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Rumor: http://www.oleole.com/media/main/images/member_photos/group1/subgrp270/201011arsenalkit_364113.jpg

A true one indeed.

Would definitely be looking in the direction of Wigan and Portsmouth for some cheap(ish) buys if we're promoted.

Love hearing stuff like this.

This is another good point. You don't become the dickhead "superfan" until you use the fact that you're at SJP every week to try and win an argument on a messageboard against someone who doesn't have the means/ability to get to the matches every week. It's more about the way you use the fact that you're able to be at SJP and that you know more because of it that pulls any "superfan" assholeness into question.

I'm glad someone has made a thread about this because it's something I've actually thought about making a thread on myself. My gripe with the whole "I know more because I see them live every week" is that in fact, you're getting a more well rounded watching experience by seeing a match on TV. You get the added benefit of replays, multiple angles, etc... How many times has someone's review of a contentious moment of a match started with "from where I sit it looked like..." and it be totally wrong? Would I much rather be at a match? Of course. Watching sports live is how it was meant to be watched. Does it make me a better fan or know more about players just because I see them in the flesh? Definitely not.

What kind of trouble does one get into if they jump on the pitch in a mass pitch "invasion" like tonight and get caught?

Did really well today. Took one of their forwards out in pretty rough fashion right before they got subbed.

Get your reason out of here!

Wasn't great from the start today but really came into the game in the second half when, admittedly, the rest of the squad did too.

In the end it has to be this. Would've loved 3 points but after being 2-0 down you have to settle for a point.

I love that you can clearly the line of dudes in the banana suits in the crowd.

Loads of guys not catching the bus back tonight too.

FUCK YES

wind in the sails and all that. let's get another lads.

Routledge and Jonas on the opposite flanks =

Yep. Only Kadar thinks about his U12 times it seems. The U12 thing was just to emphasize that it's something you're taught from a very young age to do and I don't see a lot of it at the top level. A nice dipping shot or one that skirts on the deck is a great opportunity to score from distance when the ground is wet like it is.

Why don't more players try and take shots from outside the box when it's raining like this? You learn that when you're playing for the U12s. Rain = Shots

Is one of the commentators on Sky Sports Australian?

Really short on confidence, and as a striker myself I feel bad for the guy.

I think we'll sneak a goal or two in in the last 20 minutes or so. There's no way these guys can keep this intensity against us.

Could really use half-time right now. Re-adjust our tactics and get a better game plan to combat their "five" at the back.

This. That was smooth as you'd like.

Looks as though we've really pushed Enrique up on the left side and had Simpson come more central. Jonas is playing really central as well.

That's discouraging from Best.