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  • Shearer pre injury was unplayable. He did all the old Alan Shearer power and strength stuff but could pick the ball up 40 yards out and run at pace. He was skill and pace and was and incredible player. This sub underrates him because they didn’t see him pre injury. Wright was probably the best of the rest he was better finisher than Shearer and more skillful. Fowler as a kid scoring 30 goals three years in a row was like nothing anyone had seen. Razor quick, so nimble and deadly them three were so good.

    Ferdinand, Collymore, Cole, Smith, Sheringham…. Incredible talent pool of strikers plus legendary genius like Merson, Beardsley, Barnes, Le Tissier who were fantastic options as deeper strikers.

    Wright is the best finisher I’ve seen in English football he deserved more caps but Venables had his favourites. Venables froze out Merson because he was apparently a bad influence on Gazza! You can’t make this shit up sometimes your face doesn’t fit. Wright was petulant, angry and moody at times and always seemed ready to start a fight in an empty room I am sure this hampered his international career. The chilled out uncle Ian the youth see on twitter isn’t the spiky kid who played for Arsenal. Man’s matured massively. Respect


  • Not watching Keane and Neville. Wright was done dirty as were many Arsenal players. 89 and 91 title winners and not a single player went to the 90 World Cup. England used the Arsenal players to qualify even trying to sabotage us with friendly in Saudis Arabia etc and didn’t take any Arsenal man to World Cup…… The anti Arsenal bias is real





  • Arsenal only beat one top half side away that season. Henry scored two goals away to top half sides that seasons. Arsenal lost the league because of their away form winning eight away, drawing seven and losing four of the eighteen away games. Losses to Blackburn, utd, Everton and Southampton and draws away at Chelsea, spurs, Newcastle and Liverpool killed Arsenals title defence.

    Henry didn’t deserve to be European footballer of the year because he was a he didn’t do enough away to make his side champions.

    If one win away against top half sides isn’t good enough to make Arsenal champions don’t try and act like Henry two goals away against top half side is good enough to make him champion. He wasn’t good enough.

    A supreme player would have scored and dragged his team to wins when Arsenal dropped points away to the big rivals Chelsea, spurs, Liverpool, utd,

    Or them rougher physical sides like Everton, Bolton and Blackburn.

    No striker has won European football of the year with less goals away against top half sides. Van Basten, Weah, Ronaldo, Shevchenko, Messi, Ronaldo, Baggio all managed it.

    Only one I can think off who didn’t manage it is Micheal Owen in 00/01 but Owen scored a hatrick away for England in a qualifier against Germany and scored two goals in the FA cup final. Owen shook the world with them goals in them massive games. Henry didn’t score in them massive games either!









  • Jchibs@alien.topBtoThe Arsenal@soccer.forumPat and Liam
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    11 months ago

    Two of the absolute best. Seaman aside Jennings must be the best keeper we’ve ever had and there isn’t much between them, I wouldn’t argue with someone rating Pat as the better of the two.

    Liam Brady is the King of Highbury. Kids need to put respect on his name. A genius.