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So nervous. Bellamy and Carroll are both blatantly going to score

Had me before the part that said "Tomorrow (April 2nd)." I guess that was Dave's little safety wink.

PROBLEM MACKEMS?

Imagine if he could play like this consistently... A full season of that and I would have no sperm left at all.

We're fucked without Coloccini, but how amazing would it be to win this. 11 points ahead of Liverpool ffs

Oh, well, that high was good for the thirty minutes that it lasted

Pessimism

I fail to see how you ever peel him off the ball other than taking two steps back and wait for him to fuck it up himself.

I only saw the second half and we weren't entirely terrible, particularly towards the end. Ended up with 60% possession too, so we must've been fucking amazing first half if the second looks so bad in comparison

Neutral friend who was watching the Wolves match remarked after Cisse's goal "fuck, that guy was born to put the ball into the back of the net" . Can only echo those sentiments after the finish today

Shola looks unplayable

Similar thing happened over here last season. Player was unconscious for over 50 days but ultimately pulled through. Obviously his career is over, but he's alive and walking. Was quite the story and I hope there's a similar happy ending for Fabrice Muamba as well. God bless.

Going to be in-flight for this. Ugh, why couldn't it have been on a saturday

I think it's somewhere in the old thread

Just to add on to this, the deal Arsenal had with Monaco was apparently a 3m initial fee with an add-on of 9m if Park could at any point get out of his national service. So Arsenal are about to fork up an extra 9 million Euros. For a player who never plays

Park Chu-Young has acquired a 10-year residency permit from the Principality of Monaco, which allows him to delay his military service until the expiry of his reidency provided he does not live or work in the Republic of Korea during that period. All we need to do now is get him the fuck out of Arsenal.

Not a single piece of analysis on the actual game

http://espn.go.com/sports/soccer/story/_/id/7661034/fc-basel-korean-contingent-form-bond-their-north-south-divide-michael-agovino FC Basel are the only club in Europe to employ both a South Korean and a North Korean player. It's a pretty interesting story.

It's a crapshot either way. I would've been angry if we hadn't at least made an attempt to score in what looked like the last possession of the game. Pardew was probably the most gutted out of anyone when he saw us concede. Made a gamble that didn't pay off.

Did about as well as you could expect any center back in the league to do against Van Persie at the moment. Just unfortunate to have been responsible for goals conceded two weeks in a row when he was already on his way to scapegoat-ville.

Because we were committing players forward in a well-meaning attempt to win the game. Which would be all well and good, except for the fact that Simpson decided to be retarded with the throw-in. Just an all-around terrible loss of concentration.

Central midfield was ripped in half by Rosicky. Hoof ball in the second half ended up being more of a result than a cause. We were willing to play it on the floor in the first half but it became too tempting to revert to type when it became evident that Cabaye was completing about as many passes as Rosicky was misplacing. (i.e., two.) Our game relies too much on our central midfielders because a. they're our best players, and b. we have no wing threat. The games we've played badly this season are the games where Cabaye or Tiote have been in bad form or have been up against players who are just better. We were always going to struggle mightily against an on-form Arsenal.

I have to go to work now. Worst day ever.

Ugh. This is going to be such a terrible week.

"Going for it" on that last play was exactly why we got caught on the counter. Not that it matters.