Arsenal's biggest problem is their own fans

Alex Ferguson - Crap manager (picture courtesy checkmihlyrics)

Try to imagine how Man Utd fans must be feeling right now?

Having been handed a chance to pull away from Arsenal after their home draw against Liverpool, they threw it away. It's not the first time that it's happened this season either. Despite being given chance after chance by Arsenal to wrap up the league, they've blown it time and time again.

We've seen it against Fulham, Everton, Bolton, Sunderland, Citeh, Villa, Birmingham, Tottenham, Wolves, Liverpool and now (most recently) Newcastle.

The manager is crap and a lot of the players don't deserve to wear the United shirt. Sir Alex Ferguson should be sacked immediately and they should have a good clear out. What has 'Sir' Alex ever done for the club anyway? The man is a clown.

I mean, Spurs for f*** sake, they aren't even a proper team. Not like ManUSA and Liverpool who get all the referees' decisions given in their favour. If you don't even have that, how can you expect to win the league?

They will probably loose to Everton, Chelsea and Arsenal now and be lucky to qualify for the Champions League next season at this rate.

Tomasz Kuszczak and Wes Brown are shite. Obertan and Bebe? A f***ing disgrace. Totally sh**. And what about Owen Hargreaves and Michael Owen - what have they he done recently. They are just a burden on the wage budget. And Darren Gibson is just not good enough for this club in my opinion. They have a decent first-eleven, but just don't have the strength in depth. Don't even get me started on Johnny Evans.

United need to invest heavily in new players in the summer or they'll probably be relegated next season. The squad just isn't strong enough. But the owners are only interested in putting us into huge debt and making a quick buck.

Does any of this sound familiar? It's what I expect a large Arsenal fans would be saying right now if they were ManUre fans. But ManUre fans aren't saying that, of course.

I don't think it is any coincidence that Arsenal have the best away record in the Premier League but such a poor home record. Our home support is shite.

If Liverpool had been away to ManUre last Sunday instead of Arsenal, their fans would have been right behind their team, urging them on and howling at every refereeing decision to put pressure on him. All I could hear at the Emirates were moans and groans. It sounded as if they didn't want their team to win, and they certainly didn't deserve for their team to win. All that nervousness in the crowd passes itself on to the players on the pitch.

As fans, we don't realise how lucky we are. I would love to be able to go to Ashburton Grove every home match and cheer on my team but I can't. Those who can should be more grateful and really get behind their team.

So come on Gooners, give the team your backing and we can win this league!

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Newcastle v Arsenal match preview - it's all about the squad

Picture courtesy The 'Arris'

The press are going on today about how Arsene Wenger is now taking the Carling Cup more seriously because we haven't won a trophy in five years and he's desperate, but in trust his selection policy hasn't changed.

The policy has always been to select players that didn't start the match the previous weekend and aren't likely to start the following weekend. We have on occasion in the past selected teams in the early rounds that have included none of the first team and none of the subs, but that has only been when we have been drawn against lower division opposition and as Wenger has said many times he 'picks a team that is capable of winning the match'.

The reason our Carling Cup teams are stronger now is that our squad is much strongerand we have less injuries. Assuming that our first choice eleven is as follows...

Fabianski; Sagna, Squilaci, Vermaelen, Clichy; Song, Wilshere; Nasri, Fabregas, Arshavin; van Persie

...there are some impressive players who will only make the bench when everyone is fit: Almunia (I know!), Koscielny, Eboue, Diaby, Rosicky, Walcott, and Chamakh. Even more impressively, there are some very good players who won't even make the bench: Szczesny, Mannone, Djourou, Gibbs, Frimpong, Denilson, Lansbury, Ramsey, Emmanuel-Thomas, Vela and Bendtner.

It could be argued that we need to have a few injuries occasionally to keep everyone happy. Either that, or we give them a match in the Carling Cup. With that in mind, I expect tonights line-up to be:

                   Szczesny
Eboue, Djouou, Koscielny, Gibbs
              Denilson, Diaby
       Walcott, Rosicky, Vela
                   Bendtner

Arsene Wenger has been talking up Emmanual-Thomas and Henri Lansbury this week so I expect them to be on the bench. One or both may even start.

I'm calm and relaxed about tonight's match. Partly, this is due to the fact that we look like we have a strong enough team out to beat a weakened Newcastle United, but also, although it would be nice to win the Carling Cup, I won't be heart-broken if we don't. That said, it is about time we won a trophy and Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal under George Graham have all won the trophy in the pastas a stepping stone to going on to win better things.

Also, it will shut the press up about 'not won anything for five years'. Although it will probably change to 'haven't won anything bar the Carling Cup for five years' until we win something proper.

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Newcastle v Arsenal match preview - it's all about the squad