Comments on: Liverpool Verminated as Wenger goes mental + player ratings

By: Xabier

Xabier — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:49:39 +0000

Joni is an idiot. Sean Wright-Philips is a shit footballer. Shit, shit, shit. Always dribbles into the defnder and is predictable.

By: matt

matt — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:19:36 +0000

You really have to know nothing about football to say that a 20-year old who played no more than a couple of hours this season is god-awful. Did you even read the piece linked by Jammathon? I thought not.
As rosicknote says, Thierry Henry was watching games from the bench at the same age. No doubts your ilk would have labelled him shit too.

I’m not saying Almunia has to be replaced but a solution has to be found, either wih or without the player. I’d rather it be with him as I think he is a great keeper when in form. I wonder what happened this season to make him so insecure. Is it on or off the pitch?

By: NashIsArsenal

NashIsArsenal — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:14:53 +0000

Finally some positive remarks about Theo!

I think the boy could be world class, but he clearly works on confidence and that can’t be sky high due to the number of injuries he has suffered recently.

He gives us something that no one else does.. we need to support him.

By: rosicknote

rosicknote — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:47:14 +0000

Can I ask you Walcott bashers:

Where was Didier Drogba when he was 20?

By: joni

joni — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:02:52 +0000

excellent footballer with pace = Thierry Henry

good footballer with pace = Sean Wright Phillips

average footballer with pace = Aaron Lennon

Shit footballer with pace = Usain Bolt

and then there’s Theo..

By: Arse&Nose

Arse&Nose — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:12:13 +0000

Theo tends to take a few games to get his touch back, once he does he will be ok.

By: Gooner Mike

Gooner Mike — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:58:12 +0000

What is with the condemnation of the anti-theo brigade?! He is one of our own and it gives me no pleasure to say this but he is God awful!!! He has no football sense and this has nothing to do with injuries. You can be rusty but to have no ability to hold up the ball when Aurelio is up your backside is criminal. I thought he was in the FBI witness protection programme becuse he went into hiding on Sunday. It is not only the big games either. He is unable to terrorise the weaker defenders, so we don’t even have a flat track bully. Aaron Lennon similarly has pace and uses it to run at defenders. At this stage all theo needs to do is knock it past a defender and run around him and can’t even mamage that. Let’s be real guys, we cut him slack because he is English. A certain Brazilian and Frenchman are slightly better than theo and get worse abuse.Rambo had more poise and composure in the 4 mins he was on than Theo had in his 60mins of being MIA. And a parting thought for his defenders…Theo picks up £60k a week. Is he worth it? HELL NO

By: rayman

rayman — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:17:08 +0000

Its an odd thing to say but Theo is not really a natural footballer. He came to the game relatively late and does not have the natural first touch and skills of many players. But he has blinding pace and enough skill to be very very good. But he needs games to get his touch going. He is a hugely frustrating player when he is playing badly because he doesn’t have a good footballing brain, but once he clicks, he becomes virtually unstoppable. And it can happen in the next game, or the game after that, he has hardly played this season and he is really only starting to play his way into form. When he gets there, if he can stay injury free, he will be massively important for us this year.

Almunia has to go, I also have concerns about fabianski but I would prefer him to come in now and hope that despite his rushes of blood to the head and sometimes plain weird decision making he will make up for them by at least trying to dominate his 6 yard box, his shot stopping and his sweeping up behind the defence which he does far better than almunia. Almunia’s nerves have gone, I actually feel very sorry for him, he reminds me a bit of manninger, his nerves went and every game looked like torture for him, Almunia looks like that right now.

By: wandarah

wandarah — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:05:18 +0000

Australian *and* South African?

Truly, you are spawned from the anus of Satan himself.

Much Love,
A Kiwi.

By: KHM

KHM — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:07:12 +0000

I’m a big fan of Walcott, and I think we will need to cut him some slack.

We’ve seen numerous games where we have been lacking some bite in attack(without RVP). I think Walcott has that “bite” because of pace. He needs three more matches then he’ll be back.

Our alternatives offer nothing going forward. Nasri, Diaby and Rosicky always go sideways. Never trying anything constructive down the flank. That is needed.