Ok, its the kids time to turn it on, to play the Wenger way on a night when for some it will be the first time they have boarded a plane.. 😉
For some it may even be the first time they have had to use their ‘own’ passport and not the picture attached to their Mums ! 🙂
You know what, I can’t wait, this is not a game against the million dollar chavs, or the million dollar citeh, no it’s a game in the Champions League where they are representing the club they love, wearing the shirt they are proud to wear, and I am banking on them coming home full of grins, big chests and nothing other than pride…
Yes, they will be the true London Pride
Whoever plays will learn from this, they will get the liking of this game tonight and I am sure they will do us fans and the club proud….
Good luck you young ones, play your hearts out, show the world just why one of the greatest managers of all time believes in you….
Fill your boots, not your diapers 😛
Avenell Road 
Woop Woop 😛 😛
I love the snow rico – I remember from last year that by the time you get down the page a bit it stops 😦 😦
Sorry, gonna read your post now …….
Hi peaches,
I stole the idea from LG back last year 😉 But G&P won’t mind I am sure 🙂
Won’t take you too long to read 🙂
Stirring stuff rico – I hope they all have a great game and come home uninjured 😛
Sol Campbell wouldn’t really go to the mancs surely……
I don’t know peaches, I surely hope not though..
I might have to pop up to the training ground and have a word in his shell-like……….
Its more likely that Arsene needs to have it pointed out to him that wouldn’t it be an idea to offer Sol the chance of playing for us a bit and then go somewhere else in the summer.
Theo Vela and Wilshire up front
Spot on peaches, not the Mancs 😦
Off to settle down for the game…..
The starting XI in full: Fabianski, Gilbert, Bartley, Silvestre, Cruise, Ramsey, Song, Merida, Walcott, Wilshere, Vela SUBS: Mannone, Coquelin, Eastmond, Ayling, Randall, Sunu
Hi rico thanks for the new post..
May I ask what we have stolen from LG?
Why start Song over Coquelin or Eastmond?
21 year old experienced head in there Arsene? 😆
The snow ave, the snow 😉
No JET 😦
Officially the youngest ever team in a CL, take that Ajax……
Liverpool: Cavalieri, Darby, Skrtel, Agger, Insua, Aquilani, Mascherano, Benayoun, Gerrard, Dossena, Kuyt.
Someone needs to tell Rafa Liverpool are out, c’mon injuries a plenty please
That’s what I thought rico.. Is it a setting? I thought it just happened as it has been snowing all around wordpress..
Hi Irish ..
C’mon you rip roarers!!
Its a setting ave, found when teying to clear the email problem…
Off to watch…
Hi Irish
Can;t find a stream 😦
found one in Turkish or something
Lots of possession Irish……we’re commiting lots of men forward and will probably get hit on the break unfortunately but at the moment no score
Theo is so faaaaaaaaasssssssssttttttttt
Very annoying commentator is referring to Fran as merryda
😆 Song wins ball, man falls over = free kick!!
Will someone shoot that commentator
I’m trying to find a link in English now Peaches for 2nd half.
Doing fine so far.
If we want to score we’re gonna have to hit them on the break ……..I can’t see us passing the ball into the net through their defence
Looks like Avenell Road snow to me.
London 🙂
Hi Roadsters,
Ramsey running the midfield.
Song the least accurate passer.
LJ trying to beat 1 player too many. Theos firs touch just letting him down.
Vela and Merida v strong in the tackle.
Almunia doesn’t come out enough, Fabianski goes on suicide missions 😉
Found a better link but still not in English – probably better off with no stupid commentators annoying me.
will someone shoot, never mind the commentator.
Very composed so far.
Fabianski is the man
Ramsey WILL be a star
Vela (cough)
Walcott (double cough)
are you watching the same game as me rasp, must be the snow you are having.
Do ye lot not think Vela falls over with the slightest bit of contact???
