Official Gooners Thread - A New Hope

[Dinny Breen]

Jaysus does this nutter Archie ever stop whinging?

And for the record Wenger did see it and he makes perfect sense but I love the blind man parody when he performs it...

A nonsense story emanating from the tabloids...

"Of course we want to stamp out cheating in the game," Wenger said. "It is not necessarily cheating sometimes, it (handball) can be a reflex as well.

"I do not encourage cheating and we all have to fight against it, but in this particular situation it can be a reflex as well.

"When the player goes down sometimes it is not always because he wants to cheat.

"It can be a foul and he makes a bit more of it, but the personality I feel in England that the personality of the player who does it is more important than the importance of the foul and the cheating.

[Archie Mitchell]

Don't you mean Wenger?

In fairness, you have to admire Wenger for sticking up for his players. Any manager would, but it's the embarrassing crap Wenger comes out with that makes it so annoying and makes a fool of himself. He see's the incidents he wants to see.

[Dinny Breen]

And you're still whinging    Let it go lad, let it go..

[muppet]

Don't you mean Wenger?

In fairness, you have to admire Wenger for sticking up for his players. Any manager would, but it's the embarrassing crap Wenger comes out with that makes it so annoying and makes a fool of himself. He see's the incidents he wants to see.

You'll cringe when you are in second year.

[nutsy--1]

Arsene Wenger isn't the only manager to defend his players, Mark Hughes defended adebayor for stamping on a person's face and for Bellamy hitting an over passionate fan.

I enjoyed this weekend of football, it the first time i cheered United in a long time.

[nutsy--1]

Good win today, good performance from Cesc Mannone and all the defence. Keep it up

[ONeill]

Cesc was actually crap for 3/4 of the game. Worried about his plans. Mannone the Great.

[Dinny Breen]

Mannone made the kind of saves Almunia never seems to make 

It was a good win for Arsenal and they should make up points on either Chelsea or Liverpool next week hopefully it will be a draw..

[ONeill]

Arsenal: Mannone, Eboue, Gallas, Vermaelen, Clichy, Song Billong, Rosicky, Fabregas, Diaby, Arshavin, van Persie.

Subs: Szczesny, Sagna, Senderos, Eduardo, Vela, Ramsey, Gibbs.

Olympiakos: Nikopolidis, Zewlakow, Avraam Papadopoulos, Mellberg, Raul Bravo, Ledesma, Torosidis, Dudu, Zairi, Leonardo, Diogo.

Subs: Urko, Domi, Galitsios, Stoltidis, Oscar, Mitroglou, Giannis Papadopoulos.

[ONeill]

1-0 RVP. Clooney doing a great job in goal for the Greeks.

[ONeill]

Arseshaving 2-0. 5-a-side goal. Perhaps off-side but worth watching tonight.

[gerry]

maybe it was but good to get a win.

[Declan]

Arsenal are a joy to watch in that form

[Norf Tyrone]

Surprised there is no mention of Wenger's records yesterday on here.

Anyhow. In the interests of camaraderie, and fairness. After Dinny posted the Drogba article last week, have any of you seen the Walcott article in Sunday's observer sport monthly. The fella literally came from nowhere to play top class football. Cannot find it online, but will scan it later if needs.

[Norf Tyrone]

Ahem. Would've helped if I looked in the right site.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/sep/20/theo-walcott-interview-arsenal