Arsenal were impressive, but they only beat Chelsea’s ‘B’ team…..

Go f yourself Rio, we don’t give a s*hit about your opinion, concentrate on your dear United losers

Agree with corporate man, on Ferdinand’s priorities, but yes it’s also true that Chelsea were undermanned. Arsenal can only take it one game at at a time and wait for that the other teams to take points off each other. That doesn’t mean that Edu or Arteta can remain complacent. A serious run in the second half of the season means that Arsenal will need at least one top priority reinforcement.

It doesn’t matter if we beat their under 12s, as long as we get 3 points from beating Chelsea at their own $#!t heap and move on. I dont do excuses, that is upto the manager to overcome, that why they are paid enormous sums. Its about getting the most out of a season and its one game.

Chelsea was unbeaten at the bridge until we beat them convincingly. Chelsea has a large squad unlike what we had or have. Arteta won the FA cup but then took out all the egos, the big-name players, no matter the big wages/transfer fees that came with them. Arteta used no excuse, instead, he looked to the young and hungry so to build a foundation for a successful future possibility

When I hear shit like this two games comes to mind.
First our Carling Cup final against Chelsea in 2007.
Chelsea’s line up included Peter Cech, R Carvalho, Wayne Bridge, Claude Makalele, Frank Lampard, Michael Ballack, John Terry, Andriy Shevchenko and Didier Drogba.
Playing against; Manuel Almunia, Justin Hoyte, Philippe Senderos, Armand Troare, Theo Walcot, Cesc Fabregas, Denilson, Abou Diaby, Jeremie Aliadiere etc. Till date nobody made a fuss about the mismatch!
Another is our second leg Champions league match against Barca, not sure if it was 2008 or 2009. Almost all our first team were either suspended or injured. Messi used a highly depleted team to score 4 goals. Till date they keep using it as his moment of magic nobody make reference to the fact that the first team players were not available.
So in one word, my response to Rio Ferdinand’s comment is: “mtcheeeww”

I think it’s brilliant that Rio said what he did
Just shows that he is rattled that his expensively assembled ManU team with the greatly respected Ten Hag at the helm are misfiring when the Arsenal are top of the league

Football pundits are mostly hacks just trying to earn a few bob by courting controversy. Thinking their past glories, failures and everything in between puts them in good stead to pass comments.

I listen to talksport often and Graham Souness is another that can never give real credit to arsenal despite what we achieve. The best any he and most other pundits can do is be disingenuously conciliatory. Souness still thinks we won’t be in the top four and has City, Newcastle Spurs and Man U ahead of us come the season’s end.

To give an example of the stupidity of the ex player who now thinks he’s the oracle on all things football. Jim White, Simon Jordan and Danny Murphy were discussing an event recently whereby a player played in football boots which had an anti Tory message and was reprimanded. Jordan and Murphy were obviously against it and gave all sorts of idiotic reasons to justify their beliefs. But Murphy, went even further to say that if it was a player in the premiership, and because of the bigger platform, then that player should be allowed because of his supposed social standing affords him the right to make protest. Yet almost in the same breath and seconds before was denigrating the lowly, non premiership player. And to make things worse. When Murphy was challenged by Jim White, backtracked again

…………can you now see the idiocy, ignorance and vitriol of the footballing pundit and the world they live in !