Smell you later, Engerland?
Well, today could, maybe, perhaps be Landon Donovan’s last game in England for a while. Or it could maybe not. Who knows? No one, that’s who.
But what we do know is that Landon Donovan and his merry Merseysiders travel to Birmingham today. The early game sees Spurs try their bestest to hold on to fourth place as they host Blackburn Rovers. And the late game is Hull against Arsenal, with Cesc once again on the sidelines just like during Spitgate ’09. Wonder if he’ll be wearing a puffy coat?
Fixtures and your comments after the hop.
(All times EST)
EPL
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7:30 Tottenham Hotspur vs Blackburn Rovers (ESPN2)
10:00 Birmingham City vs Everton (FSC)
10:00 Chelsea vs West Ham (Fox Soccer Plus)
10:00 SF Bolton vs Wigan
10:00 Burnley vs Wolves
10:00 Stoke City vs Aston Villa
12:30 Hull City vs Arsenal (FSC)
Rest of the World
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9:30 Borussia Monchengaldbach vs Wolfsburg (Gol)
10:00 Middlesbrough vs Newcastle United (ESPN360.com)
10:00 Huddersfield Town vs Norwich City (Ned’s House)
10:00 Southend vs Exeter City (Spectator’s House)
12:30 Bayern München vs SC Freiburg (Gol)
1:00 AS Monaco vs Bordeaux
2:00 Sporting Gijón vs Athletic Bilbao (ESPN360.com)
2:45 Napoli vs Fiorentina (FSC)
3:00 Lyon vs St Etienne
4:00 Sevilla vs Deportivo La Coruña (Gol)
How does Bendtner get a card there?
So Bendy gets a yellow for what exactly?
oh Pixie, you’re breaking our hearts
dammit how does nikki get a yellow? hes the one that got poked!!!! i dont understand
“[U]nless it’s Chelsea or Man U we can’t be beat legitimately in the league”
“Arsenal has the greatest attacking force in soccer”
No…that is real comedy. Or, maybe just delusion.
The blinkers of the Gooner crowd know no bounds.
Clichy shows class by not appealing for a penno, when it could’ve been a penno.
ive said it before. and ill say it again. i love tommy v
lol Clichy tries to not win a pen…..which is as much of a pen as the one that got rewarded
TFA: Arsenal is also going to cure cancer and come up with a way to put metal in a microwave. Don’t doubt us!
God damn I f**king hate Hull. I want us to score 4 in the 2nd half and just blow them the hell out of the water.
I called it!
RED! F**K YOU ASSHOLE!
YES. About time you f**kers.
finally!
That’s f**king right Boateng. Get the hell off the damn pitch. Hope Sagna is ok.
“All I’m saying is that whenever we drop points against anyone else, there’s some bit of controversy….Like the draw at West Ham, with Carlton Cole going down like a sack of spuds”
I suspect that whenever the Gooners feel like they should have gotten full points but don’t, a controversy is created regardless of whether there is or is not a reason.
Right up on the knee…what a f**king disgrace. Keep your f**king boots down!
farewell boateng you prick
Oh nice, what should’ve been a red, twice………hilarious
There’s the red as I predicted.
That was pretty f**king wasteful.
I’d rather be part of a fanbase that is delusional yet supports a winning team than be part of one that is realistic yet supports absolute crap.
When I thought Hull couldn’t be a bigger bunch of utter c**ts after the first game, they go and prove me wrong. F**k them and f**k their fans.
Come On Arsenal!
@TFA I think that’s with any team…..but I try to remain unbiased, hence why I go here for commenting as opposed to the Arseblog….
I’m about to go through the schedule to look at our losses
That Boateng challenge was so bad I think bad tackles should be called a “Boateng” from now on.
“C’mon ref, that’s a card! He was boateng’d!”
I don’t remember the Sunderland game, but that’s probably one that disproves my point
I’m sorry, but even with them down to ten, I’m doubtful of all three points.
Citeh, Sunderland, Chelsea, Chelsea, Man U, Man U.
Nah @EF, we’ve got this. 3 points is ours.
@TFA The RVP stamp? Moron.
Yeah, taking the Chelsea and Man U games out, and City, mainly because Adebayor stepped on RVP’s face, should’ve been sent off, and then scored what I think was the winning goal.
So yeah, after reading the match report again, Sunderland proves me wrong…..so to amend my statement….
We USUALLY can’t be beat in the league legitimately in the League unless it’s Chelsea or Man U
Arsenal fans should just wear black hats. The lot of you think everything that goes against you is a conspiracy. I see it on our internal email threads every time something “wrong” happens to Arsenal. It’s a sense of entitlement and superiority that is completely unwarranted.
