1) Three games, three utterly appalling refs. Mike Riley ruined that game tonight.
2) Marcus Bent needs an almighty kick up the arse. Again.
3) We gave Arsenal too much bloody room. Again.
4) Scott Carson was a diamond. Again.
5) Cashburden Grove is EERIE - so many people, so little noise. And being parked next to row after row of new Arsenal fans was weird - did anybody else clock how they kept looking around at the big screen for possible replays after just about every incident, even though they weren't all shown?
6) Leaving after the third goal and getting home by 10.30 was my best decision of the night.
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I was hoping that with Darren out he might think "here's my chance to show what I'm really made of", but it sounds like it's more "they can't drop me, so I don't really have to try".
Not surprising once we were down to ten men, but even before then? Oh, and who played right back once Sankofa went off?
Unless someone starts scoring shedloads of goals, I can't see anyone else getting player of the year. Which is quite funny considering how many we've actually conceded.
Onwards and upwards. Hopefully Pardew has got some masterplan as to how we're going to cope without Bent Jnr, but it looks like being a long old month or more.
hard to summarise this game, the sending off was annoying as it was unlikely that Van Persie would have got to the ball first so Sankofa panicked a bit in hauling him down
once that happened it was game over
i thought Marcus Bent tried hard, he seemed to run a lot but i can count on one hand the number of times the ball out to him was playable
my marks out of 10 are thus:
Carson 10 : magnificent & not at fault for any of the goals - if ever a scoreline did not reflect the heroics of a goalkeeper
Sankofa 5 : did he panic? would i panic i nthe same situation - cost us any slim chances of a result
Traore 5: didn't seem to feature much, most of Arsenals play undertandably coming down the right hand flank or through the middle
Diawara 6 : 90% in control & 10% all at sea, thought he did ok & calmer on the ball than Borat
Borat 4 : all over the place at times, definitely not a right back & definitely not a set piece taker - when will we learn?
Faye 4 : one of his better games, still jogs around like it's a training session & couldn't trap a bag of cement
Ambrose 5: very quiet
Holland 6: ran his socks off but chasing shadows all night
Romm 5: seemed to be putting a bit more effort in, dreadfull final ball 9 times out of 10
M Bent 5: no service, no threat
Hughes 5: did nothing prior to his enforced subbing
Fortune 5: unconvincing
Kishishev 4 : gave Arsenal their 4th goal
Thomas 5: contribution = zilch
overall pretty dispiriting & a good example of why The Premier League sucks more every year - look at the top 4 tonight & look at "Revenue earned from Champions League" in last 5 seasons............the Championship is the home of true football isn't it??
Atmosphere 0: made the Library seem like an Iraqi Execution chamber
** for any computer geeks out there (hello Razil) - watched it in glorious full screen on my PC, Setanta over here is streamed on the internet at 1000kbps & upwards - amazing technoloy