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[dellzeqq]

well................it's fourth place or bust for Arsene now - although I think that's eminently do-able, given that Everton have no great strength in depth and Villas-Boas' raincoat is ridiculous. Even if they were to win the FA Cup tonight's effort was clearly not a one-off - the team hasn't got the strength of character to sustain the fiction that the Gunners are going to challenge for the Premiership anytime soon.

Is this the oldest Arsenal team since the Invincibles?

 

[mangaman]

Is this the oldest Arsenal team since the Invincibles?

I'm not sure - I think it's the worst though.

I've always had a theory that Arsenal's tippy-tappy reputation under Wenger was a bit of a myth.

The really successful sides had Ian Wright then Thierry Henry - the chances of the clubs all-time goalscorers coming along one after another are miniscule - but that's what happened.

The successful Wenger teams had a ball winning midfield (Viera and Petit for example) and some clever players who could pass.

Most importantly they had someone who would always score buckets of goals.

Since they lost Henry, they were always going to struggle - they have the ball most of every game but very average strikers and scoring what their success was built on.

 

[MarkF]

well................it's fourth place or bust for Arsene now - although I think that's eminently do-able,

No, that won't happen.This is the season everything goes belly up, it's been coming.

I said I was convinced we'd win, an L2 team V Arsenal? I certainly wouldn't have said that if we'd been playing any other PL team. Arsenal are living on past glories, have been for seasons, they are bottlers, a team with without a spine. When the only leader is a kid (Wilshire) the game is up. Everything went exactly as I anticipated, big un + little un and the Arsenal CB's were bullied and frightened. Podolski, Ramsey and Cazorla did nothing and all Gervinho did was miss. If we started again today then I'd put money on Bradford.

Funniest thing? Bringing on Chamakh an even more useless waster than Podolksi or Gervinho.

 

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