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No, it wasn't racist...

We need a winger in January, we are going to desperately miss Gervinho during January.

Per Mertesacker has no problem from Arsenal fans' new blue chant for him.

The Mirror says their tribute to the 6-foot-6 centre back goes: “Big f***ing German, we’ve got a big f***ing German”.

Mertesacker certainly didn’t seem to mind when it was aired at Norwich on Saturday, laughing and acknowledging the crowd with a thumbs-up.

Arsenal hero Martin Keown has hailed the application of his former Gunners teammate Robin van Persie.

Keown wrote in his column for the Daily Mail: "Watching the exquisite finish by Robin van Persie for his second goal against Norwich, one thing stood out: he had scored again with his right foot.

"I was still at Arsenal when he joined in 2004 and although he was always a great talent, he was very left-footed. Arsene Wenger has said he is the most left-footed player he has ever worked with so it is quite an achievement that he has scored 11 goals with his right in 2011 - the same as in his other seven years at the club combined.

"Every time I’ve seen him lately, I’ve noticed that his right foot has improved and I’m delighted for him because I and other people at the club had encouraged him to use it more. It has become an extra weapon for him - as Norwich found to their cost when his delightful chip gave Arsenal their fifth successive Barclays Premier League victory."

Arsenal winger Theo Walcott is enjoying playing with in-form skipper Robin van Persie.

Walcott has received plenty of criticism for his performances over the past two seasons but he has made seven Premier League assists in 2011 - all setting up goals for Van Persie.

Both players have had injury problems in recent seasons and Walcott is delighted that a clear run of fitness for the pair of them means they are finally able to play regularly together.

"For me, Robin is one of the best strikers in the world at the moment," said Walcott, who seems to have struck up a near telepathic relationship with Van Persie.

"We just love playing together. Over the past few years, he's had his injuries, I've had my injuries and we've never been able to sustain a run of games together.

"But now you can see some signs, especially this year, that we just know each other and where the other one is going to be on the pitch. It makes my job easier, everyone else's job easier and he's a great leader as well which is so important."

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger feels Per Mertesacker can progress just as Laurent Koscielny has since his arrival 18 months ago.

Team-mate Koscielny has impressed supporters and media alike this year with his performances this season, and, given time, Wenger says Mertesacker can emulate his French counterpart.

“He had not completely recovered [from the internationals],” Wenger told arsenal.com. “It is a different game in England, a very demanding game for the defender.

“In every second of the game you are really tested with full commitment, and it takes some time to adapt.

“We have seen that with [Laurent] Koscielny, who played at right-back and was exceptional.

“Last year he would not have delivered this kind of performance because you learn that from fighting in every game. That is why it is so difficult to buy defenders from abroad.”

From another forum I'm on:

Top Assists:
1 Ryan Giggs 101
2 Frank Lampard 89
3 Francesc Fabregas 80 (just 23)
4 Steven Gerrard 76
5 Wayne Rooney 69
6 Thierry Henry 67
7 Didier Drogba 59
8 Ashley Young 58
9 Nicolas Anelka 56
10 James Milner 55
11 Gareth Barry 54
12 Steed Malbranque 54
13 Peter Crouch 51
14 Danny Murphy 50
15 Morten Gamst Pedersen 47
16 Kevin Davies 46
17 Dimitar Berbatov 43
18 Dennis Bergkamp 43
19 Mikel Arteta 42
20 Stewart Downing 42

ernie_schwarz wrote:Per Mertesacker has no problem from Arsenal fans' new blue chant for him.

The Mirror says their tribute to the 6-foot-6 centre back goes: “Big f***ing German, we’ve got a big f***ing German”.

Mertesacker certainly didn’t seem to mind when it was aired at Norwich on Saturday, laughing and acknowledging the crowd with a thumbs-up.

lmfao.

Gunners eloquence <3

what the hell going on 2-0 sofar

Pass accuracy?

They've become strong, but I think that's just temporary [I hope] - it's like all the players are in god-form right now.

