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I’m sure all Gunners out there will be more than happy to see the month of March finally pass by as tomorrow April moves in. The international break couldn’t have come at a better time to give the players something else to think about and r…
Relegation watch!
The focus may well be on international football this weekend as people turn their attention towards the Euro 2012 qualifiers, but it’s NUFC that will still be at the centre…
Final Nine Are Massive For The Toon
The Newcastle United skipper Kevin Nolan has today told the press that our next nine games in the Premier League are massive for the toon’s future. Nolan is looking forward to hopefully prove the so-called experts and pundits wrong when they put Newcastle down at the start of the season and expressed their feelings saying [...]
Birmingham v Bolton FA Cup Highlights
Lee Chung-Yong struck the winner as Bolton overcame a battling Birmingham to reach the FA Cup semi-finals. St Andrew’s 12/03/11 Birmingham manager Alex McLeish: “Our lads, despite the problems we had with injuries, put in a magnificent effort. “You couldn’t ask for more in terms of commitment and effort. “But we were a bit sloppy [...]
FA Cup quarter finals preview
It’s the FA Cup quarter finals this weekend and City find themselves with an excellent chance of making the semi finals. City will face Reading at eastlands on Sunday and will rightly fancy their chances against the only non premier league team left in…
Arsene Wenger on Van Persie’s injury and why Rosicky was withdrawn
Robin Van Persie has a tear in his ligament that is going to rule him out for at least a month, if not more. Van Persie was already sidelined before last night’s match as Wenger revealed the extent of his injury after the game. Speaking after the …
VIDEO: Arsenal V Birmingham 1-2 Cup Final Match Highlights
If you can finally see where we went wrong now, here you go:
Picking Up The Pieces From Another Final Defeat
That is the task that is faced by Arsene Wenger and his coaching staff. They need to lift the players again after such an emotional defeat. Don’t give me that crap about us not caring about the cup, that it is only the Mickey Mouse club. We’ll think that way when we go out in [...]
If in doubt..
…kick it out. A simple adage, designed to instill a bit of instict in such situations. This is the last time I will say this but it was Koscielny’s responsibility to clear the ball if he had already prepared himself to do so.
Safety first.
Birmingham…
The Deceiver
In football there’s a lot of rubbish talked. Especially after a loss. I urge you though to not believe the utter bilge being spoken by others, and let me tell you some things that are true: 1. I’ll start with … Continue reading →
Arsenal Need To Find A Way To Get Past Defeat
First off, congratulations to Birmingham City for winning the Carling Cup. They played well, fought hard and were rewarded in the end. This is their first trophy in some 48 years, so it is a great achievement for Alex McCleish and the club, well done. As much as people say this could be a turning [...]
Now is the time to be positive
Granted, in the face of overwhelming depression, remaining upbeat and chipper isn’t exactly easy. I’m disappointed, miserable and a little bewildered, but I want to be positive. Yesterday was supposed to be our moment, the exorcism of 6 years of … Continue reading →
What Next For These Self-Destructive Gunners?
“I’m a futurist, I’m not nostalgic. I don’t collect anything. Some must be in a…
A more sensible review perhaps..
Yesterday was painful. Frustrating. It highlighted every little problem with the Arsenal team this season.
When the 4-2-3-1 formation isnt working (i.e. in the absence of Fabregas) we need to do one of two things, switch to 4-4-2 and put two strikers u…
The Blunder
That Carling Cup final was a thrilling match. We played well, as did Birmingham. Despite owning the majority of the possession, having more shots, more shots on goal, and just generally putting on a better performance, we lost. I’m not going to go into details about why we should’ve won, or why we didn’t deserve [...]
Arsenal 1-2 Birmingham: Nearly men again
So the champagne remains on ice, the celebrations on hold and the wait for a trophy continues. There’s also the joyous revelation this morning that the media stories about time since our last success can now be gilded with comments about we lost a final to little old Birmingham. Honestly, the way Sky were talking [...]
Project Youth stutters, will Arsenal derail and fail now?
I don’t really know where to go with a post like this… That Cup was probably the most bread and butter final we’ve had since we defeated Southampton a few years ago at Cardiff. We flopped on the big stage and we did in embarrassing fashion. It wasn’t about effort or any of the obvious [...]
Arsenal v Birmingham Carling Cup Highlights
Obafemi Martins pounced on a calamitous Arsenal defensive mix-up two minutes from time as Birmingham City claimed their first major silverware since 1963 by winning the Carling Cup. Wembley 27/02/11 Arsene Wenger tells the world how disappointed he is heres a couple of topics he spoke about after the game: on the late goal… I [...]
Moving swiftly on.
As I sat in disbelief, my mobile bleeping away with the taunts of Mancs a certain calm washed over me. We can’t highlight the howler at the end as the issue, Koscielny and Sczcesny didn’t lose us the game because we shouldn’t have been at 1:1 at that p…
Crash, Shatter, Pop
And any other noise that a heart makes after being sliced, diced, stepped on and overheated in a microwave
Arsenal 1-2 Birmingham, or Young Jack’s Tears
And just like that we lost our best chance at winning a trophy this year. I think it’s safe to say that most Arsenal supporters were fairly confident going into today’s Carling Cup tie, but for a club with some of the most talented young players in England and, arguably, the world there is a [...]
Wembley Blues
The only way to describe the disappointment after that game is a feeling of deflation. After all the pre-match hype, the 6 years of waiting, the decent run of form in 2011, the clear weaknesses of the opposition… Arsenal bottled it. It wasn’t that the Reds didn’t play well – far from it. Wenger got [...]
Arsenal 1 Birmingham 2 : Shattered Dreams
Whether you treat the Carling Cup as an important competition or not, this is the kind of defeat that hurts. To lose a final in that manner is terrible. Gutted. There are no other words to describe it. That defeat meant 1 out and still 3 more to go. There are still 3 more competitions [...]
Birmingham 2 – Arsenal 1: Trophy Drought Continues as Late Mix-Up Costs Gunners (UPDATED with Player Ratings)
This is a sucker-punch loss that will stick with us for a long time.
First things first — hats off to Birmingham. They played an excellent match, and I don’t think there’s any doubt they wanted it more than we did. They worked harder, played with more focus, played through knocks, never gave up, and [...]
Arsenal 1 – 2 Birmingham: Match Thoughts And Individual Analysis
I hate it when the prediction by the heart beats the one by the mind because that means Arsenal have put in a logic defying performance or committed suicide with some horrible individual errors. In this case it was a bit of both. Before going further let me just acknowledge that Birmingham thoroughly deserved this [...]
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