Arsenal Banter

26 Feb 2021 07:39:02
{Ed's Note - Ed001 has posted a new article entitled, Review Of The Day 26th February 2021

26 Feb 2021 07:28:06
Good morning everyone, dug ourselves out of that hole last night. Tierney was and is immense and Saka to beautifully laid on goals for Auba. But it has to be said for long periods of the match our build up play was awful. Slow, slow, pass, pass, slow. It just seems to me that we have to be in a backs to the wall situation before Arteta takes the shackles off (that's me Victor Meldrew moan) .
But them last 15 minutes, is what I love about our club. We have in the 57 years I been following them have we ever ever done things the easy way
COYG!

25 Feb 2021 22:14:33
Can someone explain why we are happy to take risks in and around our own box, playing out from the back even when the other team is pressing, or sideways passes right across the pitch, or a CB trying a cheeky back hill etc, and yet when we get into the oppos final 3rd we become completely risk averse? Time and again players were running in behind the Benfica defensive line tonight and every time the ball went backwards instead. We have it completely wrong. The one place you can afford to take risks and not worry about losing the ball and yet we do the opposite.

26 Feb 2021 03:30:04
I’m with you, I’ve watched us do this for weeks, it’s crazy.

26 Feb 2021 10:19:48
We took a risk taking a corner look how that turned out lol.

25 Feb 2021 21:18:33
We do not deserve Bukayo Saka.

25 Feb 2021 21:30:19
Come on IG mate, let's not turn ourselves into self depriving lovers of misery by denying worthiness of any pleasure and happiness.
Even Arsenal fans deserve something to feel good about mate 😎.

25 Feb 2021 21:35:14
Who does?

25 Feb 2021 22:00:11
To be fair I thought he was poor tonight but nice to have someone who can play that poorly and still deliver a killer pass like that. If only the other bunch of halfwits we employ as playing staff could do the same!

25 Feb 2021 22:10:46
We do deserve him because of all the time and money we have invested in home

Do we deserve to keep him?

25 Feb 2021 22:23:15
The boy is 19 years old and looks the most mature person on the pitch. Build the team around him. This was his 5th game in 20 days and he looked knackered but he comes with the goods. He should be rested well before the NLD.

Shout out to KT for giving us that jolt.

25 Feb 2021 22:28:44
Agree with you mate Ox, I genuinely hope that Arteta a good enough proposition for talents like Saka to stay. Such players are rare. I don't remember the last time I saw such a young boy deliver so consistently.

And G62 mate I'm just fan girling on how good this guy is. Arsenal has taught me to be comfortable with misery but certainly not in love with it yet 🤣. No more joy in celebrating your own little boy coming up the ranks.

25 Feb 2021 22:50:07
Does a unicorn deserve to keep its horn?

I've gone all Eric Cantona haven't I 🦄.

25 Feb 2021 23:06:56
Him not home lol

In saying that we’ve probably purchased a house for him.

25 Feb 2021 23:11:00
I think that's up to him Oxfordshire.

25 Feb 2021 23:50:42
Of course we deserve him, we have turned him into the player he is today. The real question is, will we still deserve him in a year when he's in the top 5 players in the league and we haven't surrounded him with talent?

26 Feb 2021 03:32:24
He’s fast closing in on that top 5 spot, there aren’t many better, I bet there are clubs looking at him right now.

26 Feb 2021 07:49:40
It might be Sally BUT you start to show players ambition and they will stay, win things and they are very well rewarded . So it’s up to the Club, ultimately they will make the players mind up for them and then the decision is a no brainier.

25 Feb 2021 20:14:23
I have a feeling we're going to get Villareal in the next round!

25 Feb 2021 20:20:12
Utd or the toot please.

25 Feb 2021 21:40:17
Leicester for me, Oh.

25 Feb 2021 22:26:43
A bye please.

25 Feb 2021 20:07:30
Ridiculous how people blame arteta for 1 players mistake 😂 come on really might not be your choice of manager but really 🤦‍♂️.

25 Feb 2021 20:17:32
The team is so slow. We're 2-1 down and he brings willian on when we have pepe laca and martinelli on the bench? And don't even get me started on bellerin starting every game when he's awful.

25 Feb 2021 20:30:07
Completely agree Olber. I’m not Arteta out but his selections and subs are certainly questionable.

ESR is wasted out wide too, his drifting and off the ball play is one of his best attributes, play him to his strengths at least.

25 Feb 2021 20:44:24
I also thought odegaard was really poor. Offered nothing and he should of made way instead of esr.

25 Feb 2021 22:09:09
Tierney Saka ERS Martinelli are the stars of our awful season

Martinelli seems to have been frozen out for some strange reason and ERS who makes everything click and without we couldn't create any chances are all has turned into Artetas version of George obsession of subbing Merse.

25 Feb 2021 20:04:20
Well done boss.

25 Feb 2021 20:17:12
Haha- who's going to take the bait.

25 Feb 2021 20:42:55
Mikel is the right man for the job, you only have to ask any Chelsea fans any United fans any Spurs fans and all Barnet fans they all agree give Arteta another 10 years at Arsenal, Barnet fans are looking forward to the twice yearly North London Derbys should Mikel be given enough time to make it happen 😃😃😅.

25 Feb 2021 20:57:38
Ahh good old Barnet

I worked for Stan Flashman in the early 80s.

25 Feb 2021 21:25:59
I was trying to think of his name when I wrote Barnet Mark mate, good old days when real life characters became mini celebrities 🖒.

25 Feb 2021 21:33:37
He was a 100% lunatic mate

He argued with me about the price and then went to pay me twice.

He would get you a ticket for a trip to space.

25 Feb 2021 22:27:34
Like I say mate a proper real life character we see so few of now days, they are still about I'm sure!

They just aren't on trend or in vogue at the mo mo sweetie💋.

25 Feb 2021 19:21:40
Nice one dani cost us two goals and probably the game. we need two goals and he brings willan on unbelievable.

{Ed014's Note - that didn’t age well 🤣🤣

26 Feb 2021 10:21:51
Proved wrong there LOL. but still don’t understand how willan gets on in front of martinelli every game.