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http://twitter.com/WEDITSJET
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Stream link to watch LIVE football matches:-


This post has been edited by liez: Feb 27 2011, 09:31 PM

All matches in February:-


Fixtures:-




05/03/11 Arsenal v. Sunderland
19/03/11 W.B.A v. Arsenal

02/04/11 Arsenal v. Blackburn Rovers
09/04/11 Blackpool v. Arsenal
16/04/11 Arsenal v. Liverpool (or FA Cup Semi-Finals)
23/04/11 Bolton Wanderers v. Arsenal
30/04/11 Arsenal v. Manchester United

07/05/11 Stoke City v. Arsenal
14/05/11 Arsenal v. Aston Villa (Date and kick off time may change)
22/05/11 Fulham v. Arsenal

To Be Arranged- Tottenham Hotspur v. Arsenal



02/03/11 Arsenal v. Leyton Orient



27/02/11 Arsenal v. Birmingham City



08/03/11 Barcelona v. Arsenal

This post has been edited by liez: Feb 25 2011, 09:39 PM

The Emotional Highbury and The Grand Ashburton Grove

Highbury 1913-2006

For the majority of their time in south-east London, Arsenal played at the Manor Ground in Plumstead, a three-year period at the nearby Invicta Ground between 1890 and 1893 excepted. The Manor Ground was initially just a field, but the club installed stands and terracing in time for their first Football League match in September 1893. They played their home games there for the next twenty years (with two exceptions in 189495), until the move to north London in 1913.


Arsenal Stadium, widely referred to as Highbury, was Arsenal's home from September 1913 until May 2006. The original stadium was designed by the renowned football architect Archibald Leitch, and had a design common to many football grounds in the UK at the time, with a single covered stand and three open-air banks of terracing. In the 1930s, the entire stadium was given a massive overhaul, with new Art Deco West and East stands constructed, opening in 1932 and 1936 respectively; in addition, the North Bank terrace had a roof added, which was later bombed during World War II and not restored until 1956.

At its peak, Highbury could hold over 60,000 spectators, and had a capacity of 57,000 until the early 1990s. The Taylor Report and Premier League regulations forced Arsenal to convert Highbury into an all-seater in time for the 199394 season, reducing the capacity to 38,419 seated spectators. This capacity had to be reduced further during Champions League matches to accommodate additional advertising hoardings, so much so that for two seasons (199899 and 199900) Arsenal played Champions League home matches at Wembley, which could house more than 70,000 spectators.

Final moments - the emotions run high in Highbury



Ashburton Grove 2007-present

Expansion of Highbury was restricted because the East Stand had been designated as a Grade II listed building and the other three stands were close to residential properties. These limitations have prevented the club from maximising the revenue that their domestic form could have brought in recent seasons. After considering various options, in 2000 Arsenal proposed building a new 60,000-seater stadium at Ashburton Grove, since renamed the Emirates Stadium, about 500 metres south-west of Highbury. The project was initially delayed by red tape and rising costs, but construction was completed in July 2006, in time for the start of the 200607 season. The stadium is named after its sponsors, the airline company Emirates, with whom the club signed the largest sponsorship deal in English football history, worth approximately 100 million; however some fans refer to the ground as Ashburton Grove, or the Grove, as they do not agree with corporate sponsorship of stadium names.The stadium will be officially known as Emirates Stadium until at least 2012, and the airline will be the club's shirt sponsor until the end of the 201314 season.

Construction and completion of the Ashburton Grove




This post has been edited by liez: Feb 6 2011, 10:00 AM

The Trophy Cabinet

The players:



















Draw your formation here:
http://this11.com/

This post has been edited by liez: Feb 26 2011, 12:07 PM

The Fans:-

Gooners around the world~*


Queen Elizabeth II



jay-z


lewis hamilton

Female celebrity Gooners:-


and more.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenal_F.C._supporters

This post has been edited by liez: Feb 6 2011, 02:10 PM

The LYN Gooners
Updated list:
This post has been edited by liez: Feb 25 2011, 09:41 PM

hehe first! hey thar congrats liez

I am just a caretaker. Not a ts. But just let me know if there is vacancy for improvement.

This post has been edited by liez: Feb 6 2011, 10:23 AM

we still invincible, even in the lowyat. lol

yeah new thread

woot.first time in first page

waruna reporting in sire.. aye aye..

Quadruple sill open

There is only ONE team that can go 49 games unbeaten. ONE!

