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Just back from the Emirates
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paxtonwolf
Tony Marchi
You werent the only one, understandable though
funster
Danny Murphy
I went last season and fudging broke my ankle celebrating when the third went in! Spent an hour in their poxy medical room afterwards. Missed the Werder Bremen game as a result. First time I've seen us win at their gaff for..... fudge knows. A bloody long time.
Had tickets this time but couldn't go as was on a flight back into Heathrow. Got home to see us score from the pen, nearly half scared my (not yet) two-year-old daughter to death celebrating like a nutter, started unpacking, and then it all went tits-up. Gah.
I love how things shift so violently in the media though. At one stage it's all about Spurs being the best and most entertaining team going and the Goons being in the brickhole. One - admittedly horrible - dingdonging later, we're brick and they're gonna overhaul us. Tossers. Finish third or higher, and while the pain will be there from yesterday for a long time to come, finally getting back to being the top side in London will go some way towards easing it.
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paxtonwolf
Tony Marchi
Its each to their own I suppose. For me, circumstances dictate. Sometimes, people have legit reasons for going early. I find it strange that someone would leave early with the game still in the balance, but I personally can understand somebody wishing leave early in situations like yesterday.
There appeared to be no way back once that 5th went in, and believe me, plenty felt the same at that point. Being hit by coins from the stand above didnt help either (which is a phrase that can also be said of stewards too who werent bothered)
paxtonwolf
Tony Marchi
Hope you're right Funster. Next weekend could be a defining weekend in the battle to stay 3rd. Arsenal travelling to Anfield on the Saturday is probably a help this time, at least we will know where we stand before we take on United.
Hard to say whether playing United next has come at the right time, or wrong time.
I have sympathy for those at work today alongside their Arsenal work colleague, as a Northern monkey I dont have that problem.
That might come next week in a store full of City and United fans
Finney Is Back
Luka Modric
I would say that Man Utd has come at exactly the right time. The players owe us a performance after what they served up yesterday. With the exception of Walker not a singe player could hold his head up after yesterday's performance. It was clear that all over the pitch Arsenal wanted it more than we did and that should never have been the case.
Park Lane James
Andy Sinton
For me personally, I will stay until the very end unless I have to leave a game early in order to get home (which hasn't happened so far). I don't see it as a matter of 'oh I can't go on' - but a message to the players that I'll be there until the end supporting the team. I just don't think it sends out a good message to them if half the away end has ducked out because we're a few goals down. Watching us get spanked 5-2 makes beating them the next time around that much more sweeter. There's nothing better than a group of fans staying to support the club despite the scoreline - like Villa's not long ago when they shipped 7 at Chelsea!
I don't blame paxton or munz for going early, just my perspective on things.
Shocking result and performance. Even at 2-0 up we just looked so open it was unreal.
I left with 10 mins to go, personal choice. No one can dictate to me whether I should stay or not in those circumstances and No one can quantify the difference if any, that me staying to the end would have made. The performance was shambolic, against our biggest rivals, I had a headache and a bereavement in the family earlier in the day so I couldnt be bothered to stand there and watch us take more punishment before the wonderful journey home surrounded by smug gooners and got out early.
I left with 10 mins to go, personal choice. No one can dictate to me whether I should stay or not in those circumstances and No one can quantify the difference if any, that me staying to the end would have made. The performance was shambolic, against our biggest rivals, I had a headache and a bereavement in the family earlier in the day so I couldnt be bothered to stand there and watch us take more punishment before the wonderful journey home surrounded by smug gooners and got out early.
Jurgen the German
Erik Thorstvedt
Apparently United have never lost a game in the premier league after being 2-0 up.
braineclipse
Steve Sedgley
We're one of 7 (I think) teams that have never been relegated in the PL era, out of those 7 we have been one of the weaker ones for a good chunk of that. Same as the "who have conceded the most goals in the PL era" stat. Unfortunate, but not very relevant.
Jurgen the German
Erik Thorstvedt
Don't blame the ones who went to the game and left early. Leaving early and leaving early because your local rivals are giving you an absolute coating in their back garden are two entirely different things.
I rarely leave early. The last time I left before the end was Bolton away last season, as soon as the 3rd goal went in, that was it for me.
I rarely leave early. The last time I left before the end was Bolton away last season, as soon as the 3rd goal went in, that was it for me.
paxtonwolf
Tony Marchi
Yes I agree there.
We were at Bolton too, but for me the difference between that game and Sunday, was that, personally I could see a glimmer of hope in that game at the Reebok, indeed in the end we nearly salvaged an nunlikely draw, whereas Sunday it felt like there more chance of me pulling Louise Redknapp than a Spurs comeback
Its also not so bad when you know you're only down the road and not 200 miles away, so I can appreciate why you left the Bolton game early
Jurgen the German
Erik Thorstvedt
I think everyone gets to a stage eventually when your watching football live and enough is enough, no matter how dedicated you are. I remember when we lost 4-1 at home to Saudi Sportswashing Machine just after we won the carling cup, I had to leave before the end. There was a mass exodus from WHL pretty much when the 4th goal went in!
