52 minutes ago, timetowaste said:

Did you switch the game off before the red card or something?

What and you're selectively forgetting than from minute 4 onwards we were sh*t in pretty much all we did. The so called big chances we had came from gifts from Burnley. Regardless of us having 10 men on the pitch we had over half a dozen defenders and failed to mark their striker from a corner. Twice.

Fofana was brain dead, not disputed, but single handedly gave them the game, please.

45 minutes ago, GarnachoCheese said:

By getting himself needlessly sent off, obviously. What CB with any football IQ do you know that would chase an opposition into their own half, massively out of position, and go through someone on a yellow? Brain dead.

I'm not disputing he was brain dead and gave us a disadvantage but single handedly costing us the game is a stretch. You said yourself we had 3 big chances. 3. 3 big chances against absolute dross. Two of those chances came from Burnley errors.

Palmer was poor throughout. Fernandez once again completely anonymous. Tried to kill time in the corner with 6 minutes still on the clock ffs. Sanchez misplaced virtually every pass he made, so much so that a better team would have definitely punished us for it. Rosenior then put a ridiculous number of defensive players on the pitch against relegation fodder and then none of them do the most basic job of marking the striker on a corner. Would he have been Fofana's man, I doubt it.

I'm not disputing the ridiculous brain dead decisions some of our players make but there's a lot of players in the line up for ownership of this sh*tshow, in my book.

Edit. Whoops, forgot to add. We had Gusto on the pitch throughout ffs. We started with 10.

Edited February 22Feb 22 by WhiteWall

1 hour ago, GarnachoCheese said:

By getting himself needlessly sent off, obviously. What CB with any football IQ do you know that would chase an opposition into their own half, massively out of position, and go through someone on a yellow? Brain dead.

Oh, oh, I know this, I know this........ David Luiz.

4 minutes ago, just said:

Oh, oh, I know this, I know this........ David Luiz.

I did think of you when I picked the Gif for the Arsenal match thread :)

Didn't not think it needed to be said as, we as a forum, have made it clear time and again, however regardless of who the player is, how good they are, or heck forget limiting it to sports people, racism of any kind to any person is abhorrent and vulnerable hatred.

2 hours ago, just said:

Oh, oh, I know this, I know this........ David Luiz.

At least he could pass a ball and score a worldie every now and then!

2 hours ago, WhiteWall said:

I'm not disputing he was brain dead and gave us a disadvantage but single handedly costing us the game is a stretch. You said yourself we had 3 big chances. 3. 3 big chances against absolute dross. Two of those chances came from Burnley errors.

Palmer was poor throughout. Fernandez once again completely anonymous. Tried to kill time in the corner with 6 minutes still on the clock ffs. Sanchez misplaced virtually every pass he made, so much so that a better team would have definitely punished us for it. Rosenior then put a ridiculous number of defensive players on the pitch against relegation fodder and then none of them do the most basic job of marking the striker on a corner. Would he have been Fofana's man, I doubt it.

I'm not disputing the ridiculous brain dead decisions some of our players make but there's a lot of players in the line up for ownership of this sh*tshow, in my book.

Edit. Whoops, forgot to add. We had Gusto on the pitch throughout ffs. We started with 10.

Momentum graph of the game. We were in complete control until the red card, at no point did Burnley even look close to scoring. 60% of their shots came after the red card. Wes cost us this game.

2 hours ago, GarnachoCheese said:

Momentum graph of the game. We were in complete control until the red card, at no point did Burnley even look close to scoring. 60% of their shots came after the red card. Wes cost us this game.

You never know with us, because the longer we go without killing a game, the more likely somebody messes up and concedes a goal (there's a reason why we have dropped so many points from winning positions at the Bridge) but yesterday didn't feel like that was going to happen. Burnley were doing nothing, so I agree, Fofana was the main reason why we drew that game.

