Welcome to Bate Borisov. We beat you at your noisy home ground and tonight you will admire our magnificent, state of the art stadium which is likely to be half-full. I expect you to lose again.
We have already topped the group, can’t do any better than that, so I expect to see a weakened team with another host of youngsters. Shame for the Belarus champions who must have been thrilled to draw AFC and expected to see Ozil, Sanchez, Ramsey etc instead they will get Eddie, Nelson and Maitland Niles, though whomever plays in the red and white they represent Arsenal and must give their best.
Another big night for Jack Wilshire who will be given the task of orchestrating the team, can he/will he achieve his potential or will be become another multi-millionaire wasting his talents at West Ham? I wish him well.
My Team:
Ospina
Chambers Holding Elneny
Debuchy Nelson Willock Maitland-Niles
Wilshere
Walcott Giroud
Walcott has to regain some confidence and form, he is a very good player; he can have a future at AFC IF he finds consistent form. Let us not forget that he was second top scorer last season with 19. Trouble is that it is a Big If.
Apparently we have sold over 50k tickets for tonight which I find surprising. We shall see… Hopefully, Eddie will get some minutes to liven up the crowd in the second half.
We can and should win this.
COYRRG
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So liming with Fred at today’s game
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Thanks Erik
Don’t know how these things work, but I’d imagine that out of the 50k tickets, many would have been the ST holders who probably have their cash seized for this game, like it or not. Dunno
I’m afraid I’m getting a little tired of Jack, as no matter how crap the opposition, he never seems to dominate a game. Shame as he has so much fight and quality DNA
Last thought
Welbeck
Never appears to get enough game time in either 1st or 2nd XI
Theo through the middle……….
Thanks Raddy. Lucky it was you who started talking about Theo being a good (or at least useful and dangerous) player because you seem to have got away with it. Had it been me the ensuing comments would have entailed men with white coats, padded cells, and Valium….possibly even a one flew over the cookoo’s nest partial brain removal, with terry playing big chief and smashing his way out once I start rocking to and fro and mumbling incoherently about Kleftico.
Is BFG injured? Would like to see Nelson given a go at left inside forward (Sanchez position). He looks to have the quality of an attacking forward that would be wasted at FB or WB. Lets not have another “play in every conceivable position AOC” situation.
Thank you for the PM Raddy.
I always look forward to seeing our youngsters display their skills, I wonder if Theo will play? His inconsistency has cost him a place and it seems he is out of favour – it would not surprise me to see him sold during the January transfer window.
I look forward to the youngsters as well, though I am will be less happy if AW continues with the youth team plus reserves in the next round
Any AAers at tonight game or at FFB
Cheers, BR, top stuff.
Bate have to win tonight, so hopefully it will be an attacking game with plenty of goalmouth action.
Frederico
Ant and me aren’t there tonight. So no need to look out for any geezers in glasses. 😊
Lol
Am on East stand looking like upper tier again
Ah ha, so that’s where Danny is. And Jeff
Disappointing no starts for Nelson and Nketiah
Ospina, Debuchy, Chambers, Holding, Maitland-Niles, Elneny, Coquelin, Wilshere, Walcott, Welbeck, Giroud
Subs: Macey, Sheaf, Nelson, Reine-Adelaide, Willock, Nketiah, Akpom
What formation?
Chas
Help. Team picture?
4-3-3 or 3-4-3
Ah, thanks
Ok, 8:05 KO. Now I understand the lack of buzz. Thought it might have been the desperately boring line up 🙂
Nice attacking team.
Is there a stream?
Erik
Ch 13 liveonline Setanta Ireland
Can’t be more than 15k in the ground 😦
Thanks Micky
Poor Fred Be lonely
Hey Erik
Lazio could be an opponent. Roman ruins and shit all over that city
Never Zenit though 😦
Wow. What a hit from Debuchy. Rosicky-esque
That was a rocket 🙂
Micky. Could be Copenhagen
Chas sitting lower got a seat for you
Stadium has plenty empty seats
Lovely from Theo.
The Irish commentator is a total onanist. We are playing weel, completely dominating and this fool is trying to present us as being woeful.
Super finish from Jack. He has had a superb half and is head and shoulders the best player out there
Superb goal from Jack
Only a few minutes ago I was thinking I wish Jack would shoot more often. Then crowd screamed shooooot and he did. Then two mins late THAT
Really pleased for Jack. I’ve had this awful feeling he’d plateau’d off
Brilliantly entertaining half of football. The quick passing and first time control is excellent. It seems competition for places is producing dividends … Theo looking much stronger and more determined.
Like to see some young guns now
70 mins is time for the kids.
Come on chassie baby everyone in my row has gone need some company
One more than Huddersfield.
Nice work
Good work out for the lads and a few nice goals for Fred
Very entertaining
I am currently out of the office.
Hasta luego
Micky
Could you recommend an idiot’s guide to bitcoin amd its possible effects?
I keep seeing shit like this and it’s starting to creep me out a bit.
Is the apocalypse approaching?
Morning All,
6.51. Weirdly entertaining
6 nil?? oh wow, some result!
And the press is all about jacko, did he really shine?
you should only worry about bitcoin if you have them. GN5, Raddy and I lost small fortunes on shares, it is a dangerous game.
