Patrick 'Comical Ali' Vieira insists 'We're the best'

Patrick 'Comical Ali' Vieira insists 'We're the best'

Post by Steve Jone » Fri, 16 May 2003 06:16:42



Quote:

> Arsenal captain Patrick Vieira has backed manager Arsene Wenger's
> verdict that the Gunners are the best team in England.

> Manchester United won the Barclaycard Premiership title, overhauling
> an Arsenal lead which at one time stood at eight points.

> Vieira blamed Arsenal's inability to win the 'ugly' games on their
> failure to retain the title.

Losing Adams probably cost them in the Ugly competitions they had... Keown
on his own just isn't enough.. even with the Seamen pony tail.
 
 
 

Patrick 'Comical Ali' Vieira insists 'We're the best'

Post by SoulSurvivo » Fri, 16 May 2003 06:17:02

Someone better get The Man from Del Monte into Highbury because the grapes
being dished up there are SOUR man!!

:-)

M


Quote:

> Arsenal captain Patrick Vieira has backed manager Arsene Wenger's
> verdict that the Gunners are the best team in England.

> Manchester United won the Barclaycard Premiership title, overhauling
> an Arsenal lead which at one time stood at eight points.

> Vieira blamed Arsenal's inability to win the 'ugly' games on their
> failure to retain the title.

> The 26-year-old feels the fighting spirit at Highbury is not as strong
> as it was when he arrived in London, and believes Sir Alex Ferguson's
> side have 'more hunger', even though there were 'really rubbish' at
> times this season.

> 'I have seen Manchester United so many times on television this season
> and they were playing really poor football - really rubbish.

> 'When I was watching they just did not play well. But United have this
> or that player who comes up with a trick, they score a goal and then
> they win one-nil or two-nil.

> 'I think that was the difference this season. Arsenal are the better
> team. 'In fact, there is no doubt that we are the best football team
> in England.

> 'I tell you, Arsenal play fantastic football, but what has been shown
> is that playing fantastic football is not enough.

> 'We did not know how to win enough of the ugly games this season. 'The
> fighting spirit on the pitch now compared to the team of my first two
> seasons at Highbury is completely different. It is less.

> 'Manchester United have, how can I say it, more hunger than we do.

> 'As a team they are much more experienced than us but they have more
> players who have that vital hunger.

> 'Also, Arsenal are completely different from them. We need a good team
> performance to win a game, but they have so many players who win games
> by themselves.'

> Vieira believes the blame for Arsenal's failure to retain the title
> lies squarely with himself and his team-mates.

> 'The thing is that we are good enough to compete with and beat
> Manchester United.

> 'So if we do not win the title it is my fault, it is the fault of all
> of us as Arsenal players.

> 'Sometimes we have to look at ourselves in the mirror and say that we
> did not perform - that we did not give our best.

> 'It is too easy to say that we were not good enough, because that is
> not true. We were.'


 
 
 

Patrick 'Comical Ali' Vieira insists 'We're the best'

Post by bob » Fri, 16 May 2003 07:52:22

Quote:

> 'I think that was the difference this season. Arsenal are the better
> team. 'In fact, there is no doubt that we are the best football team
> in England.

Baghdad Bob lives.

 
 
 

Patrick 'Comical Ali' Vieira insists 'We're the best'

Post by Larry Halpi » Fri, 16 May 2003 10:38:46

Quoting "midnight"

Quote:
> Arsenal captain Patrick Vieira has backed manager Arsene Wenger's
> verdict that the Gunners are the best team in England.

I think he's got it just a bit wrong - what he should have said was "At
times, especially at the beginning of the season, ..................".
Certainly, at times, they played a brand of football that has very rarely
been seen anywhere in the world & were probably the best team in the world -
at that time.  Wenger saying that they could go unbeaten all season seemd to
give them a burden they just weren't strong enough to carry.

Did anybody also pick up on this.

According to "midnight" quoting Vieira

Quote:
> 'I have seen Manchester United so many times on television this season
> and they were playing really poor football - really rubbish.

> 'When I was watching they just did not play well. But United have this
> or that player who comes up with a trick, they score a goal and then
> they win one-nil or two-nil.

> 'I think that was the difference this season. Arsenal are the better
> team. 'In fact, there is no doubt that we are the best football team
> in England.

> 'I tell you, Arsenal play fantastic football, but what has been shown
> is that playing fantastic football is not enough.

Compare this with the following taken from a later message in the thread
"Vicente Del Bosque. We are the best team in Europe"

Zidane added his parting shot as well, "I have seen Juventus so many times
on
television this season and when I was watching they just did not play well."

"They were playing really poor football - really rubbish - but Juve have
this or that
player who comes up with a trick, they score a goal and then they win
one-nil or two-nil.

"I think that was the difference this season. Madrid are the better team. In
fact,
there is no doubt that we are the best football team in Europe.

"I tell you, Madrid play fantastic football, but what has been shown is that
playing
fantastic football is not enough."

I didn't realise that Vieira & Zidane were so attuned in thought - must be a
French thing.

Regards
Larry

Go the R's