So John Terry, Explain That One

Not grinning now are you JT? Lol

I think the English charge for the title lasted longer than your little French one, fellas. Perhaps you need those numbing condoms to prolong your performance. As any woman will tell you, it's not how you start... it's how you finish.

I wouldn't count Chelsea out of the title race just yet though it doesn't look good for them. It's ManU's home form that has sustained their campaign but they have only one home game left. Doesn't look good for Chelsea but it's not over yet. Whatever the outcome though it will have nothing at all to do with nationality.

Well, still a team with an English spine will win it :-)

you guys seem a little 'tetchy' on the English thing...is it because you are an English Club playing in an English league but are not an English team?

Zae, who are the three leading scorers in the premiership? I thought so...

To answer your question Radar - Israeli !

Yes shedboy.....hence the "my life ".....

So not wishing to jump the gun but what's the betting on who will be in charge at the bridge next season ?....

How did Arsenal disprove his claims??? you've won nothing in a good 3 or 4 seasons now...Maybe next year will be year big year? or was that this season? or before that??????? ...........we're still above you and still in the champions league, choke on that.

"For a few months it has been difficult for us to react to conceding a goal, we have been going down very quick. "When the season started we were not like this and I don't know why we have been in trouble now after scoring a goal. We have to work on that for next season." French defender Gallas, however, insists some positives can be salvaged from a campaign which promised so much, but ended in such disappointing fashion. "What is very positive from last season is we should finish third in the Premier League, we went to the quarter-final of the Champions League, so we have improved," he insisted. "However we cannot accept just that because when the season started we wanted to win everything, but then slowly, slowly we started to lose. "Now at the end, we do not get anything. That is a great shame for the club. "We have to speak together and to know what was wrong. "We are not far away, but we will have to see what we can do next season. "I hope we can get something. I am a competitor and want to win everything. You remember only the people who win trophies." I thought I'd post those comments from Gallas before the press get hold of them and turn them into some kind of "Gallas, I am brilliant, everyone else is crap" story, which arseblogger promptly jumps on to continue his vendetta, which verybody subsequently parrots.

Chelseas backbone - Cech-Calvalho-Terry-Makalele-Lampard-Essien-Drogba...two englishman...endoff..not bad. JCFC - u seem to have a short memory...every team undergoes a transition period..before last season, it too ManU 3yrs to win the league...the transition they awaited was the coming of age og Ronaldo/Rooney and some quality additions - Tevez etc....when Makele left Real, it took them over 3 yrs to win anything....the same i can say for Barca until Ronaldinho arrived....if u take a close look AC Milan is undergoing a transition of sorts...Liverpool too...until Benitez arrived (somewhat)..but what has matterd is that these teams have remained in contention...Arsenal has ALWAYS ben in contention even in yrs when wwe won nothin...thats more than u can say for Spurs..Carling Cip???!!! Middlesborough won that - remember????...hey Portsmouth or heloooooooo....CARDIFF will win the FA - a much bigger cup than the CC...does it make them bigger tha Arsenal - NOOOOOOO....Arsenal is in contention dude...and will be better and stronger next season...

I am pretty sure Le Boss knows whats wrong with the team...hell some of the ills are glaring...use Eboue as second choice full back..spend some money on and keeper, possibly a defender, one right winger and an out and striker. Problem is tho...methinks he is bit of an idealist...well..i can only wait and see...i'm too loyal a fan tho to be swayed by much. Gallas i think shld be given another chance.

Maybe some of the other players will step up to the plate next season and show some leadership qualities. It doesn't have to come from just the captain. Gallas will never be Tony Adams, but others can help.

I am convinced that had Rosicky, Eduardo and RVP stayed fit, we would be champions, no question!!

I'll be a bit reserved about next season till i see who we aquire...but once a gunner always a gunner..i'm still here

Little Dutch. That's why i ask you if you know anything about it???? I'm not 100% sure about newspapres and hardly trust them. But i found it on several english neaspaper too. he said exactlly that: "When the tide turns and it starts to get hard, you need a leader - and William Gallas is not what I call a leader. He can play well defensively but you need him to be at his best when the team is under pressure - and once again he wasn't. When it got back to 1-1, Arsenal were suddenly under the cosh and that's when you need your captain to stand up and be counted. But Gallas didn't speak to anybody. He just walked back to his position at set-pieces and didn't say a word. He is supposed to be the captain. He needs to help the team and especially the younger players. He should have been organising things but he didn't" . I'm agree with Dixon, and the Birmingham penalty was obvsously shoking for me, even if i'm not a Arsenal fan, i was wondering "what the F**K is he doing?????"

Aw come on spursfan4eva...slagging of spurs is a favorite pastime here u know..its an Arsenal forum honey...i wldnt go over to spurs forum to slag u guys off....i do it here...and hey to be fair...i always manage a "mild" slagging off...

