West Ham United V Arsenal (09/12, 20:00 GMT) SS Main Event.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

If there's two teams that are all too keen to help the other ailing side out, it's us and West Ham.

6-6

[dazthegooner]

Worth a £1 bet :unsure:

[Marc Overmars]

Come on you stupid cunts.

[selassie]

Another loss.

[GP]

0-3

[Mac76]

Auba hatter - and Arsenal lose 4-3...

[McNamara That Ghost...]

West Ham: Martin, Fredericks, Balbuena, Ogbonna, Cresswell, Snodgrass, Noble, Rice, Fornals, Felipe Anderson, Antonio.
Subs: Zabaleta, Roberto, Sanchez, Haller, Diop, Masuaku, Holland.

Arsenal: Leno, Bellerin, Chambers, Sokratis, Tierney, Torreira, Xhaka, Pepe, Ozil, Martinelli, Aubameyang.
Subs: Martinez, David Luiz, Maitland-Niles, Guendouzi, Nelson, Saka, Lacazette.


Should be a good front three to watch. :popcorn:

Martinelli. :bow:

Carragher and our future boss Rafa are in the studio.

[Master Splinter]

Front three is potentially excellent if they had something worthwhile supporting them.

Ozil and Xhaka :sick:.

The only positives this season were Ozil getting binned and Xhaka self-destructing. But now here they are, pubbing it up as regulars again. Instantly negates everything.

Willock now completely destroyed by Emery and Ljunberg. He'll be tearing it up in Germany or France next year after being woefully managed here.

[Niall_Quinn]

Are Liverpool playing in our place tonight? Have Arsenal or West Ham been mentioned yet?

[Mac76]

Good to see luiz dropped and tierney in the starting lineup - and i agree that front three looks good

Maybe there's hope for freddie after all....

[McNamara That Ghost...]

I'd rather they forgot about us tbf.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Bellerin injured, AMN in.

[Marc Overmars]

Bellerin injured in the warm up. :doh:

In comes the disaster that is AMN.

[dazthegooner]

Think we should just give up on Bellerin if a good offer comes in get rid.

[Mac76]

Bellerin injured, AMN in.

:ilt:

[Marc Overmars]

Don’t know why but I fancy us to get the win here.

1-2.

[Master Splinter]

Our best two defenders, Holding and Bellerin, both appear to be crocks.

Arsenal are back :bow:.

[AFC Leveller]

3-1.

Can’t defend, don’t create enough and confidence is low.

Kroenke out!

[Master Splinter]

West Ham can go above us with a four-goal win.

[Niall_Quinn]

Mike Dean the ref :haha:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Come on Arsenal. :bow:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Antonio with some solid defending for us.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Torreira enjoys being on the floor.

[fakeyank]

Horrible horrible build up.. the link between defense and midfield is absolutely horrendous. Not one player who wants to receive the ball and take it forward.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Oh yeah Alexis Sanchez, famous pianist!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Pepe. :cloud9:

[Niall_Quinn]

We're dominating our own 1/3rd.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Our corner somehow ends up back with Leno, from our own play.

[fakeyank]

Absolute shambles. No game plan. The players are so scared that every ball is a sideways or backwards pass.

[Niall_Quinn]

Pepe floored by a thunderous fingernail, almost to the face.

We have to stop that shit.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Leno schooling Antonio.

[Niall_Quinn]

Why don't they just lump the fucking thing over the top and let the front 3 chase it? How could it be any less effective than this shite?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Sideways and backwards. :bow:

[Marc Overmars]

Horribly ineffective football thus far.

[Niall_Quinn]

Dean got absolutely everything wrong that it was possible to get wrong.

[GP]

Really enjoying this

[Globalgunner]

The only team who can spend 5 mins and 50 passes in the opposition area without a shot on target. Same shit every season

[Niall_Quinn]

They actually checked that with VAR :doh:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Martinelli wiped out by that scrote Snodgrass, booked.

[Thierrymon]

Same old story, had all the possession but havent even had a shot yet.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Snodgrass shown who is the harder Scotsman by Tierney.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Tierney is dead. :rose:

[Marc Overmars]

Tierney. :rose:

[Niall_Quinn]

Both full backs out now.

Merts will soon have to come on.

[Globalgunner]

Our players are all made of recycled plastic bags
Kola coming on. Our shit players are never injured the few good ones always are

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Tierney off, Kolasinac on.

He wasn't in the matchday squad 45 minutes ago. :lol:

[AFC Leveller]

It looked like Antonio had fouled him but I haven’t seen the replays yet.


Anyway, we need to start winning and fast because at the moment we are dire, pure relegation form and a loss tonight would be catastrophic.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Oh Mesut.

