Congratulations to Birmingham

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Congrats to Stevie Carr and Birmingham.

Role on the next game.

The fact u wanted the Mickey Mouse Cup so badly made that loss even more sweeter. COYB!

ARSEnil - hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha another year of **** all

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This is exactly what the team has been afraid of - to be laughed at should they lose. Now fans show their true class. So will the team. Very interesting times ahead indeed.

Fair dues to Birmingham though. They gave a good account of themselves. Yo can't say we were robbed. In fact we were lucky not to have Chesney sent off in the first minute.

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Arsenal are also the most bitter hateful fans post Roman, they hate us and we hate them so i am LOVING this.

Boys, still lacking the required leadership through the spine of your team. You need a Keane/Vieira type plus a decent centre half and goalkeeper.

They were not unlucky, the better team won. Arsenal were lucky to not have their keeper sent off and be 1-0 down in the first minute.

There's been outbreak of illness in the Arsenal changing rooms. Apparently Szczesny isn't worried because he can't catch anything.

what a ***** poor goal to lose a cup final too, I was going to say hard luck but i dont think lady luck is THAT cruel. Tough loss and Congratulations to Birmingham they worked their socks off for that.

BREAKNG NEWS: WENGER SACKED BY TEXT. IT'S TRUE!!!!

Were any of those people frequenters of this website? Seems like an odd thing to do, berate strangers for the words of another set of completely different strangers? We'll have to swallow the taunts today but the good thing about being a Gooner is that you know the next final is never too far away and the opportunity to put it right. For every 2001 there's a 2005. Some clubs have to wait over 50 years between league titles and over 20 years between F.A. Cups.

The best thing about being a goner is that you always have a chance to put it right? Stop now, you're making a fool of yourself. You haven't won a trophy for years. Ramos and Redknapp have won more trophies than Wenger in the last five. In the recent period you've been overtaken by Chelsea, United have remained superior, and Spurs have made massive strides forward. City will be on another level, and today was just horrific for you, worse of the worst, and let's face it you've had a few of late. Another collapse. Another chance to laugh. :)

Little Dutch, don't worry its Leyton up next. You should beat them!

They are full of it mabbut, biggest mouths in the country.

It just seems like odd beahviour, I heard this set of Arsenal fans saying this, so I'm going to use it against you. I mean, I don't think all Americans are like George Bush if you get my meaning? You remember the ones you win more of course, but I still remember 2000, 2001, 2006, 2007. Losing finals is a by product of being in a lot of them. United have lost ten finals since 1981. TRH, I think you're the one making a fool of yourself. "Oh but United and Chelsea have done this and this and we've, errrm, well, we've made massive strides forward." Bless, those massive strides still have you 9 points behind us and out of both cups- conceding 4 to London rivals in two humiliating cup exits. Why not bring me a brass rubbing of your lot parading the league title last time you won it? Jesus, the last time you won a trophy of any significance, the nation was wearing global hypercolour tee shirts and Nevermind had only just come out.

"trophy of any significance" it would have been today if you're keeper could catch a ball, now its back to "we'll play our reserves".

soory meant all gooners

Arsene who?

You know, I came on this article to say well done to Birmingham but now I have only one thing to say to you Spudscum- no matter how disappointing today was, we Gooners always take heart on the fact, that even in a bad season, WE ARE ALWAYS AHEAD OF YOU TINYTOTTS. And if you want to compare the trophies and success of Arsene Wenger compared to those other two fly-by-nighters, just go right ahead you dolt.

julie chill babe

Spurs fans will laugh at any Arsenal misfortune. It makes their horrific plight of decades without winning a league title and having to stay in their Harringey squat just slightly easier to bear. Water off a duck's back these days.

Next thing you know Spurs will have a DVD out commemorating our loss. What a sorry bunch of muppets.

good idea wyn top seller i'm sure

Ma butt is legend, We don't even bother going on your site to take the mick anymore. Your team does it all for us.

Very well done, Brum. The story before this game was all about how many years Arsenal had gone without a trophy. Very few reckoned with just how long it's been for Brum. Very hard to swallow, but a big Congrats to Alex McLeish and the team.

Did anyone else notice the slap on the head that Koscielny received from a Birmingham player during their celebration of their winner? That wasn't very good to see.

Need to hope that RVP's injury isn't that bad, otherwise I really can't see much hope for us.

Little Dutch, i reconcile it with the loud mouth talk from all the Gunners i know personally and on all the websites. Arsenal fans definitely have the biggest mouths in the country but they don't like taking it back. My Mum takes banter on the verge of bullying at her work from a couple Arsenal fans that never even go to games, passengers, while my Mum has a season ticket. I have a lot more respect for Spuds fans that Gunners that's for sure, they are not nearly as bitter over our past success than your lot.

Are you ready to see someone say that your club's supporters are all internet trolls who over-generalise, failing to realise they only meet a small part of a club's population of fans, while riding the pseudo high horse and waving their season tickets?

Jackstan I hope you find my above hypothetical post annoying. Generalisation usually is.

The generalisation is accurate Lou, Arsenal fans are loud mouths, they like dishing it out but they don't like getting it back. It's not a pseudo high horse Lou, it just annoys me when 'fans' that never even go to games and only decided to support their chosen club because it's a big club, run their mouths off. If u haven't worked out my club yet then you're slower than i thought. Enjoy the rest of your weekend :)

Jackstan is a Chelsea supporter Lou. He's feeling a little sensitive of late and doesn't want to mock the spuddies lest they come back to haunt him if they fail to make a CL spot.

