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I'd hate to see Arsenal fans celebrate a proper trophby.if current scenes in North London are anything to go by

Can't believe how much of the its only the fa cup, it was only Hull etc etc etc bollocks people are spewing already. Its pathetic.

Great day out yesterday. Not easy on the heart. I felt sorry for Hull until a smallish bunch of Hull fans tarnished their otherwise good behaviour with some homophobic abuse hurled at Arsenal fans in the street after the game. We're a "bunch of southern shirt lifting faggots" who want to "bum Ozil" if the Hull fan hype was to be believed.

Still reeling from having to pay £5.40 for two cups of tap water at half time.

rapha water ?

final few awards of the season handed out yesterday
well done to suarez for the european golden boot award

rapha water ?

I think its a bit shit really given that you aren't allowed to bring in your own water.

I thought he officials were atrocious yesterday. Got more wrong than they got right.

i bet they've got those " not drinking water " signs up in the toilets don't they

Try buying a cup of water at the Landmark hotel. You might have to remortgage your house.

Moron.

Trust him to piss in your parade.

I love the FA cup, brilliant competition. Anyone who says otherwise is cunt. Having a third division side in the final nearly beating a cough apparently cough top flight team just shows you the beauty of the competition.

The cup has, of course, been massively devalued since the introduction of the PL.
Only giving the winner a CL spot will change this IMHO.

haha, funny considering Arsenal's usual position in the league.

Glad Arsenal finally won a trophy, but don't see much to celebrate after that performance.

are you kidding?

we came back from 2-0 down to win 3-2 under enermous amounts of pressure in a cup final, should have had 2 or 3 penalties, dominated the play and had a shitload of chances and then won the FA Cup. What more do you want? Too many moaning plastic fans at wembley yesterday who suddenly changed their tune when we won.

I thought Sanogo was the difference when he came on, as soon as he scores one and gets a full preseaon under his belt hes gonna be one hell of a striker. Ramsey and Cazorla were immense too

Let's not ignore the fact that Arsenal required extra time to beat a relegation candidate in the FA cup final. Much hyperbole.

lets not ignore that Hull played bloody well and had managed to get to the FA Cup final where Liverpool, Man City etc etc etc didn't. Worthy opponents and tough to beat

Immense performances get delivered on a level playing field or when the odds are stacked against you. Before kick off the odds were definitely in Arsenal's favour. If they would have lost one would have said that they "bottled" it.

yet we won so your point is entirely moot.

I'm with Andyp on this. There's really not much to shout about. Feel free to disagree.

having knocked out Liverpool, Tottenham and Everton among others and then won the cup i'm pretty happy. I suppose you are from the school of thought that finishing in the top 4 of the premier league means way more than winning a cup. Fair enough, Arsene Wenger thinks so too. But after 9 years we can finally shut people up when they ask us how long it was since we won a trophy.

I bet you think losing to Barcelona in the Champions League final with 10 men was a bigger achievement than winning the FA Cup

I couldn't care less.

But after 9 years we can finally shut people up when they ask us how long it was since we won a trophy.

Nope, now it will go from "Arsenal, who have not won a trophy in 9 years" to "Arsenal, who have only won a single trophy in 9 years".

Let's not ignore the fact that Arsenal required extra time to beat a relegation candidate in the FA cup final. Much hyperbole.

this, this and this. All the Gooners who are currently lauding Arsene will be calling for his head 10 games into next season... again. Proper fans.

are you kidding?

we came back from 2-0 down to win 3-2 under enermous amounts of pressure in a cup final, should have had 2 or 3 penalties, dominated the play and had a shitload of chances and then won the FA Cup. What more do you want? Too many moaning plastic fans at wembley yesterday who suddenly changed their tune when we won.

I thought Sanogo was the difference when he came on, as soon as he scores one and gets a full preseaon under his belt hes gonna be one hell of a striker. Ramsey and Cazorla were immense too

Sanogo wouldn't make the squad at City, Chelsea, Liverpool or even United, yet here he is as Arsenal's second choice striker. Therein lies the issue that hasn't been resolved for years (when did Wenger last buy a genuinely world class striker?) and yet still some want to stick with Wenger despite it being obvious that his time is up.

The Cup win papers over the cracks.

Now's the time to usher the old man out the door.

Before he comes back again and starts talking nonsense.

The thing is, Wenger wasn't buying world class strikers when he bought Henry or RVP either, but that's what they became.

Granted, you can't say the same for Sanogo, Gervinho, Vela, Park...but there are probably more hidden gems out there somewhere.

Why buy world class when you can buy a donkey who may one day turn out to be world class?

Because you want to win trophies, rather than develop one decent player every ten years and win the odd tin cup?

Quite, I think my reasoned statement became a rhetorical question by the end.

Who are Arsenal going to get then?