We looked so weak, slow and generally lost out there.

Players have pledged their future to the club, one being Adebayor saying:

“Before signing, I can remember people telling me I had the chance to win things,” said the forward who arrived from Monaco in January 2006. Now I am empty-handed but I don’t have any reason for leaving until I have got trophies and what I came here for. Arsenal put me where I am today. They made me one of the biggest strikers in the world. I have to pay them back. How am I going to pay them back? Make them win trophies. That’s what I am here for and I have to fight for that. Next season, 100 per cent, I am an Arsenal footballer.

“I will do everything that it takes to come back next season and show how good I am, show character, personality and desire for this club. I have been doing my best, giving 100 per cent in every single game but don’t forget last season I played without injury. This time I got three injuries and that has made it quite difficult for me. But we have a good squad. We are learning things and are all young so we just want to achieve things. As soon as we have the chance to win the first trophy, I think many will follow. We just have to believe and keep going. We are very disappointed tonight for the fans and for the way they believed we could do it. We are very sorry for that.

“But it’s very important for the next season that we are here to play and ready to bring glory to this Club.”

Its good to hear players are faithful to the Arsenal cause but where was he in the games against United and Chelsea? He needs to stand up and prove his belief that he is one of the best strikers in world football.

Ade and Toure have also been saying how United are on a level of their own after the game and that is precisely the attitude we do not want with the game against them in the league at Old Trafford just over a week away. We don’t want our players thinking its impossible to beat them.

Toure said:

“I think they [Man United] are the best at the moment, they have really experienced players, they are really strong physically, they are tactically fanstastic. I think they are good defensively as well. But when you see the first five minutes of the game you could see it was not so far between the teams. We put pressure on them and we could have scored with Cesc’s deflected shot. That can make the difference – whether you have luck or not.

“We have been together for a long time but we have not won trophies yet. When you win trophies it becomes like a habit for you. At this time we did not win anything and at the moment we do not know what is happening. But I think when we get the first trophy you will see more from Arsenal.“

The most important part of that is in bold. The team is a trophy away from being winners, they are not winners yet and wont be until they know how to win. How many players in a squad of over 18 have won trophies at a high level. Not many.

Adebayor has said:

“They are one of the best – I don’t think anyone can stop them,”

That is the wrong attitude. Nobody apart from our ‘unbeatables’ team is unbeatable.

I’m still mulling it all over. I’m sure you have heard of the Bendtner incident and his official apology. Hes young, should have known better but is obviously hurt, put it right son and finish our top scorer this season….just to prove a few people wrong.

til tomorrow.

This is going to be short and sweet because I need to mull everything over and not make rash comments, at one point I’ve gone as far to say that a summer clear-out is needed. Maybe tomorrow I won’t be so strong in that view but i don’t want to be a hypocrite.

I would just like to say well done Samir Nasri, you were outstanding, same goes for you Mr Alex Song. You have won me over.

Sagna, Toure, Djourou, Fabregas, Walcott, Adebayor and van Persie were awful. Where was the desire to fight?

One last note: Kieran Gibbs – I really, really, really hope that slip doesn’t shatter his confidence. Hopefully he will be a winner one day.

Let me mull this one over.

’til tomorrow Gooners.

Im Arsenal til i die, i’m Arsenal til i die, i know i am, im sure i am, i’m Arsenal til i die.

Its been done to death. YES its the biggest game at the Grove, YES we have to pull out the performance of our lives (thats the fans too), YES we don’t have our strongest backline out. YES we have to play 4-4-2. We know all this already so whats the point in going back over it.

Van Persie is fit so he will play, Djourou will probably partner Kolo with Sagna and Gibbs flanking them. There will probably be a midfield of Nasri, Walcott, Fabregas with Song alongside him filling in the space between the midfield and the defence.

The other striking place will be taken by Adebayor and he needs to produce, along with van Persie.

I can harp on all day about them not being the best partnership at the club but that has to be put aside, much like all the boardroom happenings. What do we want tonight? A two goal win. Right, fuck everything else, lets do this.

If you are going tonight turn the place red and scream your fucking lungs out because there will be hundreds of thousands of other people wishing they had your seat in the house, make yourself heard, get behind your team and roar them into the Final. That’s whats at stake here, underneath I think this whole entire team probably hinges on tonight but that’s something to discuss in the long summer months ahead.

This isn’t going to be a long thought out post…or even a preview… there’s enough of those around to keep you reading up until the day you snuff it.

To put this in the most concise and blunt way possible:

• This 90 minutes is our season, and it will have an effect on next season I am sure
• The prize is a trip to the Final in Rome in a few weeks time
• We are playing the reigning champions who also happen to be a bunch of cunts.
• Can we make our second Final in four years?

Anything is possible, lets stay positive, get behind the lads and believe. Believing costs nothing. Lets put everything else aside and hope our boys pull through

LETS ‘AVE IT!

COME ON YOU REDSSSSS

’til tomorrow.