Arsenal (N) FA Cup Semi Final pre match thread

[SatOnTheWall]

He’s a northerner (like most if not all referees) which means he’ll give decisions your way tomorrow

How little you understand about the North.

 

[Jacob Smith]

Should be tough enough. They’ve found a little form and a bit if team spirit, their keeper has played very well of late. All the same it will depend on whether we turn up, if we do we win.

We owe them from 2016/17, hopefully avenge that tomorrow.

If you mean Leno I think he’s out injured

 

[Harvster]

If you mean Leno I think he’s out injured

I presume Pav meant Martinez, who has indeed been playing well of late

 

[s1ty m]

This is nonsense. Virtually all of the PL pitches are 105m x 68m. This includes Wembley, Arsenal. Villa, United, City, Newcastle, and Southampton. Others are very close to this.

Certain former grounds such as the old White Hart were rather smaller (100m x 67m) as were Highbury.

I didn't know that. Always seems bigger.

 

[BringBackSwales]

He’s a northerner (like most if not all referees) which means he’ll give decisions your way tomorrow

What a stupid generalisation, a bit like saying all arsenal fans are needy Tarquin cunnts

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Whatever happened to @Gladstonian Liberal by the way? Always a decent opposition poster. And I love his user name (I’m a great admirer of William Ewart Gladstone – a titan of British politics).

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

I didn't know that. Always seems bigger.

Wasn’t the old Maine Road pitch broader by a couple of yards than nearly all other First Division pitches? I seem to remember reading that.
Favoured our wing-based game. ;-)

 

[AliBobbyJ]

Wasn’t the old Maine Road pitch broader by a couple of yards than nearly all other First Division pitches? I seem to remember reading that.
Favoured our wing-based game. ;-)

yes and the floodlight pylons were the tallest.
(And the back streets outside were the cleanest.)

 

[Fordyboy46]

Ederson, Walker, Mendy, Fernandinho, Laporte, Rodri, De Bruyne, Gundogan, Mahrez, Sterling, Jesus.

Subs: Carson, Cancelo, Zinchenko, Stones, Doyle, B.Silva, D.Silva, Foden, Garcia.

2-1 City

 

[Franny's toilet roll]

yes and the floodlight pylons were the tallest.
(And the back streets outside were the cleanest.)

and the alleyways were the likeliest places to get done