At the same time though, even with 10 men, I think we should dominate that game against Burnley. There is such a soft underbelly to us. We never react well to bad moments. It can be anything, a poor finish, a poor pass, a chance conceded, red card, yellow card, a mistake in defence, our players never recover, they just start questioning themselves and the performance gets more and more nervy. We've been labelled with the bottlers title far too many times over the last 3 seasons.

Recall Disasi, two clean sheets since leaving us for West Ham. 🙃

11 hours ago, GarnachoCheese said:

Momentum graph of the game. We were in complete control until the red card, at no point did Burnley even look close to scoring. 60% of their shots came after the red card. Wes cost us this game.

A momentum graph 😄

Wonder if Fofana will come back from suspension and get another Red card in the next game? Like the Jackomeister.

Dumb as sh*t footballers. We own a lot of them.

1 hour ago, just said:

A momentum graph 😄

Wonder if Fofana will come back from suspension and get another Red card in the next game? Like the Jackomeister.

Dumb as sh*t footballers. We own a lot of them.

We are a centre-mid and a winger red card away from being able to field a 2025-26 red card XI. My money is on Fernández and Neto.

I think he did cost us the game, BUT we should have scored another before his dismissal. Palmer was especially poor and cost us too.

Graph could be how many times caught speeding through speed cameras!

I don't know what's worse.

Him being completely unaware and not knowing he was on a yellow, or him knowing he's on a yellow yet decided to be reckless in a needless challenge in the opposition half.

On 23/02/2026 at 10:55, PloKoon13 said:

We are a centre-mid and a winger red card away from being able to field a 2025-26 red card XI. My money is on Fernández and Neto.

We have a winner!!! Neto it is.

Ploks and his crystal ball strikes again.

Edited March 1Mar 1 by just

His words today show the general attitude problem the squad has.

Basically if we beat Villa great we get closer to top 5, if we lose though its OK sill lot of games left....

25 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

His words today show the general attitude problem the squad has.

Basically if we beat Villa great we get closer to top 5, if we lose though its OK sill lot of games left....

"Et si j'obtiens trente points de plus sur mon permis de conduire... ça ne changera rien non plus !"

2 hours ago, axman2526 said:

His words today show the general attitude problem the squad has.

Basically if we beat Villa great we get closer to top 5, if we lose though its OK sill lot of games left....

Goodbye, Fofana. We don't need you.

Talk like that shouldn't even be something they think about. If you think like that, then you don't have the mentality to be a winner. Even if you're sh*t at football, you never go into any game thinking "it's not that bad if we lose, there's still the next game".....there is no next game until the one in front of you is won. There's no thinking of losing, there's no thinking of drawing, the only thought should be to get 3 points on the board. Those 3 points should be your entire life as professional footballer, he doesn't get that and he never will, you can't train that into somebody.

Time to go, Fofana. Maybe Tottenham is his level.

Standards stem from above. Qualifying for Champions League is the maximum this club has placed on the players.

We are Arsenal. Embrace it.

6 hours ago, Scott Harris said:

Those 3 points should be your entire life as professional footballer, he doesn't get that and he never will, you can't train that into somebody.

You would think he of all people would know how to rack up 3 points, given his driving record

I still can’t believe there’s a momentum graph.

1 hour ago, C3blue said:

I still can’t believe there’s a momentum graph.

Welcome to the 21st century, hombre.

10 hours ago, GarnachoCheese said:

Welcome to the 21st century, hombre.

Thanks mate, I am coming kicking a screaming.

I’m not big on all these stats thrown around, I think they have contributed to the downfall of the off the cuff free flowing attacking football I enjoy. Players an afraid of having what is considered bad stats and while some can be important others I scratch my head at.

I mean how and who defines momentum?

Doesn’t momentum change with possession? Is it who’s attacking and who’s defending?Or the scoreline will have a huge affect on perceived momentum. If a team are 4-0 up first half the second might look very different in terms of momentum?

It just seems a strange one to me.

12 hours ago, C3blue said:

I still can’t believe there’s a momentum graph.

Wait, what?

I vote against. Don't know what it is, but I'm against.