Comments on: Come on you Arsenal

By: Redan_White

Redan_White — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:33:16 +0000

dannygunner says:but in all fairness you took your chance

I take it you are a Wenger Vision subscriber?

Is it the case that when an unmarked player in the penalty area has two clear shots on goal against Arsenal and they are not chances? Mind Steed fluffed them both.

Also you said “……don’t think you guys were any great shakes to be honest and felt a draw would’ve been a fair result” well nice to see you putting your own team down. And BTW for a draw to be a fair result you would have had to of put some real pressure on our goal crossing the ball across the goal with no one even making contact with it is not what I’d call a chance, just a bad pass.

As for the ‘so called’ penalty shout, yes if the guy had had the ball in his possession I’m sure one would have been awarded, however he didn’t so justice prevailed:D

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By: MRD

MRD — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:15:50 +0000

I think a lot of what Wenger says is more out of trying (sometimes wrongly) to protect the team the their fragile confidence. He did say that Sunderland played well, and I am sure some of the comments may have been taken out of context. Its our first loss for a while, but I have no complaints. Sunderland deserved the win on the day. Arsenal played below their usual standard and thats whats happens when you do. We got nothing and deserved what we got.

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By: dannygunner

dannygunner — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:14:26 +0000

ah pete, how can you say it was a legitimate tackle? he didn’t touch the ball and took away vela’s standing leg- the only possible argument for it not being a pen was that vela possibly didn’t have complete control of the ball, however campbells ‘tackle’ ensured he didn’t have the opportunity to try and regain it. sorry to use a cliche but if it was outside the box it would’ve been a free kick. i do agree that traore was fortunate not to get a red as it was very late- if his studs had connected it would’ve certainly been red.

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By: Pete Sixsmith

Pete Sixsmith — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:03:50 +0000

Oh dear John. Once again you fall into that huge elephant trap that says “Let’s assume Sunderland have no internationals”. Da Silva had played for Paraguay, Cana for Albania, Fulop for Hungary. Bent, McCartney and Healey had been away with their countries and some of the fringe players had been in age group squads.
Of course, I accept that the fixture list should be geared towards the Big 4, but if you persist in signing players who are from nations that need to go through play offs to get to the World Cup thisi is what happens.
Wiley booked Traore because of his theatrics after an unpleasant challenge by Campbell. He (Traore) took advantage of the ref and the ref got him back. Brilliant refereeing. And he was right about the penalty; it was a legitimate tackle.
Why do the top 4 always feel sorry for themselves? Answer on one side of the paper only.

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By: Liam O'Baoghill

Liam O'Baoghill — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:28:11 +0000

I think really the whole thing comes down to dignity in defeat. And we are not anymore. No one likes to be beat. We need to learn to take it on the chin like we used to. I have great respect for Sunderland, can’t say I support them, but I do watch for there score. As for big quinny can’t say enough good things about him. I remember his dubut for us, it was against Liverpool and he scored, we thought we had the new Pele. As for the banter on the terraces if thats what it was thats different. I love the craic between fans, and have to say Arsenal have there fair share of good comidians.

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By: TJ 14

TJ 14 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:46:46 +0000

I thought Sunderland deserved the win on the day. They have beaten Liverpool and should have beaten United too. Steve Bruce has done a great job.

You can be selective with the quotes and make something look as bad or sore losing as you want to. On the official Arsenal website, AW said Sunderland played well.

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By: dannygunner

dannygunner — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:32:11 +0000

as an arsenal fan, i was actually quite suprised to see these quotes from arsene- in the post game interviews i saw he was uncharacteristicly slating his own players in public and i thought he was quite congratulatory towards sunderland. i don’t think you guys were any great shakes to be honest and felt a draw would’ve been a fair result (esp since we should’ve had a penalty) but in all fairness you took your chance and we didn’t. i have to say i thought you played better against utd but i’ve no complaints about the result- i’m also irish and love niall quinn so sunderland for the champs league!!!!

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By: John

John — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:21:38 +0000

The Traore incident… wasn’t that after he got hacked from behind by a Sunderland player ? Anybody see that… not the Sunderland fan who was bleating on about Traore dishing some out on 5 live.

As for Sunderland. Congratulations, you fully deserved your victory. Next time let’s hope we have 14 days to prepare for a g ame and you have 1 day, with all of your players returning from injuries and international duty.

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By: salutsunderland

salutsunderland — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:20:05 +0000

Pantomime booing, Liam, no more.

Football fans like pantomimes. Years ago, a Sunderland fan who played a Mr Nasty in Coronation St was booed when he came on the pitch to hand the prizes out to raffle winners. A few of our fans booed the blameless Gallas. Your fans chanted Thierry Henry’s name quite a lot. Presumably to goad our Irish chairman. Calmes-toi!

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By: Scott Curry

Scott Curry — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:19:47 +0000

As an Arsenal fan, I saw no problem with the way Sunderland played at all. You had a well executed game plan and Arsenal came expecting just to be able to show up and collect a win. Credit to the Black Cats for a deserved win.

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