EPL 20th-22nd April

LEWIS! WHERE ARE YOU?



Possibly a pivotal weekend at the top, with two of the big 6 and 4 of the big 7 facing off as Bale goes to City and Rafa goes back to Anfield.

Fulham bent over, pre-lubed, for Chelsea in the week and Arsenal can all but secure a Champions League place with a win today.

Tottenham need to beat Man City in order to hand the title to Man Utd like the c**ts that they are, anything less will see them out of the hunt for a top 4 place, especially if they've rushed Bale back for this game and he inevitably gets injured again.

A win for Man City would allow Head of The Redbloods Rafa to safely throw away the points at Liverpool, thus securing his place as a Chelsea legend.

Everton are wasting their time and just getting in everyone's way.

Man Utd will beat Villa with a 99th minute offside handball owngoal from a foul throw.

Relegation will probably be a 2, 4 or 6 horse race, with the bottom 6 becoming the bottom 4, or the bottom 8. I said bottom

Gotta love these Sunderland shirts

Di Caniooooo! wrote:Gotta love these Sunderland shirts

They should make the most of it, Sunderland wins over Newcastle are about as rare as Alan Smith hattricks.

E.S.PeNis reporting Arsenal as having 90% possession in the first 10 minutes.

Andre Marriner thinks they can do better, and sends off Sidwell. Looked to me that he pulled out the red card by accident, went to put it back and then realised he would look stupid so sent Sidwell off!

Straight red card for Sidwell against Arsenal after only 13 minutes. I haven't seen the incident, but it sounds like he lunged in with his studs up and went over the ball. Haven't seen any complaints about the decision.

edit: Here it is - http://arsenalist.com/m/iQZn8GzbJgHG0

West Ham 1-0 Wigan, Jarvis sends in a cross and no one touches it. I'd hate it if Wigan go down, I like Martinez, would rather see AV down.

Sheffield gunner wrote:Straight red card for Sidwell against Arsenal after only 13 minutes. I haven't seen the incident, but it sounds like he lunged in with his studs up and went over the ball. Haven't seen any complaints about the decision.

edit: Here it is - http://arsenalist.com/m/iQZn8GzbJgHG0

Ouch!

Giroud hits the post (RVP would have scored). Fulham are coping well considering, if anything they look more like scoring.

Di Caniooooo! wrote:West Ham 1-0 Wigan, Jarvis sends in a cross and no one touches it. I'd hate it if Wigan go down, I like Martinez, would rather see AV down.

Wigan are a scummy club, i'm rooting for West Ham today.

Arsenal are playing poorly. They've actually got worse since Fulham had a man sent off; the tempo is slow, passing careless and half the team can't be bothered to track back. They need a kick up the arse and to start concentrating.

edit: Or a Mertesacker goal - that will do nicely as well!

Stoke Arsenal lead Fulham. Pace merchant Walcott with a deep freekick, Koscielny heads across goal to Mertesacker.

Sunderland 1-0 Everton

Stoke and Sunderland lead. Not looking good for Villa and Wigan.

I see Ex Arsenal player and fan Sidwell was red carded after 11minutes. Looks almost like he tried his best to get sent off. What a coincidence

Disco Benny wrote:I see Ex Arsenal player and fan Sidwell was red carded after 11minutes. Looks almost like he tried his best to get sent off. What a coincidence

This lovely weather must have gone to Sidwell's ginger head. Crazy challenge.

Disco Benny wrote:I see Ex Arsenal player and fan Sidwell was red carded after 11minutes. Looks almost like he tried his best to get sent off. What a coincidence

I see ex Tottenham manager and potato Martin Jol is trying to stop Arsenal from winning. What a coincidence.

I feel another rant boiling deep within me. It's like the planets align each time when Arsenal need that bit of fortune that helps them over the line. I will refrain from going all Puro about conspiracies, but the 5th richest club in the World sure does seem to get some breaks when needed. No way 10 men Fulham are getting back into this one now.

Calm down. The red may have been slightly harsh but that's it. He dove in with two feet, one of which was above Arteta's ankle.

National Glennographic wrote:

Disco Benny wrote:I see Ex Arsenal player and fan Sidwell was red carded after 11minutes. Looks almost like he tried his best to get sent off. What a coincidence

I see ex Tottenham manager and potato Martin Jol is trying to stop Arsenal from winning. What a coincidence.

