have they really just submitted a DVD?? if we are soar losers, then they are soar winners! well if we made a dvd for every arsenal win we would have loads more. in the premier league, arsenal have 12 victories to tottenhams 7. they are still miles away! in the early 90′s, graham was awful, so we were obviously going to lose more derbies. whereas now arsenal win consistently, and if u wonder why there are always draws at WHL, it is because spurs always screw up a lead.

@ Kuka:
I totally don’t fancy the madrid/chelsea/city model. What i am just saying is that we need back up players for every role in the team. Injuries are part of a season that can never be ruled out. So when one gets injured there should be another who is capable of taking up the mantle. We are some way away from that in some very key positions.

1.) One is CB, We should do away with silvestre, hopefully djourou should be OK soon. Then maybe one other defender, and maybe bartley. much as i hate to say this but at the moment, senderos will be a much better option than silvestre.

2.) Second is DM position, We have only Song. No other player will do the job well or almost as well. eastmond is still on the production line.

3.) thirdly is CF, We had more shots at goal against tot’ham in the few minutes that RVP played than we had before he came. It shows what a quality striker can do. B52 is good, what is left for him is consistency and maybe positioning.

I DO NOT support buying expensive ready made players. But get the good unknown ones. Wenger knows how to do that as he has shown with verm.

LMAO, and i really did piss my self laughing!!
like dev has updated spurs have released the 2-1 dvd named “An Unforgettable Night” Oh my god this is actually comedy gold! they beat us with a fluke wonder goal and with 3 wonder saves but this is a small caption that is selling the dvd to the small minded spurs fans

“Gomes put in a scintillating display, Ledley was formidable at the back, Luka unplayable in the middle of the park and Jermain unstoppable leading the line; but in truth, as it has been all season, it was a team effort that fuelled this victory.”

UNPLAYABLE LUKA, JERMAIN UNSTOPPABLE LEADING THE LINE!

spurs fans should be very embaressed that beating us in a league game is a big enough achievment to release a dvd about it haha! well done dev for predicting the dvd release

@ andrew:
Great point. It’s absolutely fabulous to see Robin back, and maybe we can finish the season on a high…

Van Persie is BACK!!!

Yes, I know we just lost to the Sp*rs and our title challenge is over and we got dumped out of the Champions League by Lionel Messi BUT… I thought I should focus on the positive that Robin is back and looked great. Imagine if we’d had him all year. I know we have the injury bug and don’t know why but it was great to see what RVP brings to the Arsenal. Great passing, great shooting, great team player. It is good to have him back even if for the last few meaningless games.

At least we have the world cupto distract us from all the rumours this year.

To be fair we just lacked that bit of class that we normaly have when one of our top players are fit! you cant have a team of world class players becuase it just doesnt happen but when you have a van persie or a fabregas in your team it adds another gear to your team becuase they can do things not many others can and that was shown by van persie in the last 20 minutes. i accept we have to deal with injuries but when you have injuries to your 3 world class attacking players it is going to take a spark out of the team becuase not all players can make a pass or take a shot like them players.

I do really have a feeling wenger will have a shopping spree this summer becuase he has admitted that he cant rely on his talented youth and experience and maturity are really important, its going to be another summer or hope and rumours haha!!

@ Nick

I do not know what wenger told sylvestre at the time of his siging but the issue is that at his age he could only be used as a back-up from the teams perspective…even then only in certain home games where the ‘risk’ is next to nothing…if i may use that word

sylvestre is in the team to also impart his experience to the younger team members as Sol has been doing

on his side at his age he needs to be playing at least to earn a good last contract…this has not happened…so you have an unhappy player in the team

the caveat is that we fans expect sylvestre to come in and put in a top notch performance when he hasnt been playing that much….

us fans want to win all the time…these players are not machines and they also have personal problems & issues as we all do….

we need some empathy here…..

It pains me to say it, but does anyone think Silvestre is just having a laugh when he gets on? He’s so unhappy at Arsenal due to his lack of playing time (which it’s obvious why he’s not getting it) and wanted out in Jan. Do you think he’d not giving his 100% on purpose? It seems to me like he is.

Mathematically we can still win, but we’re gonna need some luck and some help. Mostly we have to help ourselves and not getting 3 points from each match isn’t gonna cut it.

Was it just me or did all our players look unmotivated at Spurs? It was like a full squad of Arshavins out there. Diabys passing was terrible, they didn’t seem in sync at all. Nasri and Rosicky looked like they were playing at half speed. Bendtner always pulls up on his runs when someone plays the ball forward because he just figures he’s not gonna outleg the defender.

All praise to Rose for that strike though, it was immaculate. Almunia in the position he was in could never have saved that one. The Bale goal was crap and shouldn’t have happened.

@ Yemi: – I do not know about you, but the Chelsea model does not just appeal to me. Rather I do not warm up to the aspect of accumulating players and keeping them happy by paying them high salaries. All the players you have named other than Ferera were bought with extremely high sums of money. Ballack earning 120K a month and staying on the bench for the majority of the season is not something I would pride Arsenal for. Its just not sustainable for me.

….If you ask me, besides Arsenal, my model club is Everton. Where you work within your resources, produce the best out of the players you have and hope that Man City does not come for them when they are ready. The problem about the City, Chelsea, Madrid model is that you will never know the potential of Ballack, Ferrera, Belleti, etc unless key players are injured…..It has been argued that Ballack is a better player when playing for Germany than when playing for Chelsea – guess why? Because he is a key player for them and always plays? At chelsea he is a sub player.

….I stick by my position: We need to keep OUR KEY PLAYERS FIT. If the Key players are fit, the squad will come in and do OK