The lame talk of United rocking up as newly crowned Champions and strolling this match are left to the dim witted guessers who are new to this sport. Clearly they may rest one or two, but they have the like of Chico to step in and give us the run around. The long held rivalry between the clubs the classic North South hatred will ensure no game between these two sides will ever feature one side not bothering to show up.
So with the lowly Coventry dispatched with consummate ease earlier this evening, focus now turns to a Saturday lunchtime humdinger of a match against the mob from West of Moscow.
Both sides are firing in the goals at the minute, but there is a difference, one side is solid and leaking the odd goal whilst the other is rather living on the edge and having to outscore opponents.
The young guns along with the first teamers who are not getting the requisite playing time take to the pitch in the newly named Capital One Cup tonight, and it should give us a huge insight into the next generation along with the strength in depth the first team have. The game is not going to be broadcast anywhere live, so no streams will be available, which is fine by me as I'm through to the latter stages of an online poker tournament kicking off at the same time.
Today was a must win for Arsenal. Not just to reverse the perception of a club descending into a
familiar and vicious cycle of self inflicted wounds and low self esteem. But to resurrect the
career of a manager under fire.
A defeat would have tipped the scales between the two camps, the AKB and the ASG (Arsene Should
Go) resting at a precarious 50-50 irrevocably in favour of the latter.
England overcame World War II buoyed by the bulldog spirit of Winston Churchill, the perfect
choice for a war time leader. Yet, it was Clement Atlee who was voted to rebuild an England
recovering from the war's aftermath and the decline of empire. 50 years later these two men rank in
the list of greatest leaders.
I call you a plankton who only sings when we are winning, and cries like a 3 year old
girl when things go against us.
One thing has always set apart proper genuine football fans, from all teams around the
world, that I have personally come across in all the many years I have been a fan of the game is a
spirit, a belief.
Note: If you don't know what all the hullaballoo is about, click here.
de·stroy
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to reduce (an object) to useless fragments, a useless form, or remains, as by rending, burning,
or dissolving; injure beyond repair or renewal; demolish; ruin; annihilate.
Yes after an extended break, the Hawke is back in the blogosphere.
Where to start? Well firstly, there has never been and there never will be a footballer at
Arsenal who is even 0.1% of the size of the club itself.
Anybody who has believed for even one second that Cesc was not going to leave this Summer needs
shooting, the club told Cesc this time last year to give us one more season and then if Barca stump
up we won't stand in the way.
With the last game out of the way and a football-free summer upon us (unless you get turned on
by the Under 21s), I thought it might be a good idea to examine our season through the prism of the
headlines that have accompanied the daily post here on Arsenal Arsenal.
With a new post every day and a long season, I'm breaking it up into sections, starting today
with August, September and October.
I will admit at around the 75 minute mark, I had given up on any chance of a win... a draw was a
maybe... however it seemed we had blown our early chances, including a cracking chance for Robin in
the opening minutes, after a delightful chipped through pass from Cesc.
Roman Abramovich may have done the biggest favour to all connected with Arsenal Football Club
this January transfer window.
By spending £50M on Fernando Torres, a player who was woeful at the World Cup and unwanted by
Barca or Real, the Russian oligarch has priced Cesc out of the reach of Barcelona for at least a
couple of seasons.
I was going to write a piece having a pop at the little fat nazi fucking heart attack patient in
waiting, who was dressed up as a referee at St James' Park yesterday... but then I thought
otherwise. Nothing new happened, nothing surprised me... come on Gooners, comrades... brothers
and sisters in arms.
A pearler missed from Wenger's presser yesterday afternoon.
"Arshavin will come back after a breather for a few games and be sharper"
Having played both cup games in the last 7 days, and played very much below-par, our little
Russian wide man appears to be getting the bench for a week or so.
So we are on a low ebb at the moment, if Spuds was not bad enough, we get humbled by a poxy pub
team from Portugal who caved in a mountain to build their stadium.
Fair play to the lad who got both their goals, nicely done son... credit where it's due.
In that he decided that he would build a team, whilst up against the Russian, Spanish and Arab
billions, on a shoestring, that was capable of dominating the greatest club tournament on the
planet.
I am of course talking Champions League football.
Having written about my beliefs for this team in said competition in previous posts, I am
forging ahead with my view of this squad being built with a large focus on winning the only major
trophy to have eluded Wenger.
Wenger has very clearly stated he believes this squad, not team, but squad is capable of winning
the Quad!
So we go for the lot, and can play first teamers in the Carling Cup, why?, because we have a
squad of around 25 first teamers now!
His policy has not changed, you see over the past few seasons, some of those 25 were so
called youth team/2nd team players, they have made the step up, matured, and progressed to first
team status.
