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Pardew is a problem but he's a symptom not the cause. Sacking him might actually do more harm than good at this point, as we'd probably just end up with a) another one of Ashley's acquaintances who's willing to do what the job requires (probably just Joe Kinnear) b) a vaguely competent manager who would be smart enough to eventually realize that he doesn't need to work for complete lunatics, in which case we're back to the old revolving door of sackings and hires until we revert back to a). In a perverse way, as the club is currently constructed Pardew is the perfect manager for us.

Surely it can't be that Qatar is bribing key officials at various organizations to get their agenda through. I mean, they've never done anything like that before, right?

I've seen the "starts out shit but comes good, guess who wins again" story way too many times at this point to write him off. Do wish we had competition in that position though.

Sort of genuinely gutted about this now. He's been my single biggest source of entertainment this season so far.

Derby coinciding with "new manager bounce"

Might as well just take every corner short. Actually, if the prevalent statistical opinion is true, that's what every team should be doing to begin with.

The defending for the goals was poor but we approached the game with the right plan and just came up against an all around great performance from them, thoroughly deserved. Cisse and Debuchy obviously need dropping but we have flat out no alternatives whatsoever.

Don't suppose we can have any complaints. They defended very, very well and were clinical when we fucked up and gave them opportunities.

Fucking one of those days

I'm kind of pissed. Feel like this could have potentially been a 6-0 spanking before dodgy defending kicked the wind out of our sails

NBC showing the 0-3 highlights

Good on him for that I suppose.

Saw the match score. Thought surely it would be too good to be true. It wasn't

These bitches play some amazingly good hoofball

So much confidence, everyone just belting the fuck out of it

Unsure if this has been mentioned but apparently the 2015 Europa League winners will be getting a place in the CL group stages. Could be a massive help towards give teams an incentive to take it seriously.

Surely he's either a rapist or we won't be able to sign him permanently. We're not allowed to be happy.

Aye, but Ki will. Well, at least he's not in danger of scoring any goals

...what?

Sympathy to my American friends. At least Ji never plays

We're going to get smashed by Hull next week right? Karma, right?

Perhaps Ben Arfa's best game for us

We're... good at football

Arsenal can stay in the top 4 without arbitrarily large sums of money because they were already one of the largest and most successful clubs in England before the big money came in. Unfortunately, at this point I think mega money is a prerequisite for moving up from the lower tier and making top 4 consistently

I've always wondered how realistic is to measure a player's pace from the stands. Obviously if someone is repeatedly beating someone for pace that's a decent clue as to who is faster but depending on the situation that might have more to do with momentum or just shit defending than foot speed. I concede that some players are just so ridiculously fast or slow that it's visible, but I feel like that for the vast majority fans wouldn't be able to make an accurate assessment of how fast they are.