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Arsene Wenger
Wenger: 'Finishing fourth is still in our hands'
Manchester Utd 2-0 Arsenal
Barclays Premiership
Old Trafford
Sun, Apr 9, 2006, 4pm
on whether Rooney was the difference between the sides...
"I don't think so. I feel we had early chances in the first half which we didn't take and after that I believe United were sharper than us physically after the first half hour, that made a big difference I believe. On the first goal we lost the ball in our half and after it was 1-0 we missed two great chances, one came to Van Persie and one to Adebayor. I feel overall it was down to a lack of physical sharpness as the game went on. We were focused today but we were not as sharp as we could be. You could see that when we were 1-0 down because we lacked a bit of combination in the final third."
on omitting Henry from the starting line-up...
"He had not recovered from Wednesday night but he was not injured or I would not have put him on the teamsheet. He has played more games than the other players and he played on his own up front against Juventus twice, it is different for a striker than a defender. But overall I think we lost because we lacked a little bit of sharpness. In a big game you must score first, basically, if you want to win. You cannot lose a goal like we lost the first one."
on whether Henry's absence contributed to the result...
"I don't think it was a major factor. The game is not about those who sit on the bench, we have lost [at Old Trafford] with Thierry Henry on the pitch as well. I think it is important to do the right things in the game, we did not concede a goal because Thierry was sitting on the bench. It is always easy to look at the game like that but you have to analyse it like it happened, and United deserved to win because they were sharper."
on Arsenal's hopes of a top-four finish...
"We are jaded today, certainly, our chances diminished today, but it is still in our hands mathematically. Our problem is that we have fixture congestion with the Champions League games and we paid the price a little bit today. We are in a worse league position than in other years so at the moment we cannot afford to drop points. But mathematically we are five points behind Tottenham with a game in hand, we play them at home and they have some difficult games. It is open but of course we want to win every game and today we lost."
12/1 - Portsmouth v Arsenal - Arsenal to win 3-1 at Fratton Park
Arsene Wenger
Wenger: 'Finishing fourth is still in our hands'
Manchester Utd 2-0 Arsenal
Barclays Premiership
Old Trafford
Sun, Apr 9, 2006, 4pm
on whether Rooney was the difference between the sides...
"I don't think so. I feel we had early chances in the first half which we didn't take and after that I believe United were sharper than us physically after the first half hour, that made a big difference I believe. On the first goal we lost the ball in our half and after it was 1-0 we missed two great chances, one came to Van Persie and one to Adebayor. I feel overall it was down to a lack of physical sharpness as the game went on. We were focused today but we were not as sharp as we could be. You could see that when we were 1-0 down because we lacked a bit of combination in the final third."
on omitting Henry from the starting line-up...
"He had not recovered from Wednesday night but he was not injured or I would not have put him on the teamsheet. He has played more games than the other players and he played on his own up front against Juventus twice, it is different for a striker than a defender. But overall I think we lost because we lacked a little bit of sharpness. In a big game you must score first, basically, if you want to win. You cannot lose a goal like we lost the first one."
on whether Henry's absence contributed to the result...
"I don't think it was a major factor. The game is not about those who sit on the bench, we have lost [at Old Trafford] with Thierry Henry on the pitch as well. I think it is important to do the right things in the game, we did not concede a goal because Thierry was sitting on the bench. It is always easy to look at the game like that but you have to analyse it like it happened, and United deserved to win because they were sharper."
on Arsenal's hopes of a top-four finish...
"We are jaded today, certainly, our chances diminished today, but it is still in our hands mathematically. Our problem is that we have fixture congestion with the Champions League games and we paid the price a little bit today. We are in a worse league position than in other years so at the moment we cannot afford to drop points. But mathematically we are five points behind Tottenham with a game in hand, we play them at home and they have some difficult games. It is open but of course we want to win every game and today we lost."
12/1 - Portsmouth v Arsenal - Arsenal to win 3-1 at Fratton Park
killinghall
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Arsenal looks set for 5th or even sixth place. I hate to say this even though I'm a hardcore Gooner.
Fact is they knew they would never beat Man Utd. Gilberto wants to forget about that match and move on. That, IMO tells you a bit how he already felt before the game.
Psychologically, they're more upbeat about the CL...because the grass is greener for them on that side.
