I thinks we need to take a lesson from Barca v Zaragoza…just looking at them on Sky…ruthless

This kind of comment is mental. You want Arsenal to play more like Barcalona? So you’d like them to lose 2-1 to a romainian team in the champions league at home?

Keiran…I don’t think I was being mental at all. I wasn’t attacking the team or wanting them to play like barca, no way do I want that.

In fact what I want (and what I should have stated) is for us to play like Arsenal.

Correct me if I’m wrong but In the last 5 or so years the only way we could keep a lead is to keep attacking. Every time we sit back and try to defend our lead it sooms to go wrong (well almost everytime)

When I made the comment about being like barca I meant just to keep playing our style. It seemed that the lads on the last two games were testing themselves…maybe trying something new, to see if we could defend a lead…and we ended un drawing.

Calling it mental is a bit harsh…it’s just an opinion, with reasons I guess I should have been clearer about.

Apologies

Yeah Fabrez. Brilliant awareness to know the pass was even on! Can’t wait to see him play week in week out for us in the near future!

he said they will feature he didnt say whether that would be from the beginning or not.I forgot Merida is back from the u20 world cup i hope he starts because he is a real talent i would say with a couple games under his belt he could be good enough to play in the prem/Cl on a weekly basis.

I hope Wenger goes for Eboue instead of Gilbert. Liverpool are probably going to go with Babel on the left and Gilbert is nowhere near good enough to contain him.

Possibly…..

Fabianski
Eboue-Senderos-Silvestre-Gibbs
Nasri-Coquelin/Randall-Ramsey/Merida
Watt-Bendtner-Eduardo

If Wenger has said that both Nik and Eddy will start, and he’s not mentioned Vela then he may be on the bench unfortunately. I can’t see all three of them starting for some reason.

Yeah Debs! What a goal that was! The manner in which he took it reminded me of Becks… And the pass was a killer pass… that would have been a great assist! Ramsey keeps getting better. I feel as if he’s really learning from those around him and he’s hungry. I like his attitude. He’ll be a tremendous player for us in the near future!

Anyways, On another note, did you guys see this Ramsey goal v Liechtenstein the other day? It was his first goal for the full team. It was from a free-kick. Brilliant goal!

youtube.com/watch?v=Vjtb9SM-JJY

Arsenal.com-Nasri and Fabianski to start Liverpool game,Wilshere and Traore injured,Eduardo and Bendtner to feature.Lokks like it will be a young team with expereinced players

Fabianski
Gibbs Silvestre Senderos Gilbert
Nasri Coquelin Ramsey
Vela Bendtner Watt

maybe???

Guys, sorry if that last post was came out a bit too strong. Wasn’t trying to have a dig at anyone in particular. Everyones entitled to their opinion, but sometimes it seems us fans are our own worst enemies at times. We get over excited with our wins, and in turn set ourselves up for major disappointment when results don’t go our way.

Just like to re-emphasise my point again, but more calmly this time lol. Despite how Diaby and Eboue played, it’s too easy an excuse to just single out those two players in particular, especially as they’ve contributed goals and assists already this season. The team as a whole should have killed the game off, period. If we’d scored a 3rd goal in the 90th minute and won the game, no one would be criticising any of the players, despite conceding the same two goals. I just think its too unfair a judgement. If you apply that same thinking to RvP, Arshavin and Cesc, then they should be slagged off for not scoring when they had chances too, but we all know that would be unfair to do. Song had a good game, but his one mistake gave away a vital penalty. Every player makes mistakes, but if all the players on the pitch make one or two mistakes each then collectively it can hurt our reseult, and thats what happened Sunday.

Contrast that with past games. We were terribly lucky at Fulham to have won that game. We played badly, somehow got the 3 points yet weren’t criticised. We played brilliantly in both Manchester games, deserved to win, yet lost both. Thats how football is. Best teams aren’t necessarily the winners or the champions.

The one mistake fans of big teams make is thinking they have a God given right to win absolutely every game and every competition, Chelsea and Man United supporters are particularly prone to this in recent seasons. By doing that supporters end up deluding themselves regardless of what team they support, not to mention disrespecting the opposition team by highly underestimating them. West Ham have good players and they deserved to be level after the final whistle. Sometimes you got to be big enough to show respect toward the opposition, take these kind of results on the chin and put it behind you because the next game comes round fast. I still have to remind myself that we didn’t acutally loose the game, we still got a point, so if you want some labour party-style spin on it then we’re still on a good unbeaten run in all competitions lol

As Leeroy always says at the end of his posts, “Win Loose or Draw, Gooner til I Die”. Lets make that our motto here at WOA. If you’re going to take the wins, then you got to take the draws, losses, injuries and unfair decisions as well.

Peace!

The team needed that win to boost the trust of there fans that this year is our year.Only to see them drop point (2)knowing that it was to be a good weekend for us to shoot high up the table with a game at hand which with what i saw them play in the second half, could likely end up messing it up again with Bolton as West H.

Whatever Parik and Kieren. The truth is that it happened on Tuesday and also again on Sunday – that alone is enough to make one panic. I understand that we should not be fretting over this little slip up but then again we fear this pattern; this sort that saw us draw 5 matches in a row last term. That pattern is what I feel most people are scared of and not the fact that Man u drew at home or Chelsea lost to Wigan. Its about us and not them.