New thread but same ol dissapointment. Frankly, last night's game was one of the best and worst i've ever seen. Best coming from Newcastle's never say die attitude and worst coming from Arsenal's collapse. ANyways, i prefer to speak about the collapse rather than Newcastle's comeback.

The collapse was certainly helped by the ref's decisionmaking, which was rather appaling. First, Barton was throwing in challenges like he had a quota to do so before even being booked. He did it in the first leg where we lost and he did it again last night. I mean that challenge on Diaby, its tackles like those that breaks legs. No doubt Diaby was rightly sent off but when refs don't book these tackles, it only encourages on field thugs like Barton to continue doing it.

After the red card, i think Arsenal completely lost it. It's almost as tho we pushed the "self destruct button". We couldn't hold the ball, and that is super important when you're 1 man down. We should have just kept the ball, maintain possession and suck up what's being thrown at us. I think mentally, the players lost it after the 3rd goal. That was a soft penalty to be given. One of the softest i've ever seen. It wasn't even a handball and to begin with, the player was not even in a goal scoring opportunity. Dowd's completely got it wrong. I think a penalty is given when a player is denied a clear scoring opportunity. I can't remember who the player was, but he was completely not in any clear scoring opportunity. I would accept it if its a handball by Rosicky.

Nevertheless, it was 2 points lost rather than 1 point gain against Man Utd who coincidentally lost. The game was shocking. In Arsene Wenger's words, mathematically we lost 2 points but it was the psychological damage that is bigger.

In the end we are still the same, we cannot defend to save ourself it's really shocking that we failed to defend a 4 goal lead. Maybe next time we should just continue attack even if we're down to 10 men

Anyway i guess we can all cheer up a little bit because we now got another chance thanks to Wolves.

Regardless of the scoreline, I think closing the gap to four points is still better than nothing, they could have open the lead to 7 points . That to me would be a bigger dent to our title hope.

btw I that some "fans" said that we keep talking about their loss, apparently those "fans" did not check their own thread when Newcastle scored the equalizer, they're celebrating like they've won the league

This post has been edited by c_calvin: Feb 6 2011, 11:55 AM

yeah new tered... i was really kecewa when seing the game last night.. i agree with szczesny magic word, its 'refree'

MOTD highlights for those who like to be shellshocked again!

http://dl68.duckload.com/download/2906d9a8...ts-05-02-11.avi

what is the most worrying now is our only fit CB is Kos and Laci
how many goals were gonna concede on the road now

still cant believe what happened last night...deng!

yea im no 20#

congrat liez...
congrat kimhoong



This post has been edited by queenc: Feb 6 2011, 11:52 AM

LOL you don't know the rule here?

MU fans can troll at their own thread, as well as rival thread. But they won't allow others to invade their thread, otherwise it will be branded as "butthurt", or "you tak suka, you keluar"

Moreover, they can act like policeman to regularly check other rival thread, and wanna pretend they are the lecturers to correct ppl, as you can seen in Arsenal thread, M. City thread, as well as Liverpool thread

i think if the dumb-ass-reff give a free kick to arsenal after bad challenge from barton, we can secure the 3 points.

new thread reporting in!hopefully the mentality of the players maintained high despite the outcome of the match.when is the international break?this week or next week?

i c wut u did thar bro
like someone said, we have decent backup players..they are all good enuff to challenge on all fronts
even when 3 of our CM out injured/suspended, 2 of our CB injured, we always have some decent players to replace them

any news on Johan injury?

Congrats new ts and thank you Kim hoong for being ts these years.

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Added on February 6, 2011, 12:13 pmKnee injury don't know out for how long

This post has been edited by ivanau88: Feb 6 2011, 12:13 PM

We should won last night game bloody diaby...put him on ebay, aw!

lol....wenger will put auto bidder to win it back.

This post has been edited by kapalkertas: Feb 6 2011, 12:36 PM

atm we are without Nasri, Djourou, Song, Denilson and Fabianski.

The ppl that i wish can get speedy recovery is Song, not becoz others are not important, but at least we still got some replacement for temporary measure.

Nasri can be replace with Walcott/ Arshavin, Djourou with Squillaci, Fabianski with Szecenzy..While Song position is hardly being replacable.

at first i thought can ask Diaby to replace him temporary, but since he is being banned 3 matches, couple with Denilson injury, i was very worry about who gonna fill in the position...

This post has been edited by SeanWong: Feb 6 2011, 12:21 PM

and also diaby
in English game la, he still eligible for Champions league matches

This post has been edited by bobotorix: Feb 6 2011, 12:25 PM

good job liez..
c'mon gunners!!! we are still in title chasing..

