I just am gobsmacked. You don’t see 9 goals in a game of football, certainly in a scoreline like this, and certainly with two of the best teams in the country.
I was wanting Liverpool to win, but really towards half time when it was practically all over, I switched off and returned to Han. It was a weaker team put out by Liverpool, as well as Arsenal, it doesn’t bode well for Liverpool should a few key players get injured.
It truly was spectacle (for a neutral) or a farce (for Liverpool and pundits) towards the end, with Baptista scoring his first Arsenal hat-trick, then adding one more. 9 Goals in 90 minutes, that’s 1 every 10 minutes. Liverpool had a goal disallowed, Arsenal missed a penalty, it could’ve been eleven.
I doubt Liverpool fans would be too worried by the performance (as my mum said – “how many teams put 3 past Arsenal”), Benitez made a mistake playing a changed side, and I’m sure he’ll learn from it, and it is in a mickey mouse cup. On top of this, Arsenal do have a habit of thumping teams. Still, it must’ve been humiliating.
On the plus side – the result, plus my taking advantages of the majority of Americans ignorance to the worlds most beautiful game, have managed to get me my second ever greenlit article on Fark. Winner!
What’s been the worst defeat you’ve ever seen or been a part of?
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Rhys Wynne, the author of this blog, is a 20 something web designer from Colwyn Bay. 
was a great game to watch a as a neutral! when arsenal went 1-0 up i thought the onslaught was inevitable but fair play liverpool got back into the game and didnt deserve to be behind
however… once it got yo 3-1 at half time i was wondering! 4-1… then 5! ridiculous! was about to turn over whn it went to 5-2, then 5-3! i was willing another liverpool mircale (i hate arsenal!)
that being said this cup has always been one that arsenal put out their up-and-coming players, and they always seem to do well! i dont know what rafa was thinking – liverpools only chance of something decent this season (come on… you really think they’ll beat barca?!)
now onto great victories.. cub football! we had an amazing team! our goalie used to spend most the game sat against the post because no one got into our final 3rd
i think our biggest win was 15-0! them were the days!
Ahhhhh, bless liverpool. That makes it 9-4 to arsenal over the last week. Ouchski.
Once plaed rugby in PE, and our team won b a margin of something like 60 points. Of course, yours truel scored the lions share, and the most satisfying try ever was when the PE teacher took pity after we scored, and had a brief chat to the opposition and huddled them up to tell them to try a dummy from the restart, i guessed which was the play was going to go, ran forward, interception, and then hopped skipped and jumped down to the line. The teacher was mighty embarrassed
I thought my father in law was going to commit hara-kiri after the third goal. When the fourth one happened I had to find something urgent to do somewhere else …
Incidentally, I’ve seen a 7-0 thrashing twice, both by us and on us.
By us was Colwyn Bay put 7 past Locomotiv Llanberis in the North Wales FA Cup
Against us was, the same season, when Whitton Albion thrashed us 7-0
Holy crap! That is quite a score. Of course, no news of it here in the States. Idiots!