Team News: Spurs vs Arsenal

looks like you wont have to give anything Rocky... we are *****ed.

This is the worst Arsenal team I've seen in my time as a supporter. I've never been one to be too hysterical but Wenger has some serious questions to answer. I don't think he'll be here next season. How have we become this bad? This is just terrible.

gunnerkid107 - you're completely wrong; Wenger will be here next season. It's clearly a transitionary period for us, so I'm not getting too worked up about it, my expectations have been watered down considerably. We're missing Jack big time. You can't afford to carry people in these games and Rambo and Walcott have to deliver more. At least it's only 1-0, coz in the past we could have gone further behind quite quickly. Such a shame about our defensive injuries, could have really done with Song in there. I'd like us to play Song and Conquelin in midfield more often, esp away from home. I'd take a draw now.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not one of those people who want us to lose. I'd love a comeback here

Sagna off... Nightmare begins.

Almunia or Fabianski there? :))

Bring on the dribbling feckin hordes. What a clueless pile of cack.

Stop whining gunnerkjid... Seriously!

Rather sums us up. You just always know this team is gonna concede. I think we can say goodbye to 4th. Apart from his goal, Ramsey was clueless today. We're gonna lose many a game this season, coz this team just hasn't got the mental strength to defend as a unit. Awful mistake by goalie, but he kept us in the game before that.

Worst thing is sp*rs looked awful, a really average team there for the taking but noone had a clue how to go about it. Eunuchs the lot of em.

Oh dear gooners, we yids beat YOU AGAIN ..................

Too many Errors from Ramsey. No wonder he chose Arsenal instead of MU. He would have been slaughtered by Ferguson.

I'd usually have a witty retort for you Micky, but considering I just said the the Mrs "I can't remember the last time we beat Spurs" I'm just going to go and sit in a corner and rock backwards and forwards chanting Bruce Rioch's name.

No support for RvP at all.. He gotta be frustrated. 5 midfielders supporting one striker, but the services were poor.

Overall, decent team performance.. Only if we had a good player to take over Walcott's place...

Maybe we should consider playing Santos as a left winger.

15th place. Damn it

The edge may have been taken out of the (significance of the) NLD. Could it be the lower number of English players the teams can call on these days? Not sure what it is but you would have expected more of a fight being put up by the lads today. We live to fight another day; at least, it wasn't the drubbing the press would have had you believe it would be.

...For God's sake, we looked too scared to go for the equalizer; like we didn't trust ourselves to hold on to the scoreline, if we did. The side is shorn of all confidence and this is what must be improved upon; not so much the quality in the side.

I thought you were unlucky today and the result was not a fair reflection of the game. You still look a good side and will improve over the next few months I'm sure. Glad we won though, especially as that was one of our 3 worst perfromances this season!

Imagine the number of DVDs they are going to sell this time.

Is it not time to start worrying now? Based on the games played so far, we will lose more games. A win is so hard for Arsenal to achieve with this squad.

Well now that that's over u guys can carry on with telling the Yids how sheit ur lot are!!!

Forget about top 4. Forget about UCL for next season.

We've essentially undergone the footballing equivalent of having a heart transplant operation, trouble is we operated ourselves to save on medical bills and replaced the heart with a wheezy squeaky bicycle pump.

I am utterly sick of the sight of that spineless little ****** matthew, everything about him annoys the living shoite out of me even his half hearted timid little clapping winds me up. Marbles for testes.

Walcott worries me too. On his day, a threat and provider. When not on his game, very frustrating and a liability. Time to groom the Ox to gently grow into the position. I like Theo though, as a person only.

Hehehe, Niko. I like the heart transplant analogy; very apt.

I said i would be back to gloat. Well here i am. Not the performance we at Spurs expect but we still should have walloped you based on chances. That was as bad as you will see us play. The difference was and is, quality. COYS!

We can have no sp*rs related complaints HY true, we were beaten by a bog standard mid table outfit and it won't be the last time this season it happens, much as it won't be the last time this season you watch Adepaymore dawdling offside or Dewoe flattering to deceive, both have made careers out of it. Nope our complaints are solely Arsenal related, as we wonder just how it's been allowed to slip from the Invincibles to the unthinkables in the space of half a decade. Wenger must have buns of steel for those laurels he's been resting on so long not to****le.

Yeah p_r.i-c.kle is not a swear word is it?

