Ratings vs Citeh

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That's pure genius. You are right up there with the great footballing cliche luminaries like Andy Townsend, Jim Beglin.

It's amazing how the tactic of allowing arsenal all the ball didn't yield us more results over the years isn't it ?

I bet the gooners are really ruing the day Wenger took over with his crazy "best forgotton" ideas of playing passing, attacking, ball retaining football eh ?

If memory serves correct we've had a great many games against Arsenal where possession has been quite equal, and we've pressed forward and left spaces which they've always been able to exloit through their guile and superior passers and dribblers.

One such game was a 3-1 loss away to Arsenal in October (8th I think) 2003. They never looked like they were dominating us in that match, and somehow they slices through us whenever they needed to.

Sorry, BC, but on this one I'm with the nay-sayers.
In recent memory, many of the games against the Gooners have seen us doing a lot of pressing - usually resulting in a feeling like 'we were robbed' (as all fans feel when their team has looked to 'casual' observers to be the team doing all of the pressing), only to see a couple of sublime passes/through balls cut us open, leave us exposed, and result in 'another' defeat, or 'another' late equaliser for the Goons, where we feel they scantily deserved it.
I think 'Arry went the traditional route at Scumerates Towers, but played it perfectly at the Lane. They are renowned for being masterly on the counter-attack. Knowing they can do this in an instant, and watching them do it for the first time in a match, induces panic in a team. Denying them the oxygen that gives them was masterly...and the longer it went on the more comfortable I felt until RVP came on.