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Gooner Podcast 163 Now Online

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Gooner Podcast number 163, sponsored by TimeWaverLondon is now online (It’s been up since Wednesday, but we’ve been so busy we’ve only just got round to plugging it here!)

Recorded: Tuesday 20th February 2018

Topics Include -
Would social media have affected the 1989 title challenge?
Are today’s players genuinely affected by fan opinion online?
Is Arsene Wenger still deciding which players the club buy?
Reflections on the January Transfer Window
Should Arsene revert to a front two when Lacazette is fit again?
The booing of former players returning with new clubs
Should Ospina be first choice in goal now?
The merits of Atletico Madrid keeper Jan Oblak
The extension of Arsenal’s sponsorship deal with Emirates
What do we make of Josh Kroenke becoming more hands on?
Memories of past League Cup finals
Who will be in the starting eleven at Wembley?

Panel:
David Oudot (Twitter@DavidOudot)
Mustafa Goldstein (Twitter@VillageVoice1)
Bernard Dowling
Host: Kevin Whitcher (Twitter@KevinWhitcher01)

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  1. Ernie71

    Feb 28, 2018, 21:52 #107514

    Why was the podcast recorded BEFORE the final?

  2. mbg

    Feb 26, 2018, 19:53 #107406

    ArseneKnewBest, Na their all in hiding mate what's left of them anyway, but they'll crawl out from under their rock when the furore dies down and their messiah and his pansies have scraped a win or a draw against some bottom or middle of the table outfit probably Brighton (although I certainly wouldn't bet on it) as if nothing happened, they fooking deserve him , unfortunately proper Arsenal fans don't. We want wenger out now.

  3. Arseneknewbest

    Feb 26, 2018, 18:17 #107400

    Hi hi berry. Your weekend sounded a bit like mine. I coach my son's U13s team and we won a bottom of the table 6 pointer by 5 goals to 1 against a team whose lowlife parents are uniformly ungracious. We don't win often so to get an actual victory AND a moral one was really satisfying. Credit to your daughter too for mixing it with lads of that age because they start to get bigger,heavier and more spiteful by that age.

  4. Hi Berry

    Feb 26, 2018, 10:09 #107362

    What a great game that was yesterday. A battling performance in which all our players raised their game against the runaway league leaders. Midfield superb, defence brilliantly marshalled and attack thwarted by great goalkeeping - so unfortunate to be losing by one goal at half-time. More of the same in the second half with my daughter scoring a brilliant goal from twenty yards to level the game. League leaders scored a couple late on to put a gloss on the result for them. Passion a-plenty displayed by the boys U13 team my daughter (and two other girls) play for with them almost eking out an unlikely result against a team swatting away most other teams by six, seven or eight goal winning margins............and then I watched that excuse of a performance by overpaid primadonnas yesterday afternoon. Save your money men - there are good exciting games to be seen for free every weekend of the year at a local pitch near to you.

  5. Yes its Ron

    Feb 26, 2018, 9:52 #107361

    I dont quite get that Cyril? 'Jack' needs to play in a better team? I think personally 'Jack' is at his correct level with Arsenal. Hes not good enough for a better team in my view. Roy Keane summed him up pretty accurately i thought by calling him the most over rated player around. Wilshere as with 6 or 7 others there needs selling. The slightly more vexing question is to ask if every one of them need selling.

  6. Arseneknewbest

    Feb 26, 2018, 7:12 #107360

    What was it that trolling spuddy idiot tooey said after wengo lost to the mighty ostersunds last week? "Move on, we won on aggregate and are still in the ropey" etc.etc. Well try explaining this crushing cup defeat away Mr Lillywhite...Wengo is an enemy within. He's determined to stay until the club is 100% f*cked. My suspicion is that he only regards the job as 50% complete at this point. Any sane wengo-lovers still out there after yesterday? Nah, thought not.

  7. mbg

    Feb 25, 2018, 23:24 #107359

    Cyril, and not one mention of who's fault or one word of blame or who's to blame or what's/who's the cause for all that/this ? why the lack of tactics, why we have dropped so far, why we are in big trouble etc, etc, etc, it says a lot, maybe that explains why you haven't posted for a while and this one is a one off. wenger out.

  8. Cyril

    Feb 25, 2018, 22:36 #107358

    I’m doing a one time only post for a while for many reasons but as a gooner I was heartfelt by Frank Warren earlier on talksport who was spot on. I gave my ticket up for the game as I can’t take anymore of this. But for what it is worth, watching on the box you can’t win a game unless you PRESS the ball. There are no 50/50’s anymore. All that is left in this sanitised game is crowding the ball by pressing to get your body wrapped around it. We never pressed at all. Our best player on the pitch JW was also one of the poorest tactically, as he gets it and holds it and slows the game down. It’s pitiful. This is not Barca, you are not Xavi. He had most of the ball when we had it and didn’t move it, it’s pathetic. Our best player wouldn’t be in our first eleven back in 98. This is how far we have dropped. Jack needs to play in a better team than this. If we celebrate a player that was in truth tactically woeful, we are in big trouble. Don’t start me on the rest of them, sad times....

