Last weekend I felt like I was in the ‘Twilight Zone’…
Paul Heaton was amazing in goal for the Hammers against the Spuds
….Paul Heaton, lead singer of the Beautiful South was incredible in goal for the Hammers who beat Madam Twitchy’s spuds 1-0. Liverpool drew – again. With Gerrard getting away with a blatant elbow – not the first time (how the ref worked out that it was a yellow card I don’t know??) and they scored one of the weirdest goals ever in the history of football historicalness.
Chelsea actually lost a game in their first test against a decent side following 5 easy fixtures to conveniently get them off to a flying start…hmm, rich clubs, bottomless pits…favouritism = conspiracy??? – That is, if you can call that drivel a game.
Manure struggled to earn a draw against Bolton who normally bend over and take it up the bunghole from red nose alchy’s team…… and Arsenal played and lost against errrrrr -Arsenal at the Emirates?!
It was seriously like watching our lads in the wrong shirts. We played like WBA did against Chelsea at the start of the season and they deservedly kicked our arse’s. They passed better, shot better, worked harder, tackled harder……were harder and i’d say the only thing better about us was the smell, through sheer lack of hard graft, our players failed to generate a drop of sweaty B.O following a lacklustre, lazy pathetic display throughout.
With the exception of the subs and Nasri who looked the only player to have actually broken a sweat in the last 20 minutes, when he tried single handedly to pull us back into that game, every one of our players should hang their heads in shame.
I was embarrassed, let alone how embarrassed Wenger must have felt.
Wenger looks bemused as Arsenal seemed to have swapped shirts with WBA BEFORE the game kicked off?!
Yes, I can sit here and follow many other Gooners in judgement at Wenger’s failure to replace the hapless Manuel Aluminiumwrists© AND Flapihandski, but there’s no point. It’s too late. Until January at least, these are our no.1 and no.2 keepers.
Unless of course, Wenger decides to take a gamble and promote Chesney (the one and only) and Don Vito Mannone as no.1 and no.2 respectively. But 99% of Arsenal fans will confidently say ‘No, he won’t do that’. Wenger seems to have a frustratingly blind faith in these Goal ‘un’Keepers that none of us can fathom.
Of course, we don’t all get to see what goes on in training. Chesney recently bleated stupidly in public about not getting his chance considering the form of the no.1 and no.2 and even made a dry threat to leave the club if he didn’t get his chance and that, I fear, will work against him. We all know how stubborn Wenger is. He won’t be bullied into playing anyone.
Despite our feelings on this subject we must remember that ‘In Wenger we trust’ and I truly believe that Wenger must be seeing something negative in the 3rd and 4th choice keepers in training which has forced his hand in entrusting the responsibility to the two main flappers.
Maybe it’s stage fright and they’re actually unbeatable in training? But I struggle to place too much emphasis on confidence and mind-set. These players are playing football. It’s meant to be fun and enjoyable.
Yes there are pressures, and psychological state plays an important part as it does in any job in any walk of life, but it’s not like WW3 will kick off if they let a goal in the net FFS!
I don’t understand how or why, goalkeepers in particular have confidence blips. We expect them to concede sometimes. It’s natural. You just cannot stop every shot from getting past you.
Maybe they need to relax more. Besides, Aluminiumwrists© has had enough good moments and confidence boosting saves in his time at the club to refill his confidence so why does he lose it so easily if it is a case of confidence.
Ah, bollocks to confidence, it’s pretty clear that the answer is that both Manuel Aluminiumwrists© and Flapihandski are just bad goal keepers. Too bad to be playing for a club of our standards and stature anyway.
So, what’s the answer? The answer is there is no answer. We can pray or demand or protest as much as we like. Wenger will make his decisions and we’ll have to like it or lump it. Wenger will stick to his supposed top two lumps, I mean keepers, for the foreseeable future until injury allows the others a chance and ‘BY GUM’ they have to take it! I say-BUYBLOODYGUM! (warning: subliminal chewing gum advertisment alert!)
Some ‘Gooners’ on various forums have been calling for Wenger’s head and demand he be sacked if he doesn’t buy a GK in January. This sort of reaction is ridiculous and I don’t have much time for ‘fans’ like these. They clearly haven’t a clue how to envision consequence. I don’t need to go into what these consequences could be if Wenger was sacked in the near future – true fans already know what they would be.
These silly comments follow the news regarding our financial position, which is healthier than expected and will set us up as a self sufficient force for the long term. Unlike Manure, Chavski, Man El Citeh, Liverpool etc…who are far from being self sufficient and with their debt laden owners are always at risk of a severe plummet should there be a financial crisis in the foreseeable future. I’m not sure about every other Gooner but I feel extremely proud of this fact and in pure Benitez style, here are some facts:
*To have been a top 4 team every year under Wenger’s reign.