Hey rasp – you’ve got a new avatar 🙂
We are very good though, but again lack a plan B 😉 😉
Theo will score ……………one day 😉
yes he does irish, and good morning
Hi kelsey,
We only disagreed on fabianski. I still think he’s better than al and he has had quite a good game, its just that sometimes he comes out when he should stay on his line.
pigs will fly 😉
that was about theo not you rasp 😉
Morning Kelsey 🙂
Theo will score Theo will score Theo will score
I would quite like to score, peaches 😉
off to watch the second half,goodnight or good morning to you all
Irish.. take your pick if it’s any help.. and bollox 😦
http://www.myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?matchid=58415&part=sports
Evening ave – was it your fault that the Greeks have scored 😛
Everything else is.. 😦
Olympiacos score, Vela misses a sitter after excellent play by Ramsey……..
Oh poo, great chance for Vela to score – wonderful ball from Rambo……
Snap 😀
Theo = The o’ver-rated 😦
its okay Avenell cheers – have a stream that is working great, I’ll get over the lack of commentary.
Defending right out of the 1st team.
Terrible miss by Vela.
I hope that’s the sound of a bindipper first team leg..
Meant in the nicest possible way. 😉
Theo has only played 2 and a half hours of competetive football this season………
That’s cost around £2 million in wages..
Yea peaches, the rest of the time he’s been extremely un-competitive 😦
Nice ball from Ramsey – he’s playing well.
Ramsey makes a through pass as good as anything I’ve seen cesc produce….
Why is the commentator making stupid voices listing our subs bench?
I might join Irish on the turkish stream..
Thats rubbish, the commentator just said that Vieira was the only foreign player in Arsenes first squad – what about Dennis Bergkamp?
and Remi Garde
Avenell – I like the way the commentator rolls his Rs when he says Ramsey, keeps me happy 🙂
Vela having a nightmare in front of goal.
Theo looks as if he really wants football, bearing in mind how long he has been out for so long, I forgive him… But I still believe he will be awesome…..
Great save by Fabianski – he’s defintely better than Al….
Agree Rasp, more confident..
Vela reminds of Pires in his first season 😉
I love Song 😆
Marc Overmars
Emmanuel Petit
Luis Boa Morte
Gilles Grimandi
Alex Manninger
Alberto Mendez-Rodriguez
I thought that Peaches a few more names that we may have included..
LJ off, maybe a spell on loan will do him good. His talent is undeniable but his decision making needs to be honed.
Rasp – where is Luke Freeman 😉 😉 😉
feck sake someone else take the free kicks
I take back everything I said about Fabianski coming out – he’s stopped us conceding two goals by doing just that ….
They all came in the summer Rasp, Wenger only bought Garde and Vieira in Oct and the Anelka in Jan I think
😛 rico ..
I was too scared to voice something similar Rasp, he needs to harden up, learn that others will close him down and be a bit more ruthless….
Reading would love him 😉
You’re confusing me with someone else Irish 😕
I meant Avenell 😳
We are fab until we get to the last bit – remind you of anything….. 😦
You can’t tell me and ave apart … we do a fantastic Dolly Parton impersonation double-act
Viera came in 96′ before we won the Prem in 97/98.
So we wouldn’t have qualified for the CL until 98′-99′
No Freeman Rasp, but Sunu 😉 😉
Right said Rasp!
The kids are tired 😦 😦
You do look like Dolly Parton … maybe a bit taller.
Didn’t realise it was CL squad Avenell, thought it was just the first squad.
Sunu’s done very well. Merida almost there but doesn’t pull the trigger .. FFS Shhooooootttttt
Got to go all
See you tomorrow
I’m too sexy for my avatar…
We had Petit, Overmars, Vieira, Petit, Anelka, Garde etc over a year before we ever got into the CL..
They was all with us when we did the double..
I saw them on the open top bus.. The good old days. 🙂
Theo’s down.. here we go again.
Theo injured 😯
I saw them all on tv – the good old days 😀
What’s the betting Theo’s broken a metatarsal?
They don’t know what they’re talking about these commentators…….the game against Burnley is not our game in hand……t*****s
No harm done least they kept plugging away – kind of..
