Arsenal & Boro Flying The Flag

Congrats boro..unbelievable game AGAIN!

"So a big congratulations to Middlesbrough and to Arsenal for showing the world just how good English football is" well this makes me laugh i mean hats of to boro they can be called an english team...but how exactly is arsenals success showing us how good english football is? arsenal show how impossible it is for english youngsters to actually play in the first team and there oppurtunity is replaced with foreigners id love to see how this is good for english football

nice 1 scottdayid i really would liek to see some honest gooners at least admitting that they would like at least some english players playing for their "english club"

thats not always the case rocky ashton is an examply of fluctuated price due to a successful half season with norwich, however huddlestone 2mil lennon 0.5mil carrick 2.75 mil robbo 1.5mil...make no mistake about it these players before they signed for spurs would of been more likely to go to arsenal had an offer come in....howevewr wenger over the last few years had opted to give foreign youngsters there chance...if you think ashton is too expensive at 7mil try 13mil for hleb or 17mil for reyes..dont get me wrong there is a place in every team for foreign players but wenger has made the decision to purely crowd the the team with foreigners....now for arsenal this could be a good decision but not for english football...if english youngsters dont get a chance at big clubs what chance do we stand in having a decent national team in years to come...what if all other top clubs decided to have this transfer policy?? down the line wenger has made decision not to invest in english youth when for cheaper money htna he has spent he easily could have done...so to hear that arsenals progression in europe is good for english football really is laughable

Rocky7, I will give you explanations. Lennon £1m, Huddlestone £2m, Carrick £3m, Robbo £1.5m, Jenas £7m, Defoe £7m, Dawson £4m, Davenport £2m. Where was you when these signings was going on? In France probably.

u cant compare ashton to van persie either.i know which players your talking bout...cole is the only one to be given a chance to shine....campbell was a world class player on a free apart from that gilbert and walcott.....apart from that are u trying to be clever and go to under 17's level?! regardless of this whats to prove that your arsenal youngsters gilbert,muamba etc will be given a chance.....i mean were ricketts and sidwell to name a few?! its ok to say u have these youngsters in ur suqad its only natural to have english youth players in the reserves but on wengers trakc record that exactly where they will stay...the whole point is wenger would rather import youth than nuture his own or even buy english youth....which is what most fans disagree with

no but we gave him a chance in the first team to at least let him show if he could progress, if the players arnt good enough for the first team there not good enough im talking about ur transfer policy that is what is in question

well regardless of the rivalry i like to see other fans views from other teams on certain topics. i dont like the name calling and slating on these sites its pointless. leave that for the games :-). to be honest you have had money to compete money spent on hleb reyes is 30 million and with that you could have bought jenas carrick defoe robbo lennon huddlestone and had 10 million change...the money for arsenal to buy english was there but wenger chose not to...this doesnt mean he hasnt chose good players it just means he hasnt chosen english, so when i hear comments that arsenals position in europe is good for english football..it has got to be questioned...its good for one german two ivory costians,two spainards, three frenchmen, a brazilian, a swede and a judas., but not for england

BTW, I forgot to mention. Arsenal getting to the final is good English football in another way. Should Arsenal fail to finish 4th and Spurs get in the CL, there is a very real chance that you will not past the qualifiers (like it or not thats the way it is) should that happen because the way the english teams (Arsenal aside) performed in the Champions League (especially Man Utd finishing last in their group) the Prem teams could very well see themselves slide down the coefficients rankings tabel, thus meaning the year after we very well may only get 3 champions league places. So if you want as many English teams in the comp in future, you would do well to cheer us on!!

A matter of opinion yes, and Wengers opinion is that the players he chose for Arsenal would be able to do a better job at a cheaper price, and of course, Wengers opinion is the only one that counts when it comes to buying players. How can we question a man who has brought us 7 trophies in 9 years and has become the most sought after coach ion the world?? It is Arsenal that employe's Wenger and not the FA, surely it's his sole aim to make Arsenal a successful club. And that is what he has done. At the end of the day we are still an English club with English players and our success in the Champions League is just as important as anybody else's, it helps put Premiership football up there with the rest of the world, and brings in the revenue that the WHOLE LEAGUE benefits from.

succes in the champ league b4 last year u did awful in it..anyway this is goign round in circles....i didnt question wenger buys being good i questioned that because there not english then winning the champ league isnt good for english football...its not a heard concept ot conceive?

it would be good for the premier league on the basis of this point system...but not good for english football

well done lads a credit to the premiership

Well Arsenal will be in France on the 17th of May... in Paris... in the Champions League Final. Where will Spurs be?

I support Arsenal not because anyone that I know of or is associated to the club but out of sheer love for the game and style of play that the Gunners play. The name "English Premier League" is what matters to me and is something that keeps me awake late at nights.

great achievement for english sides would be great if you both won.