My half- sister’s husband was a German investment banker. He had a large portfolio of wealthy clients and his own investments. When the bubble burst in 1995 he lost all his money and lots of clients money. He was sued, suffered a nervous breakdown and has never recovered from it.
I fired my financial advisor a couple of years ago because he claimed that he knew what’s happening in the market. Nobody knows that. And a new crash is long overdue, I think
Good football played last night. It potentially raises more headaches for Arsene as to how he should use his squad most effectively. Who does he prioritise as first 11 players?
I said in the past that I wasn’t keen on us altering formation. City seem to do it to good effect but with us I always feel that our players don’t have the tactical know how or training to understand what they need to do in the different formations to make them effective but still solid. Ideally we could switch between 2-3 formations and give some of the players last night more playing time, or we risk losing them.
12 goals in 3 matches nice trip for the Emirates
Chas
Sure. Later as away today.
Usual step one though: ignore eddie 🙄
Nice one, Freddie.
It was a shame you were a Jonah for the Manc game though. 😊😊😊😊😊
Looks a bit chilly in UK. Be careful out there.
it’s about to get very hot in a moment
what the feck do you mean – usual step 1 ignore Eddie??!!! ey??
Eddie
So you think step one should be
……take advice from Eddie……?
Seems a logical Step One to me. Can you think of better?
A better one would be not to upset Eddie!!!
December 8th
Ok Chas
All clear
Fire away 🙂
ps although, you being your diligent self, I suspect has already googleized the crap out of bitcoin
12 o’clock KO tomorrow. Now that is rubbish
chas – in a nutshell – absolutely yes. I am very good at giving advice. Not so good at taking advice. my son calls me ‘askhole’ – I ask for advice and then promptly ignore it 🙂 I can make up my own mind
tell us about bitcoin, chas reads every word sooner or later
Morning All,
Bitcoin seems to me to be a bit Emperor’s New Clothes. Though I wish I had put a few pence into them a couple of years ago when advised to do so.
12 k.o is complete rubbish and does not allow A&C to get properly fuelled ahead of the match
Morning gang
I think it’s only fair to keep the crypto thing off air, as we’ll lose all the footbally people
A few sliders early doors is a good thing, but bitcoin is too big a topic
Re the 12 KO. It’s the downside to Europa. First relegated to sunday, then relegated below yer Utd’s and City’s to the earliest KO time. For the shorter winter days, it should at least be dark before the whistle blows
ha ha ha micky 🙂 that’s the most feeble excuse I have seen on this site yet 🙂
Eddie
Seriously, I spend 3-4 hours a day on crypto/bitcoin, and it would take forever
Simply, yes I’m a fan, and on many levels, but I’d never advise anyone what do do with their loot. Your call. I’m all in though 🙂
Now off out for air
you can advice ME what to do with my loot, I am prepared to blow the remaining £20, no more loot left I am afraid
today in Cuffley
now guys, how much do you think gentlemen with Scottish uncles pay for a day with gunshots and flapping pheasants? I made enquiries with the gent on the photo so I am in the know
nobody around? all watching Chelsea game I suppose
Morning All,.
Cat vid fascinating.
Game day. Post to write.
omg, Chelsea subs had a pink hot water bottle to keep warm. Is it legal??
December 9th
Pink hot water bottles should definitely be illegal.
If the weather is as rough and wet along the coast in Southampton, then wellies required
Morning All
Cat prints is no cooler than you’d expect from a cat
these santa photos put me off Christmas
Apparently a cat’s back feet land exactly where the front feet were a moment before because they know the footing will be sound. Helps for balancing, walking along tightropes etc. 🙂
I didn’t know that cats make only 2 prints with each step. My german sheppard did that
Seriously though guys – how much do you think gentlemen with Scottish uncles pay for a day of gunshots and flapping pheasants, take a guess
Are you usually a big Christmas fan then?
What sort of image encapsulates Christmas for you?
3 to 4 hundred pounds
baby jesus 🙂 children singing ‘Little Donkey, little donkey’, St Paul’s cathedral’s choir
No, you are right, not big fan of Christmas full stop. Difficult time for any family, seeing too much of them, receiving unwanted gifts, watching people eating and drinking more than you’d think was possible, wrappers and vomit to clear up in the morning. I wish it was February already
Call me old fashioned, but like the religious part of xmas
Eddie
If they’re posh, then free with the invitation
Oiks and bankers? Few grand a gun
I am as sure as Eddie has an opinion on anything, that Fred is not a real person and can’t wait until 1st April to find out who created him.
I thought it was about £100
A day: £35 per bird, 350 birds, 9 guys. I make it £1244 each. A day!
feck off Ant. you is not real. Nothing wrong with having a learnt opinion on everything.
Chas
Check email.
oooh, I want that email too
No you don’t Eddie Darling 🙂
So jealous
Just had pics from my sister in the Cotswolds. Snowed in.
I want to go tobogganing
I don’t? ok.
Chas
Check e mail from me
Micky
What are you sending Chas pics of your sister tobogganing in the Cotswolds?
Have you got a new bearded boyfriend Eddie?
😀 😀
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