How can you not blame Diaby. We already had no more holding midfielders and yet he didn't want to get some of his brain working. The consequence is dire and ultimately put the team under big pressure. Without the DM the team couldn't retain possession , and the fact that Rosicky didn't offer anything make things worst. Instead he conceded a soft penalty , sigh

It was Diaby's violent conduct that got him sent off, but if you take into account the incident in which Szczesny was rightly booked for time-wasting after the penalty, the perpetrator wasn't sent off although his conduct in bundling Szczesny to the ground is considerably violent.

Man's sports? Inconsistent refereeing? Vague laws of the game? or convenient argument from a sour grape? I'm sure a lot would pick the last. Doesn't change the fact that decisions from the men in black are inconsistent at best. And I feel it's extremely ridiculous to accept statements like "sometimes decisions go your way, sometimes the other way so it's best to control your own destiny". The greatest matches in the game were and should be conjured by footballing geniuses, and not through inconsistent and controversial decisions by the men in black. They should serve as the mediators, and not the aggravators. It's a shame the rot has deteriorated to this degree.



Soaking up pressure has never been the current generation's forte and hopefully, will never be. Although '1-0 to the Arsenal' may sound amusing, unless you want to bear with Graham's defensive team all over again, soaking up pressure is too Italian for Arsenal.

Wenger: "We are guided by the way we want to play football".

I think this is too big of a reaction. If Arsenal's proven pedigree that included the likes of Henry, Bergkamp, Vieira and Campbell took ages to recover from the psychological damage inflicted at the end of the long unbeaten run, who is to say Man Utd wouldn't need time to recover from their relatively lengthy unbeaten stretch? Or perhaps many think Man Utd's Rooney, Giggs and Ferdinand are mentally stronger than the Arsenal's very own history-making team?

In the context of an intense title race, which one is more damaging psychologically? Arsenal's collapse or Man Utd's unbeaten run ended at Wolves? But yeah I think I'm starting to understand why some Man Utd supporters are conceited to the extent that they keep harping on the ABU nonsense. Some of the people here are feeding their ego. Dang I'm guilty of this too . In any case, it's ridiculously shortsighted to take only Man Utd into account. Other teams like Chelsea are slowly regaining their form. Man Utd is only another team challenging for the title, have some respect for other teams like Chelsea or even Man City.

Haven't you noticed Arsenal's steel this season? Scraping victories, confronting physically bigger teams etc? Again a lot may say I'm delusional but I'd like to think of myself as an optimist.

Victoria Concordia Crescit fellow gooners!

djourou knee injury? Omg...its what AW fear the most..now enrique iglesias can play with us...the transfer karma hit me hard.

Reporting in the new thread

As I mentioned in the last post of previous thread,
Please continue giving your support to liez like how you all had been to me.

Back to our discussion, MU lost is indeed a happy news to everyone but their own fans.

However, please understand that's only a bonus.


Discussing about our own team should be more helping in challenging for honours.


Diaby behavior is unacceptable - no matter what happened, a professional football of his experience MUST put his team ahead of EVERYTHING! No excuse!

Rosicky was poor. I do not know how to handle this but this is one of the obvious outcomes from the match and AW has to do something about it.

Our CBs are not good enough ... and not enough to cover the injuries and other absences. It's too late for new players as the transfer window has closed. AW should identify capable backups.

Next, AW should review if his tactics really work. He should get some fresh ideas from his coaching staffs, etc...

Wow liez is the new TS now? HAHAH good one la bro! Supporting you all the way from another side of London.

Bring back Ramsey and whoever useful from loan.

The team is almost similar already to the one that nearly get rape in Emirates last season by Barca.

This post has been edited by Azurues: Feb 6 2011, 01:04 PM

lmao, i like your ah wang ngo yiu dah sap kor

anyway, good luck to our new ts though i can somewhat feel whats ahead of us now
and many thanks to bro zangetsu for the many goodies threads he create for us all, xie xie

Got it from MyKy44 wan. Still waiting his shirt bulk of this iconic figure. liez is a nice guy la. like to kacau him in /k/ sometimes.

posting in the new TS tered~yeah~4 is the number! scored 4 goals yet conceded another 4 but luckily reduced to 4 points gap.~wee

so it's a knee injury. maybe we did overused Johan during these past month after all

hopefully he'll not be out for long as Seba did not impress 1 bit so far, more so when partnering Laurent

also, Abou will only miss 1 match thru suspension right? Seba only got 1 match for his red card during the FA Cup match

Just saw the MOTD highlights. Let's not be too biased here, their first was a definite penalty. The second penalty was soft. But scratch that goal away, and they still scored 4 perfectly legit goals, one of which was incorrectly ruled offside. So no matter what jersey Phil Down was wearing underneath, no matter we were down to 10 men, the fact is that we capitulated on our own accord. Simple as that. How many of you actually thought, right after Diaby was sent off, that we would go on to draw or lose the game? No one. Sure, it may have made the game more difficult, yes, we probably would find it hard to score another, but to be incapable of defending a 4-goal lead? Rubbish. That alone says enough of performance.

