Preview: Arsenal v Salford

Sounds like a bowel disorder of Tottenhamesque proportions!

See Gordon Mcqueen on SKY ?...he says that they are a better side than us and he doesn't think many if any players would get in the Utd team !!...Also Ferdinand and Evra are better than Gallas and Toure....hope that the Utd pair do the same marking as they did last time at the Emirates !!...Specially when crosses come in lol

I know what you mean. It's sometimes difficult to enjoy games like this as you get so wrapped up in the outcome. There are times when I just want the thing to be over and hope that the result has gone our way. The thought of sitting through 90+ agonising minutes when anything can happen is difficult to endure. Still, maybe we'll be 4 up in the first 10 minutes in which case I'll feel pretty relaxed and enjoy the game!

That's a lot of crap for no good reason big man. We will win 3-1. How did the other fat git break his ankle then?

I want to hear this story of simmys broken Ankle.

Dave - The only reason I managed to make it through the last home clash with Man Utd because some old gimmer plyed me with plenty of beer prior to, and after kick off!!!!!

Why thank you Merlin, there's almost as much crap in here as one of your Liverpool wind up articles ;)

http://www.dailymotion.com/popular/search/arsenal/video/x1wenv_harry-enfield-arsenal-vs-liverpool_fun someone mailed me this video ....check it out ...ITS HILARIOUS!

3 things that will happen in this game : A) Bad refereeing. B) A controversial decision caused by a dive from Manyoo Winger that will result in a goal. C ) Arsies will concede the first goal.

Kev, 1 thing tha will happen this season. Chelsea will not win the title!

an honest and well written article.... especially after a few drinks...

You know what kev, that all sounds far too familiar, and that we've heard that many times before :( God why is this taking so long......I just want it to be over.

all hail mr. mustchin...and wat an ordeal we r in for.........i dont think i got this tensed even for the cl final

Cant wait for this myself. Only an hour to go now.

Let the turtle run free baby, c'mon you gunnnnersss!!!!!, lets send their plazzy manc fans back to Kent in tears - like their talisman skippy the diving bubbling portugese ladyboy. ARSENAL ARSENAL ARSENAL ARSENAL ARSENAL ARSENAL

Bacon and egg sarnies downed, massive bottles of Stella chilled and ready to sink, tv on, COME ON YOU GUNNERS!!!

Cross out bad refereeing and Arsenal will concede the first goal. Now all we need is a CR dive. The Kevmeister gets it right again.

Yep you appear to be right on the button so far Kev......Howard Webb is the biggest **** on the earth.

We were actually a bit unlucky with that goal. Rooney's "shot" was never going in, Gallas OG for me. To be fair to United (cheating ******** Andersson aside) they have shut us out very well.

fabregaaaaaaaaaaassssssssssssssssssssss

I think we need to start games 1-0 down we seem to play better that way :P

WALLLLLCOTTTTTTTTTTTT

WHOOPS GALLAS SCORED oh well 2-2 :)

i just turned 10 yrs OLDER !!! i cant stop shaking !! we really r looking like champions...!!

Now we know that Niko turns into Tony Montana when he's drunk.

If the officials didn't give that goal I was prepared to fly to England and kick the crap out of all four of them! Van Der Sar's arse was touching the back mesh on the first shot across the line by Gallas...looked like it crossed the line two more times before they finally figured it out. I'd say that was a satisfying result...my heartrate is slowly starting to drop back to normal.

lOL Kev lad I'm just a lickle tired and emotional, don't blame the midday bottle of voddy, thats the easy way out ;)

and you really don't wanna see my not so little friend :0

The CC draw was this morning too and we have to go to Ewood park for the quarter finals. Liverpool travel to Stamford bridge.

Webb is fkin female genitalia, pure coward - grow some bastid sphericals you unflushed ferkin toilet

man that was a good game...if only we kept our concentration at the back, but a good draw anyway. The only negative is that we have let chelsea back into the race :(

Concentration at the back my *****i' arse, if only we had a keeper that could even be number 1 at the special olympics. He is a joke, how can a keeper playing for a team at the top of the PL not be able to save at the nesr post and not realise that Evra is much, much, much, much quicker than him? If we want to stay top of the PL we need to get this clown off the field quick. I'd play Lehamnn on mushrooms over that Eminem wannabe.

I guess we have to give credit to the officials. So much has been said about them but this time we have to take our hats off to them. A game changing decision in the dying minutes a top of the table clash isn't always easy to make.

I don't think Almunia was at fault for the first goal and the second goal was poor defending before poor goal keeping. But yes i agree we need a new goal keeper in January or start fabianski.

yet again the *****in ref cost us two points. we had a clear penalty on hleb in the first half, and hleb was clearly fouled by the **** brown in the build up to united's first goal. but great effort by the lads, what a comeback in the end..

but you tell me, wasn't it a foul on Hleb by Vidic. didnt he pull Hleb's shirt? and didn't Brown push Hleb in Rooney's first goal?

yohoo just got home from the pub...WOW now that was a game. the first goal was not almunias fault but on the second a called goal before ronaldo had the ball sorry but is drop him instantly he is not title winning material try fabianski if we have to.

Rocky he clearly pushed

Rocky he clearly pushed Hleb away. and what about Vidic pulling Hleb's shirt and bringing him down in the box? i'm so *****ed off right now..

It certainly was a penalty, no doubt about it. But in the lead to their first goal? Not for me. Football IS a contact sport and all Brown did was issue a good old fashioned shoulder charge, Hleb was moving so quickly he lost his feet. Not a foul.

and why did Arsene take off both Hleb and Rosicky off in the last ten minutes when the score was still 1-1. the win was clearly there for the taking, and he took off both the flair players and brought on Gilberto. and if that penalty was given, it would have been a totally different game with us leading so early..