Lee Dixons opinion is fine - but in the end only opinion. I have watched Gallas all season talking to and organising players where he felt it was needed but if everyone is in position and it all looks fine then what's to talk about? The goals conceded of late haven't been so much organisational ones - they have been either set pieces or individual lapses in concentration primarily as a consequence of lack of experience. Just having a captain doesn't ensure you concede fewer goals and right now there isn't any one at the club that would do the job any better than Gallas has done. On that basis it's all an academic debate anyway. This petty vendetta against Gallas is silly.

it had also a lot to do with kolo being knackered from the acn and sagna getting injured against the chavs...so basically we suffered from injuries,you could say the same about chavski as well they suffered too,but who cares about mercenaries

number 14, i was just interested that is all. Thought it was strange that you felt the need to include spurs in your post's when discussing JT's comments. You are exactly correct in that this is an arsenal site and you can discuss anything you like and i was not having a pop at you for what you said. Like yourselves we at vital spurs suffer a lot with aggressive post's from fans of many different clubs and have even now had two arsenal fans post racist remarks. Of course this is no reflection on all you guys but was just highlighting the fact we all suffer from stupid people. I will let you guys get back to your topic now

oops...pardon the bad english - *person...etc

I understand what you mean number 14. If i had been born into a club then i would be an arsenal fan now as both my uncle and father support arsenal. As a rebelious child i clearly picked the big rival. lol

spursfan4eva WHY ARE YOU HERE?

united4life...since when were O'shea, Fletcher and Giggs English? I must have missed a trick there..muppet.

I was agreeing with some of what you said until you threw in O'shea, Fletcher and Giggs being English.

In U4L's defense, he was responding to my post in which I mentioned British players, not just English.

Face it, Chelsea are now a bigger club than Arsenal. Ashly Cole's transfer has proved that.

FOUND! One lost young Brazilian gunner, Denilson: http://youngguns.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/found-safe-well-fit-arsenals-denilson/

Arsenal are bigger than Chelsea and Spuds put together. Chavs 3 lge titles, Spuds 2 (ha ha 2). And Londons biggest and most successful club.....13!!!!!

SIB seems to be under the delusion that we care for his opinions.

ha ha spudinbatter we ARE a BIG club, like it or lump it!!!!!!!

since when is b.i.n l.a.d.en a banned word?

nice.

ooh you smell of jealousy sperminbatter ha ha ha!!!!!!!!!

so SIB is also a barca fan, why didn't you pick espanyol? Or you would rather cheer on TH14....

or maybe espanyol reminds you too much of spurs..

Of course the Emirates was built on mortgages ...most properties are. But you have to show you have the income to meet the costs in order to get the mortgage. That's one reason why Spuds are stuck at WHL for the foreseeable future.

MrA you should know this by now.... Sperm or 5-1 is obsessed by Arsenal...

Barcelona may well have more members but that wasn't the point I made. Simple comprehension seems so difficult for you SIB. Still... ignorance (along with delusion and confusion) is probably safer territory for you.

anyway im off, ive got to prepare for 1000s of mancs coming to my bar next week, you know in the CL, you also ran muppets

at least we did run...

Better to have been CL also rans than uefa cup flops sperminbutter!!!!

Again comprehension problems I see. You queried the number of fans we had - I showed one measure which shows our fan base is one of the biggest in Europe. Not the biggest but one of the biggest and certainly more than the Souds. See it's simple when you think it through - no really it is...give it a try. To dare is to do!

why are people paying attention to this classic moron (a closet manc or chav)?

this thread is bout big mouth JT..why did we bother to argue with this clown??

Spudinhisbasement is the classic jealous hating sp*rs fan. The way he made up what make a big club without including league titles shows you this. Then he had the cheek to mention number of fans when they were giving away spud UEFA cup tickets at every school in north london, then he mentions money? Whats the spuds wage bill compared to the top 4?

According to the Sun, David Villa would like to play for us!

fellow gooners, a decent read, if u have not read this before http://espnstar.com/studio/columndetails.cmd?id=7037797

Hmm, you mean spudsinbatter is a hypocrite as well as an idiot?? SURELY NOT.

A hypocrite an idiot and spud. Nothing new there! Saddest thing is that his whole aim in life appears to be looking up at us and player hating! How sad!

Thats Ghetto talk Lew. Word

You lot are such hypocrites. When we fielded the first ever fully foreign team in the PL, we never heard the end of it from the gooners! And Villa will be at least £20 m. Is that the Arsenal way? Sort your lives out. There's one team in London. And their above you!

Yep, pretty much sums it up. Don't flatter yourself bumps.

@TLOZ: The same can be said for German players as well. There's barely any German players playing outside of Germany. Must mean the Bundesliga means more to them then?

Not so smug now are you JT?

may i ask whu arsenal and tottenham fans continuosly argue even when the topic of conversation does not involve both of them? Arsenal are a bigger team than arsenal and probably always will be. tottenham are very close to the 'big 4' but tbh i can only see these 4 getting stronger so for now they can consider themselves the best of the rest (along with everton and pompy...mayvbe villa) ps - thanks jaelle for noting the point to your fellow gooners that i was mearly responding to your post where yor mentioned "british" players. so in response to Goonerpaps.....you cant read, so surely that makes you the muppet....muppet!