Tbh mate, it probably does.

Signed.

A.Jew

Nothing to do with goal difference. They simply can’t catch both of Swansea and Southampton

Used to have an office in Twickenham. Take a walk down the high st there after most rugby games and you'll never let anyone tell you again it's a gentlemans sport followed by intellectuals.

Sorry to hear the news about Alex Ferguson. Hope he gets well soon.

Then you're a very poor judge.

Admitting to having the full collection of " The Sweeney " hardly puts you on the bench of the Old Bailey .

My top three ..." Enemy of the State " "Rounders " and " Mississippi Burning "

It's going to all be a bit Alan Partridge isn't it ? He leaves us in a terrible state, are they expecting everyone to be wearing those "I was there when Wenger left t shirts"

Bet West Brom wish they'd appointed Darren Moore ages ago. Really making a fight of it since they sacked Pardew.

Glad to see that my local club as a kid have been relegated. I was raised in the Borough of Barnet so went to school there. Nearly everyone supported Arsenal or Tottenham, though Chelsea, West Ham and QPR had one fan each. But whoever they supported nearly everyone's second team was Barnet. I was the exception.

Let me guess your second club were a German club.

There were a few poor episodes but at its best I thought The Sweeney was great.

Rangers is too small for Wenger. He prefers to ruin a bigger club.

Rumours he is off to China coach some club side , become the highest paid manager in history . No set of fans anywhere should have to endure his line of clap trap , awful tactics again .

I'd rather he took some sort of television role ; anchor man for the nightly sports news on StarHub TV would be nice

To be honest I had it part mixed up with the Waterman and Cole series ,

Just watched five minutes of the Sweeney which wasn't as painful as I'd imagined ..

Yes, that kinda proves the point bubblechris was making.

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If Özil mysteriously misses today's game like is being suggested and Martin Keown predicted it just underlines what Keown was saying. Whilst I think Keown was wrong Özil doesn't help himself, paying 350k a week for a player who only plays every other week and always seems to miss the trips up north to Burnley Newcastle etc is just crazy. If we had a different manager like Guardiola or Mourinho I'm pretty sure the reason for this happening would have come to light by now

Hold on. Everyone was advocating giving the kids and marginal players games. Why would we play Özil at all. I would rather to see MN and Reiss Nelson get 3 appearances before the end of the season than see Özil play. I have no interest in the next 3 games. We finish 7th, it is not because Özil doesn't play the next 3 it is because in the other 35 games we failed.

I would agree and we can still blood youngsters but in Wengers final home game we want to win right. Plus he hasn't played much recently and this type of thing is precisely what fuels the negativity about him.

I don't think we owe Wenger anything. If the squad is not good enough to beat Burnley without Özil that says a lot more about the squad and the wages we pay them. If Özil plays and we don't win what will that prove. Probably what we already know - a totally unbalanced team who fail to meet expectations.

If I’m paying amount x to watch a football game I want to see star players, Özil has to play for me. There is an element By all means play AMN and Nelson but his complete absence speaks volumes. I want entertainment and to see our best player

I am not being serious.

Although I really don't like gingers, but I think that's because they can 'sense' that, and so they always act strangely around me, as if they know that I know what they are.

I see your principle - if someone pays to see a game we must always play our best players. I must have missed your posts about the first round of the league cup we were involved in plus the early games in Europe this year. It could not be that you have a set against Özil and are using ridiculous arguments to try and emerge from the corner you have painted yourself into. Bravo for your principles.

The second biggest difference between the two clubs (the first being the defence obviously) last night was the connect between club and fans. It is this that has been so horribly neglected by Arsenal, aided and abetted by those who persisted in labelling people who complained about our stagnation as spoiled, entitled, deluded and irrelevant (naming no names but he's in "New Zealand" right now). When you have almost every season ticket holder on here saying they go either rarely or not at all there is a problem. That problem is not confined to the stadium (although unfashionably I do care more about those lifelong fans than the "new global market") because it will affect your "brand" anyway. So even for the shallow corporate *%^@* who run football these days it is a deeply stupid and shortsighted approach. If you treat your fans with contempt or ignore their concerns it will catch up with you. I am really glad Wenger is leaving - at least five years too late - but the problems won't go away with him. This is a club that sees fans an an inconvenient necessity and revenue base - until they understand that football doesn't work like that we will continue to see a club with a cardiovascular crisis.

I certaimly have my suspicions about the integrity of referees. In the Chelsea v Liverpool game Milner flew in on Hazard and cleaned him out without getting near the ball. The most nailed-on yellow card you can get. Ref just has a word. No booking.