Here we go too.. the statistic 4 defeats in 6 games.. yawn..
LOL Peaches is getting angry 😆
HA HA HA Liverpool beat Again 😆
They def said first team not first team in the CL…….
I’m not watching us on ITV again … 😦 😦 😦
Peaches.. shall I un-ban the ‘C’ word for you? 😉
I’m sure he said named squad in the CL..
Its probably their fault that L’pool got knocked out
Yes please – I’m furious, how could you tell 🙂
No don’t, I’m too much of a lady 😆
You have counted to 10.. lol..
They said first team in 1996 – so we weren’t in the CL then anyway……. bunch of idiots, from the moment I heard them call the devine Fran – MERRYDA……I knew they were rubbish……..
and Soooooooonooooo patronizing tossers..
Do you remember John Devine then Peaches? 😉
Not much of a compliment..
You’ve lost me ave – you should never try and side-track a woman in a fury 😆
What happened to the yummy one?
Divine was an Arsenal player from the seventies.. Irish I think..
The Divine Fran.. 😉
Yummy one good leg.. one chocolate one.
I’ve been trying my hardest to give Theo the benifit of the doubt all season but I am fed up with it; he is crap, can’t control it, can’t pass it, crap.
Song was excellent, ok one bad pass, but apart from that excellent.
Fabianski does it for me.
We may disagree on many things tonight but there is, I’m sure, one thing we all agree on and that is the star of the show…..Ladies and Gentleman I give you the soon to be best player in the world…….Aaron Ramsey.
I looked him up ave and you’re very sharp tonight, he is John Devine and one day I might tell you about my overuse of the incorrect spelling of ‘devine’ 😆
While Theo wears an Arsenal shirt London. 😉
Hear hear London – Aaron Ramsey is super fabulous 😀
Ok,ok smarty pants 😉
The Yummy One failed tonight and what a shame as he had some good chances 😦
Peaches.. why are you so wound up.. was it the commentator?
When Theo missed his chances in the first half I was thinking that if they had fallen for the Yummy one we would be two up, Carlos, Carlos, Carlos, what happened? Ramsey put you through with the pass of the match and you did a Theo on me. Not a happy bunny at all.
Ramsey is ace – overshadowing Wilshere big time – no slur on Wilshere at all but Ramsey is showig the benefit of playing for Cardiff before moving to us
And the commentator was a banned word.
My “n” isn’t really working, have to bash the keyboard
I expected a tad more from Jackie Boy tonight, not enough of his passes were finding their man.
I’m watching the news……..
If a bank has a pool of £100m to pay out in bonus’ why would it not be unhappy if the chancellor now wants £50m for the right to pay the bonus’ in the first place.
theos shit…how many times do we have to watch him play and realise that he has no fucking potential whatsoever….
for a player of theos quality he should have been running the show tonight by himself… wonder kid my arse…
eboues better..and thats saying it all…
Don’t forget Fabianski with your praise too Roadsters – he must replace Almunia now ….
He should have been running the show shouldn’t he
You’ve changed your avatar…..good choice
Just the commentator ave….
Lost my last comment ….
London, you can’t champion Ramsey … he’s mine 😛
Hi JonJon,
Fabianski for Arsenal’s No.1!!!!
Shall I save my banking question for a quiet moment tomorrow…….
He was very good tonight, I have never seen him play ninety minutes that well.
i think wengers ‘protection’of jack has ruined him a little…
wengers tried to keep his ‘feet on the ground’ for too long and its affected his game…
loss of confindence i think ……last year there was no chance of jack being loaned out and now all of a sudden hes available for loan…
when a player is on fire you play him..not put him on the bench getting splinters for a year and say hes ‘not ready’ or you get results like what we are seeing now…
wenger bigged him up gave him a squad number watched him tear teams like rangers and madrid to pieces and then lets him rot on the bench…but theo can earn a bumper contract and get straight back in the team after injury and hes a bag of crap…
if jack doesnt make it i’ll blame wenger and forever hold it against him…
I can’t remember feeling this awe struck since the penny completely dropped and I fully realised what we had in Fabregas.