This is how I feel on this crisp, sunny, yet cold Sunday morning in London Town.
Not.. Can Arsenal beat City.
Our midfield today will be comprised of a Steely Cameroonian hitman, accompanied by the elegant
rangey skills and power of a Parisian box-to-box man and the trio are completed with a touch of
Spanish genius to bring it all together.
Confidence is crucial to all types of sportsmen and women, it's a vital ingredient in making the
magic step towards World Class ability as opposed to World Class talent.
I have done nothing but back Fabianski since the day I saw him play for us in the Carling Cup a
few years back against West Brom.
Cesc was fit for the Brum game, yet not even on the bench.
Theo was definitely fit, but rested for Tuesday night's massive Champions League match against
the very, very decent Shaktar Donestk.
I don't think Chavski are untouchable, but there is a growing problem in the Premiership right
now, United have faced it, and we faced it for a few seasons.
Yup, you read it correctly, I am bored of reading all the monotonous crap knocking us, so I am
going to focus on the glowing positives from the 90 minutes played out at ramshackle of a
ground.
Jack is ready, more than ready, to give world-class performances on a weekly basis, he is no
longer a work in progress, the boy is a man nowadays.
Dissect the West Brom game as much as you want, but it won't make any difference to the
result.
I sat through the whole game in the Clock End Upper (love saying that as opposed to the South
Stand), right smack behind the goal, so had a wonderful vantage point over the course of the
miserable afternoon.
Right gooners, making my preparations to head off to the Emms for the WBA game... got a feeling we
may draw the same team in the Carling Cup at lunchtime today aswell(?)
3-0 should do it today and there is a real possibilty of JET getting a game today, which is not
the worst idea ahead of Belgrade and West London.
Apparently Koscienly was not going to be any good, who was this 3rd rate defender, plucked from
relative obscurity to ply his trade in the Premiership?
That bloody Wenger, buying duds all the time, hey..huhh!
Chamakh can't score goals... came the cry from the moaning morons... a few goals and a month
down the line and not a peep, as per the norm.
I like the format of the Carling Cup, where the job is done on the night, no piddley replays
etc, extra-time then penalties if needed.
The FA Cup should also be run in a similar fashion from say Round 4 or 5, let the replays stay
in the earlier rounds for the smaller clubs to earn some money, but in the latter rounds, with the
Champs league and other comps all hotting up, the transfer fixture pile up can cause our clubs
issues.
I heard an important point raised on the Arsenal Fan Forum show last Friday night.
Gael Clichy has not got the technical ability to do anything worthwhile with the ball in the
final third of the pitch, he is wonderful at getting into the correct areas when we are on the
front foot, but due to his inability to reach his own man with the ball.
It's only Braga in the ECL Matchday 1 tonight, not Real or Barca, but I am just so god damn
excited about watching this Arsenal team right now.
Cesc and Tomas are really orchestrating a beautiful symphony that gets played out on the
Emirates pitch, with Chamakh leading the line to perfection and bringing others into play with his
100% unselfish play, it's just a pure piece of heaven when we see our beloved team play.
I am very surprised we have not heard more on how his scans/x-rays etc have gone.
As I am sure most of you have seen already via all the pics and vids up on other gooner blogs,
surrounding the diabolical challenge by the northern monkey from Bolton, it aint pretty.
If the news from AW during the champs league press conference tommorw afternoon is out for 4-6
weeks, it won't surprise me.
Exaggerate them, make them seem worse than they are, really stretch out the time it will take
for the player to come back.
Why?
Is it not obvious?
This new Walcott injury and the manager's comments on the official website seem not quite
fitting to me, on one hand the injury is not as bad as expected as the scan is clear, but then he
says it will be up to 6 weeks till we see him again in an Arsenal shirt.
Tonight's game has never been too far away in every gooner's minds eye since the draw was made
last December in Nyon, Switzerland.
There is no point in making far reaching rally calls..... my take is to sit back and hopefully
enjoy a festival of Total Football, played out by the two purest footballing sides on earth.
Tonight's game has never been too far away in every gooner's minds eye since the draw was made
last December in Nyon, Switzerland.
There is no point in making far reaching rally calls..... my take is to sit back and hopefully
enjoy a festival of Total Football, played out by the two purest footballing sides on earth.
The self-styled Special One has been mouthing off on Spanish TV, ahead of Sunday's all important
London Derby between the Chavs of Pikesville and the Regal Reds of London N5.
He just cannot help himself can he?
Bitterness is a hard pill to swallow, so they say, and ever since Maureeno was booted out of
London by the KGB back in September 2007, he has had it in for Wenger.