You lot are going through a major overhaul we are now starting to show we are a top 4 side again ( its taken years but hey ;) ) Players are not content with just finishing in Champs league positions anymore the baron run of achieving nothing for the past 5-6 years has cost you dearly along with players moving on for the massive pay day!! and until wenger or the board decide to buy some top replacements for the quality you have lost then it will only get worse.

If Ade and Defoe flatter to deceive than what analogy would you use to describe messrs Gervinho, Walcott, Arshavin, Rosicky, Chamak...... As for bog standard your midfield and defence isn't exactly good anymore is it? I'm not gloating here I'm just saying that if were bog standard then you must be relegation candidates.

I'm not going to sugar coat it HY, you are bog standard and we are a clueless self destructive mess. All of the players you have mentioned are a s*****tstain on the club and I would at this moment in time gladly line them up against a wall after drinking several kegs of ale and spray every single one relentlessly with the warm contents of my heaving bladder. Hope that's answered you're question.

Your blessed with 1 of the best Keepers around, 2nd only to Hart, for age & potential. Today it was us who won despite not being at our best & it was you guys who had the better game. Does this mean the powers shifted ? Well not really, but we're gathering momentum & psychologically our belief is growing from strength to strength.

All this flannel about Wenger, he's an EXCELLENT Coach/Manager & he has run your Club superbly & will carry on doing so until HE calls time. Your hands were forced with Cesc & Nasri, although he HAS the money to rectify the 2 great players lost. Yossi & Arteta are excellent players, but today you seriously missed both Vermaelen & Wilshere.

Im not going to lie to you coz it feels SO sweet, does this victory & the fact we're making it a habit against you now makes it taste so much nicer. Our respect for Arsenal is still there obviously & always will be, however the fear factor (especially of playing better & loosing) is over. Its taken long enough but we're FINALLY getting back on track.

It won't take very much for the gears to change in your season, & people writing your CL position off this season do so prematurely, still I can see us chasing & pushing for 2nd & probably obtaining 3rd. Some will no doubt say Im delusional in thinking Spurs have come on that far, but we've been developing consistently under Harry. No longer are the Sky 4 the formidable type of fixtures that haunt us as of yesteryear, obviously we're yet to defeat Utd (a special credit must be awarded to the "officials" for this being the case !).

Keeping hold of Modric has been instrumental in our season & continued development, its still not 100% certain he'll still be with us from next season, but us achieving CL again would surely be something to make him re-think is decision to leave.

Anyway whilst us Spurs enjoy the next 2 weeks with a smile, rest assured we know your pain, or should that be "knew" your pain !

Nikolaijns thanks for the chit chat :) although i will say this Spurs are v.much NOT the "bog standard mid-table" side you stated finishing 5th 3 times and 4th in the past 6 seasons does not suggest it!! times have changed you are no longer a top 3 side and will not be near it now Man City have bought that place for the forseeable future and Chelsea are bankrolled by the greedy russian its going to be another rollercoaster season the great devide gets smaller when fighting for 4th were all in the mix!!

I'm sure many of you said the same about Bentley after his equally fortuitous strike neymar, Just goes to show - swallows, summers and all that.

we should of scored the same amount of goals as you do have points

where are all the plastic arsenal fans on from here, to many to name, gone hiding cant blame them really

we were there for the taking we were shocking even though we had and missed 4 1 v 1. but we stuck at it

No ones hiding 123... Just that we have better stuff to do than go to rival forums when we win..

..And that is just 7 games into the season; Spuds already awarding places. Mhmmm.

Why does someone have to be in pain to point out you are a very average bog standard side? Obviously I'm not happy about losing to average bog standard sides but it's a genuine view, that's the thing with you lot, you have no realistic objective middle ground you are either the worst team in the world or the bestest team ever in the history of spherical ball games. You are incapable of realising your true standing which is an upper mid table unspectacular bog standard side. I have stated my views on Arsenal above and it's not pretty but you, you're not top 3, you're only a top 4 if things go hideously knockers up for others. You're just an Everton really, a team that always used to finish behind the big boys, that nicked pts off them from time to time and even troubled the CL once but that's all you are and the sooner this is realised the sooner you can all get on with whatever passes for your lives :)

Tut tut Sajit! I swear I saw you bleating on Vital Spurs when your B team beat our C team in the carling cup last season! perhaps you,ve forgotten! ;-(, Hi Niko, me old sparring partner, good to see you holding the fort mate, well done!

oh ffs! the filters here are getting beyond a bleeding joke. Ok so you won't let me name a small furry critter native to N. America so I'll say Davy Crockett hat, sure I can still say Crock??? Fer fecks sake.

laters mate

Arse_end_Hole are in turmoil and I for one intend to enjoy every second of it.