So JJ do you think he should go out on loan?
sorry hi everyone..
thanks london..
thought alot of our players stood up well tonight..very impressed with rambo and fab2…
theo was probably the best paid player in our shirt tonight and even bartley and cruise outshone him…
garbage…absolute codswallop…
Peaches
That was funny: shall I save my banking question?
Is anyone watching Klinsman on the telly being a pundit – he really looks like Wenger….
i think he should london…to a coca cola league team though so he can tear that league to bits and get his confidence back…
i reckon jacks pushed for the loan though..i reckon hes been banging on wengers door for over a year to deaf ears…and hes asked for a loan to prove himself…
but if wenger would have played him when he was on fire from the start he would never need to go out on loan in the first place..
JJ
If you are up late tonight and are in the mood for writing the report please go for it.
Peaches.. do the banking question again..
I think the answer depends on which bank the goverment baled out..
Night, night everyone.
Bartley could be a good one in years to come
heres my dream scenario…
theos stays injured all season cos we dont need him cos he’s that crap…then he gets picked for england and pisses wenger off…scores a few goals for the three lions and makes himself a tasty 30mil player..
and then we sell him to real…
Just watching the Dippers.. will the best fans in the world boo there players off.??? haha
yep!
ave – the chancellor said he was going to levy a tax on the bankers bonus’s but hes asking for the banks to pay the tax not the bankers. So they’ve paid out bonus’s to the tune of £100m for example and now have to pay the chancellor £50m – I just wondered out loud if they would have paid out less in bonus’s had they known about the tax.
Can you see it yet ave ……..
Have the banks paid out the bonuses yet ?
I thought the main problem was we risk losing the best bankers to overseas companies like in Switzerland where high earners can negotiate their own tax rate which is far better than over here.
Morning Roadsters
All quiet so catch you later
Morning Everybody
In Arsene we Trust.
Which other manager would have had the balls to play such a young team in an intimidating stadium like yesterday.
I don’t know why Wenger is getting criticised for his team selection. If Vela had finished his chances we would have won. I was not too impressed with Walcott. I know he’s coming back from injury. But it seems as though he has not developed well enough in the last few seasons.
Morning Edmond
Good comment
London.
What’s your opinion on Walcott?
I’m really excited about Wilshere and Merida and I think AW should give them more first team action. If that happens, the pressure will be on Theo to up his game.
Besides Jacky boy and Merida, Ramsey should see more action. He’s looked quite impressive this season.
Edmond
If you go back to my 10:03 last night you will see my knee jerk reaction but if he is playing on Sunday I will, of course, be supporting him.
London
I agree. I will also fully support any player who puts on the Arsenal shirt and gives 100%.
But Walcott is not doing the business on the field. 2 or 3 years ago when he had the ball, there was always a buzz of anticipation from the crowd. That does not happen too much now.
Has everyone moved to another site and not told me?
Hi all
Very quiet day…..
London you have inspired me to a new avatar, its just not up yet…….or maybe it is …. 😛
Peaches
You still have Big Phil but I bet you have changed it to the Yummy One
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@…….tumble weed
Hi Roadsters..
Just heard about this.. Lehmann has a wee during last nights CL game..
Only Jens, barking as ever, you gotta love him
Hi all
Vela has signed up then….
http://www.newsnow.co.uk/A/388990778?-19387
Not so good….
Still quiet, catch you tomorrow…
We haven’t got any players left. 😦
Get ya boots Ave
Not my old Nike Charlie Nicholas’s..
I need to break my metatarsal so I can claim on the insurance. 😉
Arshavin up front Sunday – agh that has me smiling 😀
We’ll see just how crap Carragher has gone now.
Morning all
Just popping in to see if my new avatar is up yet…..
Still Phil
Eboue out as well
Hi Irish – how are you?
Its changed on my screen, you’ll just have to wait I’m afraid 😦
You must love the idea of a 4o’clock ko on sunday….