Jol smothered his copious Dutch love juice all over Wengers team in the pre match press conference. Fulham also had one of their best away performances of the season against us at WHL. Jol is no yid. Levy hung him out to dry and it rightly cut deep. Potato head will not do us any favours. Plus he is Dutch, and they are backstabbers by nature.

Awful performance!

Little or no pressure on the ball, distance between our most forward player and our last defender too big(making it easier for Fulham to counter), not making use of the width but instead trying to play through a congested centre - must say not having true attacking fullbacks has been a handicap for us -, players too static, ball not moving fast enough, too sloppy in possession.

Fortunately we scored the goal at the right time, things should be much easier in the 2nd half. Wanna see Wilshere, Poldi and the Ox on at some point in the 2nd half.

Disco Benny wrote:I feel another rant boiling deep within me. It's like the planets align each time when Arsenal need that bit of fortune that helps them over the line. I will refrain from going all Puro about conspiracies, but the 5th richest club in the World sure does seem to get some breaks when needed. No way 10 men Fulham are getting back into this one now.

it was an orange card, but Sidwell didn't need to make a tackle like that on the halfway line. I still think the referee had planned to give him a yellow, but took out the red by mistake and didn't want to look foolish. At one point he looked as though he was going to put it back in his pocket and appeared to be looking for his yellow.

He hasn't shown anyone a yellow in the first half, so perhaps he forgot it. Enoh has been begging for one but Marriner keeps having a quiet word with him.

Hlebagone wrote:Calm down. The red may have been slightly harsh but that's it. He dove in with two feet, one of which was above Arteta's ankle.

It was a red. However I think you've missed the conspiracy flag I hoisted what I believed to be nice and high.

You probably didn't see it. Typical Wengerite

They put three past us at the Emirates as well.

This game isn't over yet. We've been careless throughout the first half and Fulham have been dangerous on the break. You'd expect Arsenal to put the game beyond them, but it's no certainty.

Disco Benny wrote:I feel another rant boiling deep within me. It's like the planets align each time when Arsenal need that bit of fortune that helps them over the line. I will refrain from going all Puro about conspiracies, but the 5th richest club in the World sure does seem to get some breaks when needed. No way 10 men Fulham are getting back into this one now.

Like Gibson staying on after a 2nd bookable offence the other night, right?

Trust QPR to ruin everyones Stoke relegation party.

The Professor wrote:

Disco Benny wrote:I feel another rant boiling deep within me. It's like the planets align each time when Arsenal need that bit of fortune that helps them over the line. I will refrain from going all Puro about conspiracies, but the 5th richest club in the World sure does seem to get some breaks when needed. No way 10 men Fulham are getting back into this one now.

Like Gibson staying on after a 2nd bookable offence the other night, right?

Everton play like a club with 10men anyway, wouldn't have made a difference. If anything, Moyes' bulging frog eyes would have defied physics even further and popped out of their sockets, causing his side to play even harder out of sheer panic and fear. You would have lost 1-0. The ref did you a favour as usual. It's all one big fix. Kroenke is a reptilian being who owns a training top with the initials NWO emblazoned on it. I think the evidence is remarkably clear

Disco Benny wrote:

Hlebagone wrote:Calm down. The red may have been slightly harsh but that's it. He dove in with two feet, one of which was above Arteta's ankle.

It was a red. However I think you've missed the conspiracy flag I hoisted what I believed to be nice and high.

You probably didn't see it. Typical Wengerite

Well I thought you might still be a bit raw over Marton Fulop's performance on the final day of last year. Added to today, there are two pieces of compelling evidence for a CONSPIRACY THEORY.

Should have been a few up at half time, now WBA are all over us. And I don't like to complain about officials but the ref is clearly a homer.

Hlebagone wrote:

Disco Benny wrote:

Hlebagone wrote:Calm down. The red may have been slightly harsh but that's it. He dove in with two feet, one of which was above Arteta's ankle.

It was a red. However I think you've missed the conspiracy flag I hoisted what I believed to be nice and high.

You probably didn't see it. Typical Wengerite

Well I thought you might still be a bit raw over Marton Fulop's performance on the final day of last year. Added to today, there are two pieces of compelling evidence for a CONSPIRACY THEORY.

And lasagne gate. And the FA (an ex board member of whom also a deeply influential ex Arsenal chairmen) courting Redknapp then suddenly dropping him all during the crucial period of the season. And lasagne gate. And the recent Norwich game. And lasagne gate. The evidence continues to mount. Open your eyes sheeple!

1-1. We've been phenomenally poor this 2nd half.