Totally agree! it’s our luck that we hasn’t lost to pool and manures 4-0.

When I started to support Arsenal in 2002 it was top-club! Now it’s like Ajax – we’re raising talents for another clubs (like Barca). Hleb and Henry left for Barca to win tropheys! After that I felt miserable… I thought Arsenal was the team to win the Tropheys with. The right word is WAS.

Now I’m not sure in the team. I feel myself like f.e. Fulham fan – can beat anyone, can lose to anyone.

Arsenal was a great BIG CLUB for me to support, because my local club – Spartak Moscow began to struggle after winning 9 Russian championship titles. And I wanted some real, beautiful football and WINs!!

What’s now? I support 2 clubs which was really GREAT clubs in past and are something strange now.
I was thinking about to stop watching football at all, because I’m fed up with the play of my favourite clubs. And it’s boring to watch games without teams I support except World Cup and European Championship games. F.e. Barcelona – Real or Liverpool – MU will make me bored, because I don’t support any of that clubs.

Of course, you will say that I have to be patient and that I have to support the club in all situations. I will! BUT! I want something to be done by my team, not DOING NOTHING!

F.e. Chelski. They lost CL final in Moscow I’ve visited last year – what they’ve done? Fired Grant. They hasn’t win CL yet, but they ARE TRYING! Arsene is not trying. He want to win, but he want the win to come itself, with no changes in team..

It was something like sleeping period in Spartak since 2001.. Now the situation is getting better after firing well-payed Laudrup, who didn’t want to do anything with the team and with Valerij Karpin to become a head-coach.

Arsenal need changes. For sure.
Or we’ll be in sleeping period for 3-4 years minimum…

To me the tie is not lost, if the players have pride of wearing arsenal colours they will give double or even triple effort at the return leg. Its more of a matter of how much the players want it, and its up to them to show us supporters what the club and us mean to them by turning this deficit around. Its tricky but can be done, just need the right mentality.

Not all the players were woeful but to me football is a team effort, when you get punished, you endure it together and when u win you win as a team, so its no use for me to single out specific player on the performance.

I feel bad for those Arsenal supporters in UK who made the trip north, imagine walking out of old trafford with 70,000 ManU supporters, oh the anguish.

Anyway lets hope for the best. Go Guns!

I think the biggest disgrace tonight, was the man on £5 million a season, paid to deliver.
His name is Arsene Wenger.

The evidence? Simple.

1. Wenger never learns.

His complete lack of tactical acumen is now beyond a joke. Check this rubbish out.

When we drew 4-4- at Anfield, what was the defensive line-up?

Gibbs, Sagna, Silvestre, Toure.
And it was generally accepted that it was some of the most farcical, pathetic ‘defending’ ever seen at Premiership level.

So what has Arsene Wenger done tonight?

Why, selected the same exact back-line he did at Anfield.

Arsene Knows.

The first 45 minutes were an absolute shambles, the half-time ripping Arsenal got from the Sly Sports punditry was choice comedy. Hoddle, Souness couldn’t believe it.

Champions League semi-final, Arsenal’s biggest game since 2006. Last shot at a trophy.

Remember what happened in that 4-4 at Anfield?

Let me refresh your memories. A simple long-ball in the box caused havoc, and three El Fool players were left totally unmarked. Inside the penalty area. Benayoun skips in and scores. Remember what happened before then at Villa park? Arsenal 2-1 up, injury-time. Long cross goes into the box, and three Villa players are left unmarked. Inside the penalty area. So what happened tonight then?

A cross goes into the box.

Rebounded off a corner.

Arsenal have plenty of time to clear their lines. What happens?

I counted O’Shea, Ronaldo (World Player of the Year no less), Vidic and Anderson all totally free. In a Champions League semi. At that level, school-yard defending. People are attempting to see Arsenal win trophies defending like Rushden and Diamonds. Hilarious.

And why did this happen Again?

My favourite theme: because there is No discipline at Arsenal FC.
Because after that Anfield disaster, instead of ripping into the team, Wenger came out in the media and lauded them for their ‘great spirit’. Forgetting that is was the player he probably didn’t even sign that saved his bacon.

No wonder.

2. Lack of tactical acumen.

Before this match, there were a few obvious things that were noted. These were:

Abou Diaby must not participate after Wembley.

Well guess what? Arsene’s favourite played the full 90! And what did we get in return? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. He won one tackle in 90 minutes. He was all over the place. He got caught in possession, dwelling on the ball four times. He attempted to dribble out of ridiculous areas and United almost scored from it.

This is because Wenger never signed a left midfielder.

Silvestre must not play because he is a cunt: great signing there Arsene. It was almost as if Silvestre still played for United! Great assist to O’Shea there, love the way he lazily deflected it into his path. He might as well have worn a United kit. That is one of the biggest disgraces, a United reject cunt, that Fergie ‘sold’ us, contributing to our demise. I won’t even mention that comical part in the first half, when Anderson ran straight past him and, like Drogba at Wembley, didn’t even bother to chase him! Just watched him go and could not be arsed.