It comes to something if we’re moaning that theres no Eboue …. 😀
Morning Peaches and Irish..
Peaches.. it’s up on mine.. A strange choice 😉
Hiya peaches
Yep another 3am wake up Monday morning yipee 😦
But its for the Arsenal so got to be done.
I’d like this team:
Almunia
Sagna Gallas Vermaelen Traore
Song Ramsey
Fabregas
Diaby
Nasri
Arshavin
Hiya Avenell
Agh I can’t see it Peaches 😦
My formation is 4-2-1-2-1
That’s like sound checking a microphone 🙂
Chocolate legs ave
And yes Diaby isn’t a typo.
Play him in behind Nasri and Arshavin. I say feck defending, both Gerrard and Torres are injured so lets just go all out attack
Aah got you now.. white and normal..
No that would be a 1-2-1-2-1-2-1-1 😆
There was talk of Gerrard joining his mate Alonso at RM on the radio..
Peaches what is in your pic??
I wanna know *stomps feet in childish manner* and I wanna know NOW
Irish.. it looks like one of those chevron signs that are put on sharp corners that the boy racers smash there Saxo’s into.. 😉
Gerrard is too old now – he missed his chance, no league title for him MUHAHAHAHAHA
Oh …. that’s am … different 😆
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/306702-liverpool-versus-arsenal-can-gunners-compound-reds-misery-on-sunday
I spared some time away from the beach 😉
Everyone just disappears….
sorry about that I had a customer come around..
Good article as usual Irish.. Doesn’t any Aussie newspapers need an arsenal expert?
I wish they did 😦
I was entertaining myself watching some goals on Youtube.
RvP has scored some beauties, still love that was against Charlton.
Going to watch some DB10 now.
Have a look at some of Wrighty’s.. they are up there with the best..
Just did 🙂
He loved juggling and lobbing/shooting.
He was always full of fun on the pitch, loved watching Wrighty play.
Wright is the reason I started supporting Arsenal, probably mentioned it before.
He used to bound along with energy.. Michael Thomas used to be like that when he was at his best.
Well, pleasure as always but I must be off to bed, chat soon, if not tomorrow I’ll be around during match time Monday morning 😉
Cheers Irish .. goodnight,,
Morning Roadsters,
I was totally unaware of Sagna’s sadness – this exlains a lot about his performances aover the last couple of years….
“Arsenal defender Bacary Sagna will get another stark reminder that football is not everything, when he wakes up ahead of the key clash against the Reds tomorrow.
Almost two years ago, France international Sagna’s older brother, Omar, died aged just 28.
He is honest enough to admit that for 12 months afterwards nothing else seemed to matter. Sagna missed Omar’s funeral and returned to England just a week after his death to play in the first leg of Arsenal’s Champions League tie against AC Milan.
But he has only recently properly learned to deal with his brother’s death and the experience has understandably left him a changed man.
“Even now, every day I wake up and I think of my brother but eventually I grew up and I changed,” said Sagna.
“At first, I didn’t care about anything and I couldn’t focus. I just didn’t care and I was fed up. I was always thinking, thinking, thinking.
“When I was young, my biggest fear was to lose someone from my family so when it happened I was shocked and I didn’t believe it. For one year after my brother’s death I had problems to stay focused, even in training, and I wouldn’t talk about what happened.
“I was very bad and even last year I was still very bad. I wasn’t enjoying anything. I talked to my wife, but only time really helped. I will never, never forget what happened, but you learn to deal with it.”
Morning Rasp..
I remember it rasp, it was just after the ANC.
and instead of Arsene playing Eboue at RB, he moved Toure across.
This completely disrupted our defence.
When you think we was only 4 points (I think) off top spot we are certainly unlucky.
In fairness to Defoe he has had the same problem and come out fighting.
is anyone about?? i have a post if anyone wants to read it?
a bit controversial though!!!
Hi jonjon.. yeah rock and roll..
I’m here, i’ll read it ………….
i have spoken lol