Well That Was A Statement!

I never saw that one coming. I saw Arsenal winning, as I stated on the BS build up, but never in a million years thought they would implode like they did. Great result gooners. You've got a decent starting det of fixtures as well. Could look good until after Christmas, then we'll see how the pressure holds. Gonna be a cracking season.

Vermaelen was the MOTM, but Song a close second. great result. Still need a backup to Song and Denilson, there is literally nobody else.

Not even Adebayor scoring on his debut could ruin this :D

http://www.manchestercity.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=164419 Oh dear (I wouldn't have mentioned this but it was one of the search results that came up when I was searching for this site).

Best collective performance for a good few years. Everybody worked their nuts off, well proud! Its all about consistency though, we have set our standard and laid down our marker.

awesome performance! but it is only one game.

Tom, just how happy were you when Denilson scored that goal?! I thought of you as soon as I wiped my eyes in disbelief! ;-)

Well done lads but a season lasts 38 games!

well that was a fluke then!?!? :o))))

Iceman, summed it up nicely, we have set our standard and laid down a marker.........Consistency is now the key........ Merlin stating the obvious as usual........

Shearer very dismisive of our performance on match of the day "they didnt have to do anything to win" Just bcos doing nothing and trying to win was your philosophy at St James park alan doesnt mean it ours!

Did make me laugh The whole Gladwys street (what was left of it anyway), chanting "who the ******** hell are you" after we scored our goal and "We want 2". Possibly the best reaction to a goal by a set of fans of a team 5 goals behind.

How predictable. Match of the Day don't give Arsenal any credit and blame it all on Everton. Now if that was Rooney or Gerrard that had scored the goals that Denilson and Fabregas did, all you would have heard was "oh typical Gerrard" or "sheer class by Rooney". What a bunch of absolute twerps, it would be SO good to win the PL and see their f&%king faces!

Gooner_Vin, I expected nothing less off them tossers, i was actually amazed that we were first game....That doesnt happen often........ It makes all the so called experts feel stupid,but it is only one game and we have to keep our feet grounded, but hopefully that will shut them up for a few weeks

could not watch the game,could not believe the result I heard until I logged in now. Fantastic,now what?do we still need new players???? Believe in the team like Wenger says.We have to maintain these momentum and keep shutting up all the so called pundits.Damn I hate those f#*kers.

*I like them. Please believe me, I am NOT like them! I repeat, I am NOT a huge blabbering tw*t!

Everton made you look good, Don't get carried away with the thought that evrey team you meet will have a defence as awful as that.

Thank you Alex Song. You showed me at Goodison yesterday something that I never thought you had. Intelligence. Your passing, positioning, awareness of those around you and filling in when Gallas joined the attack, all very intelligent. More of the same please, on a regular basis and you will save me from suicide and AW from spending £15 mill. TV5 well in mate ! I could not believe what I was seeing at times, and a couple of Everton fans in front of me summed it all up as they were leaving the ground. " They were on a different f***ing planet to us ". PS. Did anyone count the number of nutmegs in the build up to our 4th goal ? I counted three and surely that must be a record.

Boll*x to MOTD and any numpties who claim this is a fluke. 1) Arsenal can rip any team in the world to pieces when the mood is on them. 2) If any one of the other top 4 teams scored 6 yesterday, it would have been "all bets off" for the title winners. And can I just remind everyone, this was David Moyes's Everton we we playing yesterday, not a dopey team just up from the Championship. Give Arsenal some credit. Maybe Everton looked so bad because the Gunners made them so. Alan Shearer, why should anyone listern to him? 8-game saviour? That worked, didn't it? Roy Keane was so right. Fluke? This was no fluke. There are going to be some new a**seholes torn for a good few other teams this season. The gloves are off.

Absalutly terrible result, we scored 6 goals and tore the home team to shreds in their own backyard. I feel so sorry for Hansen and Shearer, they deserved better than this. agree about the man of the match but the rest of the midfield was also fantastic.