  9. mbg

    Feb 25, 2018, 21:35 #107357

    mad max, we allowed/let it happen mate, some more than others of course, (you know who you are)some have been seeing this coming for years (and predicted it and said, and done something about it too) others have woke up and are wakening up but it's too late now, the damage is done (and serious damage too)and it's there for all to see today as if it hasn't already, and it's only going to get worse as long as this old fraud hangs on. And to think there will still be those half wits (not Arsenal fans of course) who will still want him to stay and carry on, fooking Sad or what. Go now wenger you sad old man.

  10. Yes its Ron

    Feb 25, 2018, 20:28 #107356

    ..... and i forecast a likely win .... ooops. Sackloth and ashes. Hairshirt and all that lads. Never mind, the end of this 10 torpor is nigh. He aged another 4 yrs in 90 mins. i still think its truly sad.

  11. mbg

    Feb 25, 2018, 20:24 #107355

    Hi Berry, and a fantastic manager too in George Graham, now ? we have an old arrogant excuse for one. Go now wenger you embarrassment.

  12. mad max

    Feb 25, 2018, 20:16 #107354

    how on earth did it ever come to this, the first time in our illustrious 132 year history we,ve lost a cup final by 3 goal margin. not suprising is it really, i,ve been calling for wenger,s head for 7 or 8 years now, but the board and the fans that still go 2 the ....rates are all guilty of keeping this clueless clown in a job, we really have become a joke of a club,the man who can,t even zip up his coat properly tells the billionare owners when he will step down, you could,nt make it up. city were not even that good today gary Neville calling players a disgrace try saying that to wenger,s face gutless little mug himself, he,s right of course but who gets paid 8.5 million a year to coach those so called players, zero motivation zero defensive coaching.herbert chapman made arsenal into a great football club not arsene wenger. someone please make the parasite leave the club this is our club not his as he likes to think it is god give me strength i cant take anymore, those still paying the extortionate ticket prices get off your backside,s an d raise the banners WENGER OUT NOW

  13. Goonhogday

    Feb 25, 2018, 19:33 #107353

    Any resignation yet? Wenger out

  14. Hi Berry

    Feb 25, 2018, 19:21 #107352

    Gary Neville summed it up when he said Arsenal used to have a fantastic midfield.....actually Gary, we used to have a fantastic defence, fantastic midfield and a fantastic attack. Embarrassing to see professional footballers who are paid ridiculous amounts of money panicked into giving the ball away so many times when pressed and passing back and forth to the keeper because no other pass was available to them.

  15. mbg

    Feb 25, 2018, 19:04 #107351

    Tony Evans, know how you feel I don't even know why I watched it, it was nothing we didn't expect, f*****g bottlers, with the biggest bottler of all shaking, wringing his hands and clueless in the dugout l can't believe why/how some thought we'd nick it, Kompany was even asked/put to him after the game had they still (city) a few more gears ? Do the decent thing for once in your life you old fraud resign now. We want wenger out.

  16. Reality Cech

    Feb 25, 2018, 18:56 #107350

    Utter sh*te. Awful, shambolic performance. ‘To Do’ list; 1) humiliation in the League Cup final 2) humiliation in Milan 3) sack this atrocious manager One down, two to go.

  17. TonyEvans

    Feb 25, 2018, 18:48 #107349

    Well there's two hours of my life wasted. From the radio commentary I can't recall us troubling the City keeper at all. Why I thought we would somehow nick it I really don't know.

  18. mbg

    Feb 25, 2018, 18:34 #107348

    A big team ? my f*****g arse, we're a bunch of f*****g also rans and will remain so with this useless past it excuse for a manager, resign tonight wenger you f*****g embarrassment.

  19. BigDaveTheGooner

    Feb 25, 2018, 18:17 #107347

    The last chance saloon has gone surely, how much more of this nonsense do we have to suffer. If he had any dignity he would go now!!!!

  20. Paulo75

    Feb 25, 2018, 18:10 #107346

    What a gutless, clueless, embarrassment of a non performance. Somebody show some balls and fire the Manager now - this has gone on far too long now.

  21. MAF

    Feb 25, 2018, 18:04 #107345

    we gave up. the defending was abysmal. the coach is to blame for the lack of running, hunger, new say die attitude. this was as poor as most of us expected

  22. BigDaveTheGooner

    Feb 25, 2018, 18:02 #107344

    Wenger out tonight, we've never in our history lost by 3 at Wembley, he's taken us to an all time low!!!! Not only lost, humiliated but gutless!!!!