[Marc Overmars]

Finally a chance

Ozil fluffs it

[AFC Leveller]

OZIL with a free header 4 yards out, heads over.

[Niall_Quinn]

The first instinct of every player on the team is to play it backwards. Horrific.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Leno saves from Antonio.

[Niall_Quinn]

Ozil save the Hammers there though. Fairly easy clearance, but a vital one.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

A little forceful from Cresswell.

[Marc Overmars]

Pepe absolutely wiped out there.

[AFC Leveller]

Pepe is dead.

[Niall_Quinn]

Red card isn't it? Out of control, throwing yourself into the tackle? Or has it changed again?

[Globalgunner]

When will Mike Dean retire?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

1-0 Ogbonna bundles it in. :rolleyes:

[Marc Overmars]

1-0 :doh:

[AFC Leveller]

1-0

Here we go again

[Niall_Quinn]

Didn't even get a yellow? Wow. Can't keep up with all these random rule changes.

[Marc Overmars]

Handball?

[Marc Overmars]

Nope looks legit.

[Globalgunner]

Powder puff clearance from our dullards as usual

[Niall_Quinn]

Oh well.

Xhaka was super brave there.

[AFC Leveller]

VAR makes it worse by giving us hope.

[Mac76]

Oh well.

Xhaka was super brave there.

ducked his head once again with perfect timing

fucking waste of space

[Niall_Quinn]

Wha the fuck are they checking now? They are absolutely determined to destroy the game.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Brainfart from Torreira.

[Letters]

1-0 :doh:

Going down, going down, going down...

:doh:

[AFC Leveller]

West ham can sense blood, all over us.

[Marc Overmars]

Oh look, we’ve gone to pieces after a setback. Never seen that before.

[Globalgunner]

Its pretty clear the players don't care if they are relegated

[Niall_Quinn]

Defensively we just don't register. What the hell are they doing on the training pitch, you have to wonder.

[Globalgunner]

ducked his head once again with perfect timing

fucking waste of space

First name on the team sheet. When did we last win a game with this useless lump in the team?

[Marc Overmars]

Anyone fancy having a shot?

[AFC Leveller]

Our hand right hand side is marginally better today.

[Mac76]

could xhaka be any more shit?

[fakeyank]

Pepe and Leno are the only decent players on the field with an Arsenal shirt.

[AFC Leveller]

Not the game for OZIL today, he doesn’t look bothered.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Auba says fuck it, out of the ground it goes.

[Marc Overmars]

Awful shot from Auba but at least it’s something direct.

[Marc Overmars]

Not the game for OZIL today, he doesn’t look bothered.

Is any game for Ozil these days?

[Niall_Quinn]

Auba trying something new. But off target.

[Globalgunner]

Llyungberg totally out of his depth here

[McNamara That Ghost...]

1-0 HT. Grim.

[Marc Overmars]

I reckon we could at least make the championship play offs next year.

[Xhaka Can’t]

If we keep West Ham to less than four, we stay top of the bottom half of the table.

[Globalgunner]

I reckon we could at least make the championship play offs next year.

Those trips to Bristol city and Doncaster should be interesting

[Letters]

I reckon we could at least make the championship play offs next year.

Top 4 trophy will be ours again :bow:

[Mac76]

Llyungberg totally out of his depth here

just sits there looking totally clueless

[Niall_Quinn]

What a shit show. Just another, typical Arsenal non-performance.

Nothing from any of the front men. They are getting brushed off the ball so easily. Pepe looks like he's borrowed some of Ozil's sleeping pills and Auba might as well be at home watching on TV given the service he's got from that appalling midfield. Has Xhaka always been that slow? Or is he even slower now? They'll have to start measuring his contribution in geological terms.

Tip, tap, tip, tap, give it away, panic. When is somebody going to realise these genius tactics aren't working?

[Marc Overmars]

Of course Freddie is clueless, he’s not qualified to do shit.

Up to the board to get someone in otherwise we are finished.

[Letters]

just sits there looking totally clueless
To be fair, he's not a football manager. I know we all like to think we'd know what we're doing but we'd be massively out of our depths too.
I was quite pleased the board were decisive in dismissing Emery but they apparently did so without the first clue about what to do next.
Spurs were decisive and immediately hired a top manager. I can't stand Mourinho, but he's immediately had an impact.
We've left ourselves without a manager at all. Well done us

:ilt:

[Globalgunner]

How can you win a game with Xhaka, Ozil, AMN. If Freddie doesnt change things at HT we will lose this game by at least 2. Whats our goal difference now -2?

