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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Have not got much time to say a lot this morning, which will please most, off on a weekend trip to
the beautiful Fistral Beach... for those who have never been... GO!
Along with 2 friends, we purchased a holiday property overlooking the beach about a decade ago,
and it has easily proved to be the best investment we have ever made, not just financially
speaking, but being able to jump in the car and spend less than 4 hours driving to a place that you
would never guess was on this island, is bliss.
Wenger has never been right.. has he? (note to the simpletons: tongue is firmly in my cheek
here)
When he helped guide our beloved club to doubles, season's unbeaten, cups galore... the issue
was "too many foreigners" or "Wenger is killing England"... etc (you know the guff, some of you
so-called goons even participated in such guff talk)
We now see every successful team in Europe, full to the brim with overseas players, Inter Milan
won the treble last year with maybe a pair of Italians in the starting eleven at most, the large
majority of the time, they played eleven "foreigners"
The good news for Gooners is a deal has been ratified by all parties concerned, as predicted by
yours truly earlier this Summer, for Cesc to join his beloved Barcelona in June 2011.
Fabregras will complete his last season as a player and captain of Arsenal Football Club this
forthcoming term.
Take a deep breath, especially the doom and gloom merchants amongst you, but Barcelona don't
have the deep, rigged, pockets of Real Madrid.
We hear this afternoon they have agreed a fee in the region of £35M, for the purchase of
Valencia and Spain forward, David Villa, so where now do they propose to find another £40M .
History tells us Wenger never gives up on his man.
Rosicky was monitored for a number of years, we missed signing him when he left Sparta Prague,
in the Summer of 2001, for Germany.
AW finally cashed in on the Czech international during the Summer of 2006.
Felipe Melo is a player I personally rate very highly, he is obviously a player the manager also
rates as he had a bid rejected by Fiorentina last Summer, before he moved to Juventus for close to
£25M.
The bookies make the Portugeezer a pretty safe bet to manage the Spanish giants next season.
City are 4/1 to be managed by him, Liverpool 7/2.
Real Madrid, consisting of the all the current Galacticos, and more to be signed this Summer,
must surely be a very attractive proposition for Mourinho.
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.