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You should ignore posts such as that. We have produced many wonderful performances where we played great football but to some people, those performances never existed.

Yeah, I realised that slagging off CFC comes naturally to some here...

(note: Not the OP. )

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This probably means Wenger will still be in charge the next year and another year Arseanl will only pretend to challenge for the title.

We should ask Arsenal how relentless and proactive we were when smashing them 6-0 last year.

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We have done before. Schalke away. Swansea away. Everton away.

You're right but I feel we're too merciful. We go 1 or 2 up & we're content with that lead.

No one can convince me that magical 09/10 season wasn't the peak of entertainment for us as spectators. Lampard, Drogba & co showed absolutely no mercy that season while Hazard & Costa are fannying about outside the box letting defenders off the hook.

Even Neville has touched upon it several times so take it easy on me people.

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You're right but I feel we're too merciful. We go 1 or 2 up & we're content with that lead.

No one can convince me that magical 09/10 season wasn't the peak of entertainment for us as spectators. Lampard, Drogba & co showed absolutely no mercy that season while Hazard & Costa are fannying about outside the box letting defenders off the hook.

Even Neville has touched upon it several times so take it easy on me people.

Hazard has this attitude of not taking the shot when he has the chance, in fact fabregas too and almost our whole team pass pass pass pass pass around the box instead of being direct like we used to be in the past years which is so annoying sometimes.
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"The Arsenal FA Cup" really. When I think of the bloody Emirates, I think of Arsenal. Their shirts, their name of the stadium and their preseason Emirates Cup.

Not to mention Arsenal won it twice in the last two years.

Good point!

Whenever I think of 'The Emirates Trophy' - I always associate that with a 4th place finish ;)

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You're right but I feel we're too merciful. We go 1 or 2 up & we're content with that lead.

No one can convince me that magical 09/10 season wasn't the peak of entertainment for us as spectators. Lampard, Drogba & co showed absolutely no mercy that season while Hazard & Costa are fannying about outside the box letting defenders off the hook.

Even Neville has touched upon it several times so take it easy on me people.

Oh yes, in that case I agree.

The trouble with us is that apart from Costa, who often ends up going wide to service the box, we have nobody (even Hazard hesitates to pull the trigger at times) who can shoot outside of the box like Lamps did. I think that was one of the hopes with RLC, for him to become Lampard II. It's also one thing that Cesc (perhaps intentionally) doesn't offer in his deep role. Oscar used to shoot from long more but he doesn't seem to do it any more. Anyway, my point is that we try to pass our way into the goal, which works at times (Bilbao vs BAR comes to mind, but for it to work it does require fantastic off the ball movement which Neymar-Suarez-Messi possesses and sometimes our unit switches off - although we have done it) but we can be stopped by experienced defenders.

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