Arsenal 1-0 Everton: Fitting score to the occassion

Match report. 

I spent the weekend in the company of Manchester United Fans. And after arguing with them over who the better club is, which proved rather fruitless as United fans are... well.. cuntz really. You cannot talk sense with a cunt now can you? I have decided to re-affirm my position and state as follows.

1. Arsenal have real class and integrity.
2. United are shameless cuntz.
3. Chelsea are oily cuntz.
4. Manchester City are greasy cuntz.
5. Tottenham are neighbourhood cuntz.

And now that we have put that matter into clear perspective, let us now discuss football.

Saturday was a very special occassion for the Arsenal as we celebrated our 125 yr in existence. On the day, a statue of Henry, Adams and Chapman were unveiled. I agree with Wenger when he says that were the club to erect a statue for all great players and managers down the years, the stadium would be surrounded by statues. In fact, I suspect it would look more like a cemetary. The Emirates is a magnificent stadium and making it look like a cemetary would be a shame. So I sugest they make miniature statues for the rest of the great players and place them in a cabinet within the stadium.

We played a very unambitious Everton side on the day. They brought with them a double decker bus, a few taxis, some motor bikes and a few quad bikes. They then proceeded to park the said vehicles in front of their goal. In addition, they dug a few trenches too between the rows of parked vehicles, dug themselves in and then invited us to try and break down their fort.

Unfortunately for Everton, they didn't realise that after half time, the teams would have to switch goals. They only had a 15 minute window in which to move their defensive apparatus to across field. In their haste to do so, they left a little gap which would later be exploited by Robin Van Persie to score the winning goal for Arsenal.

The game kicked off very brightly for Arsenal. Theo squared a ball for Ramsey and Gervinho to both miss and deny Arsenal a goal within the opening 15 minutes. In hindsight, the ball was struck a bit too hard by Theo who now says he should have shot at goal instead. Theo says;

"I should have shot," he said. "But the thing about me is that last week I squared it and we scored. I'm not lacking confidence. It could have hit anyone and it could have gone in.
 
"But I never dwell on chances. It was a mistake, I should have shot, but I won't dwell on it. If you keep on thinking about it then you won't have a very good game.

 Clearly he does dwell on chances otherwise he wouldn't be talking about it after. But there you go.

The first half ended goalless, with Everton looking more likely to lose the game than draw at all.

Lehmann, Lauren, Dixon & Parlour

The second half was a very boring affair really. We lost our rhythm and speed. Everton started to feel lucky and substituted their only striker Saha for a defender Distin. With over 20 minutes still left to play, Moyes got it wrong for his Everton side.

General Alex Song clipped a ball over the Everton defence for who else but Van Persie to volley into the Everton Goal. One nil to the Arsenal.

It was a special goal that had everybody including these here legends applauding it.

And so the match ended 1 nil to the Arsenal, a very famous scoreline and chant for the Arsenal.

Afterwards, the shit mongers were on about how Arsenal are a 1 man team. Some Manchester United cunt even told me that Arsenal were lucky to win the match!! Well, excuse me Mr. cunt, but when United win by the same scoreline at a second division team, you say it's because they are a great team that when they play badly they still win. When Arsenal fails to break down an established premier league team that parks several vehicles in front of goal but wins 1-0 with a special goal you say we are lucky? Sod off!!

Seriously, I have a lot of respect for Manchester United but their fans are dispicable. really, they are cuntz.

Next up we play Manchester City. I see us doing United a favour by beating Manchester City for them to close the gap. Hell, Chelsea might just start assisting United tonight by beating City. But knowing John Terry, he may just bend over for Aguerro  to score.

So now we are in the top 4, albeit temporarily if chelsea can beat City tonight but I dont mind that. Tottenham will enevitably fall back into the Europa league positions where they belong while Arsenal will finish in the top 4. Hell, we might even upset the odds and win the League, but let's reamin focussed on the next game. One step at a time as Jordin Sparks sings.

Right, thats your lot for Now. I hope Chelsea do the job over City tonight. 

Onwards march the Arsenal!!!

Olympiacos 3-1 Arsenal: Hilarious Team Performance.

Arsenal performance a joke on the night

Match report and highlights can be found here.

I must say that at some point, I stopped grimacing and just started laughing at our performance last night. I decided it was not worth getting annoyed over because I have come to accept some Arsenal Players as just over-paid squad members. A game which should have been approached with a care-free spirit was approached with such timidity and calamitous individual performances, as to leave everybody involved with the club in no doubt  as to how poor we can be in depth.

Players such as Arshavin, Chamakh, Squilaci, Fabianski and Mannone quite honestly have no future at the club based on the performances of last night and their general performances thus far. They have been at the club long enough with little improvement when called upon. They should be moved on to lesser teams where they will shine.

Fabianski, a man who ought to be challenging Szczesny for the number 1 spot competely screwed up his chance to stake a claim to the spot. For the first 24 minutes, he could not do anything right. I was not surprised to see him get stretchered off. Thats the story of his Arsenal career so far. He chokes up when put in the team then injures himself. Vito Mannone had the howler of the entire group stage I think with his missed Karate kick that resulted in the second goal moments after he came on for Fabianski.


Squilaci is just Squilaci. Always unlucky, always involved in all things bad at the heart of our defence. Djourou is not a right back, oh when will Sagna return?

Arshavin just doesn't seem to want to be at the club anymore. He should just be sold to Manchester City or Barcelona. For a captain of his national side Russia, he does little at Arsenal to suggest he is a leader nor a good striker. My African brother Chamakh is really looking out of his depth at Arsenal. I think Bordeaux did to us what we did to Barcelona with Hleb...

Our tactics were wrong, we played too narrow and with shortballs. that made us easy to close down. We needed to expand the pitch, make angles for passes and generally hold the ball for longer spells. Our continued timidity was playing perfectly into the hands of Olympiacos. They were good on the night but we made them look like Barcelona.

Anyway, the performance didn't tell us anything that we didnt already know and expect. But we were all hoping for more. I was surprised to see Vermaelen and Santos start the game. As it turns out, Santos could miss the rest of the season with that ankle injury. It looked bad when I say the replays. But here's to hoping. I think we may need to buy a leftback in January because Gibbs won't last the distance and playing Vermaelen there is not good for the team in the long run.

So we lost, but Marseille produced a miracle in Germany to beat Dortmund by 3 goals to 2 after being 2 goals behind. They progress in second spot in our group and they could face Barcelona in the next round. Good luck to them.

Let us get back to the league and focus on the up coming Everton game. The manager has a decision to make this January regarding the future of some players and strengthening the squad. On the evidence of last night, a striker is needed.

We may have been halted in our tracks by Olympiacos, but thankfully that was a nothing game for us really and we panicked... shame.

Onwards march the Arsenal!!