Rightey-ho! So this weekend was a pile of balls, wasn’t it. Balls belonging to a hybrid of Sir Alex Ferguson and Carlo Ancelotti, which means that the little pubes on these balls constantly twitch at you when you look at them. Quite why you’re looking at them I don’t know. But a big ol’ pair of balls they are.
What is there to say about Arsenal? I have a friend who supports Arsenal. Every time I see him out it seems, recently, we have to go over the last major disappointment. We’re constantly huffing, puffing, shrugging our shoulders. Why? Because how do you explain this team’s penchant for the spectacular failure?
West Brom’s second goal actually had me speechless. That’s after I swore several times at the computer screen, but speechless nonetheless. I wouldn’t make the decision to come out that far from my goal if I was playing in goal, and I’m not a professional footballer. I’m not a professional anything at the moment, and even if all I had to do was keep for Arsenal at the weekend I wouldn’t make that decision.
Almunia is fucking shit. Let’s get it out there. He’s absolutely rubbish. The worst thing is, I was one of those idiots that used to defend him off of the back of one ordinary season back in 07/08. That was three years ago. Between then and now we could release a DVD entitled Almunia Is Fucking Shit. Then we could do a sequel, and sequel of that and make so much money that we could buy out his contract and have him nowhere near the goal.
But then, what’s the alternative? Jens Lehman. This is a guy that has not played a competitive game for two years, and was supposed to come back to keep Eboue company on the bench. Quite how, as a team chasing the League, we are now left with the option of Almunia or Jens in goal is beyond me.
I’m aware of the injuries to the two Poles, and both were freak injuries. It just seems so unfair. Why can’t Edwin get injured during a warm up? Why can’t Cech bust his finger performing a routine save? This season is going to be, possibly, the worst if we don’t manage to dig deep and somehow overturn this five point deficit.
No point in talking about games in hand. We’ve dropped four points in the last two games which we simply shouldn’t have done. This means that we can’t slip up in the up coming games. If there was no room for error before, there definitely isn’t now.
But this is what we live for as football fans. Yes, everything seems to be going against us and we probably should be more aware of a resurgent Chelsea as opposed to United ahead of us. But we’re in the run-in and we still have something to be annoyed about. Something to make us look forward to games at the weekend.
A couple of seasons ago we were fighting for fourth place. Even in the 07/08 season it started falling apart before now, and that for me was the season we should have won the league. We’re second place out of 20 in the Premier League, we have hardly any midweek games between now and the end of the season and have Fabregas, Song and Walcott coming back. That is pretty much 3/5 of our starting midfield five. Although Theo could find it hard to get back in the team with the resurgent Arshavin starting to come back to form.
Anyway, as much as this team infuriates me. As much as it makes me question why I invest so much time, energy and emotion into it. And as much as I tell myself I won’t get excited about what could still be an excellent season, I’m looking forward to this season’s climax.
It’s nice to be involved.
I love Arsenal,
and I love you too.
nashisarsenal