There seemed to be a good balance in the team yesterday and the 4-3-3 formation, and players being used there, seemed to work. Denilson and Song give us some defensive solidity and Fabregas can still influence the game going forward whilst doing his share of midfield work. Gallas and Vermaelen were also very, very good. So that quartet of Gallas, Vermaelen, Song and Denilson, can perhaps give us that defensive shield. And if the wide players like Arshavin, Walcott, Eboue etc can drop back and give further protection, it would be even better.

It's quite typical of the press to publish every single match report with glowing reviews of Cesc and Cesc only, ignoring the great work from Song, Den, Verm and RvP (who provided 2 assists didn't he). Also they're blaming the poor Everton performance squarely on Joleon Lescott. I love the press lol... Also, I know it's a goal that changed nothing but the scoreline, and the press dismissively called it a tap-in (okay fair enough). But I was so so happy to see Eduardo's instinct of popping up in the perfect place at the perfect time is back at work! :)

FuiKaka, I was there on saturday and, like you, I didn't see the point in bringing on Eboue. There were 27 minutes remaining of a Premiership game that we were winning 4-0, away from home. Would Merida have benefited more from a half hour run out ? Gibbs, for a bit more match fitness and game time ? I don't see what Eboue gives us anyway, and I don't see what he will gain from 30 minutes at Everton. Apart from that, our football was breathking. Our 4th goal will live long in my memory.

I won't elaborate too much on the things said before, (great result, nice to see the goals spread around, great to see everyone working and the ball-to-AdeBarnDoor not being our only option) - I thought Song looked good (but not great), and Vermaelen looked quite good. I hope this team can grow another 30% as Wenger suggests (as they might win things if they do). But I'd still like to say - if any two of Gallas, Vermaelen, Song, Fab or Arshavin get injured - I think we will be found out. Now he's gotten rid of Toure, I suspect Senderos will be out the door in the last week of the transfer window - leaving Djourou and Silvestre (I'm not including Song because he's a DM and should be played there). Silvestre isn't good enough as 2nd choice. It's a shame Wenger didn't go for Bassong (in my opinion). He'd do well to pick up another CD and DM before the window closes (I don't know why he didn't demand Micah Richards or better yet, Vincent Kompany as part-exchange with Man Al-Citeh). I though Bendter did an ok job out wide, but seriously - if he wanted to play that side vs Barca, Chelsea, Man Utd, Pool, or any of the pack-the-midfield sides we will undoubtedly come up against on a wet, windy night in the Northeast, Bendtner won't know which way is up. I know Nasri will probably end up taking that spot, so why not just play Nik up top, with van Persie wide right (as per Holland) so he can cut in on onto his left peg ?

He's just simply giving his opinion, which is our entitled right and the point of this website :) I have to say tho that i wouldn't be starting Bedtner at all. My from 3 would go : Arsh - Eduardo - RVP. Midfield would be hard to choose because you wouldn't wanna drop Denilson or Song after they performances they both put in against Everton, but then were does Nasri go? Or Rosicky for that matter if he gets fit? And then what about Theo? ...wait a minute, we're spoilt for choice! This is what ManU must feel like?

And far be it from me to question his, or anyone's right to hold and ventilate their opinions. I'm just tired of all the negativities I come accross on our sites, when its obvious or should be obvious, that we are in a good position. Ol red nose knew this when he started the mind games earlier than usual, our glass is not half empty, its almost full. A man is paid to do the job, he has done better than most in the years he's been here and we all need to get real with our expectations and criticisms, its getting pretty tedious.

EiNY, it is all if buts and maybe's with this negative lark.

Does smashing Everton 6-1 mean that we've won the Premership? Certainly not, no one hands out the medals in August. Does the manner of the win evoke some hope that the hitherto young team has come of age? It should. A manager can only plan based on objective and realistic expectations, no team in the upper tier of the English game has suffered the high injury rate that Arsenal has had to deal with in the last 4 years, and whilst we can all hope that we'll be luckier with injuries this season, I dare say that our bench and its quality can only be bettered by the like of Chelski. I'll love to see more cover, but the truth is that the man does not have the depth of purse enjoyed by Ancelotti and Hughes, and even those teams will be hard pressed to win anything if their teams have to endure the kind of injuries to key players that we have learnt to live with. ENY,cometh the hour, cometh the man. The manner of our victory tonight tells me some people might end up with eggs on their faces come May. Come on you Gooners!