Hernandez cant play out wide so will never be put there, Rooney though we know can play out wide and do it effectively even if it isn't his desired position. Couple his attitude with being put out wide in recent weeks with the whole transfer saga earlier in the season it wouldn't surprise me if we shipped him out in the summer
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Hernandez cant play out wide so will never be put there, Rooney though we know can play out wide and do it effectively even if it isn't his desired position. Couple his attitude with being put out wide in recent weeks with the whole transfer saga earlier in the season it wouldn't surprise me if we shipped him out in the summer
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oh ffs blackpool. i was giving it large to a couple of united supporting mates
That'll teach you, always wait until the final whistle
H'mm how many players in the Blackpool first team? 33 squad players highest earns 10k a week, I bet the whole squad earns around what Wayne Rooney earns in a week.
70 minutes played was it and 2-0 up, pity they didn't hold on, would have been a memorable night.
70 minutes played was it and 2-0 up, pity they didn't hold on, would have been a memorable night.
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It was a memorable night! Exciting come back and ten flipping mins of added on time! Most I've ever seen, wonder what the EPL record is
When Evra was bleeding, wasn't really a foul, Adam got the ball and his shoulder? clipped Evra, fergie claiming it was intentional elbow to the face was hilarious, although i guess any manager would.
Blackpool had a fair few chances, still would have been interesting with them 3-0 up.
EPL:
11 minutes 2 seconds Stoke City vs Tottenham Hotspur 19 October 2008.
But the most in English League's was Brentford vs Bristol in 2000/2001.
23 Minutes due to a broken leg, that was only the first half.
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Adam got the ball and his shoulder....so Evra having blood pouring out of his face was? coincidence?
The question mark was whether it was Adam's shoulder that caught Evra, not that Adam caught Evra's shoulder......I think.
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The Carling Cup worth winning when your side is still in it, eh?
No, still a worthless cup and frankly a big come down from 4 years ago.
I mentioned Spurs had a tough year with CL because they'll have a hard post xmas time due to fixture crowding. Theres a reason almost every season Arsenal screw up entirely in Feb, because we usually have CL, league, fa cup, and worthless cup semi's all meaning missed league games, which get crammed in.
Why is he so deluded, even 1-2 years ago we'd have had a lead in the first leg with a much weaker team, it was only 2 years ago Vela/Bendtner/Ramsey ripped a much stronger Sheffield Utd to pieces. Our first team is struggling in games our reserves would have won by a much larger distance and he's talking up our first team struggling as an improvement.
Anyway, Bendtner was brilliant tonight, wonder when the last time he started 2 games in a go was. Someone at Arsenal who can cross, and fully deserved an assist but instead the anti-rvp scoring magnetic crossbar prevented the goal yet again.
Bendtner rarely wasted the ball, was the only one with good delivery into the box, got back 3-4 times to cover at right back when Eboue/Sagna got caught upfield, defensively strong. On the wing barely put a pass wrong, the goal was just outstanding quality with every touch. Made loads of runs in the box dragging defenders away and realistically was ignored FAR to many times in favour of harder passes to RVP/Cesc.
RVP wasn't particularly good, passing wasn't quite there, finishing wasn't quite there. Cesc, again, incredibly shot shy throughout like many games recently. Had 3-4 golden chances to shoot in the first leg which he ignored and elected to pass, same tonight, good interplay for his goal. Why he's become so shot shy I don't know.
lol, Everton lads where meant to be going to Tenerife for a little break after the game against West ham for a couple of days to relax but get this... they didn't go because "the plane broke down". 
What the **** is going on at that club!?!
What the **** is going on at that club!?!To be fair, I can see where DM is coming from. With their squad, Arsenal should be competing for more than the Carling Cup.
It's quite scary how disjointed Arsenal look though if they lose Fabregas and RvP to injury at the same time. That's their biggest problem - they keep these two fit and they'll win trophies.
It's quite scary how disjointed Arsenal look though if they lose Fabregas and RvP to injury at the same time. That's their biggest problem - they keep these two fit and they'll win trophies.
Yeah but now the trip has been cancelled and apparently they sat around at Finch Farm for hours before they were told. Surely it wouldn't be hard for a football team to source another plane or flight.
Considering the lack of transfer activity maybe they couldnt afford to
Probably couldn't! That rumour is flying around at the moment... lol.
Any way... 17 year old putting Schalke into the semis of the Germany Cup...
East Stand Upper?
The same team that lost 2-0 at Burnley a couple of months later...
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6 years
6 years since we won something, it was only 3-4 years ago we started aiming lower and somehow calling this a positive thing, or thats Wengers take on it.
I can't remember when it was our reserve team with maybe 2-3 first team members in, maybe only one, thrashed Sheffield Utd 6-0, its one of the best performances Arsenal has produced in years. I think it was before xmas in the 08/09 season, it seems to long ago to have been 09/10 season but I could be wrong. But its 3-4 years now since Wenger and Arsenal started treating the Carling Cup a bit more seriously and completely looking like a weakened team compared to the invincibles. For a couple years after that we continued with mostly 4-4-2, playing mostly attacking football and not getting scared and throwing in so many first team players into the "lesser" games.
Not really, most teams can't compete in 4 cups, largely because late Jan/Feb and a bit of March become complete and utter mayhem. 5 years go we did come close in everything, now we don't have that squad. Diaby/Denilson/Song aren't good enough to drag a weakened team through a cup game, or drag a bench+reserve squad through a game against Wigan/West Ham/Brum. We can't really ever rest Fabregas as our system mostly relies on world class passes to play us in behind, without him the 4-5-1 looks an entire joke, which it is.
RVP is usually completely isolated and has been for 2 years(when fit) in this system. West Ham, Leeds, Wigan, before hand RVP was utter trash for 4-5 games, he scored 6 in 3 games against two of the bottom 3, and a championship side.
RVP is a great player, but 4-5-1 doesn't suit him in the slightest, it hasn't worked against any "big" teams and we won't win a "proper" cup playing like that.
Winning the carling cup literally won't mean anything, it won't mean a maturing squad, it won't mean experience, it won't mean we're closer to a CL cup, or a league win. If we played our strongest team in the carling cup every year for 6 years we'd probably have won it 3-4 times.
You can put the questionmark later in my sentance but basically wasn't sure if it was his shoulder that clipped his face or not, either way it was accidental and not a foul.
Also wasn't like it was a penalty decision.
In fairness when bpool were 2-0 up and that penalty wasn't given everyone knew what was happening after that