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He's not like, he's scored within the last twelve months.

We certainly had the rub of the green to get into that position and things weren't looking good at all on 40 minutes, but as I said earlier on you can only beat what's in front of you and we did that with aplomb, so good stuff. I'm watching MOTD and Shearer and Savage are both saying we were lucky to get all the decisions we did yesterday, not sure what their N-O usernames are but they're as manic-depressive Pardew-haters as anyone else on here going by the logic you're applying. Well if 'try too hard to be impartial' Shearer and 'wind up merchant' Savage said it how can anyone argue? I'd prefer to go on what I saw, neither of the sendings off were harsh and we could have had a few more decisions go our way but Atkinson basically felt sorry for them knowing there was no way back. Neither of the sendings off were harsh, but that doesn't change the fact that we were lucky to be playing Stoke on the day Whelan decided he wanted a bath after 40 minutes. You don't have to be a recipient of dodgy decisions to enjoy good fortune. When is anyone not lucky? That time Cabaye catches it just right, Krul dives at just the right time, the linesman gets the difficult decision spot on, the opposition players get sent off for stupid tackles etc.. How you've got the stones to call my post desperate and then follow up with shite like this, I'll never know. Good footballing technique and officiating is the same as an opposition player talking himself into getting sent off and us benefitting massively from it? Cracking stuff. Just give it up man. A team winning because the opposition gets someone rightly sent off being deemed as luck. Aye, right I'm the one full of shite you will find a hell of a lot more people agreeing with you on RTG fella, we are always lucky according to them. You're completely ignoring the context though (it's almost as if the score is the only thing that matters?). That Whelan sending off wasn't your normal run of the mill red card, and you know it. He actively got himself a red when it could have been avoided and it was a massive turning point in the game, a game which we were second best in up until that point. We were lucky it happened. I don't know how many different ways I/others can put across that point of view. You're not an idiot, I've read your posts for years so I know that. Just seems like you totally overreacted to my initial post and you haven't got the balls to admit it. Balls to admit what? We clearly have different interpretations to what luck is, to me it isn't the fact they made poor decisions. That is how most football games are won or lost. Luck is a freak course of action like the Sunderland beach ball thing I mentioned previously. You've said we were unlucky not to win against Southampton, which freak event do you put that down to then?

Tan must have gone through a thought process of "right, who's one of the only people in football that's a bigger cunt than I am?" if he's talking to that shitbag Solskjaer. Yes I'm still annoyed.

Aye, funny that.

Exactly. I suspect we'll see a situation like this soon where it looks miles over yet isn't, and everyone will then say the technology doesn't work properly.

Just because you can see the grass doesn't necessarily mean the whole ball is over.

CastrolEDGEfootball ‏@castrolfootball 58m Arsene Wenger (6297 days) has been in charge of Arsenal only 102 days fewer than the rest of the current Premier League managers combined I thought it would easily be longer than the rest combined tbh.

Merry fucking Christmas.

Hope all our members at home and abroad have a very Merry Christmas.

Debuchy outside Debenhams in Eldon Square ten minutes ago with his family, sporting a mighty mohican.

Even when he's got his results speaking for themselves he can't resist the opportunity to talk bollocks.

Fairly sure he took over in the second tier, ditto Hughton. I thought Steve Wigley but apparently he'd managed Aldershot. Another definite though - poor Terry Connor. (Don't mention the 2-2 )

Spurs have got 1 more point than this stage last season (although they were actually in that competition last season when they finished 5th, but we don't mention that), Swansea have got 3 less. Hardly a comprehensive result. He's certainly convinced me. We've got 13 more.

There's no way that's the full list. Sammy Lee for a start off the top of my head.

Yep. It's not necessarily that he's poor (he's not but when you're up against Aguero/Negredo and Suarez/Sturridge amongst your competitors...) but he is literally all they've got unless you count the Danish Shola. They can't mix it up at all. They should go for Ba. Also not good enough at that level. I maintain that we're his level. What does that even mean? The guy scored 13 goals in an utterly abysmal Newcastle team (by January). He would score for fun at Arsenal. Don't agree. Yes, we were poor, but we played with him as a focal point. It doesn't translate to goals at a higher level. Andy Johnson, Darren Bent, Yakubu are examples of players banging them in shit teams. It happens and means nothing imo. That's a fair argument but Ba is clearly on another level to those players. I'd bite my fingers off to have him back here, I genuinely think he's one of the best strikers in the league. Heard a Chelsea fan on 606 a couple of weeks ago say "... and Ba, who is never a Premiership player"

The elephant in the room is that he's got Adebayor playing and scoring. Let's see if he's still doing that in two months time. He turns his form on and off like a tap when it suits him, in terms of consistency he makes Viduka look like Frank Lampard.

Yep. It's not necessarily that he's poor (he's not but when you're up against Aguero/Negredo and Suarez/Sturridge amongst your competitors...) but he is literally all they've got unless you count the Danish Shola. They can't mix it up at all. They should go for Ba. Madness not pulling out all the stops for him in the summer when it was becoming obvious Mourinho wasn't interested.

One match. Having been turned over by West Ham at home when leading with ten to play.

Yep. It's not necessarily that he's poor (he's not but when you're up against Aguero/Negredo and Suarez/Sturridge amongst your competitors...) but he is literally all they've got unless you count the Danish Shola. They can't mix it up at all.

We couldn't. How come? 6 points off first. City and Liverpool play each other on Boxing Day, any result puts one of them on 37+ I know what you mean though.

We couldn't.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2528100/JAMIE-REDKNAPP-No-reason-Tim-Sherwood-Tottenham-boss.html :lol: WTF? It's not fair to not give an entirely unproven youth coach one of the top jobs in the country on the strength of no evidence at all. Jamie Redknapp, who used to run a business with Sherwood. That arsehole is basically an agent for his dad and his mates.

Had a neb on Glory Glory, fucking hell the Spurs fans absolutely hate him! Lush.

Surprised to see Spurs implementing the Ashley model of making a complete fucking hash of things.

And Sherwood's an Arsenal fan to boot.