The Start of Something Istanbul Like Magical

[Bender]

1 win and now you fancy us winning the title Nicey ? were on our 90th 1 match unbeaten run and another season starts here .......let's beat villa then focus on 3rd/4th .......had we not dropped so many points weeks ago i would have said 1st place was possible ....one game at a time......i thought we played well yesterday ....passed the ball around nicely had chances......but were still vunerable in defence

[wavydavy]

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Go back to Lan - dan you prick !!

Bunch of nonces down there.......why don't you go and count all your european cups? that shouldn't take too long....

Gracious Gooner? Gracious, my arse.

This wouldn't be much of a site if everyone did that!

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Sorry I cant share the optimism quite as highly as you do - we were not that good yesterday but carved out a win so sod it!

According to that tit Bascombe we need top 4 or our boy is off!

[little dave hedgehog]

Sorry I cant share the optimism quite as highly as you do - we were not that good yesterday but carved out a win so sod it!

According to that tit Bascombe we need top 4 or our boy is off!

i think that's a real possibility, but don't know how probable it might be. i'd like to believe he would stay, but people let you down sometimes. i feel like he would probably remain a red, but i think we should accept the possibility that he might not hang around if we aren't looking a lot better come may.

although i hope he would of course.

[Armchairkopite]

A win, 3 points, Chelsea drop 2 points, get a Red Card, lose a chunk of there team to injuries and the African Cup, Spurs drop points again, ManU players dropping like flies

Ok this is the start of something unbelievable ... **** 4th .. we are winning the Lg

DARE TO BELIEVE

12 points is huge BUT with the others well below par at the moment you never know.
However until we start playing football there isn't a snowballs chance in hell.

If we beat Villa on their own turf on Tuesday night the impossible just may become possible.

[Guest]

the impossible just may become possible.

[lickedlollipop]

Walk on, with hope in your heart...

[Nicey]

Villa Drop points and lose an influential player for there game against us 2 days later possible 6 points gained in a half of a week and Man ****ing United just gave away and lost a penalty get in

[Bender]

This should have been the season we won the title.......so much inconsistency from all teams and we just capitulated

[Nicey]

Season is far from over

[Bender]

fair point but if we don't beat villa on tuesday then they players might as well forget it as even now as poor as our season has been were still in with a shout but the players have to grow some balls

[Nicey]

sure villa is a must win

[dww]

This should have been the season we won the title.......so much inconsistency from all teams and we just capitulated

This only should have been the season we won if we had managed to keep the experience we had gained last season this year. I always feared the need for a transition season this year when we sold Alonso. It's deeply annoying that when we finally put together a squad with the needed elements Real and the financial situation mean we can't even hold the squad (let alone add to it).

Given the state of the clubs finances relative to other clubs in the division I think that good management of ourselves and Arsenal means we should mount serious challenges ever other season or so. It's taken Wenger the best part of a decade to get their current squad built up as players to the standard they are now and be developing young players to bulk up the squad.

It's easy to look at the way the season has panned out an wish we had done better but I really think that what it has shown is the importance of leaders who keep the team playing tactically as the manager wants them to. The likes of Giggs, Scholes and Vidic (when available) at United and Lampard, Ballack and Terry at Chelsea have kept them together whereas I do feel that Gerrard, Torres, Carragher and Mascherano are too emotionally driven and inclined to try and do everything. I guess the fact Gerrard and Torres have been limited in their inspirational qualities by injuries haven't helped.

[Bender]

don't want to criticise the signing of Aquilani but not having a player coming in at the start of the season to match Alonso's class has made a huge impact on us

[Joe King]

Season is far from over

It's over