The Banter Thread

Cosimo · 20 Oct 2013 at 13:27

"“He sits where he wants, Jose Mourinho ......."

Derek W · 20 Oct 2013 at 19:23

Anyone watching BT Sport? One of the studio guys gave James Richardson the international hand signal for coffee beans

and has now been kicked out of the studio!

elmuzzy66. · 20 Oct 2013 at 19:27

Coffee beans signal?

Derek W · 20 Oct 2013 at 19:50

elmuzzy66. said:
Coffee beans signal?

You're a year younger than me. Think of the the nescafe coffee adverts where the actors shake the beans in their hand. That type of hand signal

robfosters · 20 Oct 2013 at 19:52

Didn't Ginola do this a couple of days ago to Jake Humphrey?

Cosimo · 21 Oct 2013 at 11:35

One day someone is going to get badly hurt.

CliffyG · 21 Oct 2013 at 12:13

Diaby out till March now, who would have thunk it......

Walcott will be another 2 weeks.

Yas786 · 21 Oct 2013 at 12:27

CliffyG said:
Diaby out till March now, who would have thunk it......

Walcott will be another 2 weeks.

Time to put that donkey to pasture, dont think he will ever get fit enough to play a full season.

Derek W · 21 Oct 2013 at 13:23

Cosimo said:
One day someone is going to get badly hurt.

Folk have already died because of flares, albeit not in this country. There was a bit in a BBC article this morning.

drunkenmaster · 21 Oct 2013 at 13:50

CliffyG said:
Diaby out till March now, who would have thunk it......

Walcott will be another 2 weeks.

THe troubling thing is how crap Diaby is at his very best... outside of two goals against Portsmouth who were utterly awful at the time I can't think of another good performance he's put in. Lots of running with the ball well, till asked to pass or think on his feet at which point he loses it. Nasty tackler, crap defensively, his best goal in recent years was for Utd rather than against Utd.

I'm still very worried based on previous history of it, that Wenger will push Walcott right back into the first team so the longer he's out and the better the team gels when all playing great pass and move football the harder it will be for Wenger to just shove that useless little pratt back into the team. Hopefully every couple of weeks his return gets pushed back a couple weeks.

We'll have given him somewhere between 15-20mil by the end of this season, Diaby that is, to do almost nothing. It was clear 4-5 years ago he'd never have a full season AND that he wasn't good enough.

Walcott... even worse, much higher transfer fee, higher wages and now on 100k a week

No mistake he's done WAY more than Diaby, though he's had very poor seasons in terms of injuries but some almost uninjured seasons as well. He's also scored and assisted a not awful amount, but he's still entirely useless.

Arsenal were winning games, with sporadically good attacking football at the start of the season, but in the last few games with everyone on the same page, playing the same way, the football has been an entirely different level with Walcott/Rosicky/Gnabry being involved.

G|mp · 22 Oct 2013 at 08:53

Great banter there, would read again.

Snax · 22 Oct 2013 at 09:33

G|mp said:
Great banter there, would read again.

Bitchy... But I lolled.

Also, at the Spurs match it looked to me like a smoke grenade was thrown not a flare... (Although the individuals who would throw either at a football match are beyond contempt)

Cosimo · 22 Oct 2013 at 10:01

G|mp said:
Great banter there, would read again.

Meow!

elmuzzy66. · 22 Oct 2013 at 11:12

Shamikebab · 22 Oct 2013 at 11:37

236 page team thread? Ban them all.

CliffyG · 22 Oct 2013 at 11:46

Makes a nice change from countless predicted Man United line-ups every week

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Shamikebab · 22 Oct 2013 at 12:03

At least they're in the right thread

Cosimo · 22 Oct 2013 at 12:10

Shamikebab said:
At least they're in the right thread

Just goes to prove that reading is a problem in North London.

Back on the pitch....

Ibrahimovic and Cavani having some fun:

Adam_101 · 22 Oct 2013 at 12:15

robfosters said:
Madrid fans must be in utter disbelief at all this. Barely seeing a minute of Bale in action, while Ozil continues to knock in goals and assists for club and country.

Was thinking that same thing! Glad we got Ozil, will only get better too! :cool:

Cosimo · 22 Oct 2013 at 13:13

Kasami's contender for goal of the season: