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I just remembered we have Giroud on the bench. Once he comes on, we'll be fine.
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What did Dzeko's message say? Was it "Good Afternoon"?
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fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck sake.
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By Dutton | Permalink | On 13 January 2013 - 16:34 PM
Yeah because a massive business would risk going broke to finance a new stadium. They wouldn't have built it if the finances weren't there.

Your board members are perfectly content with making a lovely profit each season and settling for 4th, giving the reason that you don't have the money like Chelsea or City and the lot of you buy it.


The reason we haven't gone broke is because we haven't over spent on players, surely thats fucking common knowledge that until now the stadium repayments have meant that the only money we could really spend was that made from departures. We didn't have £300m+ sitting in the bank, we paid it with bank loans which a bloody long time to pay back. Plus up until recently we was still under some very low (by todays standards) sponsorship deals.

And why or how you are even mentioning Chelsea or City is beyond me as their circumstances are completely different to any club in the league, but take away the hundreds of millions both clubs have had to spend to simply catch up with our clubs and it would still to this day be Utd and Arsenal at the top of the Premier league. Now when you look at things that way, i'd say the way we've run our club over recent seasons has been pretty good, seeing as its cost others an absolute fortune of money that was given to them to reach our level.
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By A Little Bit Of Merson Magic | Permalink | On 13 January 2013 - 16:49 PM
The reason we haven't gone broke is because we haven't over spent on players, surely thats fucking common knowledge that until now the stadium repayments have meant that the only money we could really spend was that made from departures. We didn't have £300m+ sitting in the bank, we paid it with bank loans which a bloody long time to pay back. Plus up until recently we was still under some very low (by todays standards) sponsorship deals.

And why or how you are even mentioning Chelsea or City is beyond me as their circumstances are completely different to any club in the league, but take away the hundreds of millions both clubs have had to spend to simply catch up with our clubs and it would still to this day be Utd and Arsenal at the top of the Premier league. Now when you look at things that way, i'd say the way we've run our club over recent seasons has been pretty good, seeing as its cost others an absolute fortune of money that was given to them to reach our level.


TS's brought them up initially
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We're so lackluster without Arteta.
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How stirring to hear Arsene Wenger declare that Arsenal are a socialist club.

“We don’t have a big gap between what our players earn. We are more a socialist model,” said the modern-day Castro.

Shame it only applies to the footballers though, as there’s one Arsenal employee who is paid £7.5million per year - more than double the average Gunners player’s wage of £61,000 per week.

He’s called Arsene Wenger.

And when he says “socialist model” he surely means the one favoured by old-style Soviet bloc dictators - a strict authoritarian who stays in power through a cult of personality, financially rewarding his party’s top brass, keeping the masses drugged on propaganda about being equals in some great emancipating drama, and delivering rousing speeches about never succumbing to the corrupt philosophies of capitalist pigs such as Chelsea and Manchester City.

Small wonder so many fans (who pay the highest ticket prices in the world to gain entrance to his socialist nirvana) are contemplating an uprising, and so many players defect.

You’re not a socialist, Arsene.

You are Nicolae Ceausescu.
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Liverpool so lucky. Squirtle should have been sent off along with Johnson late on and why wasn't Webb blowing up for so many niggling fouls against United? Agger and Lucas alone were lucky after there 'challenges'. That being said we weren't great and nice to see Suarez stay on his feet unlike that cancer Downing
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To be fair, you have to account for Diaby's medical bills as well. He's why we had to sell van Rapeface.
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Looking forward to playing Arsenal in the cup if this is how they're playing. Assuming Swansea don't give them something to consider mid week.
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Mike Dean proving why he's a shit referee.

Never a red for Kompany.
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Wonder if City will regret Tevez missing that stupidly easy chance 10 minutes ago...
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Mike Dean's performance this evening has been abysmal.
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Never a red for Vinnie. Although tbf I though it 2 footed when I first saw it
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It looked slightly two-footed but it was harsh. He's only given it because he sent off Koscielny earlier on.
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By Telegram Sam | Permalink | On 13 January 2013 - 17:48 PM
It looked slightly two-footed but it was harsh. He's only given it because he sent off Koscielny earlier on.


