Good question, I was thinking the same. Much as we all agree he inherited a great back 4 and rode on their success, I think it fair to say that Ramsay's goal was very much made by Wenger in spirit and Emery is benefitting from that.

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So now Wenger is making goals in spirit !terrific. His ghost roams the Emirates looking to take credit for anything that may occur.

If that was the case Aubameyang rather than skimming the ball across the box for Ramsey would have chose to cut the ball back to Monreal on the edge of the box who then passes back to Xhaka and then ......

Actually, thinking abut it, you are not wrong at all. All that never shoot if a pass can put someone in a better position .

Just reading where Gary Neville says we won't end up challenging for the title. My reaction is "so what?". We were 6th last year. Challenging for the title is way, way over expectations. It's really a nonsensical comment to some extent. No one, including Arsenal fans expect to be challenging City this season. It's asking way, way too much for this club. If we end up doing so, its fantastic.

We take one match at a time, and see where it take us. This season is about two things. Fixing the holes in the squad (defense, belief, etc.) and getting back to CL football. Those are reasonable and doable goals. It doesn't mean we don't try and beat any of the top 5 clubs, which is silly to think otherwise, but just that setting goals way higher than what we are realistically capable of is more detriment than anything else.

So now Wenger is making goals in spirit !terrific. His ghost roams the Emirates looking to take credit for anything that may occur.

If that was the case Aubameyang rather than skimming the ball across the box for Ramsey would have chose to cut the ball back to Monreal on the edge of the box who then passes back to Xhaka and then ......

I agree with Davey. Clearly Emery inherited a lot from Wenger. Much of it good, some of it pretty fetid.

You seem to want to have your cake and eat it, Top Gun.

You seem to want to say
a) that NOTHING of Wenger's spirit lingers. This argument is employed when something good happens. For example, if a good movement is completed with someone actually having a bloody shot even if they are more than 3 yards out (as opposed to the ball, after reaching Özil in a highly promising position, being shuttled via a series of lovely backward and sideways passes, back to our goalkeeper).

AND
b) that his spirit still hangs around like a bad fart. This argument is trundled out (and the NOTHING argument is parked) when something goes wrong.

Wenger who? Wenger was the $@$*#y swiss army knife, bought out by Victorinox so as not to sully the great name of Swiss Army Knives.

That goal was more down to the opposition having given up the fight. Fulham are going straight down, mark my words.
That is the sort of goal that you can get when you're taking the piss out of your opponents, and they couldn't give a toss because their wages have come in already. The Mood with the fans seems to have changed though, and I was singing "Unai Emery's Red and White Army" in an English Pub before my real game started. Very nice actually.

But the reality is that Arsenal have played no-one in this 9 game run. They struggled against Man City and Chelsea, and they're only playing Europa League this season. Let's see what happens til New Year. Although looking at the fixtures, there is only Liverpool at the start of November, then Spurs and ManU at the start of December, and Liverpool at the end of the Year that stand in our way of winning every game til 2019. I think we'll probably lose those 4, but those games are our mark this year. Get a couple of points from them and we are improving.

Emery needs to get a winger, a centre back, and probably another central midfielder by next season, but it's looking good so far. The team spirit seems to be getting better, lots of people are now thankfully telling the truth about the growth that has finally been removed from the Arse, and the Future looks bright.

I've never understood this saying.

I've got a cake.
What do I want to do with it?
Well, eat it, of course.

Yeah, I'm eating my cake...

The run we're on now started against West Ham, then Cardiff City, Newcastle, Vorskla Poltava, Everton, Brentford, Watford, Qarabag and Fulham, FFS.
Arsenal Ladies would have a pretty good go at that load of collective garbage.

I'm still impressed though, I'm happy with Unai, I got FIFA 19 and have started a 2nd Career Mode with The Arsenal, and will probably be going to an away game again this season with renewed optimism about where the team is going.

We are playing Europa League, so we have a real chance of going far in that competition and going for 4th place, and make no mistake, 4th would be a big result, as you say. I'm confident we will be challenging. THFC have already showed that new Stadium/Champions League/no new signings could be a bit tricky, Man U...well, who knows, Liverpool are 2 injuries away from mediocrity, only leaves Chelsea and Man City really, and they did turn us over early on, so those 2 must be what we're aiming for...

I'm hoping for 3rd, would be very happy with 4th, would consider 6th a disaster.
And at least semis in the Europa League and FA Cup.

I've never understood this saying.

I've got a cake.
What do I want to do with it?
Well, eat it, of course.


Ooooooooooh, but then the cake is gone. Oh no, what can I do? Fuuuuck! Where can I get another cake? Hmmmm. Probably the same place I got the last one. The cake shop!!!

Whereas what you seem to think is that the best thing you can do with a freshly baked cake is to put it on a pedestal and not eat it, just gaze at it admiringly all day long, remembering what it looked like when it first arrived, imagining what it would have tasted like on that first day when it was fresh and inviting, but the reality is that it's slowly decaying in front of you, and you're getting hungrier and hungrier, and eventually the cake will be inedible and will have to be thrown into the garbage?!?


