Wullie

Indeed. Someone must take the blame if we don't get what we need but I'm not so sure it's Ashley.

Owen's shot clearly deflects off Shola, indi. Not a lot but enough to take it away from the bottom corner Owen was aiming for.

At the end of the day, if the team were doing well and we'd spent £100m, no-one would care. It's just a stick to beat him with. I wouldn't enjoy sitting in the box alongside a bunch of boring corporate fuckers with no passion or interest in the game either. Good luck to him.

The one cameraman who was told to sit and watch Ashley for 90 minutes must have been pretty fucking bored.

He'd have had an assist if Ameobi hadn't been doing some last ditch Arsenal defending.

mate. honestly i'm pissed, but i'm so pissed off at the two lads who started on me at the match (supposed to be toon fans) for singing there's only one joey barton. so pissed off Oh were you at the match?

Wullie. Fuck the fuck off See? Not so difficult to post without including boasting that you attended a football match is it? prick. Gan to bed man.

Wullie. Fuck the fuck off See? Not so difficult to post without including boasting that you attended a football match is it?

Yes, Nobby. We get it. You were at the game. We get it. Give it a rest. Jesus wept.

The real question is why he had a pint - do they typically let you drink in the stands at the Emirates?

What the fuck was Warnock doing for that fourth goal? Grass is always greener I don't think.

Other than his failure to track Eboue for the second goal, which I hope he got a bollocking for, I felt quite sorry for Guthrie. Picked up the ball loads and had to keep skipping past players and playing one twos just to try and find someone in a bit of space. Butt desperately needs replacing before the window shuts.

Says who?

Not sold, he was released months ago.

All tomorrow.

I'd rather get hammered off Arsenal at the Emirates than at West Ham or at home to Pompey - I know which club will be in CRISIS in tomorrow's chip wrappers though.

Joey Barton: Dirty challenge was his only contribution.

Strange one.

Poor showing today but Arsenal were absolutely superb. Someone should take a sledgehammer to Ameobi's hip because he's a much worse player since that operation. I thought Michael Owen showed again today why he doesn't work as one of two strikers, especially away from home, he just doesn't have enough to his game in terms of pace or strength to contribute enough but works in that withdrawn role because he's got good control and good passing ability. That 4-3-3 is still where we'll see the best of him imo. I'm tempted to unban Shithead to ask him what DVD of Jonas he was watching. Superb again in difficult circumstances. I didn't hear the commentary in the pub but even the camera work from Setanta was disgracefully biased, particularly the quite blatantly pre-recorded footage of Ashley and his pint and the seventeen camera angles of Joey Barton SHAMEFULLY SMILING (Constable! Arrest this man!) after winning the ball was laughable.

AFC: Manuel Almunia, Bacary Sagna, Kolo Toure, William Gallas ©, Gael Clichy, Emmanuel Eboue, Denilson, Cesc Fabregas, Samir Nasri, Robin van Persie, Emmanuel Adebayor

That's not a bad side tbf. Shola to score the winner. I'd have him up front ahead of Smith every day and twice on Sundays.

1609: PENALTY SAVED 1608: PENALTY TO EVERTON 1605: PENALTY SAVED Robert Green gets down brilliantly low to his left to save Jason Roberts' spot-kick. 1605: PENALTY TO BLACKBURN