We have a ‘youth policy’: so where was Djourou? Would Wilshere have been a much worse choice than Diaby? Really? How about Ramsey?

Everyone saw that Vidic is slow on the turn. Rio was playing with a back problem and went off later. Everyone also saw how the Spuds delivered two quality crosses in 45 minutes against them, had a striker attacking them both, and scored twice.

So how many quality crosses did we seek to deliver? Sagna tried in the second half towards in the end, and Gibbs put in a decent one. That aside? Nothing. How many times did Cesc or someone else float a ball in behind for someone to run into space? None. All fancy passing with no intent whatsoever and zero penetration. It was exactly like watching the Arsenal of the past four years really`; all vision, zero end product. No one took a shot, no one took the initiative.

3. The Bayor.

The next time some dickhead tells you the Bayor is ‘world class’ then simply hand him a videotape of his ‘performance’ tonight. It was a joke. Vidic and Rio will never have an easier match. He was a complete disgrace to Arsenal strikers of the past – all on the £80k a week Arsene fought so hard to give him. The miracle is that he lasted beyond the first half. Luckily for him though, he has a manager who fosters no discipline – so you can play like that for 80 minutes, and not get subbed off until it is too late to do anything about it.

The bloke had one shot in the whole game – after sixty minutes.

The part that best summed him up for me was when we got a three on three break. Nasri was busting a gut to get there, flanked by Theo and Song of all people. The Bayor? A world-class or even top ten Prem striker, makes a run in behind the defence and slots it home. It was a wonderful opportunity. The Bayor?

He literally just stood static on the left wing. Fucking unbelievable. But it makes me laugh, because people kept talking about ‘oh with increased competition he will have to fight hard for his place’.

No he won’t. He will never have to fight for his place, don’t be so deluded.
He will walk into the team every week, regardless. If Silvestre can start a Champs League semi, no problems for the Bayor.

Vidic and Rio never had an easier night in their lives. Shoved off the ball so easily despite being six foot three.

4. Motivation

Here is a small comparison for you.

Two teams out there.

Over the past four years, one has won two Premier league titles, a World championship, a Carling Cup and are the reigning European champions. They have won everything going.

The other, has own diddly squat. Nothing. Nada. Some of them have never even played a minute’s international football.

So which team has more to prove? Which team wanted it more?

United wanted it more. First to every 50-50, running their socks off. In the 92nd minute, I saw the traditionally abject Berbatov tracking back to just outside his penalty area, and winning the ball. Compare to the Bayor please.

United ran their socks off and oozed adrenalin the whole way through. Arsenal took 35 minutes to realize they were in the biggest match of their careers.

In other words – Gibbs, Nasri, Sagna, Toure and Almunia aside (who was superb) – they absolutely bottled it. It comes back to a point I made a long time ago, as people were mastubating over an unbeaten run that will see Arsenal finish fourth: it’s one thing playing champagne football land delivering when there is no pressure on you to deliver.

It is quite another, delivering under pressure.

So far, since that ‘unbeaten run’, we have seen Arsenal in two major high-pressure matches. And they have collapsed and folded in both. Just as in the Chelski FA Cup match, the team never took the game to the opposition. Wenger spent so much time attempting to figure out how to quell United that he ended up quelling Arsenal. Were it not for Almunia, then we could have been looking at a rugby score there.

So there we have it.

Too many cunts unfit to wear the shirt. And a manager unable to motivate or inspire his players for the biggest match in the club’s history since 2006.

1-0 is the worst result we could have hoped for (barring a bigger scoreline). Remember, United have score four times in three visits to the Emirates. Wenger has Djourou available and prefers to trust Silvestre. Must be our famous ‘youth policy’.

There are 90 minutes left to somehow beat United by two clear goals, and avoid conceding. I have to keep believeing but if people expect sunshine and roses after that shite, well tough.

That was shocking.

Like I have said before. I think Wenger will get us fourth place in the league, and Arsenal will play champagne football after exiting the title running pre-Christmas.

But if you want to win anything as an Arsenal supporter? I say with Wenger in charge, you are asking for a miracle.

Sure Ade had a sub-par game but IMHO there was little service or support. I’m certainly not blaming him for anything.

Gibbs looked solid and thank god Blondie isn’t half as bad as all the crap he gets.

Almunia

Sagna- Toure- Djourou- Clichy

Walcott- Song- Fabregas- Nasri

Eduardo- RVP

Arsene is guilty of some weird selection but he has always done that in the history of Arsenal, even Sir Alex does that sometimes. The only thing that bothers me now is Arsenal players didn’t turn up in games that really matter the most.

Anyway even if we change to a 4-4-2 would it matter? Seems ManU were more fired up for it.

Ade is embarassing at the way he gets offside but I’ve learned to live with it, to me Ade is an enigma just like some of our players like Diaby, Deni, even Walcott. But thats all just my 2 cents worth, I leave it to Arsene and hope we turn up at home.