Yeah, I'm eating my cake...

On the contrary I think there is nothing left of Wengers legacy it’s been rightly dismantled. Pretty much all the technical team got fired, we’ve even got a new CEO. New methods and tactics.

What Emery hasn’t been able to change though is the players he inherited and gaps in his squad as this will take significant investment and time. I’m pretty sure Emery will sign a wide midfield plAyer first opportunity. What seems illogical to me though is to put down Ramsey’s goal to Arsene when it displayed confidence and decisiveness that was beyond Wengers side for some time let’s be real.

...Yeah, I'm eating my cake...

I've never understood this saying.

Because you can have cake or eat it, you can’t do both. If you eat it you don’t have it anymore.

You’re taking about having cake THEN eating it. You can’t have your cake AND simultaneously have eaten it. It’s isn’t Shrodingers cake.

Yup, that's why at the end I put this...



It's about that one moment in time, where all that exists in the Universe is you and a cake. It isn't in a box, you can see it, and most definitely there is an option there to eat it. Why would anyone chose the option " Do bugger all" ? It's a cake, after all.
Even if you didn't like cake you could, I assume, take it as if to eat it, and then throw it away. So why would anyone take the option " I want to have a cake but NOT eat it? " That is my question.

This has been debate in pubs all over. Which club had the greatest PL season? I think our invincibles and last season's City side stick out for me. But to be fair, I wasn't around in the early days of the PL.

It's tough to argue against an unbeaten season. Did we even look like losing? City didn't look like losing through the calendar season..till they lost. The Man Utd treble season stands out but they won the league by a point. I think the 2000 side was more dominant in terms of the league. Their 3 losses includes a 5-0 drubbing at Chelsea and a 3-0 loss at Newcastle so....

Tough but as I said, I'm biased.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/45759826

Did one of you old geezers date one of these women? An gooner in LA had this pic from his father's days. Why do I have a feeling Babu has carnal knowledge of one of them? The far right...hmmm....talk about 'bell bottoms'.

We'll see when we face liverpool. Nice season so far. Excellent wakeup call at the beginning. Then a stretch of not too tough but decent opposition to sort things out.

Following on from what you call "decent opposition", it should be remembered that we have played some fairly decent teams over the winning run. Cardiff are the only side who I perceive as being close to relegation certainties (Huddersfield are the other but we haven't played them yet). Newcastle and Fulham may struggle, but my own bet would be on them surviving, even if only just. We've beaten Newcastle and Fulham away, as well as in Cardiff a Warnock-led side who try to make up for a lack of quality with fight. I don't see any of those three away from home as a walk in the park.

At home we've beaten West Ham, Everton and a Watford team that had enjoyed a fine start to the season. Dropping points in any of those games would have been disappointing. But they're not bad at all. I'd say the worst teams we've faced were in the Europa League, and both games were negotiated comfortably. In my view it's been a positive start to the season, despite the defeats against City and Chelsea.

That's French singer-songwriter Francois Hardy on the right circa 1969 :

She's 25 there.

This has been debate in pubs all over. Which club had the greatest PL season? I think our invincibles and last season's City side stick out for me. But to be fair, I wasn't around in the early days of the PL.

It's tough to argue against an unbeaten season. Did we even look like losing? City didn't look like losing through the calendar season..till they lost. The Man Utd treble season stands out but they won the league by a point. I think the 2000 side was more dominant in terms of the league. Their 3 losses includes a 5-0 drubbing at Chelsea and a 3-0 loss at Newcastle so....

Tough but as I said, I'm biased.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/45759826

It might be strange today but if you put all those title teams against each other I could quite easily see the first Chelsea team under Mourinho coming out on top - certainly in one off games. Only 15 goals conceded all season and 25 clean sheets. Could any of the other great teams have broken them down?
The invisibles will always have one thing the others never got so I’d always back them in an argument with other fans but that Mourinho team was ruthlessly brilliant, not as easy on the eye as the others but they didn’t care

Francoise Hardy made some gorgeous records.

This has been debate in pubs all over. Which club had the greatest PL season? I think our invincibles and last season's City side stick out for me. But to be fair, I wasn't around in the early days of the PL.

It's tough to argue against an unbeaten season. Did we even look like losing? City didn't look like losing through the calendar season..till they lost. The Man Utd treble season stands out but they won the league by a point. I think the 2000 side was more dominant in terms of the league. Their 3 losses includes a 5-0 drubbing at Chelsea and a 3-0 loss at Newcastle so....

Tough but as I said, I'm biased.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/45759826

This will be hard for many people, particularly in the media to accept, but before the PL there was a very competitive league where George Graham took our 1990/1 team to only one defeat. Of course there were a few of Cloughies teams and even Liverpool teams who I think were very good as well.

If they want to restrict themselves to the PL then if an undefeated season is so easy why have the mega rich teams not yet repeated.

Francoise Hardy made some gorgeous records.