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Champions League Round of 16 (14th Feb - 15th Mar)
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
Now Arsenal will win 2-0 in London and all Wenger fanboys will be out in force.
I hope we finish 6th so we can get rid him once and for all.
I hope we finish 6th so we can get rid him once and for all.
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And the fact that they can concentrate on the league now that they're out of the champions league with a formality match to be played.
This game summed up Arsenal.
Played crap many times, lots of bars and posts hit at other times. Just a cursed season
Oh come on now, that's a very one sided argument. Arsenal are truly unique in this scenario where every year is more or less exactly the same. Plenty of teams went far and even won the whole thing without looking particularly equipped to do so at the start of the season. Liverpool, Porto, Chelsea, Inter in the past 15 years alone were not considered good enough to compete for the cup and won it whereas the likes of Leverkusen, Monaco, Liverpool again reached finals.
The other argument is that a big part of reaching the level of the best teams is to actually compete with them and get a taste of those games. How can you do that if you are not actually playing in the CL? Another issue is the brand, big clubs can handle being out of the CL for a year or two, maybe even 3 but at some point, it definitely starts to affect your status as a big name which consequently affects your ability to buy players, finances, fanbase and so on. In short, Arsenal are truly a unique case but there is much more to the argument for the necessity of playing in the CL in modern football.
Arsenal need to win 4rseNIL to progress.
It's amazing how prominent the number 4 is within that club.
It's amazing how prominent the number 4 is within that club.
Completely stopped playing in the last 20 minutes and gave them a couple glorious chances to make it 3-2. Pure agony. Good result, but this isn't over. San Paolo will be a circle of hell in the second leg
Ty: "On the plus side, a 5-1 away loss is better than 4-0. Arsenal>Barca."
I'm not so sure. Top six is tight and very competitive this season. They'll do well to get top four.
Very sad shot there of Arsene on the bench. But his time is over. They need a complete change of philosophy. But then again who would be available to take over?
I agree wholeheartedly.
Don't know what everyone's worried about! Odds on a 5:0 home win for the return?
What you mean Hull that Champions League top level club, while they played against those phonies from Schalke 04?
I went out to get dinner at half time when it was 1-1 and Bayern looked like they were pissing with a boner. Boy, that escalated quickly.
SCORED AN AWAY GOAL! GET IN!!
Arsenal are an embarrassment to English football
No other supposed top team gets hammerings as regularly as Arsenal.
Koscielny went off injured.
Embarrassing performance.
I'd rather Arsenal have progressed to Semi-finals to hurt their top 4 prospects.
I'd rather Arsenal have progressed to Semi-finals to hurt their top 4 prospects.
It's also that if they change the philosophy these players have been bought for Wenger's philosophy. When he goes they might have the same problems we have had. He has run that club from top to bottom.
Oh, from a Utd perspective - so do I
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Wenger loves to entertain football fans, no?
He is simply using his "reserve squad" ArsenalFanTV to now entertain football fans around the world. He probably even owns 80% of ArsenalFanTV! Even by losing he still wins!
Wenger's half time team talk really derailed them
And now I remember they lost by the same result last season against Guardiola, they need an Top Manager now!
Mate, porto had won the uefa cup the year before the CL, and inter were among the favourites when they won
Their confidence is shot to pieces. That Liverpool game looms large.
I can just imagine Ty jumping up and down shrieking "away goals rule!" over and over again whilst Claude and Troops are going apeshit in the background.
Every club in EPL is better than any club in Germany. It is just that they are so much better and so get totally fatigued by playing with each other.
Some of Arsenal's "defending" I've seen in the second half reminds me of the Brazil 1-7. lucky to have gotten away with only 5 conceded.
We'll be back in the 2nd leg. Mertens had an off night. Still only 3-1.Double
Watch arsenal win the second leg 3-0......
Please Arsene stay.
5-1
So today was a normal day of champion league, arsenal lost against Bayern as expected and RM won
They'll now finish in the top four, rinse and repeat. 
I don't know if you are serious or not, but hey we live in a Democracy and everyone is entitled to their opinion, chill out.
He was excellent in that tourney then but fell flat afterwards
So you think Sevilla are among the favourites to win it this year? Or were they in any of the past 3 seasons? As for Inter, that depends on how far you stretch the definition, they were not outsiders but they were not ahead of Barcelona or Man United or even Bayern in terms of their standing at the time.