Arsenal Thread

[Jook]

Did you SEE the goal he let in against Leicester? Flailing your arms pathetically is NOT good goalkeeping

[FLiam]

Have you SEEN the best defensive record in the Premiership? He must be dong something right.

I have done the same like mudda, I have found faith in him again which is good.

He has made a lot of important saves this seaason including the one at Bolton

[TheArsenal]

Have you SEEN the best defensive record in the Premiership?

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pwned

I like the guy and we should keep him, but remember we only played 4 games after the Spurs game. We played more than that between the Old Trafford incidents and the St. Mary's incident, so we know this behaviour can go away and come back. I'm happy for him to stay between the sticks, but I'm not ready to say he has a cool temperment until he proves it over a decent amount of time.

[Jook]

Have you SEEN the best defensive record in the Premiership? He must be dong something right.

I have done the same like mudda, I have found faith in him again which is good.

He has made a lot of important saves this seaason including the one at Bolton

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Or your defence is doing something right? Seriously, he's been awful in my eyes. Possibly your only weak link in a great side.

[Guest Pirate Chasin' Booty]

I think the main reason he doesn't get praise outside of Arsenal fans is because of peoples hate towards him, whilst they're too busy calling him a thug they're ignoring the fact that he has made some incredible saves.

[FLiam]

Yep, my theory too

[TMM]

Same here.

I love my little sig...don't you love my sig?

[Guest Pirate Chasin' Booty]

No, its annoyingly blurry.

[edcq]

his sig is alright, i suppose . . . it took me a while to get it. there's no L at the end of Arsena because they never lost, clever i would say.

[TMM]

No, its annoyingly blurry.

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Shhhh....not much I can do about that, which is annoying. When i saved it, it was blurry. Awkward...

[FLiam]

I love that, I was gonna use it!!! I still will

[TheArsenal]

where did you find that?

I think it's great!!

EDIT:- Found it!!

Edited May 17, 2004 by TheArsenal

[Guest _sTe_]

You should have saved it as a .gif

Interesting article by Steven Howard in the Sun today. I can't find a copy of it on the Sun's site, but it was basicly praising Sol Campbell.

Apparently, we haven't lost while he's been playing since November 13th 2002, and in that match he was sent off with the score at 1-1 (ended 2-1, I forget who it was against).

[G-O-D]

Campbell is now pivotal to the England defence with injuries to Woodgate and Southgate.

If Campbell is not present for Euro 2004, England's defence would instantly collapse.

[TheArsenal]

Sol Campbell is the first outfield England player to ever be called up for 5 different international tournaments.

(Euro '96, France '98, Euro 2000, Japorea '02, Euro 2004)

[FLiam]

Special trophy for Gunners

The Premier League have commissioned a one-off trophy to commemorate Arsenal's achievement of remaining unbeaten during an entire League season.

It will be a replica of the Premiership trophy, which was awarded to Arsenal's championship-winning side on Saturday.

However, the composition will be reversed, with gold replacing silver and vice-versa.

Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore said: "This award has been under consideration for some time."

source: bbc.co.uk/sport

Nice to see we get a trophy for that, we alreayd got one from the News of the World.

[TheArsenal]

It's good that we are getting some official recognition from the FA, but that trophy is gonna be so weird.

I can't imagine the main body of the Premiership trophy in gold, with a silver crown and trim.

[supergrass]

It's a nice gesture, if a little late. It would have been nice to lift along with the Premiership, but it'll still be good to see.

[TheArsenal]

It's a nice gesture, if a little late. It would have been nice to lift along with the Premiership, but it'll still be good to see.

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They said they didn't want to make the decision before the game as to whether the trophy should be made because then they, as the governing body of a competition, would be judging which way a match would go before it had kicked off.

Then their could have been claims of the FA making the referee bias so they don't lose face and all sorts of implications could have come from it. It's the same reason "Manchester United" hasn't allready been engraved on the FA Cup.

[supergrass]

Fair enough. Hopefully it won't be too long until they get to lift it though. If it's going to be the same size as the Premiership trophy that's going to be an awful lot of gold on show there.