I bet Coquelin made more tackles/interceptions while having played 1/3 of the time.
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Mathieu Flamini: Released to Save the World
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I wish he was a dirty bastard. Unfortunately our resident self appointed motivator is just a reckless and brainless footballer. How many times have we seen him jump into tackles like that? I'm sure he's been sent off for this kind of challenges before. Sooner or later he's going to walk for a poor challenge and Wenger will come out and blame the ref. I shudder at the thought of him playing against Barca.
Tir Na Nog
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Country: Ireland
Loved his tackle today. 
Almost as good as the time he injured Corluka and celebrated it to the Milan fans.
Almost as good as the time he injured Corluka and celebrated it to the Milan fans.
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Loved his tackle today.
Almost as good as the time he injured Corluka and celebrated it to the Milan fans.
AVENTUS
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His a liability as mentioned If we went down to 10 men then We could of dropped points today.
Vinci
The Sultan of Unai
Country: Netherlands
Nothing to love about the tackle. Another day he gets send off for it and we drop points.
Furious
Emery Gone, Telly Back On
Well, him getting sent off would actually be a bonus for us.
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^^That's what I thought as well. Flamini gets sent off, we win anyway because Bournemouth are crap and he gets a 3match ban for violent conduct to stop Wenger playing him. Win win me think.
Country: Iceland
Can't deny that I love his character.
He is a little bit like the funny man in Boondock saints!
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Coolin
Doesn't appreciate the mighty Nacho
Took me a while to realise it but he's actually awful. Sometimes he stands in front of the defence, not breaking up play or marking anyone ... just standing there. At other times he positions himself in between our centre backs leaving a great big gaping hole in our midfield for the opposition to run into. And even when he is in position to break up play he falls for every dummy that's sold to him anyway.
I assume he's only keeping his place because he's a senior player and on very good terms with Wenger. Either that or Wenger doesn't want Coquelin to think he can just walk into the team (even though he should).
I assume he's only keeping his place because he's a senior player and on very good terms with Wenger. Either that or Wenger doesn't want Coquelin to think he can just walk into the team (even though he should).
Country: Canada
Beginning to think this is actually the case.
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I think this is the only plausible reason why he's still in the team. Wenger is many things but he is not daft and can see the weaknesses in midfield. Historically he takes a while to drop players possibly out of fear of ruining the morale of the team. You look at the catastrophic collapse at Chelsea after Mourinho started scapegoating players and it all makes sense. I think Campbell for one is on borrowed time and bar injuries to key players he will struggle to earn regular starting berth till the end of the season. Flamini will go the same way sooner or later.
SuperGoon
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Country: Ireland
Player:Saka
You didn't even need to write anything else. We already know.
Country: Canada
Came across this gem on Facebook, some of our supporters are so clueless it hurts my brain
Trying to justify Flamini actually being any good
Trying to justify Flamini actually being any good
Bearded Toaster
Equally angry as Furious
At least he shows a bit of fight and passion unlike most of the other team members.
Nyctophobia
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That's why stats are so useless on their own, most of Flam's passes are to the centerbacks anyway, it's actually amazing his rate isn't better in that regard and they have to be taking stats from before he left us in the first place.
Bearded Toaster
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Funny how people are writing off Campbell. He was one of the stars of the world cup last year. I'd prefer him start on LW than Ox or Walcott.
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