Football Thread (formally Soccer Thread)

[Spork]

Just heard the red card was appealed and overturned. Rightly so, was probably the only reason we lost the match.

[kilabee]

Yeah but mostly it was because we scored two goals and your side scored one

[Spork]

http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/arsenal.com-best-website-of-the-year-2010

Who says we haven't won anything in 5 years?

[R3DM@N]

i like arsenal website, used it to watch live scoring at work

[Wandarah]

What's up with Chelsea?

Anyway - very very relieved Arsenal made it through. My god we just can't keep a clean sheet recently.

[kilabee]

Arse are looking down the barrel in the round of 16

 Barcelona
 Schalke
 Bayern
 Madrid

[R3DM@N]

In all fairness to Chelsea there slump has occured since there assistant coach left few weeks ago

[Spork]

Arse are looking down the barrel in the round of 16

 Barcelona
 Schalke
 Bayern
 Madrid

Well once we beat Man U on Mon night/ Tues morn we will go on an beaten run in all competitions, so whom ever we play doesn't bother me.

100% realistically I believe we can beat any of those teams except Barca.

EDIT: The thing about Barca is, that we will most likely face them at some point, as Barca and Arsenal are the only two decent teams in the CL, so I am not sure if it is best to face them straight up, or in the final. I would probably say straight up, not because Barca would be easier to beat then, but because the Arsenal players may be less nervous than they would facing Barca in the final.

[maorifulla]

[Spork]

Chelsea have won just two games out of the last eight in all competitions and they now face Tottenham at White Hart Lane on Sunday, followed by Manchester United at home and Arsenal at the Emirates.

It is not looking good for you guys at all. I mean, this weekend's match is going to be interesting, either way Arsenal are winners, but this is one tough time for Chelsea.

[Spork]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/3269222/Nani-turns-up-the-heat-on-Chelsea.html

Arsene Nani knows.

[Thetruereddevil]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/3269222/Nani-turns-up-the-heat-on-Chelsea.html

Arsene Nani knows.

hah

[Spork]

Come on Liverpool god damn it, you need to pick up your game sometime soon in order to get that fourth or at least fifth spot.

[R3DM@N]

Take the draw but Drogba you dickhead! Shoulda let Lampard take it

Haha here you go Spork - http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/3271602/Patrice-Evra-has-labelled-Arsenal-a-load-of-rubbish.html

[maorifulla]

Liverpool is playing like absolute shite atm

almost as bad as watching the black caps attempt to play cricket

well actually i wouldnt go that far

[Spork]

Take the draw but Drogba you dickhead! Shoulda let Lampard take it

Haha here you go Spork - http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/3271602/Patrice-Evra-has-labelled-Arsenal-a-load-of-rubbish.html

Evra rubbishing Arsenal? I could pull up at least one article for every Man U v Arsenal game since Evra has been in the sport. He aint a good sport.

He was the one who said it was men vs boys or men vs babies or something.

Meh, we will continue to sit ontop the table, and after our win tonight, it's going to be a long hard run for Manure and Chelscum to catch up to us.

Who is Chelsea's number 12? With defending like that, he could play for Arsenal..

[henno]

Just adds to the fun

Most of what he said is right, we could lose the game but what are the chances of Arsenal being there at the end of the season?

Should be a good game will be staying home to watch it

[Ngati_Grim]

How about those Spurs aye?
No, really, how about those Spurs?
I haven't watched sport for ages, just piggyback on the comments of others.

It's like it's dead to me

[Spork]

Just adds to the fun

Most of what he said is right, we could lose the game but what are the chances of Arsenal being there at the end of the season?

Should be a good game will be staying home to watch it

I think this is the longest run on top we have had for four years... And it has been what.. A week?

We are definitely improving.

If we do win this game, I will be Gunning for Chelsea to win the Man U Chelsea match, because then there is a high chance that we will not bottle it like we usually do.

[Thetruereddevil]

Park!!!

[Thetruereddevil]

Back on top!

[henno]

Natural order restored

[Spork]

Gay.

I blame the ref, I mean he gives a penalty against Clichy when the ball is kicked into his hand (LOL@ROONEY) but not against who ever when they tripped Chamack in the box when he was about to head the ball in??

Howard Webb gave some damn horrible decisions both ways.

I do not actually blame the ref, because even if the ref was corrupt, then it's still the team's fault for not giving enough.

[maorifulla]

I have tbh

Man U should have won by more

you could see they were totally up for the game

Fabregas was rusty when he came on and was just passing the ball back to man u

the back 3 of Man U forced arsenal to take long range attempts that had no power on them

Arsenal needed to do more on the counter but just held the ball up and once man u sorted their d there was no way through gg

[Thetruereddevil]

Gay.

I blame the ref, I mean he gives a penalty against Clichy when the ball is kicked into his hand (LOL@ROONEY) but not against who ever when they tripped Chamack in the box when he was about to head the ball in??

Howard Webb gave some damn horrible decisions both ways.

I do not actually blame the ref, because even if the ref was corrupt, then it's still the team's fault for not giving enough.

i would agree it was a tough call for a penalty, so fitting i guess it was missed, in the end didnt matter so much tho. It did seem that Man U was more up for it today...