So lay off Diaby. I'm not his biggest fan. I, like many others, wanted him out 2 seasons ago, but I can understand his reaction to that horrible tackle from barton, especially for someone who has had his leg broken by one of those "tackles" before. Meh, I'm more inclined at pointing the finger at the 10 remaining men on the pitch. And at Wenger.

+1 for my Quick buddy
saw the highlights, i have no comment after all. just one of those fakap days
UCL is around the corner, though every match is different i hope we can get a win against wolves b4 the game against Barcelona

should be 3 matches because it's a red card for violent conduct.

Squillaci's red is for professional foul(denying clear goalscoring opportunity)

This post has been edited by c_calvin: Feb 6 2011, 01:30 PM

@quickfire the second penalty was soft and also the free kick that lead to the fourth goal was even softer. Down to 10 men + ref help with 2. Arsenal fans should be proud our team can go away and get a point with 10 v 12.

Some of us here are letting frustration getting the better of us. I guess when things doesn't go right, we always try to blame someone, and in this context, Diaby is made the escape goat.

Let me be clear on this, Barton is a thug who don't deserve to play football. Hence, football doesn't need player's like him, the only place he deserve to be in is Prison. I cannot understand why managers and even refs are protecting him.
He's very much "lucky?" not to be carded at all with challenges like that. I can understand the frustration Diaby had, but being a professional footballer, he should have kept his emotion and reacted in a manner which would not getting him send off.

Albeit that, i believe we started the second half too complacent, giving balls away, laid back, and did not seemed to be having the possession well. It went worst with Diaby went off. I thought Rosicky's substitution was a bad one tactically. This is where a leader should have played a big part of collectively bringing everyone togather when they are about to self destruct. Honestly, Fabregas can be inspiring, time like this we would need a midfield general, i don't see that in him, after Viera left.

Lets move on, we are playing Wolves next, i hope we can put this result in the past like how we did on Spurs and Sunderland. Still think we sit in the best position to win the title, ( At one point i really had lost hope yesterday) 4 points is not that far, but remind you, City and Chelsea are catching up on us. United ain't the only one to watch out for.

I wouldn't proud of my team when I see one idiot getting himself sent off like that yesterday.

some of NU supporters who goes home after 4-0 must really facepalmping..remember that dude in blue shirt? haha



this, dog has a good view. just FU

This post has been edited by leymar7: Feb 6 2011, 02:04 PM

Mahai Barton...spoilt the game...

Yeah like I said their second penalty was soft as poof, but they also scored a legit goal that was ruled offside. The foul that lead to the freekick that lead to the last goal was probably soft too... couldn't really get a good look at it but it seemed like only a small nudge from Rosicky.

I know the rules say otherwise, but personally I think a little pushing and shoving never hurt anyone. I mean, it wasn't like Diaby punched Barton in the face. But that's for another discussion.

Lots of idiots saying that was a perfectly good tackle from Barton. "Robust" is what gets thrown around a lot. They think as long as you get the ball it doesn't matter what happens after. Kinda like saying the police can deal as much collateral damage to innocent people nearby as long as they manage to take down the sole bad guy. Crock of shit!

i think Koscielny did really good yesterday. He certainly improved, his facial expression was priceless when the referee gave the 2nd penalty to NU.

i just notice joey barton did not get a single yellow card for all his challenges
perhaps he would have gotten a red as well, if and only if. but hey i got a point
now i understand why diaby and wenger is furious.
blaming on ridiculous reasons is bad, please blame it on something that has some valid point
aiyoyo, lupakan saja la
they thank us that we draw, we thank them that they lost
balance out this GW results i guess

heres to hope chelsea - liverpool game would end up 5-5
i am definitely going to watch the torres-saga-effect, gonna be epic!

i cant imagine how did the ref gave freekick against rvp for this 1

The link appears to be broken

wanna requote whoever said on previous thread,

whoever hit/fight/punch joey barton is an hero lulz

there are so much football fans can learn from yesterday event, especially in our manner and behaviour.

oh yeah i clicked the spoiler and my frustation flew away ~

both of you didn't watch the full match?

