And again, take the shot, and you might score !

Lacazette again. 4-1 Sweet.

x 2 !

Lacazette Lacazette Lacazette ................ Ramsey man-of-the-match!

The fans are singing again

Atrocious miss by Xhaka. Should be 5-1

Still 30 seconds left.


Come on Arsenal, try and hang on !

Xhaka has been excellent today.

Our new manager will inherit 2 very good strikers. I think people haven't yet realised how good Lacazette is yet. Just because he doesn't like dropping deep to receive the ball doesn't mean he's useless

Also Welbeck and Ramsey have been very good in recent matches. Really hope we can keep them this summer

Apart from that miss eh?

If only our away form is as good as our home form. 44 points at home is title winning form and 13 points away is relegation form - talk abt jekyll and hyde.

Yeah that was a good chance.

I would like to see us go old school and play with two strikers - rotate Aubameyang, Lacazette and Welbeck and all should get plenty of games. And goals hopefully.

Indeed. It is one of the many aspects of the change of management that is potentially exciting...

Will be very interesting if the new regime will be more open to working with ex-players. Certainly it should theoretically be an easier relationship. I reckon a lot of ex players will be expressing an interest in the coming months..

Agree with all of this post. Rambo's contract has to be a massive priority.

I think the post match interview was a pretty clear indication that Wenger is not exactly a man at ease within himself at all this

'Jardim one of the best coaches in the world' - Lopes talks up Arsenal managerial target

http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/jardim-o ... xw7sy4zqev

AW on why he's leaving now: "I made a statement, that is basically all you need. Overall, I think it's not the moment to come out on that ... I will speak about that a bit later in my life."




He was fired basically otherwise his answer would be entirely different. Unfortunately even now after everything that has happened he still doesn’t get it. I bet personally he considers this a miscarriage of justice

Very well thanks. Darts in with a shout of automatic promotion; Gooner Ronnie O'Sullivan pulling off a stirring snooker victory; Spurs losing to a goal from one of our ex-stars, and The Arsenal lauding it over The Hammers. Couldn't get much better really, though it will, as I am off on holiday again tomorrow. So, my apologies in advance for not being around to join you in your misery if we get *%^@** by Athletico!

On Arsene, it has worked out pretty much as any rational observer of the club might have expected. They were never going to sack him with a couple of months of 2016/17 season remaining, as some wished. With the FA Cup and fourth place still up for grabs it never made sense to demand that. Having won the FA Cup and gained fifth place. he could have stepped down, and I would not have minded that. Was it outrageous of the club to not give in to the hounds and to give him another chance to qualify for ECL? I think not. Of course we may still do it via UEFA Cup, so his successor may get an unexpected benefit. For me he will always be a great Arsenal figure, the man who reconnected me to the club I had slightly drifted from. Of all the superb matches I will never forget the nights at Highbury against Shaktar and Juve, nor the incredible comeback against Hull City in the FA Cup.

Not a perfect manager, but if we get a successor who can be as generally respected and do as well as Arsene, I will be very pleased. Top four or a trophy within two years should be the benchmark for the new man, whoever he is. If it is Rafa or Low I would not complain.

It will be interesting to see what Arsene does next in his career. He seems like the sort of man who will rage against the dying of the light, and good on him for not being put out to grass by people with a quarter of his knowledge and experience. I hope he stays in the English game, but suspect he will not.

Just a shout for AMN who did will in place of Elneny today...needs to be a bit more assertive given his ability, but a run in midfield would help!

Disappointingly bland.

I can only give that two and a half Zs really. No broccoli, no use of the words "decent" or "classy", no "the game may have started to pass him by" or "send off he deserves". Although you do pick up an extra half Z for labelling the majority of the Arsenal fan base as "hounds" and anybody who agrees with you (Ada and Ernie Bevin the cat) as a "rational observer".

ZZz

“:I will speak about that a bit later in my life." Blimey , any future book deal will need to be for 6 volumes, 3 of them for all the players he nearly signed alone

Apparantly he’s coated the fans after the game in the presser for presenting a hurtful message to the world

And it’s wondered why he’s had the stick he has? Instead we get all this crap about how classy he is, and ungrateful we are

One thing is for sure, those hoping to draw a line under it all, he’s gonna be swinging a few punches still

Some of these comments are slightly irritating

http://www.islingtongazette.co.uk//spor ... cial_icons

He’s a &£#*ing card isn’t he ?

no need to pick it apart , we all know the guy , he has no idea of anything outside of his own bubble , but what else is new?

Thanks for the first 10 years Arsene , I really mean that you were unbelievable , but legend ? Sorry not in my world

Ha ha you know he’s absolutely boiling with rage because he’s a massive egotist and reserves his famous courtesy for those he considers worthy.

He’s always been an elitist dick I’m *%^@*** delighted he’s gone and no silly deferential *%^@ is going to tell me what I “owe” him.

I personally don’t give a flying *%^@ how the club is perceived “worldwide” but I can’t imagine the children of Africa and Asia were too thrilled by our performance in the recent cup final against City.

He genuinely thinks he is the club.

I wish he would just *%^@ off now.

Lacazette has a better goals to minutes ratio that Lukaku and Firminho in the league this season

Wenger on managing another English club: "If you speak about emotions that would certainly be emotionally difficult for me. At the moment it's difficult to say 'never' but at the moment I speak to you I'm too attached to this club."


The fact after only a few days he’s discussing the thought of this would suggest he’s a little bitter

I think he’s totally unaware nobody decent would be in for him.

Arsenal have 13.5m followers on Twitter. Many from round the world. I have no real issue if someone in Canada, LA, China, Australia or Middle East want to support Arsenal, but filling a football stadium is about logistics and locality. You don’t anger your home fan base by saying things Wenger does.

Funny thing is the club went to the effort of concucting a story that Wenger hadn't been asked to leave and presented his departure as the end of an era rather than something negative however because he's bitter he hasn't gone along with it.

If he had said something along the lines of "The club and myself have had measured discussions about this day and we felt it best for all involved that I finish my time here" ...then the questions would simply stop but because he's bitter he's saying stuff like one day you will know the truth, I don't want to say anything other than my statement etc everyone knows what the score is. It's just like even now he can't help himself.

This article covers the points being discussed above far more eloquently than I could

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/20 ... ssion=true

Sperz fans need to give it a rest. The league is infinitely more competitive now than a dozen years ago. They aren't visibly better than Chelsea, either Manchester sides or Liverpool. We are about the only side near the top that they could possibly lay that claim to and even so, on the day, its still not an easy 3 points for them even at home.

Because there are 5 clubs who are very good, the domestic cups are now more competitive because of how difficult it is to win the league.

I have a feeling, if things remain as they are, we may not see a club outside the top 5 or 6 in the FA cup final and possibly the league cup final for the next few years at least.

I missed the first 20 minutes of the match. How was the reception for Wenger?

Very good article in that it is most likely highly accurate but just as importantly, balanced and critical without unnecessary animosity.

ffs I hoped that now he'd confirmed he was leaving that all the friggin moaning would stop.

PLEASE PLEASE SHUT THE *%^@ UP ABOUT WENGER.

Talk about anything you want but stop moaning about him. It's as boring as watching Xhaka pass backwards.................

Hit us up with your preferred topic.

I mean I can see where you’re coming from, what is there really to discuss here?

Or are you about to change your mind again on how you feel? He was dead to you as I recall just a couple of days ago?

Wenger is a big reggae fan, citing Bob Marley as a massive musical influence.

The Gunners man claims: "I love his music and the man that he was. He was not ‘fabricated’. He was real.

"I love people who do not have conventional paths and who stand out because of their talent."