Anyone else thought Rosicky looked disappointed when he got sent off? He didn't even thank the crowd. That scares me a little to be honest. He didn't have the best of games again.

I wouldn't look into it too much. He could possibly have wanted to leave on a high note but we were not winning he may have felt that he let the fans down.

I do worry about Tommy, he has so much to offer be seems to be the make way every game, he may get sick of it after so long. Still if we bring in Nasri he may be off anyway ;)

We all know Wenger will bring some one in later. But for the time being, he's better than Lehmann and we should stick by him.

Yeah I beleive Almunia is our weak link in the team. Still he should start ahead of Lehman. Lehman brings bad karma he is a disfunctional guit I don't care if he reaches the best of his game yet again I feel he should leave in January for what he said partially to make an example of him as the team is young they may try this stupidity if they realise it goes unpunished.

Talk about highs and lows... or lows and highs as the case may be... had a brilliant time with a load of Burmese Gooners in my local... thought for once that the game lived up to its hype for once, and it was good to see that the game was played with very little of the cynical gamesmanship that so often marred this fixture in the past. IMO we played the better football, though the mancs were awesome on the counter and defended superbly. In the end Id have to say a draw was a fair result, and other than a few niggley fouls that should have gone our way, the ref had a fairly decent game. MOTM is a tough call but i think Hleb takes it once again... All in all a great advert for the prem and a nail bitingley (?) good game....PS Ozi, soz mate I think you're being a tad harsh, I'd much rather have Manu in goal, but to each their own eh?

Little unfair re comments about Almunia. He did make a mess of the 2nd Utd goal, but you can't say he's let us down since taking over from Lehman this season. I was at the game today and Utd are a class act. The result was a fair reflection of the game, and it has shown me that we can compete with the best this season and a win next week in Champions League will give us the 'perfect start' to the season in my eyes.

I can't believe that some people are calling for a new keeper ??...are we going to need a new keeper everytime we concede a goal or two ? We are sitting at the top of the league - unbeaten - with a game in hand and talking about replacing the keeper !! If you were offered this pre-season would you have turned it down ? And if somebody told you we would go thirteen games undefeated with Almunia in goal to achieve that...would you have said we need a new keeper ??.....the mind boggles !!!

Blaming Almunia for either goal is over the top. There hasn't been anything in Fabianski's performances that mark him out yet as a better keeper and Lehmann has made more than one clear error in his appearances so far. United played a good game today but at this level whoever scores the first goal is going to be able to dictate the pattern of the game. We went out to win it in the second half but needed to be in a position to play them on the counter in the last 20 minutes. As we were still 'chasing' the game, though not behind, it suited their game plan and they are a good enough side to take advantage of it.

Gunners....I can understand the idea that we would always want to improve the team but I think that contemplating replacing Almunia at this stage of the season would be complete madness. There is fantastic spirit running right through the club and the team needs continuity......Ask our back-four if they fancy bedding in a new keeper this season......I can imagine the type of answer you would get....As long as the results keep going our way there is no need for any changes !

I was the game today. Great atmosphere but personally I feel more tension in these games against Man Utd tha any other side. Can't overstate just how important that equaliser is. And it was brilliant at the end singing to the United fans "we are top of league, say we are top of league!"

I thought Almunia was very poor today. He rushed out too many times for balls he just couldn't get & at one point in the 2nd half he would've definately given away a penalty had Evra not played a quick ball into the box just before he got clattered by Almunia. I'm just glad the linesman saw that goal at the end because everybody else missed it, including the ref!! Van Der Sar trying to make out it hadn't crossed the line at the end of the game was disgraceful!! Webb was poor again & the linesman who flagged Adebayor offside fairly early in the game when he was clean through must have been on drugs, because he was being played on by their right back & it wasn't a difficult decision, then there was Hleb who was clearly brought down after having his shirt pulled off him. All in all I can live with a draw but its disappointing that although this game was a much closer contest than the Liverpool game, we were very slightly the better side & yet again its only 1 point. If the match had been at OT I'd be a lot happier than I am, being at the Emirates I feel fed up, because you always want to win all home games against your big rivals!

Who got it all right? Who who who who who ? Who predicted everything correcttly ? Who who who who who....

yeesh. I am only just now back to 'almost' normal functioning levels. My head has been *****in killing me since the game. Beers last night, early beers and a high pressure match, shouting, and over exuberant celebrations do not sit well with me today.

I honestly thought we'd get turned over today, I've felt it for a number of weeks, what with the way the mancs had played themselves into form. But we played our good game, Hleb was again magnificent, Almunia less so. Befor etheir second goal, we had a warning of Evra making his late break into the area, and of Almunia rushing out unnecessarily from his goal to the same position where he was when the goal was conceded. Both went unheeded, which was disappointing to say the least. But the fighting spirit was there, so was the possession. All in all, a fair result, and I actually think Webb ended up having a fairly good game.

One other thing that REALLY fecked me off, was Anderson, going up to the ref and waving a imaginary yellow card to try and get cesc boked after a tackle. That kinda **** gets me seething, I hate it when one of our players does it, i hate when an opposition player does it. And my god he looks like an annoying little ****, no wonder he plays for manyoo...

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Well kev, you you you you you you didn't get it all right. You predicted Ronaldo would cheat by diving that will give a goal to Man Utd. Anyway, wow, you must be so proud of yourself to guess that there will be bad refereeing from a guy who's not performing well recently and as for Arsenal conceding, well, three things can happen either Arsenal scores first, Man scores first or no team scores. So the odds are 1 in 3 that you will guess right. You must be a gambling man. In that case, I will not play blackjack against you, in risk of losing all my money.

Great game to watch as a neutral. Could that last minute goal prove crucial come May?

Why the name Salford?