Well, Spurs are the second most in-form team at the moment, behind City. We're third in the form table, and guess what the last game we lost was? Spurs away.

They've got all their key players in form at the moment, whereas we've only got the one (other are coming into form, slowly but surely). We have better depth, which might play in our favour in the long run.

I know we all love to have a laugh at Spurs' expense, but they're serious contenders for a top four spot.

i believe we should aim for 3rd spot now
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and form table

Wilshere trolling Spurs fans on Twitter:

@JackWilshere: Love it when all the spurs fans bite.....makes my day! #TooEasy

@JackWilshere: All spurs fans buzzing that they are ahead of us in the league (for once). Its a marathon, not a sprint! I tell you what at the end of the..

@JackWilshere: Season if spurs finish above arsenal I will give £3000 to charity and if arsenal finish above spurs every spurs fan that follows me must

@JackWilshere: Send me a pound each and I will give it to @Jack_Marshall_ charity! Do we have a deal THFC fans!?

Although, he should be giving money to charity anyway.

Typical Arsenal fan

Stoke v QPR would have made Cesc Fabregas vomit into his paella. The game featured just 309 successful passes, 53 fewer than any other Premier League match this season (362 in Sunderland vs Newcastle), and the fewest in a Premier League game since Stoke and Blackburn managed 290 in February 2010.

To give that stat some context, nine of the other 14 teams playing on Saturday made more successful passes than QPR and Stoke combined

sorry not Arsenal-related just for the Lulz

GoonerJay29 wrote:Wilshere trolling Spurs fans on Twitter:

@JackWilshere: Love it when all the spurs fans bite.....makes my day! #TooEasy

@JackWilshere: All spurs fans buzzing that they are ahead of us in the league (for once). Its a marathon, not a sprint! I tell you what at the end of the..

@JackWilshere: Season if spurs finish above arsenal I will give £3000 to charity and if arsenal finish above spurs every spurs fan that follows me must

@JackWilshere: Send me a pound each and I will give it to @Jack_Marshall_ charity! Do we have a deal THFC fans!?

Although, he should be giving money to charity anyway.

Got to love Jack, miss the Arsenal lion.

sina90 wrote:Stoke v QPR would have made Cesc Fabregas vomit into his paella. The game featured just 309 successful passes, 53 fewer than any other Premier League match this season (362 in Sunderland vs Newcastle), and the fewest in a Premier League game since Stoke and Blackburn managed 290 in February 2010.

To give that stat some context, nine of the other 14 teams playing on Saturday made more successful passes than QPR and Stoke combined

sorry not Arsenal-related just for the Lulz

You listen to football weekly too, right?

(That's where I heard this stat)

New Post - AVB must go back to basics to ensure his survival http://bit.ly/seJrI4

Wilshere aged 11

LOL

What happened to the other guys?

Samuelj29060 wrote:

sina90 wrote:Stoke v QPR would have made Cesc Fabregas vomit into his paella. The game featured just 309 successful passes, 53 fewer than any other Premier League match this season (362 in Sunderland vs Newcastle), and the fewest in a Premier League game since Stoke and Blackburn managed 290 in February 2010.

To give that stat some context, nine of the other 14 teams playing on Saturday made more successful passes than QPR and Stoke combined

sorry not Arsenal-related just for the Lulz

You listen to football weekly too, right?

(That's where I heard this stat)

my bad didnt mention source
actually this and some other interesting stats such as
Scott Dann, whose six blocks is the most by a Premier League player this season.


from fourfourtwo statszone
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@wilshere pic

hahahahahaha Wilshere <3

Orbinho Orbinho
'@Persie_Official has scored in five consecutive Premier League games. 3 Arsenal players have netted in seven- @IanWright0, Henry & Adebayor
come on ROBIN Fulham & wigan there you go
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City lose.

United draw.

Southend through to the FA Cup 2nd round.

Need Arsenal to win to make this week even better.