If that was the case he'd have been one sided all game, he's given it because he thought it was 2 footed like the rest of us.
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By Telegram Sam | Permalink | On 13 January 2013 - 17:48 PM
It looked slightly two-footed but it was harsh. He's only given it because he sent off Koscielny earlier on.

There's an angle that shows it was just 1 footed, leg tucked in. Bit of a lunge but the red was for 2 feet so we should win an appeal
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Blimey Arsenal fans sure can't wait to leave.
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By Number 1 | Permalink | On 13 January 2013 - 17:53 PM
Blimey Arsenal fans sure can't wait to leave.


Have you ever tried leaving the Emirates along with 60,000 others?
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By Number 1 | Permalink | On 13 January 2013 - 17:53 PM
Blimey Arsenal fans sure can't wait to leave.

I disagree with this opinion, People get mad when they see fans leaving early because their team is losing. If you go to football regularly it's not a novelty anymore, you don't hang around in the stadium after a game just high fiving dudes. If Leeds are losing I'll piss off a couple of minutes early to avoid the crush afterwards. Having been to the Emirates a few times I can tell you it's a fucking cunt getting out of there. They make you queue all the way down the street just to get into Highbury tube, and that's after the death trawl over the bridge. 2-0 down with eight minutes to go? I'd be out of there in a flash.
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Really didn't think we'd win that, so I'm especially happy with that.

By Telegram Sam | Permalink | On 13 January 2013 - 16:09 PM
Penalty, but never a fucking red.

It was a fucking rugby tackle, TS

Be interesting to see what happens with Kompany's appeal too. It looked aggressive at full-speed but it was only one-footed.

Thought Santi was quiet too.
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By Fantastic | Permalink | On 13 January 2013 - 18:02 PM
I disagree with this opinion, People get mad when they see fans leaving early because their team is losing. If you go to football regularly it's not a novelty anymore, you don't hang around in the stadium after a game just high fiving dudes. If Leeds are losing I'll piss off a couple of minutes early to avoid the crush afterwards. Having been to the Emirates a few times I can tell you it's a fucking cunt getting out of there. They make you queue all the way down the street just to get into Highbury tube, and that's after the death trawl over the bridge. 2-0 down with eight minutes to go? I'd be out of there in a flash.


If they left Holloway open it wouldn't be so bad, but instead you get everyone going to the same fucking station.
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By A Little Bit Of Merson Magic | Permalink | On 13 January 2013 - 17:59 PM
Have you ever tried leaving the Emirates along with 60,000 others?


Can't be that different to SJP.
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By A Little Bit Of Merson Magic | Permalink | On 13 January 2013 - 17:59 PM
Have you ever tried leaving the Emirates along with 60,000 others?

When I went to the Emirates the problem was more in actually getting there as the Piccadilly Line had been shut after someone got pushed on the track - that and the fact it took ages to find any stop (I think I wound up at Finsbury Park station) on the way out.

I do see your point but there do seem to be a lot of early departures at the Emirates in games. I dunno...
By Fantastic | Permalink | On 13 January 2013 - 18:02 PM
I disagree with this opinion, People get mad when they see fans leaving early because their team is losing. If you go to football regularly it's not a novelty anymore, you don't hang around in the stadium after a game just high fiving dudes. If Leeds are losing I'll piss off a couple of minutes early to avoid the crush afterwards. Having been to the Emirates a few times I can tell you it's a fucking cunt getting out of there. They make you queue all the way down the street just to get into Highbury tube, and that's after the death trawl over the bridge. 2-0 down with eight minutes to go? I'd be out of there in a flash.

Less opinion, more observation - some fans will always leave early but it just seems to be Arsenal fans are quicker out than others. Maybe the fact the stadium is painful to get to and out of is the main issue, which is something to look forward to when I go to see concerts there this summer.
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In real time Kompanys tackle was two footed. From Deans angle it was two footed. It's only the reverse angles where it looks debatable. Koscielny was rightly off. Dean will get a lot of stick, but he had a better game than Webb .
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By Shola | Permalink | On 13 January 2013 - 18:22 PM
Can't be that different to SJP.

It's not leaving the stadium as much as it's the tube. There's one tube station with one line on it so everyone pretty much has to go there since it's in the middle of London and yeah. Last time I went to London I was with my friend going to a convention and it's the same thing. Everyone has to get somewhere and there's only one way to get there.
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Kompany on his red-card:


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Well said Vincent.

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