they were a brilliant blend of skill and steel, thats why they were so good; they certainly not replaced the latter, someong to buck them up and keep the concentration up, and avoid the constant individual errors
Have to say from a neutral viewpoint, this is why I miss the Arsenal of old. Players like Keown and Viera would never have allowed Arsenal to slip up so often and throw away the title the way they're doing it now. They would've pretty much got in their face, and told them to politely buck their ideas up, and play for guts and pride. I miss seeing that in Arsenal nowadays. All very well having the flair, but you need to counter that with leadership and strength. And its so obvious it's missing nowadays.
Walcott was poor aswell Arshavin should have came on ages before
and Arsene Bendtner on the wing? :SoO)
Nope, because hes not SAF.
Wait, why is all the failure Wenger's fault? From what I see he puts the players in positions to succeed.
I think he's played almost non-stop for club and country for three years and is ******* exhausted. A player's head doesn't have to have been turned by another club just because he's lacking a little bit of form (and still managed to make several key passes forward, even if a couple were slightly overhit or whatever) and remember he was excellent against Blackpool.
its not different, its the same every year. its wengers policy for better or worse. All sides have had injury crises, they havent dealt with it as well as others. They werent forced to sell those players to balance the books. This is the route they have taken, and so far its not quite been good enough for the title. whether we applaud his approach is another matter entirely. Every other top side will build for next season too. Wenger has repeatedly said the money is there, and he has chosen not to spend it
We need to sign a few leeders in the summer maybe?
and perhaps there in lies the problem. we arent talking about 20 millon every year, its the one big purchase that plugs the Gap.
Samba would have been my pick from january,
United lost Rooney for the majority of the first half of the season, Rio Ferdinand played only few games, Owen is a regular sick note who was our third choice striker, Owen Hargreaves has missed 3 seasons, our most important Winger Valencia missed till mid March, third choice CB Evans also missed so many games. At one point we were down to bare bones in defense. Brown is a regular sick note, O'Shea missed 2-3 months, Park missed 2 months, Scholes missed more than a month, Anderson when he was playing his best games missed 2 months, Fletcher has missed 6 weeks now.
We had injury problems but our players stepped up to the task. Thats the difference.
Oh don't be so stupid. The Kenny and Rooney incidents were two completely different things. Rooney saw the camera and deliberately swore into it; with Dalglish the camera was there looking for the reaction, there was no way KK directed it at the camera.
Don't be such a moron.
He swore on TV.
Thousands of little kiddies heard it. Now i trust the FA will stick to their stupid rules and hit him with a ban or something.
Rooney is right, he isnt the first to swear on camera, nor the last.
He is the first to go right up to the camera and swear at it on purpose though (other than Drogba).
Samba is a natural leader and he wouldnt have been expensive he handed in a transfer request. the fact that that arsenal rely on key players is their not an excuse. They had young players for 6 years. enough of the excuses from them, time to cut out the mistakes
The thing is though that I don't think you can just buy or bring in a leader like that. A leader has to be someone who has been at the club for a long time. ManU has tons because they've been able to hold on to their players. Also, you have to be a very good player to be a leader--I mean, who is going to listen to Samba if he's the one ******* up in the back the most? He's not technically good enough for Arsenal, and as I said before, they could have gotten Onyewu for free but they didn't (I think they should have, but maybe Arsene didn't want to because that would mean they'd have 5 CB's).
Sigh, how can you compare what Rooney did compared to Kenny. They are completely other ends of the spectrum. While Rooney ran up to the camera and shouted down it, KK was in a discussion with Wenger, where Wenger was being a complete ***, and to be honest, I for one, would have used stronger words towards Wenger. Also, I suspect that KK and Wenger were unaware of the presence of the TV camera that close to them, as you can see, neither look towards the camera, or acknowledge it is there.
All you United fans saying 'The FA have acted on Rooney, so they must act on KK', bollocks do they, the two incidents are incomparable imo. Last weekend, watching a game on sky, one of the players while coming to pick the ball up for a throw in said '****', it was quite audible on the telly, while I understand the word is 'rude', it wasn't really aimed at anyone, should he also have been banned for 2 games because Rooney was? No.
Some of you need to stop with your 'Oh the FA is against us' attitude, it's getting boring now.
Don't forget the FA have turned a blind eye on whiskey nose's almost continuous psychological manipulation of referees over the years.
FA against you - my **** ( to quote the poet ).
Some of you need to stop with your 'Oh the Fergie gets away with everything when we have seen United players are getting bans regularly and even Fergie. Stop this **** ffs. It is getting boring now.
I understand what your saying about Samba. But you can't (imo) sign a player, midway through a season, and expect him to instantly become a leading figure in the dressing room. A signing needs time to embed himself into not only the club, but also the area and also to the new players. Also, with Djourou and Koscielny having a really good partnership, and still Vermaelen to come back (whom is that leader imo), who do you drop?