Well you have to have something for entertainment now you can't shoot blicks eh cape town?

nikolaijns is a helm, and an embarrassment to this forum.

wussybwoy? Tough words from a man sat at a computer.

Which chin? The fact I can't differentiate is probably the reason why you're in the gym, yes?

Seriously did anyone expect a victory for us at the lane today? I was merely hoping that's all. I remember that a few weeks, someone said it was only 2 games in the new season and we can't criticize the team. We've been in this funk for far too long. As for the game, we flatter to deceive. The attack only works if RvP is on fire. The defence is always on the brink of leaking one. And we can't afford to groom any more Jenkinsons or Oxlades if we want to get something out of this season. Time to deliver.

No knobhead (ah it's a dream I don't even have to try) I didn't say Wenger should treat Deadly dull as ditchwater Clive like a tree, please read carefully I know it's hard for you but do try. I said Wenger had mistaken Deadly dull as ditchwater Clive for a tree such is his soporific air. I mean the man makes Shearer sound like Stephen Fry. He could find some extra money working in hospitals as anaesthetic such is his ability to send you to sleep. In short he's an easy bloke to overlook. Wenger was probably already back on the bus by the time Clive had finished his opening "Heellooo meee Cllliiive"

Sagna broken leg. All the best Bacary you are one of our defenders who can hold his head high. Perhaps the only one.

Oi, nikolaijns, I've been accused of a lot of things, but none of them is being mistaken for a tree or any other potted plant. For better or worse, I usually get people's attention. Hard for me to believe that either you or Obscene Whanker wouldn't notice me if you passed by. By the way, allow me to say that i'm sorry to see Sagna badly injured. Never like to see a player hurt like that. I was sickened by what happened to Ramsey a couple of years back. Hope Sagna recovers and can get back to the same level of play in a few months. There may be some political leaders I would wish ill, but no football player. Even if he wears a Gooner kit. Best of luck to Sagna in making a complete recovery.

"oh Arsene Wengers magic, he has a magic hat, he took 1 look at a P45 & he said I'm having that!"

Did Redknapp shake Boro Primorac's hand? That's what I want to know.

Did Boro Primorac offer his hand to Redknapp LD?

Nikolaijns you call em as you seem em, no bloddy bublewrapping the comments, and I agree completely with your overall assesment of Arsenal and Tottenham. At least at fan that does not keep rambling in wenger we trust, when he so obviously does not things under control.

I am no football manager but for me it has been blatantly obvious that this team can't compete and is vastly inferior to the previous side of Henry, Vieira etc... What's the point of having a great fancy stadium if you don't have players who can play? The team was built around Cesc and without him they don't know how to play. Even last season, we collapsed after Cesc's injury. Wilshere is too young to take Cesc's role and he's injured anyway. For years Cesc has carried us to 4th. The reason we couldn't be 1st was that the squad was not good enough around the true wold class midfield general he was. The league table doesn't lie. I am tired of Wenger saying he can't find players to add because he needs players of super super quality because his current players are so good. I am tired of him protecting his youngsters by saying that adding experienced players would be killing them. If they are good enough, they will come through. It's a natural law. We are not a football nursery. I am tired of paying one of the highest ticket prices in world football to watch a team that doesn't reflect the price, where is the value? What this team needs is players who know how to fight with heart and courage, players who won't tolerate defeat, not pampered millionaires. Come on Arsene, are you serious? By the way did you all see Armand Traore, this product of our famed academy, getting sent off last week? So dumb it was unreal.

Born&BredSpur,... if you see the number of spurs fan invade our forum.. it might put things into perspective.

Sajit, I will say that it bemuses me to see Spurs fans that post on here, but never on their own site, now that is strange! trouble is these NLDs are like a red rag to a bull to the victor and absolute hell to the loser, as you are no doubt now finding out, personally I wont come here goading, as it is merely one game which will soon be forgotten by the time the next one rolls around, PS Has anyone seen my brother in law, a gooner and normally a jovial Irishman, but I cant get through to him on his mobile! wonder whats wrong!!! ;-)