Fact is they knew they would never beat Man Utd. Gilberto wants to forget about that match and move on. That, IMO tells you a bit how he already felt before the game.
Psychologically, they're more upbeat about the CL...because the grass is greener for them on that side.
killinghall
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I certainly hope so! My faith in them has wavered quite a bit since their fall from grace of 49.
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killinghall
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I know...all the matches are on my phone. definitely staying up for tomorrow morning's match!
fgl
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Sol Campbell
Henry and Campbell in line to start at Portsmouth
Portsmouth v Arsenal
Barclays Premiership
Fratton Park
Wed, Apr 12, 2006, 8pm
By Richard Clarke
Thierry Henry and Sol Campbell are set to return the Arsenal starting line-up for the trip to Portsmouth on Wednesday night.
The striker is back after his surprising omission at Old Trafford over the weekend. Campbell’s appearance in the starting line-up will be his first since February 1. He has been troubled by problems with his ankle and then his toe until recently.
Philippe Senderos is rested to make way for Campbell. Wenger has also brought back Jose Antonio Reyes and Freddie Ljungberg. Francesc Fabregas will miss the game with a foot injury he picked up at Old Trafford. It is only expected to be a short-term problem.
“Campbell, Reyes, Ljungberg are back in squad,” said Wenger. “[Against Manchester United], Ljungberg had as small knock from Juventus, Reyes was rested. He will be suspended against Villarreal next week so he can play in these games.
“Sol will start. It gives him a good opportunity to show that he's ready for us. I will rest Senderos, who finished tired against Manchester United.”
Wenger admitted that he left out Campbell completely at Old Trafford so he could regain sharpness in training.
“That was the plan,” said the Frenchman. “To get him to work hard rather than sit on the bench. We have eight games now on the trot - game after game - and I will have to rotate in every game now without destroying the balance of the team and the belief of the team. That's why I am happy that he's there. You could see on Sunday we were on top but the longer the game went on the more you could see we lost some strength.”
Henry’s omission at Old Trafford was also down to worries over fatigue.
“Thierry will be back on Wednesday,” said Wenger. “You know the problem with Thierry. If you lose the game and don't play him then it's the wrong decision but what if he'd played, we'd lost and he'd picked up an injury? That would've been the wrong decision too. Whenever you lose a game you are wrong. I just felt he needed the breather.”
12/1 - Portsmouth v Arsenal - Arsenal to win 3-1 at Fratton Park
Henry and Campbell in line to start at Portsmouth
Portsmouth v Arsenal
Barclays Premiership
Fratton Park
Wed, Apr 12, 2006, 8pm
By Richard Clarke
Thierry Henry and Sol Campbell are set to return the Arsenal starting line-up for the trip to Portsmouth on Wednesday night.
The striker is back after his surprising omission at Old Trafford over the weekend. Campbell’s appearance in the starting line-up will be his first since February 1. He has been troubled by problems with his ankle and then his toe until recently.
Philippe Senderos is rested to make way for Campbell. Wenger has also brought back Jose Antonio Reyes and Freddie Ljungberg. Francesc Fabregas will miss the game with a foot injury he picked up at Old Trafford. It is only expected to be a short-term problem.
“Campbell, Reyes, Ljungberg are back in squad,” said Wenger. “[Against Manchester United], Ljungberg had as small knock from Juventus, Reyes was rested. He will be suspended against Villarreal next week so he can play in these games.
“Sol will start. It gives him a good opportunity to show that he's ready for us. I will rest Senderos, who finished tired against Manchester United.”
Wenger admitted that he left out Campbell completely at Old Trafford so he could regain sharpness in training.
“That was the plan,” said the Frenchman. “To get him to work hard rather than sit on the bench. We have eight games now on the trot - game after game - and I will have to rotate in every game now without destroying the balance of the team and the belief of the team. That's why I am happy that he's there. You could see on Sunday we were on top but the longer the game went on the more you could see we lost some strength.”
Henry’s omission at Old Trafford was also down to worries over fatigue.
“Thierry will be back on Wednesday,” said Wenger. “You know the problem with Thierry. If you lose the game and don't play him then it's the wrong decision but what if he'd played, we'd lost and he'd picked up an injury? That would've been the wrong decision too. Whenever you lose a game you are wrong. I just felt he needed the breather.”
