Bring It All Back.. Again!

I’m a big fan of things coming back.

Take That, for example.  I was far too young to appreciate the brilliance that was Take that at the time that they were popular.  I knew all of the older girls in my area fancied them, but I didn’t know just how swoony they all are when they performed.  For new readers who may be uncomfortable, I’m gay.  I’m not actually.

The song, ‘Bring It All Back’ by the fabulous singer/songwriting collective of S Club Seven is a great song.  About things coming back to you.  It also brought back a lot of feelings for a certain lady in the group.  I happened to have a look at a recent edition of the slightly classier than Nuts magazine, FHM, the other day and Jo Rachel just happened to be there.  Wet.  And that brought back a whole bunch of feelings I couldn’t understand as a kid.  See, I’m not gay.

Not that there’s anything wrong in being gay.  I have a gay friend.  And he’s white.  And I’m black.  Think I’ve covered all bases there…

And so we move onto another thing coming back that I never really used to understand, as Jens Lehman seems to be on the verge of returning to the club as emergency loan cover.

There’s a couple of reasons that I could never understand Jens.  One was my relative immaturity when it came to football at the time that we signed him.  I must have been around 15, and at that age we were winning thing on a regular basis.  I never really appreciated how good our keepers were.  Or more specifically, I never understood how much a good goalkeeper meant.

So at first we had David Seamen.  Legend.  Then we had Jens and we went a season unbeaten.  Legend.  I just assumed if you were a club like Arsenal, you just had a really good keeper as standard.  I used to scoff when United went through the period of Taibi and then following that, Barthez’s decline.

Now  I would crave a whole season where we had one of those keepers that, you know, just doesn’t regularly make mistakes.  Let me word that better, because everyone makes mistakes.  Just the other night, when I was out at a disco, I started talking to a Chelsea fan.  At first I thought he was alright.  Wrong.  WRONG.  Absolute prick.

What I should have said is that I would crave a season where I’m not worried about the keeper position, whether it be the performance of the first choice, or the quality of the back up.  Unfortunately, this season looked like it was going that way until injury ruled our two Poles out of contention for the season.

So I’m happy Jens is back to provide cover for Almunia.  The mind games have gone between the two, according to him.  And he seems to be happy to be at the club, to help out in a secondary role.

“This time I’m looking forward to my role on the bench, I will support Almunia. We can win the title”

You know Lehman won’t put up with any bullshit if he sees it on the training pitch, and he’s a guy that has been there and done it.  On all levels.  What we need now, like Arseblog has pointed out, is a hero.  Jens could just be the hero that we’ll never see in action.

I love Arsenal,

and I love you too.

 

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