I was gonna say, chin up Gooners, it could have been worse: it could've been like the Liverpool or Chelsea situation. lol Anyway, 3 fronts, we're still fighting on 3 fronts and have no time to waste on petty convos.

A little bit of toughness perhaps. Just listened to Merson on TV, he says similiar, wants a new centre half. Easy with hindsight. Good night gents.

Merson talks clichéd rubbish. Always has. Lack of toughness wasn't a problem in this game either.

lifeisagooner, the joke is on your club, everyone witnessed that catastrophe today. To see Arsenal fans/players so devastated over the Mickey Mouse Cup makes it hilarious. 6 years and counting...

Surely you're confusing Eboue with Drogba aren't you? At least we agree on Merson but then he's a chav supporter so no great surprise there. The mickey mouse is disappointing but not devastating. It would be far more disappointing if the Mancs turn your lot over on Tuesday.

lol, jackstan uttering the word respect in one of his previous post. He would not know the meaning of it. Almost all if not all his posts are full of hate and spite. A bit sad.

jackstan, for once I agree with you. To see wilshere cry & arsenal players standing on the pitch after the loos, it shows how desperate they were. From day one, Arsenal went for carling cup, fielding almost the first XI to defeat us at lane and then game after game fielding the best possible XI against PL teams. Losing is normal, but the way Arsenal looses or draws game from winning position is truly pathetic & they are absolute chokers.

Jack Wilshere is born and bred Arsenal. Any loss hurts like hell. And to lose a cup final in that way has to hurt. It happens but there's better days ahead for us and Jack. He plays on the left, He plays on the right, Our boy Jack Wilshere, Made Barca look ******

I suppose Cesc did not go up first did he? Priceless...

How sad are those Spuds? They've dedicated a whole article to pretending to be Birmingham. You couldn't make it up.

jlyid, its okay mate. We know we have to take the cr@p coming our way. Doesn't mean we have to lie down and say nothing though, does it? Birmingham deserved their victory yesterday. No question. It takes more than skill and finesse to win silverware, as our lot really need to learn.

Lady luck didn’t really go our way either. That ball could have gone anywhere but went straight to Martins. At that stage of the game, Birimingham were holding on I felt. I don’t think they won the final; we gifted it them. I’m sick and tired of hearing our fans vindictively picking on individual players as soon as a result doesn’t go our way like some are with Kos and Szcesney. Both are quality players and the Szcesney especially will be one of the best. I also don’t buy this crap that the likes of Hansen and Lawrenson come up with about us missing leaders. Liverpool have the leadership of Gerrard and Carragher and Chelsea have Terry et al; hasn’t got them very far this season has it. I’m so glad that the internet has given rise to sites such as these and other Arsenal blogs coz the media is just useless and these so-called pundits know and have done sod-all. We have to try and turn this into a positive by fuelling our desire even more to go and achieve something this season. Normally, you’d play a final at the season end, but with this still being February we can still go on to great things this season – depending on how we react. This reaction will really show us the real character of this team. Oh and the injuries to key players.

Agree wholeheartedly that the internet gives a chance for real perspective beyond the footballing media's need to find something to say just because they have to say something. Then again there're plenty of people on the internet capable of not saying anything worthwhile too. It's a knockout game and as we've found many times in the past and doubtless will do in the future almost anything can happen in the course of 90 minutes that sometimes will go for and sometimes against us. We weren't outplayed, out thought or beaten by greater prowess or tactical nous we quite simply fecked up. It's disappointing but it happens. There're always other competitions, other matches, other seasons. As long as we are continuing to compete then the ball will run for us at times as well.

To be honest I had no intention of replying to the guff being posted on our site by the spuds, but pretending to be Birmingham for the day is priceless, even by their standards.

Fulham 4-0 no Arsenal posts on VS, Blackpool 3-1 no Arsenal posts on VS, Arsenal lose to Birmingham a whole article on VS. Obviously we expect banter, it comes with the territory when supporting a football team but that's just sad.

"We weren't outplayed, out thought or beaten by greater prowess or tactical nous we quite simply fecked up" Amos, we weren't outplayed, but we were surely beaten by better tactical nous. To think of it, it's rather because of a complete lack of tactical nous in our manager.

We registered 20 shots on goal, which suggests we weren't tactically out-thought at all. We couldn't score and then made a monumental error in the 89th minute. Tempting as it is to pontificate otherwise, it really is as simple as that.

Rosicky wasn't the problem which is one of the reasons why he played the full 90. He isn't Cesc - few people are but he kept working, kept possession and kept trying to find an opening. Nasri central and Rosicky on the flanks you'd find at various points throughout the game. Diaby wouldn't have helped with the creative balance but he might have been a better choice than Song. It's hard to see just what he is on the pitch for in games like this.

History records everything, every victory and defeat. If it didn't nobody would know that the spuds haven't won a title in half a century or that we've won so many more trophies than they have. But it is just history - as yesterday's game is now too.

sorry u right Amos... My bad, no person cares who finishes 2nd... History will always remember u lost...

I know Wenger employs the "Put the ball in the net" tactic. I have no problem with that. But playing Rosicky in the middle wasn't the brightest idea to be honest. Owing to his injuries, he has not gained the confidence or the strength yet to command the midfield and that too in our most important yet. I also noticed that Wilshere was heavily marked yesterday. Pushing Nasri in midfield alongside Wilshere would have been the perfect idea. Because then even if they mark Wilshere, Nasri could take responsibilty and threaten them. I think Wilshere's influence on the game was limited due to them marking him that tightly.

That may or not be the case, but we should still congratulate them. They deserve to enjoy the moment, and I'm sure the history books and their fans will not forget.