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After the all the pushy swaggering that's gone on in this thread (understandable of course, we'd do it too), this is touching. Makes me feel like Manchester City are that honest little band that finally makes it to the big time, and it's all great and exhilirating at the start but ultimately...

This is sort of what Dortmund did at the Emirates, a match which we lost 1-0. But we learned our lessons from that and I'll be curious to see if we try to approach this game the same way we did the return-fixture in Dortmund. Try to contain, hold on, sometimes just by our finger tips, and be...

Minimizing expectation =/= failing to support and believe in your team wholeheartedly. Which I'm sure long-term City fans would know all about? The Arsenal has been a cruel mistress the last few years, leading us on, and then standing us up sometimes at the last moment. This is just how we...

I'm baffled. But also intensely curious. Could you explain please?

Excuse me? Our English is pretty shit, but we know that 'nope' means no. I could tell you it's the way we play, something about the kit, the novelty of our name (I've had to explain to people that no, Arsenal is not a place in England), but really its more than any of these things. For many...

Us Indians don't have a prayer of making it to the World Cup for generations to come, but we still love the tournament (as everyone does I think, except some wonky Americans?) and want to be a part of it. For that reason many of us get behind someone elses' national team. This can be for any...

Replace Bayern with Dortmund and it's the same for you guys. The final whistle came at 3:30 am my time, I went right to sleep. But it is only human nature, is it not, to be more eager to discuss something when your side is doing well rather when their having a hard time? It's certainly not...

I think this will be our undoing. Loving the ride though. A United friend of mine tried to poke me a little about last nights' result, took him a second to realize what he was getting into though, before he started hastily retreating. I asked him how wonderful it must have been for Moyes to...

Re: Arsenal Thread 2013/14 With Podolski coming back that's not quite true anymore. And Walcott can play as the central striker although, it's not really ideal.

Re: Arsenal Thread 2013/14 Precisely. I disagree. I think they managed the game very well right up until the end. True, they allowed Everton to dominate posession and dictate play for much of the match, but that means nothing so long as we prevented them from carving out really clear-cut...

I kind of prefer it this way though: the constantly changing excuses amusing.

We won at Dortmund not by really dominating the midfield but by hunkering down, just about weathering their storm and then being clinically efficient with the couple chances we made at their end. I'm curious to see whether we'll follow that same kind of approach in Napoli and if it works their...

I think we do well to take between 4-6 points from those fixtures. As mentioned Everton is in form, but that looks like our likeliest chance of a win, keep in mind we have punctured in form teams before - Liverpool and Southampton for example - when they came to the Emirates. Napoli away is a...

Done nowt? He leads the league with six assists so far this season.

Their best chance came around the 53rd? minute with a header inside the box, only kept out by a brilliant Szczesny save. That was at 1-0 too, so absolutely vital.

I didn't say that we need Giroud or Podolski to always score. My concern is with the facilitating role Giroud plays in this team, he really is the complete center forward (to the point where he plays a vital role in defending set-pieces in our own box). There are goals in this team, but I think...

Looking at United vs. Tottenham tomorrow I'm feeling the same kind of pleasant dilemma I saw a thread about on here when we were playing United. I can't really decide what result I want. If Spurs got another drubbing it would be great for their confidence to be shattered even further, but then...

For me it comes down to that extra striker. Theo is being eased back into the side and Podolski is still to return, but neither of them can do what Giroud does, neither has the back-to-the-goal ability he brings. Giroud is kind of a panel, an enabler who brings out the attacking instincts of the...

Seconded.

You are correct, we beat them at the Velodrome and are playing them at home now. Given the kind of away form Arsenal have been in, you might consider that a disadvantage? Sure you could expect that, and not be out of order, I just don't like when people say anything is a 'given' in sport...