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I'd go with that too. Cabaye and Debuchy will be a real miss though. They bring so much energy and guile, along with the quality.

Happy Birthday Sir!

When we havent beaten them in a few decades

We're doing to well on the pitch. Something was bound to happen. But its still unbelievable.

He did struggle, but you could still see there was a player in there somewhere who could be top class given some time. Patience doesnt go hand in hand with modern football. Thankfully in this case we stuck with him.

I'd go with that. If it doesnt work we could always bring on Shola. I suspect Pards will do the opposite though, go with Shola and bring HBA on around the 65 min mark.

Yup, Santon and his costume man

Quite a few iirc.

The chosen one

I do too. Im just saying Arsenal have been the most consistent team so far this year. Everytime you think City and Chelsea have gotten their act together they drop points again. That City versus Arsenal game will be massive.

Aye I've been talking about his final passes a lot lately, brilliant to see him do it so well today.

Arsenal are going to run away with the title at this rate.

Well that was fucking brilliant! Great team performance, Debuchy and Tiote the stand outs probably. Best away result in my lifetime All of you claiming rights to starting match threads will do well to remember I started the one where we ended this 42 year win less streak

On Wednesday thankfully I had the alternative of watching it on Al Jazeera with arabic commentary, not a word of which I understood. Far more bearable.

Yup. This may sound weird to you guys of course but for me this fixture is the closest thing to a derby. Most football fans here are glory hunting ManU fans, no mackems in sight. So all the thrashings we've gotten there have been very little fun. There's not a fixture I'd like us to win more.

Really? I thought Everton were the better side overall and deserving of their victory.

He was a terrorist around the time Bin Laden was a freedom fighter wasnt he? A truly great man. Farewell, Madiba.

Bloody hell I meant in Man Utd context of course

Thats pretty much what I said too.

Just because all this fuss over starting the match thread is silly, and I havent made one in ages Anybody know if Cisse and Ben Arfa will be available for this? No Rooney, No RVP. Shite manager and shite form. If there was ever a time to finally win down there its this.

A lot of us have forgotten that if offered a top 10 finish at the start of the season we'd have happily taken it. There's still some stuff about Pardew that drives me crazy. And I've very little confidence in our coaching staff. But all in all they've done a good job so far this season. Of course the moment we get a few injuries, the wheels will come off and all the shortcomings of our squad exposed. All we can do is hope we get the sort of luck with injuries we did a couple of years back.

He's had to play a few different roles in some very difficult situations for us though. I think he can become a top quality premier league midfielder but he needs some work.

Webb needs shooting not sacking. Obertan is completely hopeless. Sammy cant be worse. Might as well let him have a go. We seem to be saying this every game but Sissoko's final ball is very often woeful. You'd be hopeful given his age he'd be able to work on it but with our coaching staff I dont know.

We lost to some average teams by pretty big margins when we finished 5th didnt we? Lets hope its an omen.