Weekend Football 15th-16th Jan

Martin Jol is being touted as well.
Cant see either of them making any kind of difference before the end of the season.
Its out of order to sack him, He has a lot of injuries and no money to spend but expect O'Neil or Jol to do better.
 
Keep in mind Bridge has barely played in a couple years. If he actually gets a run without being injured he might show some form, Arsenal did very little down the left and ran him ragged but the game was almost always going to turn out like that.

West Ham have been improved in the past several games results wise, but performances have been good throughout the season but for a lot of bad luck.

THing is, you wouldn't expect a results against Arsenal in the best of circumstances, when the day before your most influencial leader, best player and strongest midfield player drops out injured morale will dip to ridiculous lows, then when the night before/morning of the game its been pretty much let out that he's to be fired pretty much right after the game, all hope is long gone at that point.

Absolute sabotage throughout the season by the Gold/Sulli, they screwed Zola, they've screwed Grant. O'neill might stand up to them, they'll give in and stop being such pratts or he'll just walk.
 
Aye got to feel so much of the pressure/negativity is from that board they are clowns.

Didn't they call the game against West Brom a little while back "Save our season" day? some other rubbish like it.

Parker and Noble been out for ages, Dyer came back for a bit but I'm guessing hes injured again??

To be missing Parker, Noble come off within 15/20mins and Piqieone (sp) out as well another blow.

No idea how they expect him to do anything when nothing goes their way.
 
16 players injured. Yes, 16!

From last season, where we just avoided relegation, there was one change in player within todays 18. Wayne Bridge, other than that all of the players were already with us.

It's just not good enough tbh, it's too easy to sack the manager when things go wrong. The board need to take some responsibility too.
 
Arsenal's first XI is awesome, Nasri, Van Persie and Fabregas are devastating together, fantastic understanding of each others game. Really hope these players stay fit, they're vital to the good league form at the minute
 
Looking forward to the United Spuds game tomorrow. Happy seeing any result. Presume Spurs will roll over and take it up the rear but if they dont anything is a win.
 
I really want spurs to win partly cause i dislike UTD and prefer spurs anyway. But as i said to my UTD supporting mates yesterday,UTD have the better defense, Spurs have the better midfield imo and attack is a toss up.

More importantly we really need to beat Everton tommorow if Konchesky/Poulsen dont play im sure we stand a pretty good chance.
 
Spurs will bottle it like they normally do, it would be nice if they won though because Man UTD are running away with the title.
 
I really don't know where Spurs fans/players/manager get the impression the title is within reach, Chelsea just went 2 points above them despite, in the past 12 games getting 3 wins, 5 losses, barely scoring, yet have still conceded 6 less and scoring 7 more than Spurs.

Honestly I can't believe that with that woeful form if Utd won their two games in hand they'd only be 12 points ahead. Chelsea are only 5 behind Arsenal and 2 ahead of Spurs, the top 5(including Spurs) should be basically out of sight of Chelsea they way they've played.

As for Arsenal's starting 11 being awesome, Djourou quite literally looked like a drunk retard today, did another ridiculous "i'm gonna protect the ball in a stupid position" thing and was literally stumbling around all over the pitch.

We played bottom of the league, on their worst game of the season, at the single best time to catch them. Nasri, while he passed a lot almost everything he did in the final 3rd was a failure, he wasn't particularly involved, West Ham's midfield rarely closed down and everything to the final 3rd was basically handed to us on a platter.

Van Persie at least looked good for a change, though seriously, why the freekicks and corners. Has he not hit the wall from a freekick in the past year? He's rubbish at freekicks these days, and this obsession with short corners to Fabregas, of which almost every last one is a huge failure.

Theo almost looked like a footballer, but did so many daft things still its unbelievable. Fabregas looks right back to form, but it wouldn't have been hard today.

I don't know if Grant didn't care, or the team didn't care, but they played entirely the wrong setup, and didn't change it. They just didn't turn up today at all.
 
drunkenmaster said:
I really don't know where Spurs fans/players/manager get the impression the title is within reach, Chelsea just went 2 points above them despite, in the past 12 games getting 3 wins, 5 losses, barely scoring, yet have still conceded 6 less and scoring 7 more than Spurs.
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Probably the same way Arsenal fans thinking they can win the league this season. No team is setting the league alight, and Spurs have just as much chance as any of the others of winning it, they won't, but a win tomorrow and we go back above Chelsea, who are above us having played a game more.

As for Arsenal's starting 11 being awesome, Djourou quite literally looked like a drunk retard today, did another ridiculous "i'm gonna protect the ball in a stupid position" thing and was literally stumbling around all over the pitch.

We played bottom of the league, on their worst game of the season, at the single best time to catch them. Nasri, while he passed a lot almost everything he did in the final 3rd was a failure, he wasn't particularly involved, West Ham's midfield rarely closed down and everything to the final 3rd was basically handed to us on a platter.

Van Persie at least looked good for a change, though seriously, why the freekicks and corners. Has he not hit the wall from a freekick in the past year? He's rubbish at freekicks these days, and this obsession with short corners to Fabregas, of which almost every last one is a huge failure.

Theo almost looked like a footballer, but did so many daft things still its unbelievable. Fabregas looks right back to form, but it wouldn't have been hard today.

I don't know if Grant didn't care, or the team didn't care, but they played entirely the wrong setup, and didn't change it. They just didn't turn up today at all.
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Agree with what you say about Theo, had a pretty good game, but I still don't know if that was partly because West Ham were woeful. Grant appeared to have given up, but then again, with all the papers reporting that O'Neill was getting his job regardless of what he did today, would you try?
 
I actually think a defeat could be good for us. Would be nice to get this "unbeaten" crap out of the way, it can only lead to complacency. A defeat might cause us to step up our game a bit, we've been barely out of first gear for months.


Saying that I still hope we win obviously :p
 
mmj_uk said:
Spurs will bottle it like they normally do, it would be nice if they won though because Man UTD are running away with the title.
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I believe the last 2 games against United the referee has dictated a large part of the games outcome. I wouldn't say Spurs were bottlers against the big teams this season. Liverpool, Man City, Chelsea have all been to WHL this season and not won, and Spurs went to Arsenal, were 2-0 down at half time and completely outplayed yet won the game.

United aren't playing anywhere near their best at present, and Spurs are very good at home at the moment - if United don't turn it on I can see a Spurs win, but it's usually this time of year that United do wake up. Regardless, should be a cracking game.
 
I can see spurs getting at least a draw from tomorrows game . They're a different side at home and players like VDV and Bale are in top form!

2-2 or a late 3-2 win to spurs.
 
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