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Milenko Acimovic
I've got a friend who left early during the 4-4 game and missed all the fun, he vowed NEVER to leave early again... and to be fair, he stayed till the bitter end on Sunday, but at what point do you REALLY know it's all over?
...at 4-2 (during the 4-4 game) there were plenty who had long since given it up... in fact, word is that when Lennon equalised, the Spurs celebrations were loudest on the platform of the station than they were in the ground itself!!
My main problem with Sunday was that most of the players seemed to already have been beaten at HT... as I said at the time, forget the 1st half, we should start the 2nd as if it's 0-0 and we've held them resolutely... as soon as you start picking the pieces of HOW the 2-2 has been achieved, you're already beaten...
Had WE been 0-2 down (like last season) and clawed it back, we all know what can happen... as it was, every positive from last season's turn of events, turned into a negative because it was US who lost the 2-0 lead this time... THAT'S where Harry has to earn his dough and get into the players' heads to convince them it somehow DOESN'T have to end like it did... but unfortunately, he seemed the worst culprit by already having come out with his now reliable; "one of those days" quotes!
...at 4-2 (during the 4-4 game) there were plenty who had long since given it up... in fact, word is that when Lennon equalised, the Spurs celebrations were loudest on the platform of the station than they were in the ground itself!!
My main problem with Sunday was that most of the players seemed to already have been beaten at HT... as I said at the time, forget the 1st half, we should start the 2nd as if it's 0-0 and we've held them resolutely... as soon as you start picking the pieces of HOW the 2-2 has been achieved, you're already beaten...
Had WE been 0-2 down (like last season) and clawed it back, we all know what can happen... as it was, every positive from last season's turn of events, turned into a negative because it was US who lost the 2-0 lead this time... THAT'S where Harry has to earn his dough and get into the players' heads to convince them it somehow DOESN'T have to end like it did... but unfortunately, he seemed the worst culprit by already having come out with his now reliable; "one of those days" quotes!
Rorschach
Sonny Walters
Whatever Harry says publicly just take with a pinch of salt. He says whatever he thinks is needed to be said and there is no point over analysing it. Behind the words though Harry will have been absolutely gutted by this result as will the players. They know in their hearts that they have let the club and the fans down big time. This is one of the worst results in recent years and has made my top 5 poxy result bricklist easily.
There is no crumb of comfort to be drawn from this result. It was an absolute disaster in every conceivable way. If it was just the 3 points aginst some clogger team then I wouldn't be as bothered but there are other ramifications. We got spanked by our closest rival - this result will have galvinised Arsenal like no other - we were utterly outplayed and humiliated on the pitch which is unforgivable - our manager made many bad tactical decisions - the fudgers will be bragging about this for years - potential transfer targets may have doubts about signing. I could go on.
We need a result desperately against Man Utd this weekend or we'll be absorbed back into the pack in a few weekes and frankly I expect to loose against them.
Vent over....going to my happy place now.
There is no crumb of comfort to be drawn from this result. It was an absolute disaster in every conceivable way. If it was just the 3 points aginst some clogger team then I wouldn't be as bothered but there are other ramifications. We got spanked by our closest rival - this result will have galvinised Arsenal like no other - we were utterly outplayed and humiliated on the pitch which is unforgivable - our manager made many bad tactical decisions - the fudgers will be bragging about this for years - potential transfer targets may have doubts about signing. I could go on.
We need a result desperately against Man Utd this weekend or we'll be absorbed back into the pack in a few weekes and frankly I expect to loose against them.
Vent over....going to my happy place now.
paxtonwolf
Tony Marchi
As posted earlier. on the way back I heard an interview in which HR said that how the players looked at the break
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Milenko Acimovic
...and that, in a nutshell, is a fudging DISGRACE!
Don't get me wrong, I fudging love THFC and I acknowledge that this game will simply go down in history as one to forget, but with 3rd so very much in our grasp, there is absolutely NO excuse to give up the way we did (especially if it WAS from HT onwards)
...it's not like we're mid-table, and know our lot... and our 'place in society'... ffs, this defeat could shape our season, and if the players are allowed to feel SO sorry for themselves for the rest of the season, then we're fudged! The management team (and there's fudging enough of them) really Do need to show what they're there for... and put Sunday out of the players heads in time for the weekend.
WE NEED TO SEE A fudging BACKLASH!!
Don't get me wrong, I fudging love THFC and I acknowledge that this game will simply go down in history as one to forget, but with 3rd so very much in our grasp, there is absolutely NO excuse to give up the way we did (especially if it WAS from HT onwards)
...it's not like we're mid-table, and know our lot... and our 'place in society'... ffs, this defeat could shape our season, and if the players are allowed to feel SO sorry for themselves for the rest of the season, then we're fudged! The management team (and there's fudging enough of them) really Do need to show what they're there for... and put Sunday out of the players heads in time for the weekend.
WE NEED TO SEE A fudging BACKLASH!!