[Mac76]

Tip, tap, tip, tap, give it away, panic. When is somebody going to realise these genius tactics aren't working?

they ought to have those training sessions where they're told they have to pass the ball forwards only - so many backwards and sideways passes, we make it so easy for the other team to see us off

[Xhaka Can’t]

could xhaka be any more shit?

Be careful what you wish for.

[Master Splinter]

Pepe is somehow weaker than Ozil.

Ozil is not even pathetically strolling anymore. He's invented something even more sub-standard.

Get Martinelli off the pitch before his enthusiuasm is forever crushed.

Auba to hand in a transfer request at half-time?

Time for Owen Coyle.

[Globalgunner]

To be fair, he's not a football manager. I know we all like to think we'd know what we're doing but we'd be massively out of our depths too.
I was quite pleased the board were decisive in dismissing Emery but they apparently did so without the first clue about what to do next.
Spurs were decisive and immediately hired a top manager. I can't stand Mourinho, but he's immediately had an impact.
We've left ourselves without a manager at all. Well done us

:ilt:

Would have made no difference if we kept Emery. He would have just kept on losing games

[fakeyank]

Sam Allardyce :pray:

[Xhaka Can’t]

How can you win a game with Xhaka, Ozil, AMN. If Freddie doesnt change things at HT we will lose this game by at least 2. Whats our goal difference now -2?

Minus 3 and getting colder.

[Mac76]

Sam Allardyce :pray:

dead...? :satan:

[Letters]

Would have made no difference if we kept Emery. He would have just kept on losing games

Well, maybe. But he is at least a football manager. Now we literally don't have one and the last I heard they aren't hurrying themselves to appoint one.
I don't think we'll go down but we really are in freefall now and have a tough run coming up. We literally could be in the relegation zone or not far above it come the new year.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

How can you win a game with Xhaka, Ozil, AMN. If Freddie doesnt change things at HT we will lose this game by at least 2. Whats our goal difference now -2?

:-3 as it stands.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Come on Arsenal you useless sack of shits.

[Niall_Quinn]

Is Laca on the bench? He has to come on. At least he won't get knocked down like a paper skittle every 2 mins.

[Niall_Quinn]

They're doing this deliberately - the fucked up playing from the back shit. They're trolling the fans.

[Mac76]

why the f**k does auba get back for corners - there's no one to play it out to if we clear it - such a basic mistake...

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Cresswell does it again on Pepe. Should be off.

[Niall_Quinn]

2 reds for Creswell now? At least he gets a yellow I suppose.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Cresswell off injured after that 'challenge'. Masuaku on.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Torreira. :haha:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Woeful hospital pass from Xhaka.

[Marc Overmars]

Pathetic from Xhaka.

He doesn’t give a shit, why is he playing?

[Niall_Quinn]

A 7 year old would have been bollocked for a pass like that.

[Mac76]

xhaka :rolleyes:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Rice hammers it, right at Leno.

[AFC Leveller]

Luckily for us we haven’t played any decent sides lately, otherwise things would have been a lot worse. Can you imagine going to City or Anfield in the curent form?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Auba cross, er, close I guess.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Luckily for us we haven’t played any decent sides lately, otherwise things would have been a lot worse. Can you imagine going to City or Anfield in the curent form?

We have Citeh at the Emirates next. :rose:

[Niall_Quinn]

Pepe's having a nightmare. Can't pass, can't hold the ball up, losing it under the slightest pressure. This isn't his game, receiving the ball with his back to goal. Kick it over his head and let him run.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

MARTINELLI!!!!! MY MAN!!!!!

[Marc Overmars]

Martinelli!!!!

[AFC Leveller]

Yesss Martinelli

4 forwards passes at speed, who knew that’s how you should be playing?

[Niall_Quinn]

Nice finish Martinelli!

What a fucking shocker. Pass it forward, get a cross in, get runners in the danger zone. Absolute basics.

[Mac76]

YES!!!!!

[GP]

Martinelli is different gravy.


The one ray of light in this wretched season.

[Niall_Quinn]

Shocking by AMN. He didn't have a clue what to do with the ball.

[AFC Leveller]

Please someone tel these cunts that that’s the way it should be played. Midfielders played a quick one two, passes and moved, FB made a darting run and set up the striker with one pass.

Simple.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Xhaka is an absolute clogger.

[Master Splinter]

Martinelli to come off because he doesn't have the necessary "experience".

[Niall_Quinn]

The total lack of movement when Ozil had the ball wide there. Why are the front men stuck to the spot?

[AFC Leveller]

Torreira has been good today, should be an automatic starter for us as he is our best and only DCM.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

PEPE!!! COME ON!!!!

[Marc Overmars]

PEPE!!!

