Robbo
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bentley, pennant, upson for a start 
As far as i can see, Bentley played once?
Upson 35 so fair enough, he just wasn't good enough
and Pennant 12 games, scoring 3?
Hardly a massive chance really, i think the above are league games
Bentley was plenty good enough for arsenal, just didnt get a proper chance
Bentley played loads fo times for us, only one or 2 league appearances though and he wasnt prepared to wait his turn... he got a perfectly good chance then bitched and moaned and left. TS
End of thee day as mr sandwich saud, its not wengers job to build the england team and hes not been prepared to shell out the £20m for an owen hargreaves nor the £27m for a Wayne Rooney nor the £30m for a Rio Ferdinand and you cant exactly have a go for that. IIRC we would ahve won the league title in 2004 (unbeaten by the by) with just the 2 english players, ashley cole and sol campbell... noone was complainign that there were too few englishmen then so not sure why its an issue now
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Marc
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Barclays Premier Reserve League North: 15 games played
Sunderland 33
Man City 27
Newcastle 27
Man United 25
Blackburn 23
Everton 18
Wigan 18
Bolton 17
Liverpool 15
Middlesborough 14
Hull 13
Barclays Premier Reserve League South: 12 games played
Aston Villa 24
Fulham 19
West Ham 16
Stoke 14
Arsenal 15
Chelsea 13
Spurs 10
West Brom 9
Portsmouth 9
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Ben J
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Originally posted by Marc
Barclays Premier Reserve League North: 15 games played
Sunderland 33
Man City 27
Newcastle 27
Man United 25
Blackburn 23
Everton 18
Wigan 18
Bolton 17
Liverpool 15
Middlesborough 14
Hull 13
Barclays Premier Reserve League South: 12 games played
Aston Villa 24
Fulham 19
West Ham 16
Stoke 14
Arsenal 15
Chelsea 13
Spurs 10
West Brom 9
Portsmouth 9
Whats that show?
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JonnyJ
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That sunderland and aston villa will soon be the best teams in england. Obviously... 
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Marc
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Originally posted by Ben J
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Originally posted by Marc
Barclays Premier Reserve League North: 15 games played
Sunderland 33
Man City 27
Newcastle 27
Man United 25
Blackburn 23
Everton 18
Wigan 18
Bolton 17
Liverpool 15
Middlesborough 14
Hull 13
Barclays Premier Reserve League South: 12 games played
Aston Villa 24
Fulham 19
West Ham 16
Stoke 14
Arsenal 15
Chelsea 13
Spurs 10
West Brom 9
Portsmouth 9
Whats that show?
That your reserves are shit.
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Hammer
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How many of the England squad are from the Manchester United youth academy?
You can't buy all West Ham (amongst others) English talent for tens of millions then sit on your high horse about Arsenal
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Marc
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I'm just trying to get people to bite 
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Hammer
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Why did I bite I couldn't give a fuck?
I'm away to the pub 
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Marc
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Not yoy Hamsy
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Ben J
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I'm just trying to get people to bite
Sad life you must have?
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Marc
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Learnt from the best, Cosmo 
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Nath
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Personally I'd love for the 5+6 rule to come in. It won't though so this thread is pointless.
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Nismo
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Spurs have never been the same since he left either
shut up
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moka
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The point of this thread was to see the reaction of the arsenal supporters. Very entertaining
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strick206
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Spurs have never been the same since he left either
shut up
Ok so they have improved?
Oh that's right, he was replaced by Zakora
[Edited on 21-03-2009 by strick206]
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Cosmo
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That's Arsenal's fault not ours
Big clubs can afford to spend on players
FPMSL - thats the second time in a few days Ive seen you use that!!
You can step down off that high and mightly horse, as you are buying all your players with debt and not with profits from being a 'big club'.
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Marc
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A lot of high horse comments lately, that the new thing you kids are saying?
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Cosmo
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If you got down off your high horse you'd hear what we are saying.
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Rob_Quads
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Bentley played loads fo times for us, only one or 2 league appearances though and he wasnt prepared to wait his turn... he got a perfectly good chance then bitched and moaned and left. TS
Exactly - the problem is that the english players think its thier right to play in the first team over other players that are better. Its ironic that around 3 months after Bently left we had a load of injuries and ended up giving a number of the young guys a run out in the first team. If he had stayed put he would have been at the top of the list to play.
The fact is if england was producing lots of good players then Arsenal would have a team full of them. The fact is we are not and most are crap.
Look across the whole league and see towards the bottom how many foreign medeoka players are there.I would say there is a much bigger argument that the further down you are the most UK players you should have. Once they get experience they will move up the world stage.
Teams like Arsenal / ManU can't be expected to produce all the england players.
The fact is the country is screwed sporting wise from a young age. Compare how much sport was done in schools 20 years ago to now. MUCH MUCH less. That then just has the knock-on effect. The less that start the less that will be there after a few years.
And sorry but mentioning Pennant is just silly. Would you would want a juvenile who steals cars, convicted drink driver multiple times on your team?
[Edited on 21-03-2009 by Rob_Quads]
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Cosmo
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And sorry but mentioning Pennant is just silly. Would you would want a juvenile who steals cars, convicted drink driver multiple times on your team?
Yeah, I mean Arsenal have never stood by their players when having personal/legal problems...ahem Adams.
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Nath
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And sorry but mentioning Pennant is just silly. Would you would want a juvenile who steals cars, convicted drink driver multiple times on your team?
Yeah, I mean Arsenal have never stood by their players when having personal/legal problems...ahem Adams.
Did somebody say Paul Merson?
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Cosmo
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Originally posted by Rob_Quads
And sorry but mentioning Pennant is just silly. Would you would want a juvenile who steals cars, convicted drink driver multiple times on your team?
Yeah, I mean Arsenal have never stood by their players when having personal/legal problems...ahem Adams.
Did somebody say Paul Merson?
Who, Ian Wright?
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Nath
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Racist.
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Cosmo
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Racist.
No, I think he was jailed for motoring offences not racism.
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