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Brilliant…everyone seems to love the woe at Arsenal but We’ve always been a fan of Arsene’s philosophy. Who needs Nasri and Fabregas when you have Ramsey and Wilshere?! Think about it…All they need is a bloody Centre back.
So now that a few hours have passed since the match, how do I feel about it all? I feel disgusted and I feel severely let down. Still.
How dare they do that to the fans? How bloody dare they.
All season I have believed, even when it seemed as though no-one else did. Once the Spuds beat Chelsea yesterday I believed again, and if the team itself believed, they didn’t show it and they played as if they couldn’t be bothered.
When the line-up was announced there were collective groans across the Arsenal world as it was revealed Fabianski would be starting. I thought it was a good thing. I hoped he would have a nice simple straight-forward game in which he could begin the long road back to confidence. What a fool I was.
To win the league we knew three things would have to happen; we would need to win all our games, Man U would need draw one match, and that Chelsea would need to drop four points (unless we could claw back a 13 goal difference deficit which is unlikely in the extreme but would leave us needing them just to lose once).
So, up stepped Man U to face Blackburn and they duly obliged to drop their points as early as possible just to give Arsenal all the incentive they could ever desire heading in to the match against the Spuds. I know we have still to go to Blackburn, and that they’ve held Man U and Chelsea this season, but we aren’t Man U or Chelsea, and if Man U had performed at even 50% capacity they would have taken the points. Alas, they can’t score for shit without Rooney or Own Goals, and while one is injured, it seems the other has decided he’s helped Man U enough and has gone on holiday.
Right, I’m going to outline my position before I start, simply because I know I am in the 1% of Gooners who think this and it’s only fair to warn you. I do NOT think we are out of the title race. Not by a long way. So if you’ve come here expecting a load of moaning and bitching about how crap Arsenal are and how we’ve blown it, you’ve come to the wrong place.
Some might even say it was a good point, given their home record and the fact that we went in to that game with no RVP, Gallas, or Vermaelen and never really got going on what was an awful pitch. Some. Not all. Obviously.
Well folks, I don’t know about you, but I’m thinking the Premier League should go on ahead and start engraving our name in to the League Trophy….
It was another match, the kind of which I fear we have another seven to endure in the league. What should have been straight forward was turned in to a farce with the sending off of Vermaelen. It’s as if the fates want to test that we can come through every type of adversity, make sure we’re worthy champions. After all, we hadn’t had a red card in well over a calendar year, and we shouldn’t have had one yesterday either.
I’ll concede that TV5 tried to foul him, but he missed. The linesman, who was not up with play, signalled, and the ref gave the penalty and issued the red card without consideration or consultation ever though he was just about in the West Ham half.
What a week.
Let’s get this all clear before we start. Depending on who you talk to, if they aren’t an Arsenal supporter you could very well believe the following: Ramsey’s leg broke itself, it did this, just before he managed, with his self-broken leg, to be too quick for Ryan Shawcross, who was only fractionally late going for a 50:50 ball. Shawcross, as you all know by now, is a lovely lad, who has never done this sort of thing before, apart from the time he crippled the ex-25 after the ball was long out of play last year, or the year before that when he broke Francis Jeffers ankle from behind, or when he did this.
Now none of this is me saying he might have had intent. Nor is it me saying he is a malicious player. What I am saying is that when a player has been reckless in the past, you cannot use the fact that he is ‘not that type of player’ as a defence. He is very obviously a reckless player. You do not accumulate two leg-break credits by the time you are 22 by being Denilson-like in your tackles.
Id like to say a 3-1 win is a good week for Arsenal but i cant. Heres what LadyArse has to say…
Please excuse this blog, it is all over the place as I can’t get my head straight. I’m sure you understand, perhaps by tomorrow I will not be quite as disjointed. I wanted to be talking about the commitment of Sol, the class of Cesc, our penalty situation, our steel, our spirit, our fightback. I can’t..
Before the match v Stoke kicked off, all we wanted was three points. By the end of it, it didn’t matter whether we got 0, 1, 3, or 20. None of it mattered. Even this morning, I know what it meant to the title race after the Chavs being taken apart at the Bridge by Team Bridge, but the league seems so insignificant. That will pass I know, but it hasn’t just yet.
What a week. You can say one thing as an Arsenal fan, and that’s that it is certainly never dull.
Heading in to the Champions League game against Porto, Arsenal players were falling faster than Steven Gerrard when he gets near the oppo box, and there were some (me included) who were relieved that Almunia was injured. What fools we are.
And so it came to pass that Almunia’s replacement got in his obligatory fuck up which cost us a goal before going on to perform a lot more solidly. Before fucking up again. I honestly think the young chap has space/distance/angle/judgement issues. Perhaps a math class might help?
Our equaliser, who else? Mr. You’ll Never Beat Sol Campbell (unless you can run fast) with a header from four yards out. It had to be, mainly because I wanted to put a bet on him to score before I remembered I lost this week’s betting allowance on Milan the night before. He was solid, making good tackles, great blocks, and hoofing balls in to row z in the way all central defenders should be instructed to do. His touch in the second half? Accidental. Sort of.
What a difference a week makes eh?
When I sat down to write this last week I was deflated, though not defeated, even though Arsenal had just lost to Chelsea on the back of losing at home to Man United. It was not a good week.
The Death Run culminated with Liverpool coming to the Grove, and in probably our worst performance out of the three matches we managed to get a 1 nil win. The relief was palpable. Relief very quickly turned to unadulterated joy as the results from other matches filtered through – Man United had been held by Villa, Everton had beaten Chelsea, and, not that the result affected us in any way, but the Spuds had also lost and that always add a little bit of sugar to any Arsenal victory.
Who would want to be an Arsenal fan at the moment?
It was a long, long, long week for Arsenal fans. With no mid-week match as a distraction there was nothing left to do but ponder, speculate, and rehash the events of last weekend, the result and individual performances against Man United.
It did not make for a pleasant week. So much hope had been built up heading in to that match that by the end of the 90 minutes anyone who dared even consider that next up was a trip to Stamford Bridge was reaching for the whiskey/vodka/tranquilisers.
This week saw Arsenal begin their “death run” as they drew against Villa and lost to Man Utd, lets see what LadyArse has to say about it…
Arsenal headed in to what some supporters are calling the ‘Death Run’ with a not-quite-deadly display away at Villa Park. Villa, Man United, Chelsea, Liverpool. What fun. For those who have masochistic tendencies.
The only talking point to come out of the Villa match was Martin O’Neill’s ridiculous reaction to something Wenger didn’t even say. The fact that he was still yammering on about it three days later shows that MON might be feeling the pressure a little bit as every Arsenal fan thought sure that once he had read what Wenger had actually said he would realise he’d made a tit of himself. Not so. Whether he chose not to read the full statement, or read it and thought his stance placed him in closer proximity to Alex Ferguson, who knows, but what is certain is that the story will now go down in history as one in which Wenger called Villa a long ball team when he actually said:
It has been a good week for Arsenal fans with the Gunners moving to the top of the Premier League albeit only for a few days. Lets find out what our LadyArse has to say about it…
Had you just landed from another planet, you would be forgiven for not realising that Arsenal played two very physical, hard-fought matches, home and away, against a Bolton side which can only be call ‘thuggish’ on a good day in the past week as well as an FA Cup tie.
You would be forgiven for not realising that Arsenal had went to the top of the table, albeit for only a few days, and you certainly would not be aware of the fact that not only did Arsenal score six goals while being kicked for 180 minutes, they also continue on their quest to become the first team to score 100 goals or more in a Premier League season.
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