12/1 - Portsmouth v Arsenal - Arsenal to win 3-1 at Fratton Park
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dalai said:
Another 100yrs to come
snuffleupagus
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DarknessFury
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Are you the big woolly mammoth from Sesame Street?
snuffleupagus
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DarknessFury said:
Mr. Snuffleupagus is God.
I don't know why nobody has ever caught on to it before.
It's been there staring us in the face all of this time.
That's right. Mr. Snuffleupagus, the wooly mammoth from Sesame Street.
Is God.
I keep trying to tell people. To explain.
But they won't listen.
Instead I just get strange looks. Like I'm crazy.
I'm not crazy. I just figured out the secret.
I didn't make it up- it was they.
The infamous they.
Listen.
On the surface Sesame Street is this really cool, progressive place. All the races live together; boys and girls are treated equally. The show has even had a gay couple, Burt and Ernie, living together Ricardo-Style (i.e. in different beds) for decades. Sesame Street teaches tolerance, multi-culturalism and provides basic instruction on a variety of topics from manners to counting to particle physics.
But that's just the happy surface world they want you to see. Underneath lies another, darker reality.
The entire Muppet cast is a menagerie of social disorders. There are plenty of good examples to choose from. A mild example is the wacky OCD of the Count, 1, 2, 3, 4, help me I can't stop.
A bit more serious is the cookie grubbing, blissed-out Cookie Monster. His entire existence is concentrated on getting cookies. His intensity for his next cookie fix can only be rivaled by a crack head stranded on a desert island.
Then there's the saccharine sweet Elmo. He reminds me of a fuzzy red Stepford Wife. You just know he's gonna snap and cut Grover's throat with a paring knife one day. I remember one time I had a waitress at a Steak and Shake that acted a bit like Elmo. She was far too happy to take my order. She scared the hell out of me. Thing is, she snapped just like I thought she would. A guy gave her a lousy tip and she went ballistic- knocked him unconscious with a frozen hamburger patty.
Grover's no picnic either. He has a super-hero complex and the hyper-thin physique of a heroin addict. Plus, he's always with the hugging.
Elmo too. Anyone who always wants to hug strangers is weird.
Then there's Big Bird.
He's kind of the head of all the Muppets; if for no other reason than he's got the size to fight all of them at once.
Despite his leadership role, Big Bird may be the most screwed up of all.
At least that's what I thought at first.
That was before I realized the Truth.
Now I'll admit Big Bird is clearly manic depressive. He's always feeling down, needing to be cheered up by the kids for one thing or another. He loses a sock; he's in a funk for the entire presentation of the letter G. Then, Gordon and Susan will find the missing sock stuck on his back and all of a sudden he's manic; singing and dancing on his yellow tree trunk legs.
At first I figured, that's no big deal. Someone just needed to prescribe the bird some Prozac, maybe a Quaalude or two.
He'd be fine.
But it goes a bit further than simple manic depression.
Big Bird also has a bit of Joan of Arc in him.
He regularly sees and interacts with a an imaginary wooly mammoth that isn't there. Joan of Arc preferred to call her invisible friend by the name God. Big Bird calls him Mr. Snuffleupagus.
When Big Bird points Snuffy out everyone constantly tells him, "No, Big Bird, there is no Mr. Snuffleupagus standing there. I don't know what you are talking about."
But Big Bird doesn't believe them. He sees.
Like a madman.
Or a prophet.
Nobody can actually see the enigmatic Mr. Snuffleupagus except for Big Bird. Nevertheless, he talks to Big Bird and gives him advice and generally acts as his friend. Snuffy always looks out for what Big Bird needs and gives him advice. You could argue he is a perfectly loving being.
Except he's not there.
Now I don't know what kind of people you hang out with. But my friends know enough to have conversations with imaginary people outside of my presence. They know me well enough to know I prefer it that way.
Big Bird isn't satisfied with just quietly believing in his imaginary friend.
He's a missionary.
A zealot.
He wants everyone else to see Mr. Snuffleupagus too. It pains him that people don't believe. He yearns for them to be able to see and curses himself for not being able to manifest the wooly mammoth to them.
Big Bird hasn't yet started going door to door, trying to convert people to Snuffleism, but it may just be a matter of time.
Because Sesame Street is a politically correct, non-judgmental place, some of the time people go along with Big Bird and pretend they can see Mr. Snuffleupagus too. Then, they talk to him facing the wrong direction or something and Bird gets mad at them for deceiving him.