Finally

[AFC Leveller]

Yessss Pepe with a curler nice one

[AFC Leveller]

That’s what I’m talking about. Come in ok your strong foot and hammer it straight away no mucking about.

[Niall_Quinn]

Yes! Pepe.

Thought he'd fucked it tbf, but good finish.

Again, some positive play from the wing. Get the ball across.

It's all about kicking the ball towards the opponent's goal as opposed to away from it. We need to write that down for the next training session.

[GP]

Great goal!

[Mac76]

Pepeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

AUBAMEYANG!!!! The front three running riot!!!

[Marc Overmars]

Auba!!!!

We’re back!

[AFC Leveller]

Yesss 1-3

Waiting for VAR to ruin it

[Niall_Quinn]

Auba make it 3.

Not even VAR could stop that one.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Felipe Anderson off, Haller on.

[Mac76]

Aubameyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[GP]

Triple threat!

Better.

[AFC Leveller]

Forward passes, good movement, balls into the box etc. What’s going on ?

[Niall_Quinn]

3 goals from -4 attempts.

[GP]

Forward passes, good movement, balls into the box etc. What’s going on ?

Freddie's at the wheel.

[Globalgunner]

When you shoot on goal you have a chance of scoring. When you dont shoot you dont tend to score. I must be a genius

[Master Splinter]

When did West Ham sign Randy from The Wire?.

[Thierrymon]

I leave for work and we score 3. We actually might win this :faint:

[Xhaka Can’t]

Goal difference up to zero!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Martinelli. :cloud9:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Goal difference up to zero!

The season starts now. :unsure:

[Niall_Quinn]

The Hammers have given up on this. Hope we're not just going to tap it around now. More goals needed if we can get them.

[Master Splinter]

Sutton seems to have a problem with Ljunberg.

And now he's crying that we're winning.

Tony Gale reincarnated.

[Globalgunner]

The Hammers have given up on this. Hope we're not just going to tap it around now. More goals needed if we can get them.

Lets get our GD in the positive territory

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Snodgrass off, Holland on.

[AFC Leveller]

Il say it again, Torreira has been very good today. Simple passes and good movement to gain a yard or two and has snuffed out danger near him.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Xhaka's brain is scrambled.

[Globalgunner]

Xhaka's brain is scrambled.

Born that way

[AFC Leveller]

2 points of 5th, 7 off top 4.

But crucially, 7 clear of 18th.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Pepe did an Iwobi.

[Mac76]

how many times has xhaka given the ball away now... :rolleyes:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Concussion for Xhaka, stupid trying to play on.

[Marc Overmars]

Hopefully the last we see of Xhaka...

[Mac76]

Pepe did an Iwobi.

iwobi would at least have had a go and blasted it over the bar

[Globalgunner]

Pepe did an Iwobi.

Back to being the old Pepe.

Xhaka out....how many months?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Pepe off, Nelson on.

Pepe. :bow:

[Globalgunner]

Hopefully Pepe will find his mojo permanently after today. Good game from him

[Xhaka Can’t]

Chris Sutton is an assclown.

[Mac76]

Saka on.



disguised as Nelson :lol:

[AFC Leveller]

I’m not his biggest fan but Xhaka is better than Guendouzi or anyone else in CM (as a partner for Torreira).

[McNamara That Ghost...]

disguised as Nelson :lol:

:lol:

Had just changed it too.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Seven added minutes. :rose:

[Mac76]

ommentator says there'll be 7 minutes ET...

[Letters]

ommentator says there'll be 7 minutes ET...

What an unt

[Mac76]

Chambo :ninja:

[Mac76]

What an unt

:lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Auba unlucky.

[AFC Leveller]

I love Martinelli.

92nf minute, he sprints back to his own half to win possession.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

We're going to win a match. :faint:

[Marc Overmars]

I love you Freddie being sung :bow:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

West Ham 1-3 The Arsenal, FT!

We're back! :unsure:

[Marc Overmars]

Fucking hell we won.

[LDG]

:faint:

[AFC Leveller]

That’s our first 11 more or less sorted (I’d keep AMN in there because he had a good game but would bring back Tierney ASAP).

[Niall_Quinn]

Shame we didn't chase down a few more goals. They were there.

[AFC Leveller]

DT’s son gets Torreiras top.

[Mac76]

3-1 to arsenal - who'd have thought ...

well done lads :clap:

[Mac76]

nice to see a lot of smiles out there :)

[dazthegooner]

Shame we didn't chase down a few more goals. They were there.

Agreed should have gone for more.

[GP]

0-3

Close enough

[Letters]

Close enough

Thinking we'd get a clean sheet :haha: