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SaintM

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I'm sure it's been said before but these are the type of games we where losing last year.

Great great determination from the team and tommy v at the end.

To be fair, after christmas last year every game was the type of game you were losing.

Should have had the points wrapped up earlier than they were really, some real chances went begging.. but nobody ever doubted that winner would go in, did they? :unsure:

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carlito

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Also pretty second rate punditry when they went on about how surprising it was that Rosicky was putting in so many good tackles in.

He's always had that in the locker.

Really, really fantastic game from him, every bit as good as Fabregas in his pomp. Shame about the miss, but fuck it.

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Art Vandelay

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The Sky coverage after the game was truly embarrassing. Following Van Persie about the pitch and then chasing the players down the tunnel in the hope of catching a glimpse of some adult sportsmen raising their voices or maybe ever pushing each other. Absolutely pathetic.

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carlito

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Also, I'm not really convinced Gibbs is anything that special. He likes an aimless punt about as much as any player I've ever seen.

Woah, completely missed this.

I thought he was excellent - really smart passing in the final third. Given how short a time he's been back I have been hugely, hugely impressed by him. He seemed ridiculously composed given his age and experience in the first team.

I think Santos will have a pretty difficult time getting a game.

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The Sky coverage after the game was truly embarrassing. Following Van Persie about the pitch and then chasing the players down the tunnel in the hope of catching a glimpse of some adult sportsmen raising their voices or maybe ever pushing each other. Absolutely pathetic.

Damn straight they show Van Persie and Krul. It's what I, and millions of others, wanted to see. Maybe next season they'll have Grandad mode on the red button for you where you can watch an aging lady quickly knit a commemorative jumper.

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BlinkyBear

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Damn straight they show Van Persie and Krul. It's what I, and millions of others, wanted to see. Maybe next season they'll have Grandad mode on the red button for you where you can watch an aging lady knit a commemorative jumper.

Is that also where we'll find your posts first?

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Art Vandelay

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Woah, completely missed this.

I thought he was excellent - really smart passing in the final third. Given how short a time he's been back I have been hugely, hugely impressed by him. He seemed ridiculously composed given his age and experience in the first team.

I think Santos will have a pretty difficult time getting a game.

He was loads better in the second half but his distribution out of defence was terrible in the first. I think he's more comfortable going forward but with any luck he'll progress like Ashley Cole did. Well, not the turning into a bell end and leaving part, but the rest of it.

Damn straight they show Van Persie and Krul. It's what I, and millions of others, wanted to see. Maybe next season they'll have Grandad mode on the red button for you where you can watch an aging lady knit a commemorative jumper.

You're getting too edgy for me, Timmo. Or maybe I am getting old, I don't even know anymore.

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humdrum

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Neville is certainly growing on me as a commutator, couldn't agree more with his comments about wanting to see players(RVP) show commitment and emotion! rather then being a gracious captain.

Its great seeing that it means as much to him and the players as it does to us the fans.

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carlito

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He was loads better in the second half but his distribution out of defence was terrible in the first. I think he's more comfortable going forward but with any luck he'll progress like Ashley Cole did. Well, not the turning into a bell end and leaving part, but the rest of it.

Can't say I really noticed that at all.

The improvement in the final third between him and Clichy is literally insane though. Head up, doesn't panic and very rarely makes the wrong decision.

If we could rig up some kind of gene fusing transporter like in The Fly and put him in one side and Santos in the other thereby sharing Santo's impressive layer of body fat across two people we could have a fucking beast on our hands.

Or just stop him from breaking every other week if plan A beyond the reaches of our medical science bods.

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Daley

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Theo is turning into a proper real footballer. Rosicky was great. The players showed real spirit and belief and never gave up. RvP showed he really cared and that he really gives a shit like any captain should. The atmosphere was amazing towards the end and the stadium erupted when the goal went.

I'm not sure I know how to cope with all this. I have nothing. No sarky comments, no moaning, no jokes.

I'm not really comfortable if i'm honest.

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Varnsen

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"* Ryo Miyaichi made a massive seven chances for his Bolton teammates v QPR - no player in the Premier League made more this weekend." - Nicked this from F365's stats of the week.

I hope his spell at Bolton is the making of him in much the way I thought it did Wilshere lots of good.

edit> one more!

"* Only Nani, David Silva and Ashley Young have recorded more PL assists than Theo Walcott (15) since the start of the 2010/11 season. "

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Steve007

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I'm not sure I know how to cope with all this. I have nothing. No sarky comments, no moaning, no jokes.

Yeah last night was amazing. I didn't even give a crap that I was stranded at Finsbury Park for ages as I was so happy.

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Yeah I got home at stupid o'clock and now I'm knackered, but it's ok.

Fair play to Walcott -- since half time against Spuds he's been pretty consistently good (finally). He needs to keep it going though if he wants any chance of that fat new contract.

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Daley

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http://www.guardian....f-their-success

Very good read for all football fans but some very big parallels with Arsenal's situation.

Valencia: prisoners of their own success

Few have recognised Unai Emery's role in making Valencia the best in Spain's other league. When they're not, perhaps they will

It was all going so well too. On Thursday night, they steamed into a 4-0 lead before the clock had even reached an hour; four days later, they'd scored another two without reply before half-time. And yet Thursday finished with boos and Sunday did too. Their week ended with whistles and white hankies. Down in the pressroom they waited and wondered. Half an hour passed, three-quarters, an hour, more. When the Valencia coach Unai Emery eventually appeared, they asked him where he had been. He explained that the president had been down to see him, seeking an explanation. This could not go on. 'This' being consistently topping Spain's other league – the one that teams other than Real Madrid and FC Barcelona are allowed to play for.

Each season he has seen his best players depart, and each season he has reinvented the side. Every one of Valencia's World Cup winners have gone – Silva, Villa, Mata and Marchena – and yet now they have two more players in the Spain squad.
Finishing third is just not enough. Valencia are 26 points off the top; last season they finished 21 points off and the season before that 24. It is not that Valencia fans demand that their team finish above Madrid and Barcelona but that they at least finish close to them. In part it is the fact that Valencia know that they are not good enough to overhaul them that means that they do not even get close to them. There is a flip side to that, one that is counter-intuitive but explains much: in a strange way, it is the fact that Valencia are good enough to always be the closest team to them that does too; and because they know that they're unlikely to be caught by the teams behind them, they might be caught by them this time.
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