Diaby is DM/CM/holding midfielder. His dismissal yesterday play a big part in that self destruct.

me elek, thats why can only comment from the highlights
was busy gambling
i guess i missed out a lot

Watch the 2nd half only yesterday. IMHO, the blame of this draw lies on the feet of the 10 remaining player on the pitch yesterday. If it wasn't for some very good goalkeeping by Wolsjech(is this correct?), we would have lost he game.

How can a title challenger can't protect a 4 goal lead? Its like the team just implode after the red card. Diaby's reaction shows his lack of professionalism. Maybe he saw a flash of his old injury from that challenge, we will never know. But he should have done better. Van Peesie got control of his own temper already, if compare to yesteryears.

What Arsenal and Arsene need to do right now is to just focus on the next game and not repeat the mistakes in this game again

#62 post...YAY new thread...

like i said, arsenal played badly last night...a lot of set pieces, we lose the high ball...

IMO, I don't blame Diaby 100%...NU was planning this from the start to get one of our player red carded...

aiyah new tered slowpoke a bit.


thanks to new TS

as AW said, mathematically its only 2 points lost


but mentally brain damage caused is lot bigger than this draw. Please send pakar motivasi to emirates!

This post has been edited by little_mozart: Feb 6 2011, 03:29 PM

hello new TS!

till now still feels good mang

Another funny thing i saw from other forum.

1. I think it's something to do with morale boost.. All I can say is, IMHO, at the start of 2nd half, they're too over-confident. Later on their morale go down after the sending off because they know NU will go all out in front of their fans with 40 minutes remaining, plus they know they don't have holding midfielder + strong CB after Djourou's injury (forgive me but I don't think Squillacci is strong and fast enough), the pressure is there.

2. Plus, our captain should do whatever it takes to boost up the morale. Just yells "focus woi!", scream "come on u guys!" or scold "hoi you, hold the line!" etc etc.. like Gerrard and Terry always did to make sure everybody focus on the ball. Maybe I watch in TV and can't see clearly whether our captain did it or not.

3. The Referee management, everyone will agree, it sucks. 2nd penalty is too soft.

4. Our 2 subs didn't contribute at all.


After all, a draw is better than a lose. It can happen to anyone else. No matter we're title contenders or 'xx'th times champion or not, it can happen if God want it that way

Still, 4 points gap separate us from the leader is good enough.

no ABU stuff here pls..later pulis come
ohwai~

similar with this..

dude he got like an "ohsem" or "cool" aura around him!

Aston Villa 2 2 Fulham
Everton 5 3 Blackpool
Man City 3 0 West Brom
Newcastle 4 4 Arsenal
Stoke 3 2 Sunderland
Tottenham 2 1 Bolton
Wigan 4 3 Blackburn

a lot of goals scored yesterday..

The game between Arsenal and Newcastle let's bookie win kau kau though. That's one of the contribution of Arsenal team.

And, we break the record for the great come back of all times, lol.

Anyhow, i hope this game won't break the confident of Arsenal team, we still have many matches ahead, we need to move on.

Only Preston North End and Arsenal who can run the entire season without losing.

plus wolve 2 - 1 man utd

tat was 41 goals in a single night. wow!!

Did anyone noticed Louis Saha scored 4 goals?

Now I am worry about the international break and hope everyone come back jn a piece

no more invicibles thingy this season..
and wenger should check back his lineup..can't defence after lose one man..or we actually don't have any defensive tactics..

still waiting our player twittering..jack already tweet about yesterday ref..

I remember the good ol' days back in the 01/02 season where we played with 10 men in like every other match and still won most of them and everyone was saying we practiced with 10 men during training.

Everyone talking about diaby reaction. What the difference between diaby push on Barton & Nolan choke slam on arsenal goalie??? To me what Nolan did was worst then diaby.

Our defend is the best back then with poor offense. Lol. We had a red card collector.

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Added on February 6, 2011, 5:45 pmDiaby slow motion and barton act kesian while Nolan and Barton combo on woj. Barton hide the red viewing angle it seems. Seasoned Pro work they have.

This post has been edited by Vinci777: Feb 6 2011, 05:45 PM

juz posting in new thread
congratz bro liez!!

injuries come again...
now starting to worry a bit when squid at the back

AW retiring from managing Arsenal?

Oh well, the rivalry between Arsene and Sir Alex sooner and later will become history. I think by that time we will miss this good old time.

i missed last night's match. anyone knows where i can get full match download?

better dont watch..

watch furst half only. u will feel gooood

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