Fantasitc player no doubt but this isnt the first time hes moaned like a bitch about the CL final.

Incredibly selfish and we were right to get rid.

Was lucky to start the final considering Reyes had played the majority of the games beforehand but Wenger went for sentimental instead of the logical choice

Let it go, Bobbi.

I'm glad I wasn't the only who thought at the time that Reyes should have started and not Bobby.

Tbh, I really don't see what's wrong with his protest, he's being honest about his feelings and if I was in his position - I'd be moaning every single day about being subbed in that final.

Still, he should blame Lehmann instead of Wenger. :coffee:

He shouldnt be blaming anyone.

Did he expect us to play with no keeper?

Someone had to go off.

Seeing as Pires wouldnt have lasted the 90 anyway, he was the right choice

He shouldn't but he does, its a grievance he feels, a weakness of being human, blaming someone/something when in reality no-one is to blame apart from Lehmann.

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just noticed your name

good man, true to your word

Well of the 10 outfield players, 7 were definitely not coming off. 4 defenders, 2 CMs and Henry.

That left Freddie, Hleb or Pires.

Bearing in mind we were down to 10 and needed people who could run a lot, Wenger made the right choice.

Anyway the one man to blame is Henry. Had he scored those 2 simple chances, we'd have won and Pires wouldnt give a shit

2 people to blame. Henry and Lehmann. Henry for choking and Lehmann for coming out for the ball.

Still, you win as a team and lose as team.

Which makes my first point a bit retarded.

Lehmann had to come out for the ball otherwise Barca score. Eto'o was just too quick.

Henry? Less said about the better

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Pires sounds like Tim Sherwood there with the English players comment.

Cannot blame anyone here. Lehmann kept us in CL with that penalty save and pires will feel hard done by because he felt he deserved to stay on. As for blaming henry, I can never do that after what he has done for the club, match after match! None of our strikers after him have been 20% of what henry was and we still think some of the current forwards are good... that just says what a player TH14 was for us..

Henry choked, Pires shouldnt have played ahead of Reyes.

Old quote but the right choice was made anyway in Paris, Freddie was fantastic all night and Hleb did a good job of keeping possession.

For Pires playing ahead of Reyes, blame AW. As for Henry choking, well yea he did choke in the final but i personally cant hold him accountable for that. Every player is allowed to have a few bad days and in TH14's case, his great days outnumbered bad days by a huge ratio

If you want to blame a goalkeeper, blame Almunia, not Lehmann. He was shite and could have done better on both goals (although Eto'o was offside for the first). The second itself was an amateurish one to concede.

Henry bottled it, yes. He was also one of the main reasons we reached the final. :)

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Getting boring mate.

Neither of the goals were Almunias fault :good:

Anyway, hope Pires plays in the game especially at the Emirates.

He'll be given a great reception

I think Pires was chosen over Reyes because Reyes had not been so reliable. When you are then down to 10 men it's always going to be a compromise. Actually, I'd have taken off Hleb rather than Pires because of who would be most likely to shoot score if the chance arose. As said above, Henry and Lehmann where fundamental in us getting to the final in the first place. Shit happens sometimes.

I can understand Pires being pissed off - maybe it could have been a different result - a win for us or a worse defeat. If we'd kept 11 men, we still might not have won. We'll never know - how the match would have turned out is impossible to know. And yeah - Pires needs to get over it. We were all gutted - join the club, Robert. :good:

:goodpost: Spot on Almunia had an awful final, he let us down big time.

Even though he could do nothing about either goal and made some great saves during it?

I can see Walcott or Nasri doing to Pires what Pires did to Vieira in our CL run a few years back.

Wenger made the choice he thought was right. He had nothing to gain by making the move solely to piss Pires off. Personally, I think taking off the least dynamic player would've been the right choice anyway, but I also agree with Coney that Pires would've been more likely to take a chance if put through on goal.

The bottom line is Wenger made that decision. And whether it was right or wrong, Pires shouldn't be bringing it up as often as he does. What does he [Pires] want to gain by saying all this? If I was Wenger, I'd tell Eboue to get down that right flank and give Pires a f'cking good whack early on. Unfortunately, Wenger is a classier guy than I.

Problem is that he might not even play as he is not a regular starter!

He's just being honest.

The biggest club game of your career, what do you expect?

Exactly! I dont know what some people are expecting Pires to say... "I was delighted to be substituted in the CL game... its just a final in the place I won the world cup... thanks for taking me off arsene. I cannot ever repay you for this debt!" :fingers:

Booby had to go..he's got wrong star sign you know.

It must have hurt to have been subbed off so early but Pires brings this up every time he talks about Arsenal. He really does need to get over it.

But surely he needs to bring it up when he talks about Arsenal. It's why he left, his parting feeling with the club.

Football is often the most important thing in a players' life, if you would be able to just let that go, so be it. But need to? Not really.

OK, he doesn't 'need' to do anything but I would prefer it if he concentrated on the good times in his Arsenal career rather than bringing up that every time.

A great Arsenal player and what he did for the club is appreciated but i too would rather he reflected on the succsess he had at Arsenal rather than being subbed off in the CL final

It's an old quote! I recognise it from the time he left us in 06. Which is why the idea that he needs to get over it is odd, he hardly talks of it.

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He was understanbly annoyed at the time but has got over it now.

If I remember correctly he's also bought a highbury flat.


What a legend.


Bobby :bow: :bow: :bow:

Fair enough if it is just being rehashed. :good:

let him have his moan! he has a right to be miffed but at the end of the day the decision was made and it is up to all to accept that! it's part of the game and I am sure that it has played on AW's mind more than once!

for all involved at Arsenal to have gotten that close and to see it taken away is going to stick for a long time! I mean Eboue is probably wishing that he had dived on a few more occasions than he did :run:

our game against Bobbi is coming up and it doesn't surprise me to see the usual rush of related articles!

I am sure we will see more of them, if we progress through to play Barcelona, sh*t they have TH and Hleb, I am sure we will have screwed their careers up too! :coffee:

Good player. Now shut up already.

What a gonk.

Balls.

So he was in a CL Final, he got subbed and was disappointed by that. Who wouldn't be?



"Leaving Arsenal was the most difficult decision of my career. I was lucky enough to be an Arsenal player for six years and I wanted to finish my career there."

"I want to say I am no longer angry with Wenger. I will simply tell him many thanks for what we did together, the confidence he had in me and the titles we won. Wenger knows I’ll never agree with him that he made the right decision. But it cannot erase six years when I won trophies, learned from him, grew in confidence and did well with France’s national team. I’ve put it behind me.”


I'll be cheering him when he comes back to the Emirates, I'm sure most people will.