we all stand a better chance beating chelsea now coz guus wont be there next season.. guus is imo the best manager tactically

Good post, I understand about the minority bad apples in this forum, but I can see you're a good apple. Peace.

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Added on May 28, 2009, 5:43 amThey've been aggresive players all this while, mate. We're a team from the English league and we don't play like wusses. I bet you wished you have the likes of Vieira, Keown, etc back in the Arsenal squad.

This post has been edited by Makakeke: May 28 2009, 05:43 AM

i think kim hoong just state that dun bash the who team when u just see a small group of fans whiing outside coz they are babies here??

bcoz of either ur jersey colour or u r mateja kezman...hohoho

its like dat wan la...sigh...

Pool and United had more scores to settle. That's why the rivalry is more intense.
Arsenal topic got highlighted tonight because someone started the taunting here and got spotted by United's fan.

likewise, despite this lost for you guys tonight
overall performance this season is still good...won some trophies...did the double some say treble
and nth can take that fact away from you guys
okay 6am already..sleepy the sleep

the more they do this showed the reality is indeed hard to bite...

they can find almost everything to bash...but certainly not tonight's match which they played so well...for the first 9 mins.

believe in karma...learn to respect others.

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Added on May 28, 2009, 5:51 amTO THE SANE MAN UTD FANS WHO DROPPED BY AND CHIT CHAT...RESPECT. u guys were cool.

at least u leave ur thread to check others out n give opinions...=)

I am harsh a moment ago coz i cant contain my joy... but ahhh...talk cock onli la

cheers!

This post has been edited by slcroy: May 28 2009, 05:51 AM

who on earth ask u guys to bang 4 nil eh Neway tht was highly entertaining, so was tonite

Finally Henry got what he dream off, grats!

Henry u got your CL medal already, so lets come home to Arsenal and play great football next season =P

As I much as I support freedom of speech and LYN R&R, I still find myself feeling disappointed with some FL members.

We cannot deny that LYN R&R have its loopholes and does not cover EVERYTHING - especially in FL because of the high emotion involvement. Harsh words, taunting, (sometimes) name-calling etc are still rampant in FL.

Although some of these are not set in the R&R, I always think that sport is all about RESPECT and DIGNITY. Whatever achievements you want to see in your team are all about these two reasons. I wonder why some fans just do not understand what is RESPECT is and what is DIGNITY is.

Everyone has his/her own way to support a team but for me, to be respected, you have to respect others first.

Oh btw, you do not get RESPECT by taunting, swearing, name-calling etc... these will only make things worse.

gosh... went to kayu to watch the match...the whole place was covered with devils fans... only a few barca fans and then got the neutrals like me...

i thought barca were lucky in the beginning cause valdes was a whole bundle of nervers, as were the rest of the back 4, especially in the initial stages. they were really fortunate to survive the first 9 minutes with the score 0 - 0. however, once they weathered the defensive storm, they showed what they could do with their attacking dearth. honestly, in terms of beautiful football, barca showed what it's all about: confidence (sometimes bordering on arrogant... heheh), precision passing, and absolutely lethal. arsenal would do well to take a few pages out of guardiola's book about how to make a very lethal attack compensate for a shaky back 4.

i dearly wanted henry to score because it would mean so much to him, but he missed the best chance when he was 1-on-1 with van der sar. speaking of VDS, i blame him for getting beaten at his near post for the first goal. the second goal was a total stunner, from one of the shortest players on the pitch no less.

i was talking to a united friend who was asking me what was the difference between united and barca (since barca seemed to be playing so well). i told him, the difference is: iniesta and messi. those two fellas really ran the show yesterday. and they also ran united ragged.

all in all, i felt the best team won, and i'm really happy for henry that he finally won his CL medal that is missing from his trophy cabinet. at the same time i feel so jealous because i so wish it was the arsenal team up there.... sigh...

Congrats King and pls come back...hahhahahahaha

"You always remember winners. Sometimes you can play good football but if you don't bring back silverware it doesn't count."-T.Henry

its sounds like it for arsenal lol

Sad but true. In the future ppl will say Ars is once a great team and play beautiful football. But, the words will stop spreading when ppl getting older because lesser story are tolds. The memorable events will slowly fade away in time. Silverware however, will always remains and crafted in history.

This post has been edited by Vinci777: May 28 2009, 10:48 AM

Your post has pretty much covered the whole game as a NEUTRAL

Personally, I think it's about:
a) A few of Barca players were on form (Iniesta, Messi, Puyol, Pique etc)
b) A few of MU players were off form (~ better not state )

From what I saw, both teams defended well with little openings for clear cut chance. Special credits to Barca for their makeshift defence.

On the offensive sides, MU lost their edges compared to Barca.

No doubt, the best team has won. I believe even MU fans agree so.


Back to Arsenal, we have the qualities and potential to play like Barca. We have the passing, the running but there are 3 parts that we do not have:
1) Dribbling
2) Defence
3) Finishing

I will only concentrate on the Defence part. From last game, I noticed that to have good defense, NOT ONLY physical and understanding are important, I found something more than that. It's ROLE MODEL ! During the game, Puyol was everywhere and throwing tackles and challenges to whoever in his sight! Looked scary to me! As you see, both CBs and LB were not first teamers but yet, they played well. What I can say is that Puyol lead the team by example. As simple as that!

And we finally signed someone

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport...S&ATTR=Football

It's painful we saw our team lost in semi. Even more at final. Winning all the way only to lose in final. Heart broken feeling, that is the 'beauty' of football.

same as Tony Adams?
we need hard tackling players like Keown and Adams..