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They're playing an utterly shite side who offer no threat and they've had a lot of fixtures lately. Don't see any reason why they should bust a gut if they're leading and Stoke can't kick a ball (and they really can't btw!) Cue equaliser.

Walcott injured.

Delap man! When the ball came back to him along the ground after a throw-in... didn't have a scooby what to do!

:lol: Good man.

Bad omens: The Enrique thread has prematurely turned into the Carroll thread! Poor Jose hasn't even got a mention on this page!

And they concede in the last minute. 2-2 FT.

Back Notts Forest on my main accy once shame on them, back Notts Forst on my main accy twice they're lazy twats that ought to pull their finger out second half

Adam made him look silly so he got forearm/elbow to the back of his head.

Dirty by Palacios.

Stop visiting on matchdays then

Evra extending his contract means Enrique may very well have one less suitor come summer time. [/finding the positives]

Fan-fucking-tastic. Any chance there's a high resolution copy of this knocking about?

They fashioned decent openings before then too, tbh.

Oh and aye, looked far more like fatigue than complacency IMO.

Could very well happen, yup. If Arsenal don't settle quickly enough, I can see it being like that Man Utd match they had a few years ago where they lost two early goals and never looked like coming back into it.

I must say Barcelona in midweek looked very vulnerable to some of Arsenal's more archetypal Premiership-style counter-attacking play. It was a perfect example of the confidence they show in the Premiership week-in, week-out but seem diffident about trying on such a sophisticated stage. Oddly enough, of all people, Theo Walcott (again!) had Maxwell shitting his pants a few times. Really can't wait for the second leg. If Wilshere and a few other star performers play like they can (and the Arsenal backline can remain fairly disciplined), I really think we'd have a cracker of a match and the best of clinical breakneck speed Premiership play triumphing over Barcelona football.

I've got popcorn. http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/9730/fsdfk.jpg I do see where Dresden is coming from and agree to an extent, though I think at times by virtue of being over-zealous or whatever,he perhaps hasn't communicated what he means as he'd have liked to perhaps?

No agenda with me, just addressing the simple argument - which was started by other people on here - about whether Williamson or Taylor are the better player. As you should well know, as an administrator, if there is an agenda concerning this subject on this foum, it's against Taylor, at least in part because so many have chosen to swallow the club's side of his contract "saga". That's the club run by liars. I've made my point re Colo many times (check if you want): he's a fantastic talent - as good a footballing defender as I've seen anywhere - but can be found wanting when met with serious pace and power. Is he our No 1 centre-half? Undoubtedly, and Taylor would be well off realising he will never be half the footballer Colo is. But, sorry, I won't turn a blind eye to Williamson's frailties, which have cost us goals and points against several teams other than Bolton, and - in my opinion - are more glaring than Taylor's. Mine's an opinion - an opinion voiced in a thread entitled Mike Williamson. If it was an agenda, I'd start off a whole new thread. Good post. Apologies for lumping you in with other posters who chime in with their rehashed restated boilerplate convictions irrespective of individual performances or, more egregiously, a series of individual performances. My bad though, seriously - this thread is particularly weighed down by such posters, but I was wrong to assume you were one of them. That said, I still can't agree with you about Williamson's shortcomings being more glaring than Taylor's. With so little evidence of Taylor's performance to go on from this season, I can see such a discussion becoming cyclical very quickly - but in the five full games Taylor played this season we conceded 10 goals. [i'm willing to accept that was his "come back" after a long time out, and much of it was paired alongside Sol Campbell against pretty decent opposition.] As my parting shot though, I will say that Taylor at centre-back makes me nervous - he's a hothead, often cheats and doesn't look as an intelligent a player as Williamson - who I think is learning from Colo and showing progress. Perhaps by virtue of all his injuries/time out, Taylor doesn't look to have matured significantly as a defender in his time here. So, without trying to forcibly change your opinion, for these reasons and those stated above for me I'd definitely rank Williamson over Colo - and I'd rate him high enough (relative to a club of our standing) not to bring in another first-choice centre back this summer either. The real world isn't fantasy football (Man City, Chelski etc aside) and realistically, even with a possible £35m war chest this summer - I'd much rather have the three or four signings we bring in be: LB cover CM 1st team CM cover CF 1st team

I know those stats place Williamson in a positive light but isn't Taylor's sample from this season based on, what, five or so games?

Colo and Williamson both got raped at Bolton without Tiote in front of them and the anonymous midfield inviting pressure on them time and time again, but by all means continue to single out the player you have an agenda against to suit the purposes of your argument.

Mm hm.