhodes. I just have a good feeling about him. Surely wouldn't cost too much so would be worth a punt considering the other likely options.

As for todays game, I hope we don't take it too lightly. We have plenty of time for recovery and it's another step towards a trophy. Champions league don't start up again till feb. By then we could be in the 5th round. to be honest we're less likely to win the champions League even with our best team, not saying that we can't, luck of the draw and all that. But I would be more than happy with a domestic double, get some top players in the summer and then go big for the CL next time around.

Estepona gooner

04 Jan 2014 10:00:17
The FA cup is a shadow of its former glory, long gone are not he days of it being the seasons finale and the ONLY live game on TV of the season.
Great memories as a kid of how special and exciting each and every round were, so how could it be made to matter again to all clubs in the land?

My idea? The FA cup winners should play off with 4 th place in PL for the final CL place.

{Ed002's Note - Invariably the FA Cup winners have come from the top four.}

That's why I was cheering on Wigan last season!

Appreciate that Ed 02 but surely the dream of champions league football would reignite the excitement of all clubs from Spurs to Southport for who other wise can't ever dream of CL football other wise

{Ed002's Note - All clubs who enter the FA Cup will do the best they can to win it. It is not only the top four who try.}

04 Jan 2014 04:48:22
Seeing as it looks like Giroud won't be playing today and super Nick is out for maybe 3_5 weeks would it be silly to get Henry on loan for the 2 months while the mls is on there brake only saying this as I can't see us signing anyone this month and I don't think pod is a striker and I think until the summer window comes we would have enough to get by just a thought

I think Podolski had some lessons from "Super NB52, worlds best striker" so he should be fine.

Nah all jokes aside I thinks Pod is better in the centre then NB52 who I think at best is a championship player. At least Pod can play behind the striker and on the wing also. He also has some skill something else NB has none of.