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Teams as follows;

Burnley; Heaton, Trippier, Duff, Shackell (c), Mee, Boyd, Jones, Arfield, Barnes, Ings, Vokes.

Subs; Gilks, Keane, Ward, Kightly, Jutkiewicz, Sordell, Ulvestad.

Spurs; Vorm, Walker, Chiriches, Dier, Rose, Bentaleb, Mason; Chadli, Eriksen, Paulinho, Kane.

Subs: Friedel, Davies, Dembele, Lamela, Stambouli, Townsend, Soldado

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Only one word to sum up the first half - subdued. The effort is there but the spark isn't. Perhaps it would have been different if Danny Ings hadn't missed a golden opportunity after 5 minutes. Thank goodness Heaton is alert. For the second half Burnley need eleven lerts!

Spurs are there for the taking here, if we can't get 3 points from this today then there really is no hope for us.

There seems to be no spark from the crowd either, very disa[ppointing in the atmosphere anmd lack of drive from the team, do we want to stay up or not?

Yeah, really weird game so far.

Positives??? We didn't lose.

I'm surprised that you mention lack of atmosphere FC, maybe it was the Sky sound men turning down the volume, but on Turf Moor the backing for the team was as loud as it's ever been, no lack of support from the fans despite a game to send anyone to sleep.

First half came across extremely quiet second half was louder but like you say BC it could have been the sky volume

Definitely Sky's volume setting, because it was a good atmosphere today.

We should have won, though.

Guess who's coming to town, next week?...

Our 3-0 home win was one of the easiest games of the season (other than the Villa games home and away), and I really fancy us to administer a similar, or even more painful spanking this time around. Remember, we're NOT Tottenham.

In the meantime, have a good week!

S&P ? That sounds familiar, are you that clown that popped up last time we played Arsenal ? If so welcome back, you coming up for the game, or not into actually watching your team ? Impressive against Liverpool, I'll give you that, but we won't be rolling over like the scallies did, as Chelsea, City and now Spurs have recently found out.

I don't know. If by "clown", you mean "someone who unintentionally embarasses themselves; a joke", I believe it applies to your team's performance this season rather than to me.

Au contraire monsieur, it applies to you, as you will prove in the coming few days. Don't let me down mon ami, I'm usually spot on judging trolls, and I don't think you're going to be one of the rare exceptions.

Anyway, you coming up next week or not, easy three points in your futile pursuit of London's top team, surely you don't want to miss it ?

Coming up? Why would I waste my precious time and money to visit a Manchester suburb?

ANyway, based on the number of chances you created and the overall "quality" of your football today, Wenger might as well field the players' WAGS to get the job done next week.

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Coming up? Why would I waste my precious time and money to visit a Manchester suburb?

Totally predictable, exactly as I thought.

Never mind, keep on trolling.

Manchester suburb! Where do the Gunners play - Abu Dhabi innit?

Arsenal having a half decent season is great news for the big clubs in England.
Arsenal are a feeder club to these sides, they may have a choice of players this summer.

Nobody addressed my point about Burnley's "quality"... way to bury your heads in the sand, lads!

I'll stick up for our quality. We will at least take a point off you on Saturday because your lot will continue to do what all the "big" teams do, you think you just have to turn up! So did Man City, Chelsea, Man Utd and Spurs, none of which have done the double over the quality Clarets.

You almost had me believe your team is near the top of the table for a moment...

Look, we're grateful for what you did to City, but don't delude yourselfves. There's absolutely no way your Championship Plonkers will get anything against A.rsenal. Consider yourselves lucky if you somehow manage to even score a goal.

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Nobody addressed my point about Burnley's "quality"... way to bury your heads in the sand, lads!

Jesus wept !! This cretin actually wants to compare our 'quality' with that of Arsenal. A big cash-rich London club with a 60,000 seat state of the art stadium, with one of the most experienced and respected coaches in world football, able to afford top class international players like Ozil, Sanchez, Paulista, Giroud, Cazorla, Rosicky, Debuchy, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Diaby, Wilshere, Ramsey, Walcott, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Szczesny etc, with Burnley, a northern town team used to scrubbing along in the Championship on gates of around 12,000, now playing PL football with a team of, to be honest, over-achieving, journeymen Championship players.

He's clearly a troll or a half-wit, or more likely, both.