@HL: So, 1 in 6 losses have an element of controversy and you think you wuz robbed. Great ratio there. Suck it up and brush the sand out of your vagina.
Thanks, Jape, I need some uplifting.
@wacman: is that just this year or every year?
Well, we haven’t yet considered the draws…..but I still say that everyone thinks “we wuz robbed”, so it’s not really Arsenal specific.
Though, we straight up never get penalties……i think we have 2 or 3 this season
Jozy makes Sol look very, very old.
Stay onside you Dutch idiot.
That was almost a Shawcross.
Sol is too slow there.
There was no bad challenge there…Sol clearly comes through and gets the ball.
I’m just talking about this year….. I’m pretty sure it’s 2
dear 6 pound, 8 ounce baby jesus. please let arsenal win this game
At least 6 minutes of stoppage time, if not more in this half
Come on Arsenal…it’s basically 11 v. 9. We need to control this game a lot more.
Total handball, as he definitely moves his arm……
Eladio: it was certainly clumsy, and a less oth center half gets there before he has to slide through zayatte’s shins. It’s more de Jong than Shawcross, for sure.
i’ll go out on a limb here without any statistical support just my own opinion and anecdotal evidence and say that the arsenal fans i read and talk to are far more susceptible to the “we wuz robbed” mentality on a persistent and consistent basis than other fans.
Everybody’s out to get us because Eduardo dove. The refs don’t protect us. The league doesn’t appreciate our beautiful game. We don’t get the calls we deserve.
It’s tiresome.
Eboue is “lacy?”
Hmmm. Interesting.
@TFA, That’s a fair argument, as the way we play does seem to give us a bit of false entitlement. I will say that a fair amount of the “whinging” comes directly from the English media bias…..Gerrard dives….ehh? Eduardo dives…….OMG NOOOEZZZZZ!
And so on and so forth…..
1-1 draws with Hull are similarly tiresome.
Not as tiresome as 0-0 Liverpool – Citeh draws.
Oh I don’t like this decision.
I think we move Eboue to the left, bring Theo on, and take Pixie off.
Arshavin wtf???
I’m reasonably pleased with how Jozy has developed this year. Far from an ideal situation, but he’s definitely shown flashes.
for f**ks sake, Pixie!
why is denilson watching bullard making a run thru the middle of the park after losing the ball???????? i actually think he is a decent squad player but this is getting out of hand
JESUS, how bad of a finish is that…i wish Diaby had a strike.
Pretty sure I just scared my gf with my reaction to that miss……
That’s on Nasri for me
crap i just broke my desk with that miss
Bendtner dribbling would be comical if it didn’t always result in a turnover.
Where’s the foul???
Arshavin has not been very good over the past three games.
did Marney just shoot at Myhill?
Yeah, i thought that was a backpass…..
If Altidore skins Sol for a winning goal I’m going to go back to bed.
This is still 11 v 10, isn’t it?
I’m not agreeing with Wenger’s sub selecting this game.
F**king Arsenal… This pitch sucks, and the penalty was bulls**t, but it really shouldn’t be this difficult to beat 10-man Hull.
Theo! Either pass or shoot, what the f**k was that?
this is the old weighted ball switcheroo isn’t it?
These are the games I hate. Tons of possession, but against ten men, it’s hard to break the defensive shell.
This game had 1-1 written all over it; all the expectations and hubris we had after the Porto win – of course we draw against Hull away.
F**k that was the winner right there and a good lunging block.
i just broke my broken desk…why benddddyyyyyyyyyyyy
12 minutes or so left to break through.
This is infuriating
booooooooo!!!!!
inevitably, Hull City will give up a goal now.
Hurry up and get off the pitch, Jozy! God love you but Arsenal needs to win this game!
Good job by Jozy, worked hard and showed some skill
I hope Hull lose now.
“A Macheda moment”? WTF?
These have possibly been the worst crosses I’ve seen from Arsenal all season.
Who was Dawson trying to pick out there?
He’s leaning into Mendy…..mainly because Mendy jumps in front of him
Yeah, I heard that Eladio and rolled my eyes. Typical. Thankfully he didn’t refer to it as a Barcelona moment.
Six minutes. It’s Fergie-time.
ummmm is fergie our coach?
Can’t blame Clichy for taking that shot…at least it was on target.
No, but extra long injury time is always fergie time. especially if you get a winner.
if Clichy had scored the match-winner the world would have ended
If we do end up drawing, I called it halftime. I demand a UF tee.
YESSS!!!! BENDTNER!!!!! THANK GOD!!!!!
BENDTNER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
JUSTICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HAHAHAHAHA NICKY!!!
boy…Myhill really f**ked that one up.
NICKY!!!
YES YES F**KIN A YESSSSS
ABOUT F**KING TIME!!!!!
You over-confident motherf**ker you!