5-1 take that

uhhh once evry decade we lose, and in a second tier cup competition...put ur pants back on Spurs fans. it is only a testament to gap in these two teams that this cup is allllll you have this season while it was our last priority. take it. did we play shitty yes, well done. in my opinion, as soon as diarra left the carling cup squad we werent gonna win it anyways.

Just a new fan are we? Used to be a lot more often than that. Dont count out it happening more often now too, considering we have outplayed you several times in the last few seasons, including twice already this season before this game.



I was 2 years old when we beat you 5-0

What year was that Jono?

1983

The Tottenham Hotspur sporting director, Damien Comolli, issued an apology to Arsène Wenger in the wake of Tuesday's 5-1 victory over Arsenal after the visiting manager's post-match television interviews were interrupted by a trio of home players bursting into the room and spraying champagne.

Wenger was the innocent victim of what sources at Spurs admitted were "players' high jinks" as Jermain Defoe and two team-mates emerged from the celebrations in the home dressing room and into the White Hart Lane interview area, spraying bubbly as they went.

Haha, apparently they thought they were soaking Gus Pyet but didnt realise their television was on a time delay so Gus had moved on and Wenger was standing in his place

wenger never got a drop on him, fact. the Spurs players soiled themselves

Yea apparently one of the interviewers was soaked too haha

Haha, what a joke.

Trust me, the Carling Cup is not all we have this season - far from it. We're still in both the FA and UEFA Cups and although our chances of a top 4 finish in the league have long since gone out of the window, the league is still important to us as well.
The success of a season for any particular club is only relative to their potential and their realistic ambitions. Spurs fans fully understand this and we knew before the season began that winning the league was out of the question, but that certainly doesn't mean that we can't enjoy a successful season. In fact, apart from our league form in the early part of the season, we're actually doing pretty well.

Make ridiculous statements if it makes you feel better; at the end of the day you lost the match and should accept it more graciously.

Same scoreline for the Final then? Spurs to win 5-1? What are the odds on that

Gooners can say what they like to try to disguise the humiliation, but forget the result for a second. Let’s look focus on the performance.
That’s three times we’ve played Arsenal in a month and that’s three times we’ve outplayed the best footballing team in the country. It is very clear that Spurs are starting to catch up with them – we’re not there yet and are some way off still – but we’re moving in the right direction.

When Wenger said that his only regret was not fielding more kids, I believe the reason why he said that was two fold. Firstly, it could have had a big psychological effect on the senior players that did play, such as Hleb, Gallas (who had a shocker), Fabregas (although he was a sub initially, Spurs still won 4-1 with him on the pitch), Sagna and Adebayor (although he scored, his actions towards teammate Bendtner could seriously destabilise their supposedly fantastic team spirit).

Secondly, this result has broken a huge psychological barrier for fierce rivals Tottenham. Wenger knows that their players now have first hand experience of beating Arsenal, and beating them convincingly.

Both of these reasons are psychological but if you hear Wenger after a match the two factors he always mentions when judging a performance are physical and mental. I'm not saying that Arsenal's season is just suddenly goings to collapse, but the performance and result could have bigger psychological implications than just merely losing a Carling Cup semi final.

If Arsenal fans don't care, fair enough. But the players certainly do - check out Bendtner's nose!

The Arsenal fans do care mate. If any Arsenal team from the 1st choice XI right down to the U-15's beat Spurs by the same scoreline in the cup, we'd be forced to hear about 'the best footballing team ever'...'the stars of the future'...'Wenger is a genius' cack for weeks. Now that they were pumped it has suddenly became a 'diddy cup' against 'the reserves'...

mont' you really should post more often mate.

you rarely talk anything other than sense, keep it up.

YID ARMY!!!

I was 1!

I was -6

Woohoo!

well ..i dont know about any other Arsenal fans ...but i woke up this morning and the first thing that i thought about was ....did we really get beat 5-1 ....it is still a bit of a shock . We Gooners can all make out that it was only one game and only the Carling Cup ...but is more than that . I saw for the first time since i was a kid or since i can remember Tottenham take us apart with ease , every time they went forward they looked capable of scoring , we had no answer ...even with Fabregas and Adebayor on the pitch we could do nothing .

Ok we were very poor defensively but i dont want to take anything away from Tottenham , you still have to put the ball in the back of the net after all and they did that 5 ....5 !! times .

I guess the next few games for Arsenal and Tottenham will see what kind of effect this result had on the two teams ....

dooh.. of course he's not.. but maybe he can consider being either one after this incident.. who knows.. rofl..

he should've learnt and known their temper well.. okay.. maybe it's just beyond everyone's imagination to see such a thing.. but as i mentioned.. there's no point in forcing to play those two if you've known they didn't get along well from the first place..

trying to keep things from the media might just make it sound worse when they come up with a number of assumptions.. not good ones for sure.. and the story will still continue for a long time after this..

perhaps wenger needs a little bit advice from fergie about how to manage his team.. lol..

^ Adebayor and Bendtner have played together before and it was fine. No one can predict it to blow up on the pitch. We were losing and Wenger decided to put in all the strikers he had on the squad. Can't fault him for that, any manager (yes even Fergie) would have put in every striker he had if he was down 3/4 goals to nil.

Fergie isn't the greatest person for advice on how to control players' attitudes (on or off the pitch). Ronaldo and Rooney aren't angels.