(The not-so-temporary quite-official) Gooner Thread

COYG

Cagey starr to this one. Reading are well organised at the back.

COYG!!!!

Sanchez you beauty!

How calm was he in the box!?! Lovely ball ozil

Fudge me! Where did that come from?

Fudge

BFG off , Gabriel on.
Slightly nervous now.
COYG

Thank god for sanchez! !!!

Yes! Let's hold onto it this time!

And for mark bosnic like keeping! !!

Thank God! As always put the sharks up us all right til the end. Roll on the final!  :) :) :)

Final screening at the Backbencher again??  Same day as the U20 world cup double header in Wellington as well. Going to be a massive day of football.

Boom i'm in

goofy666?

Don't work at the BB anymore so any venue will do

Never easy! Great to be in the final again, win that and we're the most successful FA Cup team ever. 

Also great to see the scum lose. 

Excellent to grind it out, some of the guys will need a rest after that as they went full on right to the end

Looked like Gibbs did his hammy at the end there

Phew. Was never going to be an easy stress free thing was it? Hopefully we can organise somewhere to watch the final together again.

Villa in the final it is. Can't wait.

Great stuff. Got a Villa fan friend too so should have some good banter. Most of my worst Arsenal memories have come against Liverpool so couldn't face the thought of a final against them and the script for 'Stevie G' in his last game and on his birthday and all that.

I'm a little disappointed it's not Liverpool, would have been nice to see Stevie G get one last cup final (albeit a losing one)!

Wenger vs Sherwood. Surely this is good news.

I've pondering how to line up against Chelsea, I'd be intrigued to see:

              Giroud

Welbeck Ozil  Sanchez

      Coquellin Cazorla

Monreal Kosc Paulista Debuchy

             Ospina

Paulista - in for his pace over Per

Welbeck - in for his pace over Ramsey

Debuchy - in because Bellerin is injured

Monreal - in because Gibbs wasn't great

Ospina - in because he's in form

I'd be expecting to use our pace to counter them, the counter-counter attack. Coquellin will be good at cleaning things up but both Paulista & Koscielny will be needed to have the pace to cover their absorb pressure & counter style. Cazorla & Ozil will both need to start to ensure we have multiple creative providers, & we'll need Giroud leading the line to ensure the link up play that he brings & Welbeck doesn't.

That said I'd almost be tempted to swap Welbeck & Walcott, because dare I say it Walcott is better at one on ones that Welbs...

He's also carrying that ankle knock...Chelsea is a big game. If we win it keeps the very outside shot of winning the title alive.

I'd risk his injury if it would put us within 3 points, but it's not going to.

Level of games with Chelsea but still 10 points adrift. 1 point ahead of United with 1 game in hand.

8 games left to hopefully secure top 2 finish and back to back FA Cups.

Also this is an accurate article:

http://www.football365.com/f365-says/9812716/16-Co...

"Winners talk about winning. Everyone else talks about winners."

No Welbeck, I'd go Ramsey, Rosicky and Walcott ahead of him.

Gibbs may be injured as well as Meatsack

I think we'll go alright.

Crazy that I don't get heart palpations knowing a CB is out now

Paulista has been terrific.

ahh i didnt know Per's ankle was still troubling him, i saw him come off in the fa match but thought it was a precaution. yea Id be happy to see Paulista in there. you are right Veleo, im not fussed about either CB being in there. which is something we couldn't have said at the start of the season!

Ahhh the great wall of mourinho up next...

We all know what they're going to do... if we sit deep then no one will be in the middle of the pitch!

The ball will all be ours, we need to nick one early to make them play. 

They'll be dangerous on the counter, debuchy and monreal the best bets at fullback i reckon. 

We'll need some moments of magic from our big players to get goals. Ozil to Sanchez, goooaaaalllllllll

Wenger has never beaten him. Now would be a good time to start.

Think it's got 0-0 written all over it. Mourinho doesn't need anything more and will make sure he gets it.

Made a last minute decision to go to the Chelsea match. It's normally rubbish bus-parking combined with awful away fans but I'm hoping this one's going to be different... 

Awesome, looking forward to hearing about your experience. How did you get tickets? Membership?

Yeah I'm a Red Member, which means that as long as I time it right I can always get tickets to PL matches. 

Next season, all going to plan, I'll have two season tickets via friends of friends.

Great stuff.

F365's "Top 10 unheralded stars"

http://www.football365.com/topical-top-10/9815288/...