At last a tiny glimmer of something remotely resembling intelligence, and a slightly more realistic comparison, although they were receiving PL money last season and getting gates almost double ours, so still a fairly pointless exercise. And why someone who claims to be an Arsenal fan is on this msgboard jibbering about Crystal Palace is beyond me, unless of course he's simply a half-wit, which would explain it.

Gentlemen... BC I am surprised at you bothering with this silly chap.

Meanwhile I thought the Spurs game was like a good bonk... started slowly, gradually increasing in tempo, excitement slowly mounting and with a near miss at the end that could so easily have gone in.
Didn't quite understand why the media found it such a dreadful game at all. It was thoroughly absorbing.

Arsenal may well win, hell on paper they bloody ought to... but so thought several other top teams.

And Salty... Arsenal traditionally do not do well at Turf Moor. Just one of those inexplicable footie things... hmmm think on that.

Boredom Dave, passes on a bit of time waiting for some decent horse racing to have a look at. I know I shouldn't, I should be sympathetic and indulge him, an Arsenal fan who feels the need to big his club up on a BFC msgboard, pitiful really isn't it. I shall take your sage (as always) advice and ignore the clown from now on, leaving him to ponder why Arsenal are now coming to the end of their 11th consecutive season of failure, while we have achieved our aim in 2 out of the last 6 seasons and if we stay up will have been successful in 3 out of the last 7. That would probably make us the most successful club in the country over the last 7 seasons, has any club achieved it's main aim more than 3 times in that period, I doubt it, not even Chelsea.

No wonder BFC gets under his skin a little bit, must be very frustrating being an Arsenal fan, shiny new stadium, top manager, world class players, money coming out of their ears, and all they have to show for it in the last ten years is one Cup win, that Cup that mighty Wiggin won the year before, and they only managed to scrape past Hull by one goal to win that, that's the same Hull City who we've beaten EIGHT times in the 9 games we've played against them since 2010. They haven't won the League Cup for 22 years, a competition we dumped them out of a few years back as I recall, and nothing in Europe since 1994, where they're currently a laughing stock in Monaco (average gate 7,900).

It's a bit of a disaster isn't it, an absolute nightmare for such a big club and it's fans. If it makes him feel better to state the bleedin obvious on here, that Arsenal have better players and play better football than Burnley, it's probably therapeutic for him, and I shouldn't really begrudge him that should I.

My, my he really has rubbed salt under your skin BC!

Halfwits, trolls, clowns, soapy, do we really need them on this msgboard. It's bad enough having our own fans thinking we won't be able cope with Harry Kane, without having southern fruitcakes telling us we won't be able to cope with Arsenal at Turf Moor. Well we've coped OK with United, City, Spurs twice and Southampton so far, so serial under-achievers like Arsenal aren't going to cause any loss of sleep.

And why the surprise, I haven't had a lengthy rant for a while now, it was overdue.

Burnley have the worst goal difference in the division. Even QPR are scoring for fun. At least, they are keeping their end of the bargain in this league, which is to entertain.

Burnley won't be missed when they're gone. And you can rant all you want, that is the hard, cold fact.

Speaking of Wigan, look at them now. Couldn't happen to a nicer club... Think you can avoid the same fate next season in the Champ'ship?

mostly forgotten now,but the A R S E were last promoted to the top flight via a dubious election.

Nothing changes

We've only spent 3 quid

Do you want us to push it, push it real good?

Other than the 3 points Arsenal are an irrelevance to us ..........sorry about that but it's true.Remind me salty the reason you are posting here?

This is all I can see now



I like Arsenal under Wenger, play attractive football generally, lots of pace and flair but they are playing for different objectives to us.

"You must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil"
"There is no way of dealing with the Frenchman but to knock him down - to be civil to them is to be laughed at"
Isn't the Arsenal Manager a Frenchie?
Lord Nelson certainly had it right and he also said, in anticipation of this thread no doubt: "Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon."

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So which is it, chavs? UKIP or BNP?

TROLL ALERT

Ha ha ha ha

Ahhh now we have arrived have we not ? It was an Arsenal fan purportedly who tried this last time as well.I think it would be more apt to let that universally admired patriotic exEngland and Claret striker speak on our behalf.........oh yes he played for the gooners as well I believe. This guy is much more than a troll he's a bad in.

Come again, Brian, but in English this time.

I wish I could 'like' this.