Will Arsenal deliberately try to injure Bale....or are they above that??

[Riandor]

Arsenal do not play that way at all (and I mean look to harm someone out of a game).

There motivation and plays style will be to outpace us with short and incisive high tempo passing. No, if we lose it will be due to Arsenal's style vs ours on the day and nothing to do with a deliberate attempt to crock any of our players.

I am sure if nothing else that it will at least be a good game or that both teams will be trying to play a good game. Sometimes nerves and an over urgency makes it scrappy, but generally both teams always look to play the right way.

 

[RichSpur58]

No, they usually just poison us instead

 

[Sauniere]

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Who's the ref for this game, do we know yet ?

It's the clown Clattenburg i do believe

 

[teok]

Short answer "no".

Long(er) answer:

OptaJoe ‏@OptaJoe
0 - No side in the top five European Leagues this season has averaged fewer fouls per game than Spurs (9.7) or Arsenal (9.8). Friendly.

 

[Mattspur]

It's the clown Clattenburg i do believe

 

[RichSpur58]

Yes they will try and stop him, and they will try and foul him.

Happens in every football team... put one on the best player ;-)

Come on peeps, this is basics.

Yup football basics. i expect a crucnhing tackle in the first 5 mins and a few more for good measure. We need our hard men to protect him. Though I dont think we have any.

 

[Dempsey2]

Get a food-tester for breakfast!

 

[chinaman]

We can all have our jokes about Wenger, but I'm sure he's above that.

 

[The Apprentice]

After Eduardo and Ramsey's horrific injuries from hatchet men, I don't think for a minute Arsenal would willingly "do" someone.

Foul him? of course. All good players will get fouled. Big difference to deliberately injure him.

 

[alamo]

Is it just me or does anyone else think that if any of the Arsenal midfield lightweight faggot mcmuffins try to kick Bale they will just end up hurting their toes?

 

[chinaman]

Is it just me or does anyone else think that if any of the Arsenal midfield lightweight faggot mcmuffins try to kick Bale they will just end up hurting their toes?

Bale I'm not so .sure; but if it was Sandro, definitely

 

[elDiablo]

Arteta is the 10th dirtiest player in the Premier League if you look at fouls against although Wilshire is the player who will crock you.

And didn't get heated between the two at their gaff last year. I remember Bale mocking his stature. Gonna be tasty.

 

[midoNdefoe]

I don't even think that teams such as Stoke do this, but what they do do, is to put pressure on certain players; to get tight; "be competitive"; certain teams are more aggressive than others and therefore concede, quite knowingly, more fouls that others. I hate that approach but it still isn't the same as setting out to deliberately injure another player. More likely though is that some teams see it as perfectly acceptable to "take one for the team"!; if a player such as Bale is breaking out of his own half at speed the they see it as fair to foul him in order to prevent the breakaway. But that's still not the same as deliberately seeking to remove a player from the game. The closest I recall having seen to systematically and deliberately setting out to crock a player from the opposition was the approach of teams such as Liverpool back in the 70s whereby they would commit a series of quite nasty fouls against their oppositions' talismans in the first 10 minutes. In those days they knew they'd get away with it because bookings in the first 10 minutes were so rare, and they were clever in that they would share the fouls around so that no one player was committing two such fouls.

I actually think that if Arsenal were to try to adopt this sort of approach it would stand to seriously undermine the sort of approach and style they have tried to bring into the club over the last 15 years or so. Even reverting to a more Stoke-like approach would be counter-productive in that it would run counter to the instincts of too many of their squad. And they no longer have the likes of Parlour and Vierra anyway so they don't have the personnel they'd need for that anyway.

All in MHO of course!

Roy Keane on Alf-inge Haaland.

Apparently had said to him in an earlier exchange that he was going to end his career, and then: (was going to post the video, but its nasty)

 

[michaelden]

They're above it. Way above it.

lol the ball.

jokes, i think that they are fair players

 

[BK007]

Roy Keane is an asshole and deserves his current irrelevance.

 

[HertsYid]

i wouldnt put it past that little pikey fucker wiltshire to have a go at Bale.

we need to start Holtby and get him to kick Wiltshire first

 

[RichSpur58]

I don't even think that teams such as Stoke do this, but what they do do, is to put pressure on certain players; to get tight; "be competitive"; certain teams are more aggressive than others and therefore concede, quite knowingly, more fouls that others. I hate that approach but it still isn't the same as setting out to deliberately injure another player. More likely though is that some teams see it as perfectly acceptable to "take one for the team"!; if a player such as Bale is breaking out of his own half at speed the they see it as fair to foul him in order to prevent the breakaway. But that's still not the same as deliberately seeking to remove a player from the game. The closest I recall having seen to systematically and deliberately setting out to crock a player from the opposition was the approach of teams such as Liverpool back in the 70s whereby they would commit a series of quite nasty fouls against their oppositions' talismans in the first 10 minutes. In those days they knew they'd get away with it because bookings in the first 10 minutes were so rare, and they were clever in that they would share the fouls around so that no one player was committing two such fouls.

I actually think that if Arsenal were to try to adopt this sort of approach it would stand to seriously undermine the sort of approach and style they have tried to bring into the club over the last 15 years or so. Even reverting to a more Stoke-like approach would be counter-productive in that it would run counter to the instincts of too many of their squad. And they no longer have the likes of Parlour and Vierra anyway so they don't have the personnel they'd need for that anyway.

All in MHO of course!

Very naive post.

 

[Donki]

I expect a few tough tackles in on him but thats to be expected.

 

[Ironskullll]

Very naive post.

Ho fucking hum you onanist

 

[Spurs1960]

Very naive post.

How very true.

The poster must believe that Charlie Adams taking him twice on the same ankle in both the home and away games was a pure accident! Bale of course had time out injured.