The bad news is that the incompetent Anthony Taylor refs the game.

It'll definitely be controversial. Luck or lack of it decides who wins I'm afraid.

I've not seen it mentioned here but I agree that it's not just this season when Koscielny has gone downhill. Last season was his worst since his first season. Perhaps it's just a coincidence but his first season, last season and this season are those he hasn't had Mertesacker alongside him.

True ....... with the humungus lump of Hanoverian granite alongside him ; Kos had to cover so much extra ground and be more aware ; without him his intensity levels have dropped away .

I suspect it has more to do with Mertesacker's organisational skills.

Our fans truly deserve Wenger and this arsenal side

To the person who recently took the p... out of me because I valued the fact Alexis was very rarely offside during his Arsenal career, I hope you really enjoyed Lacazette being offside 3 times in his short time on the field.

It was lazy and really annoyed me as it is a cheap turnover of possession. Still I am sure you enjoyed it because those little things don't seem to matter at our club.

To date Sanchez should still be cards on to win our player of the season

Tottenham v Arsenal

Both teams have quality players .

One team was organised , disciplined , direct , incisive and all singing from the same hymn sheet .

The other was busy , clueless , directionless , disorganised , hitting and hoping something might happen .

You have ten seconds to decide who was who .

To the person who recently took the p... out of me because I valued the fact Alexis was very rarely offside during his Arsenal career, I hope you really enjoyed Lacazette being offside 3 times in his short time on the field.

It was lazy and really annoyed me as it is a cheap turnover of possession. Still I am sure you enjoyed it because those little things don't seem to matter at our club.

Exactly my thoughts about Laza's offsides. He could see the defensive line clearly, and yet he strayed offside. I say his heart is no longer in it. Oh, how quickly another player declines under Wenger. Another no-show after an explosive start is Kolasinac.

This season? You've got to be joking? No chance.

There's only 1 player who has scored more goals and contributed more assists and that's Lacazette. Shall we pick him? It's a tongue in cheek suggestion but if the season ended now which player has made the biggest impact and our player of the year, it's not any of the defenders.

Let me guess Xhaka ?

Kiwi, don't tax my brain on a Sunday morning. I need to relax. I still cannot figure out which teams you are referring to

Lacazette is lacking confidence. His first chance was begging for a spectacular flying scissors kick... too early to write him off. I like to see him and Aubameyang upfront but we need to get the balance in midfield right to accommodate Özil and Mkhit, Jack and Ramsey.

Just wonder how Ramsay took not playing despite scoring a hatrick in his last game. Welbeck got on the field so didn’t understand it. Unless he was injured & I missed it.

We were simply outplayed in that second half.

Nothing will ever change whilst Wenger is in charge. Don’t even feel upset or depressed. It just is what it is. We are totally broken under this regime.

So you are actually sticking with this sub-George-Bush-Jnr rhetoric, as if a) any disagreement about any particular aspect is contributing to what you perceive to be the problem (even though no-one effing disagrees about the actual problem) and b) the board give a rats arse what you are I think.

You sound like a stupid american redneck teenager. Sure, can disagree (and we frequently do - as its the point of an online forum), but how dare you turn this into a 'them and us' moral crusade about who is the better fan. Go take a long walk off something short.

You did miss it. He had a groin injury.

We were simply outplayed in that second half.

Nothing will ever change whilst Wenger is in charge. Don’t even feel upset or depressed. It just is what it is. We are totally broken under this regime.

Worth pointing out that until Mustafi's injury last season, they two of them formed an excellent partnership. The main issue is of course that our other centre backs are too poor to allow Koscielny to rest his chronic injury when needed. The guy has played too many games where he is clearly in pain and lacking in mobility, and at other times, when rested, has shown that he is still capable of great performances if used properly.

A partner who isn't a bit of headless chicken and better rotation and Kos is still an asset for us. If we play him every bloody week when medically we shouldn't, we can't expect much more. Not sure what happened in the transfer window. We wanted to buy a centre half, we were in on a few, and then at the last minute we are told that there wasn't the transfer budget. How the hell can there not be the transfer budget?

Kevin Whitcher writing with a certain amount of assurance that Wenger could be leaving this summer in his editorial.

Ancellotti was at yesterday's game lending credibility to what Kevin said previously that he was attending many of our games this season but I just can't see Wenger going this summer. A scenario I could see is that they announce he will leave at the end of his contract this summer but that would leave us enduring a season from hell next year with uncertain players, a manager carefree who knows he's leaving and still an imbalanced side.

Whilst the evidence continues to point to the contrary I can't see how Wenger will leave in the summer and this pain will continue

I know Kevin thinks Wenger will leave this summer. But he thought he would leave last summer as well. Kevin was pretty damn confident he'd go last summer, if my memory serves. But Kevin was wrong last summer, and it won't shock me if he'll be mistaken on this issue next summer as well.

What part of anything that I have said is a fantasy? You're the one who seems to think opinions expressed on a small internet forum can influence club policy or that disagreeing with you makes someone a bad fan who deserves a bad team. I'd hardly say that my views that the club doesn't give a toss about what's posted on here and that differing fan opinions can still be equally good fans are fantasy.

And I've never, obliquely or otherwise, suggested that you are a bad fan or deserving of any negative outcome for all the relentlessly negative and often factually incorrect nature of your postings.

The minute you start suggesting that other fans are responsible for this teams decline and that some are better than others, you sound like peak Harlow of a decade or more ago when he was still a loyal Wenger disciple to the rejection of all other opinions, and are picking a fight with anyone on here that disagrees with you. And I'm not prepared to ignore people pulling out that black and white 'with us or against us' b%*&s%*^ - its bang out of order and you know it, no matter how much you pretend not to.

in 2004 we were arguably the best team in Europe. We had grown into one of the most popular teams in the world. We had a top manager at the absolute peak of his powers. We had a brilliant first team in fairly urgent need of renewal. At that point Wenger was still identifying future world stars before most other big club managers. And the club chose to stagnate rather than invest. Without even going full Abramovich, with more investment in the playing staff we could have become one of the absolute world super clubs.

The last 3-4 years Wenger has undoubtedly underachieved. But for me, the club's actions and policy 03-14 showed an extraordinary lack of foresight and a great degree of personal greed.

Our away record is absolutely shameful. It would get managers of struggling teams sacked let alone a team who is supposed to be challenging at the top.
20-30 points less than the top 5 in our last 25 or so games.

Nothing will improve until wenger is turfed out

Craig Dawson is such a crap referee. Earlier he missed a blatant foul on the corner of United's box and just now Valencia almost took a Newcastle player's face off and Valencia stayed on the pitch. I've never seen such a bad foul.