My cousin is a Chelsea fan. He was aggrieved when the FA decided to charge John Terry over his racist remarks towards Anton Ferdinand. I said to him, "John Terry is a cunt. The FA will crucify him from time to time whenever they need someone to crucify. Get used to it."
Now, what does John Terry being a cunt have anything to do with Arsenal? Nothing. What has Arsenal's defeat got to do with Chelsea? Nothing. We shot ourselves in the foot on the day and just weren't good enough. I thought all hell would break lose in the second half after we equalised with a few minutes before the half time break, but it wasn't to be.
Instead we came back and shot ourselves in the other foot immediately after half time, meaning we were fucked for the rest of the match.
Abou Diaby did his thigh (surprise!) and had to come off. The whole game hit home a now familiar refrain: We are still conceding cheap goals and are not as solid defensively as we have been over-hyped so far. But that said, we need to pick ourselves up and move on. We can't feel sorry for ourselves. Just ask Mancies United who were beaten by Spurs.
Tonight we have an opportunity to put things right. The players especially will be keen to get back to winning ways as we face Olympiacos. There needs to be a rule against facing the same teams in the group stages of the champions League, just saying... ahem.. we have faced them 2 times in the last three years I think.
Mikel Arteta has a knock and I wouldn't risk him, considering that Diaby is out for 3 weeks. Starting him tonight could see us lose 2 of our starting 3 midfielders and that could prove too costly. Aaron Ramsey will be eager to play in place of Diaby while Coquelin needs to start getting games. The Manager says that Diaby's injury is an opportunity. Sad but true.
Szeczesny is also injured, but hey, for the first time in donkey years, I am not worried about our goal keeping situation, not with Don Mannone in goal. That guys looks so scary that a striker could miss a penalty just looking at him.
Upfront, It's time Cazorla, Podolski, African Brother Gervinho (ABG) and Olivier Giroud started banging in the goals. No more shitting around in front of goal. We really must be ruthless in front of goal. To his credit, African Brother Gervinho (ABG) scored a belter against Chelski at the weekend. Long may that continue.
I'm really hoping for 3 points tonight. Anything less will be a big disapointment.
COYG!!
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