For a while I thought the show was trying to send a sub-textual variation on Nietzsche's message that "God is Dead."
My thinking went as follows:
Mr. Snuffleupagus is a wooly mammoth.
Wooly mammoths are extinct.
If Snuffleupagus is like God, and God is a wooly mammoth, and therefore extinct, we should pay him no mind for he is dead and gone.
But then, a wrench fell into my ideas.
The structure of my faith in the world shattered and so I had to be reborn, rising into the light of the Snuffleupagus.
I realized we, the members of the audience, were capable of seeing Mr. Snuffleupagus. Just because the people within the world of Sesame Street couldn't see him didn't mean the viewers couldn‘t.
Which meant we were just like Big Bird.
This opened up a whole new line of theory for me.
Is it possible, I wondered, if the people on Sesame Street could see Mr. Snuffleapagus. They pretended they couldn't see because they were trying to drive Big Bird mad.
To what end? The people on the show seemed very nice. There was no reason for them to maliciously trick him.
I rejected this idea.
Then I realized there was another possibility.
I postulated the show was telling me God was real even if some people couldn't see him.
That sounded plausible, but I was a bit disappointed to come to such a mundane, pedestrian conclusion.
The show was just telling me to believe my own experience.
It was a week later that the revelation of the Snuffleupagus hit me and I knew my musings weren't in vain. It was this moment that brought me face to face with my destiny.
What if not everyone could see him?
Stay with me.
I realized it was possible there really wasn't a Mr. Snuffleupagus on the show. Maybe most people who watched Sesame Street saw the same blank space the people in the show claimed to see.
Maybe they couldn't see the big brown wooly mammoth.
Maybe when I watch the show with other people and they say they can see Mr. Snuffleupagus they are being like the people on Sesame Street. Maybe they can't see him at all- they just see a blank space and are agreeing to be polite.
Maybe Big Bird is sane and everyone else is blind. Historically, it's common for prophets to suffer emotional maladies, particularly manic depression.
Maybe Mr. Snuffleupagus is who Big Bird should listen to. Maybe he's who we all should listen to.
Those of us privileged enough to see him that is.
The Snuffleupagus is telling us to listen to the voices in our heads. That's why I can see him. The voices that have always lived in my head are responsible for revealing Mr. Snuffleupagus to me.
To me, and to my spiritual partner, Big Bird.
My Brother- my feathered prophet, the bringer of the Snuffleupagus.
I knew I had to meet him. To share with him my vision, my knowledge of the truth.
I broke into the studio where they make the show.
The security guards caught me and threw me out.
I told them I could see the Snuffleupagus and they couldn't keep the secret forever.
I think that was a mistake. They threatened to call the cops on me if I didn't leave. They were afraid I would tell everyone what I knew.
So I went and got a gun.
The second time they let me in. I found Big Bird. He says he was just a man in a suit.
I didn't believe that. When Big Bird bent over at the waste and removed the top half of the costume revealing a 60 year old man, I realized they knew what I knew. They must've taken the real Big Bird hostage to keep us apart.
I demanded to be taken to see the real Bird, but everyone looked at me like I was crazy. Then, some dirty person snuck up behind me and tackled me to the ground and then a bunch of people were holding me on the ground and the next thing I knew I was being taken to a prison hospital.
Thankfully, Mr. Snuffleupagus saw me struggling and in his mercy followed me.
Now, he's my best friend. He tells me that Big Bird is safe.
He says I should be patient and play nice with others.
He says he has big plans for me when I get out of here.
He says there will be more guns.
I can hardly wait.
YES I AM
Indigo_blues
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omg. what an opus.. bravo. :lol:
DarknessFury
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You could find Manny from the Ice Age...
And it's Bert...not Burt, lol...
And it's Bert...not Burt, lol...
snuffleupagus
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I regret its not from me.
Wish I could have come up with all that though.
Thus, I am not a PLAGIARIST.
Wish I could have come up with all that though.
Thus, I am not a PLAGIARIST.
khai_stereotype
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excuse me, but this thread isnt about sesame street or whatever. its about arsenal, please dont hijack the thread and that, this is a exclusive page to discuss about arsenal.
and not some blasphemous mammoth god or whatever.
mammoths are extinct anyway. :roll:
and not some blasphemous mammoth god or whatever.
mammoths are extinct anyway. :roll:
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