Premier League 8th-12th March Discussion Thread

Mexicanfey wrote:I'll save Wenger the trouble

The pitch is terrible, clubs have realised the only way stop us is to either kick us or prouduce a rubbishy pitch, there you go, done it for him.

Curbishley Out wrote:Angry and disgusted...what I've had to put up with and watch for the last 3 matches is awful. There is no pace, creativity, goals...nothing, absolutely nothing. The defence without Upson and Gabbidon is a shambles...

Curbishley needs to f@ck off now, three 4-0 defeats in a row (today being against hated rivals). He seemed to want to win over our fans by playing the attacking football we want, but then went back to his old 4-4-1-1 or 4-5-1 ways in the last two months. Absolute c**t.

We've gone from having the 5th best defence in the league to being on a -4 in the space of 8 days! Really am pissed off to the maximum and I just hope he gets sacked, as I'm sick of hearing the same things and the same excuses every fucking match...when it's clear there are big problems that everyone can see apart from that useless twat!

The thing that done it for me is that our last two games had been pathetic. The only two who had played well were Noble and Cole. So Curbishley drops Noble and Cole for todays match. Noble who is West Ham to the core and hates Tottenham. Cole who scored against them earlier in the season and was MOTM.

I just hope Slaven Bilic ends up in charge. He wants the job, and will be available in the summer.

kas wrote:

Wenger's comments are out of order though...it's understandable being frustrated, but if this wasn't a post-CL match I'm sure Arsenal would have found a way to win, esp. with their new (but still underused) avenue this year of a long ball to Adebayor. But a manager shouldn't be calling for things like "They should be banned from football" is stupid and probably worthy of a disrepute charge. Even in the Stamford Beach controversy of 2 seasons ago, I can't recall the manager Rijkaard making any comments about it.

shazlx wrote:

Sheffield gunner wrote:I can't agree with that Shazlx, the pitch was dreadful and obviously made life difficult, but the referee wasn't to blame. I personally didn't think Gilberto was too bad, but then I never expect much from him. Whether it was tiredness or whatever, we did not play well at all. Defence was mostly fine, but we offered very little going forward.

We had 3 easy chances to score if players made the right decisions. Of course not having a third AM taking pressure off Hleb and Cesc hurt us. We desperately need another wide player. If we win the PL this year it would probably be the most impressive considering the injuries and small squad. The invisibles had very little injuries.

Batigol! wrote:

kas wrote:

Wenger's comments are out of order though...it's understandable being frustrated, but if this wasn't a post-CL match I'm sure Arsenal would have found a way to win, esp. with their new (but still underused) avenue this year of a long ball to Adebayor. But a manager shouldn't be calling for things like "They should be banned from football" is stupid and probably worthy of a disrepute charge. Even in the Stamford Beach controversy of 2 seasons ago, I can't recall the manager Rijkaard making any comments about it.

What did Wenger say that was so out of order? He never said "They should be banned from Football."

kas wrote:

Batigol! wrote:

kas wrote:

Wenger's comments are out of order though...it's understandable being frustrated, but if this wasn't a post-CL match I'm sure Arsenal would have found a way to win, esp. with their new (but still underused) avenue this year of a long ball to Adebayor. But a manager shouldn't be calling for things like "They should be banned from football" is stupid and probably worthy of a disrepute charge. Even in the Stamford Beach controversy of 2 seasons ago, I can't recall the manager Rijkaard making any comments about it.

What did Wenger say that was so out of order? He never said "They should be banned from Football."

That was my mistake, I must have confused it with others' reactions I read about the match. I've edited it out of my post while you were replying.

But I mean in general that the overall tone of his comments was not appropriate, as it often tends to be after a poor result.

Parks lives wrote:

Mexicanfey wrote:I'll save Wenger the trouble

The pitch is terrible, clubs have realised the only way stop us is to either kick us or prouduce a rubbishy pitch, there you go, done it for him.

He said:

“I said recently that the pitch at Old Trafford wasn’t the best, but compared to this, it is fantastic.”

Raiphael wrote:

wrote: THE Football Association are to review Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson's comments about referee Martin Atkinson after his side's 1-0 defeat to Portsmouth in the FA Cup on Saturday.
Ferguson was also highly critical of referees general manager Keith Hackett for his apparent lack of action in dealing with underperforming officials.

"Managers get sacked because of things like that and he (Atkinson] is going to referee a game next week," said Ferguson after the quarter-final exit.

"I'm assessed as a manager, players are assessed, referees should be assessed properly by the right people. That performance should not be accepted by our game."

A spokesman for the FA said: "We are aware of the comments and will be giving them consideration."

Should any action be taken against Ferguson and he is found guilty he would be fined rather receive a touchline ban.

United were aggrieved that Atkinson failed to give a penalty for Sylvain Distin's challenge on Cristiano Ronaldo, but Portsmouth boss Harry Redknapp said: "I didn't think it (the challenge by Distin on Ronaldo] was a penalty. I don't think we made a bad tackle during the game.

"There was only one bad tackle – and that was made by a Manchester United player (Wayne Rooney was booked for a lunge at Niko Kranjcar]. I thought he (the referee] got it bang on. If it was a penalty I would be the first to say 'we got away with that one'.

"I think Ronaldo pushed (the ball] too far and I didn't see anything wrong with the challenge.

"Our penalty (Tomasz Kuszczak bringing down Milan Baros] was a banker penalty."

Cry Baby

110% wrote:

Rooney should have been off for that "tackle" even if he didn't make contact. For me it is the same as if he would have tried to punch him but missed. He launched himself at the player, but just missed. So manu should have been playing with 10 men.

Raiphael wrote:

110% wrote:

Rooney should have been off for that "tackle" even if he didn't make contact. For me it is the same as if he would have tried to punch him but missed. He launched himself at the player, but just missed. So manu should have been playing with 10 men.

I hope you’re not accusing the referee of being incompetent.

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