I notice it has gone a bit quiet on the message boards. Surely we were guilty of crowing too early. Key game now for me is Chelsea which is simply a must not lose game. I think we'll look back at the last five minutes at the Etihad and the Emirates last night as the key moments of the season. Had the results stayed the same we'd still have a four point gap. With our run in if we get through the next two games we should still finish in the top four. Lose at Stamford Bridge and I really feel it could be curtains for our Champions League hopes next season. It's not being wise after the event or a pessimist. It's just that momentum is everything in football and this is the first time bar the first two games where we've been under any pressure this season. Arsenal you have to say are timing their run which has just happened to coincide with our worst run of the season. But there is a precedent here. If you remember last season after we capitulated at Blackpool we only won two of our last thirteen games. Not moaning just putting it out there. Not even going to mention his name because from now he won't be getting a name check as he doesn't seem to care if you bothered to check his post match interview on Sky the other night
posted on 13/3/12
Why do many of you say 'Arry doesn't care?
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not that he doesnt care completely... but how would you feel if when you're losing every game, you manager comes out and shrugs it off, shrugs his shoulders, doesnt make any eye contact? on top of that he is trying to convince us that we have been playing well
we really havent been.
posted on 13/3/12
It's become a little overstated with rather tenuous evidence that the link with the England job somehow affects the players and manager.
Players don't go into high profile fixtures with United and Arsenal thinking about the probability of their manager leaving.
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I agree. Its a handy excuse for the players. Im sure they do the same things in training etc. Its just a case of players not trying hard enough, not showing that same togetherness from early on in the season. Some belief has been lost. Whether you'l get it back is another matter.
posted on 13/3/12
i do hate spurs by the way, but i
need Abramovich to exit the
Champions League as i hate his
sugar daddy model
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I've certainly got no love for Chelsea but I'd rather them than Spurs anyday. At least, their fans are a lot more tolerable.
posted on 13/3/12
key factors are form, momentum and fixtures.
Arsenal have form and momentum
We have the kinder fixtures but ZERO form and ZERO momentum
Chelsea have tough fixtures but can new manager syndrome help? Tough to say as they struggled past stoke so its too early.
My prediction for 3rd, 4th and 5th:
Arsenal
Tottenham
Chelsea
Hold on to your seats boys its going to get hairy
posted on 13/3/12
I'm still confident we will get 3rd but we are definetly doing everything in our power to truely fcuck it up How can we be so far infront of Arsenal and chelsea to where we are now.......only bloody spurs would do this ....But saying that, i believe we will definetly beat stoke at the lane ( we just have to) and i also believe that week chelsea will lose to manchester city away meaning we should hopefully be 7 points clear of chelsea going into the game at the bridge, we draw or win that then it's curtains for chelsea
posted on 13/3/12
not that he doesnt care
completely... but how would you
feel if when you're losing every
game, you manager comes out
and shrugs it off, shrugs his
shoulders, doesnt make any eye
contact? on top of that he is
trying to convince us that we
have been playing well
we really havent been.
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'Arry is not really known for his passion. He's usually calm and collected. He doesn't have to look panicky or breathe fire in a press conference to show his concern.
He's probably trying to keep the players calm under the increasing pressure by convincing them of how well they're playing and they'd eventually get it right.
posted on 13/3/12
don
remember arsenal had that stupidly "easy run in" in our double winning season i think,
many were saying arsenal were gna win the title, they lost or drew nearly every game til the end of the season.
there is no easy run in mate. arsenal had the toughest fixtures out of all of us recently, spurs, milan, liverpool, newcastle, they beat all of them when many were predicting they'd lose them games.
to me, every fixture from now til end of the season, is a banana skin for each team.
posted on 13/3/12
Even last season, Arsenal were creaming about an easy run-in in a 2-horse race for the title with United. We somehow contrived to enact a most shocking collapse that had Chelsea handily finish above us and City overtake us with a final push past our static team. There are no easy run-ins when there's so much at stake for most clubs.
posted on 13/3/12
@ mr chelsea, yeh couldn't agree more mate but if you still look on paper, spurs have the "easiest" run in after the chelsea game out of all the top teams. You would look at our fixtures and feel spurs will pick up quiet a few points in the remaining 8 games. This is why i'm confident. Plus apart from the Arsenal game i believe we deserved atleast a draw from both the Manu and Everton games, if we deserved to lose those then i would put my hands up but we didn't. The Arsenal game was the only game we deserved to lose
posted on 13/3/12
Every team is STILL fighting for something this season, lots of twists and turns left