Arsenal

[SeanR]

Diaby's never coming back.

except as a zombie...

[BlinkyBear]

Diaby's never coming back.

Love that he was in the first team squad photo but just looked fucking miserable like he was at his own wake, the poor bastard.

[NexivRed]

Utd/City scores to stay as they are please, followed by an Arsenal win.

edit: Szczesny, Sagna, Koscielny, Mertesacker, Gibbs, Wilshere, Ramsey, Flamini, Ozil, Gnabry, Giroud

Surprised to see Gnabry start, he must be knackered.

Williams and Hernandez out for Swansea.

[gizmo1990]

Please don't fuck this up, please don't fuck this up..

[Guest]

I really hope you guys win the league. I'd love to see Wenger fully vindicated.

[Larsen B]

If we can win today, maybe this team has something.

[hercules]

Big chance today. We have to take it, it's gonna be a hard game but our away form is pretty good.

[hercules]

Not the best first half. Need to calm down a bit as we are rushing things

[Takizawa]

You guys look much more comfortable at the back at the moment, Swansea have been probing but most of it hasn't gone anywhere and is getting snuffed out before it becomes dangerous.

[Stagger Lee]

Gnarby!

[pinholestar]

Fuck me, he's only gone & done it again!

[Stagger Lee]

I fucking love Aaron Ramsey.

[Cappuccino Kid]

Looking tight now, hope we can hold on for the last 10 mins.

[humdrum]

Great 3 points, Swansea isn't an easy place to go to so glad we could hang on.

[toythatkills]

Well that was pretty scary at the end there, but my God the league table looks pretty.

Aside from second, anyway.

[NexivRed]

Szczesny was excellent today. He's shown a great recovery since Villa, fair play to him.

[pinholestar]

United lost, City lost, Spurs & Chelsea picked up only a point apiece, we're clear at the top of the table & Rambo scored yet again. Could today have gone any better?!

[hauk]

Gnarly played a blinder. Top of the league!

[BlinkyBear]

Feels good, man.

[AlwaysBeClosing]

I really hope you guys win the league. I'd love to see Wenger fully vindicated.

Such a strange comment - why wouldn't you want your own team to win? Win tomorrow and you're two off the top.

[Takizawa]

Such a strange comment - why wouldn't you want your own team to win? Win tomorrow and you're two off the top.

Haha, we get laughed at for thinking we might have a shot and questioned when we're realistic.

I'm with Dino here (I feel dirty now), if I want another team to win the league, it would be Arsenal.

[g wings]

Interesting to see how things have shifted this season. Yesterday was another game where we didn't play as much of a possession game, I think we have 42%, which seems pretty typical this season. Less shots on goal average than last season too but look at the results...

[TehStu]

Swansea ran rings around us in the first half. Not sure what he said at half time, but we soon started pinging it around like I remember we used to play. Sadly (although to Swansea's credit), we dropped back down to 3rd gear, job done, and got caught with a magnificent chip over the defense, which is also ye olde arsenal.

[hercules]

We let teams have the ball and keep our shape, making us harder to break down, but when we do have the ball we are more effective. I don't mind this ATM. We are definately harder to beat now which can only be a good thing.

[Swallow]

Yeah, it's good to see us using the ball so well when we do have it. The control under pressure from everyone involved in Ramsey's goal was fantastic to watch.

[Baz]

Graham Souness - football expert.

http://youtu.be/t50bTm0bHUA

[Gotters]

Ramsey is obviously grabbing the plaudits at the moment but I think as big a factor in our start is Flamini, he's possibly one of the most significant signings any team made in the window in terms of what he's bought to a team that was lacking.

I loved his cynical yellow card foul to stop a Swansea counter yesterday (think we were up at the time) and just the general solidity and communication he's bought to the field.

Wenger is winding back the clock, we used to start well like this a few years back, before getting to Nov, playing the bigs teams, then falling off !

Very odd season so far though so wouldn't necessarily rule us out of a tilt yet as nobody is looking consistent yet and getting away.

[Guest]

Such a strange comment - why wouldn't you want your own team to win? Win tomorrow and you're two off the top.

I don't believe we've got what it takes to challenge this year. It's a catch-22 for us. Players we've wanted have mostly gone elsewhere. So if I want someone else to win the league it will be Arsenal.

I respect Wenger and like Arsenal as a team - and breaking up the Manchester/Chelsea wins of recent times would be good for the league.

I think Wenger deserves it for everything he's put up with. Imagine a manager who's not been backed by his board properly for years. Yet had consistently got the best out of what he's had, and at no point does he go moaning about it (from what I can recall anyway).

Arsenal have also been building a team, with a mixture of youth and experience now - and some decent British talent in Walcott, Ramsay, Wilshire, Jenkinson, Gibbs. Where as Spurs, who would of course be a very different name on the trophy, seem to have been far more "buy all the players".

I know which I will support.

[The Fox]

I thought Arteta would have suited the game yesterday more than Flamini tbh, he would have helped retain possession a bit better. Agree Flamini has been a very good signing though.

Just need a forward, ideally one who can also play wide, and it's a very good squad. The spirit and mentality is there too, which is something that was obviously lacking in recent years.

[toythatkills]

This is a thing I had never heard of: http://noblebybendtner.com

Everything appears to be utterly unwearable