Bon soir.
Except it isn’t ‘bon’ is it? Fakinel.
And we genuinely ought to look at why we find ourselves having been thumped by them. Because thumped we were. We were winning 2-0. We looked like a home side that was assured about it’s business. Then we collapsed.
The half time whistle was an opportunity for us to regroup, rethink and restore. What we got in reality was a half cocked exercise in damage limitation and a fundamental lack of scope and imagination.
Elsewhere…the days of Bale listening to his naffin’ agent and thinking he’s Wales’ valley’s answer to Ronaldo are over. It’s a mess. It doesn’t work. It needs to be stopped. Today we lacked width and it really cost us. Really hurt us. The reality is his behaviour cost us. That son of a bitch needs to be tamed/managed for once and for all.
And Lennon. If Azza was on the bench …er, then why?
Elsewhere another lesson was learnt. Ledley King is done. To presume we can mount a challenge in the Barclays Premiership without a full on back four is surreal. I respect Ledley immensely but nect term we need to shop for a ‘another’ replacement.
I’m depressed by today because of all my words prior to the match the most chilling now are that it was ours to throw away. The come back by Arsenal up until half time was down to spirit and courage. Our collapse in the second half was down to Redschnapps.
Where was the width (that’s what she said). Where was the wit and imagination? I have been blasted for having a pop at Arry in this incredibly successful season, but can any of you tell me he genuinely got today right?
Arry has indeed worked his magic at Tottenham and I’m hugely appreciative. But I don’t have any sacred cows. Today was a monumental clusterfeck tactically and whilst I could put conceding 2 in the first half down to their ‘enthusiasm’, conceding another 3 in the second half points towards incompetence.
Disaster. At half time all was not lost, but we needed to get a grip. Yes, I would have brought on Sandro, but he played too far forward. Given how we were being outrun and overun at times, VDV was not the answer. Personally, would have brought on Lennon, he was only bright spot against Stevenage. In fact would have played him from the start. Also why wasn’t Bale providing more width. Second half midfield should have read- Parker/Sandro anchoring with Bale/Modric/Lennon. Saha was invisible at times, and Ledley didnt look fit even by his standards. Much as I love Ledley, at one point he looked like he was towing a caravan.
LOL, Looking like a home side? Rubbish, we were 2nd best from the start today, they were pumped up for it, we weren’t end of.
I just hope we don’t make the same mistake the english fa made. Offering a huge contract to a manager through fear of losing him. Then when you realise you were wrong you can’t afford to get rid of him. I just hope things take their natural course.
I agree; as well getting the tactics wrong, I thought they wanted it so much more than us. I thought we had put this type of performance behind us.
“I thought we had put this type of performance behind us”
Didn’t we all……
Well said sir
I’ve been worried for some time about the arrogance some players display,some players remind me of inept gangsters holding a pistol sideways because they think it looks cool,too much tippy tappy shit without no end result.
When I seen Sagna run into the net,grab the ball and sprint back to the halfway line,my heart sank.He showed more passion for his shirt in that instant than most of our players did in the full 90 minutes