*To have been in the Champions League every year since including an appearance in the 2006 final and some memorable games.
*To have moved into a beautiful new stadium that most other clubs envy including our poor neighbours.
*To have converted our historical Highbury into luxury apartments.
*To have won the trophies we’ve won since 1997.
*To be the club of ‘Invincible’s’ in 2004.
*To have produced or introduced some of the most amazing and often unheard of ‘Stars’ ever to grace the premiership – Bergkamp, Henry, Viera, Pires, Fabregas, Wilshere etc…
*To have set the highest standard of pure, beautiful ‘shexy’ football in the premiership that every neutral and true football fan of any club enjoys to watch (apart from the odd blip against WBA of course!)
…… all these fantastic elements that we as Gooners enjoy, all brought to us essentially by one man. How can anyone with a sane mind demand that Wenger be sacked. It’s ludicrous!
So we ‘HAVE’ to keep the faith. That should be our new entry song at the Emirates –
Bon Jovi – Keep the Faith’ – Awesome!
We’ve got Partizan Belgrade on Tuesday which will be a tough away fixture. The players have to look at themselves and brush the weekend ‘Twilight Zone’ horror behind them. They must win emphatically on Tuesday and whoever is in goal must keep a clean sheet. The defence must protect the keeper. The defensive midfielder’s must remember when they should bomb forward and when they should do their bloody job and help protect the back four. We need these things to happen if we have any chance of being prepared physically and mentally for the Chavs on Sunday who, despite their loss on Saturday in a supposed game of football against Man El Citeh, will be up for this even more and will be our toughest test yet. If we can’t beat WBA at home what chance do we have against our closest rivals for these elusive trophies.
In summary; Diaby must lift up that Bruce Forsythian chin of his and work harder, sort his passing out.
Clichy must concentrate positionally for 100 minutes even if only 94 minutes are played.
Rosicky needs to learn to keep his shots below 10 yards off the ground.
Song must stop pretending he is a striker and do his DM duties. Sagna likewise.
Shavva has to stop sulking, smile a bit more, enjoy it more and sort his passing out.
Chamack needs to work on his positioning for crosses, we all know he can be lethal with his head, we’ve seen him do it. So just bloody do it.
And as for the keepers, well…….fingers crossed eh!
Paul Heaton was amazing in goal for the Hammers against the Spuds….Paul Heaton, lead singer of the Beautiful South was incredible in goal for the Hammers who beat Madam Twitchy’s spuds 1-0. Liverpool drew – again. With Gerrard getting away with a blatant elbow – not the first time (how the ref worked out that it was a yellow card I don’t know??) and they scored one of the weirdest goals ever in the history of football historicalness.
Chelsea actually lost a game in their first test against a decent side following 5 easy fixtures to conveniently get them off to a flying start…hmm, rich clubs, bottomless pits…favouritism = conspiracy??? – That is, if you can call that drivel a game.
Manure struggled to earn a draw against Bolton who normally bend over and take it up the bunghole from red nose alchy’s team…… and Arsenal played and lost against errrrrr -Arsenal at the Emirates?!
It was seriously like watching our lads in the wrong shirts. We played like WBA did against Chelsea at the start of the season and they deservedly kicked our arse’s. They passed better, shot better, worked harder, tackled harder……were harder and i’d say the only thing better about us was the smell, through sheer lack of hard graft, our players failed to generate a drop of sweaty B.O following a lacklustre, lazy pathetic display throughout.
With the exception of the subs and Nasri who looked the only player to have actually broken a sweat in the last 20 minutes, when he tried single handedly to pull us back into that game, every one of our players should hang their heads in shame.
I was embarrassed, let alone how embarrassed Wenger must have felt.
Wenger looks bemused as Arsenal seemed to have swapped shirts with WBA BEFORE the game kicked off?!Yes, I can sit here and follow many other Gooners in judgement at Wenger’s failure to replace the hapless Manuel Aluminiumwrists© AND Flapihandski, but there’s no point. It’s too late. Until January at least, these are our no.1 and no.2 keepers.
Unless of course, Wenger decides to take a gamble and promote Chesney (the one and only) and Don Vito Mannone as no.1 and no.2 respectively. But 99% of Arsenal fans will confidently say ‘No, he won’t do that’. Wenger seems to have a frustratingly blind faith in these Goal ‘un’Keepers that none of us can fathom.
Of course, we don’t all get to see what goes on in training. Chesney recently bleated stupidly in public about not getting his chance considering the form of the no.1 and no.2 and even made a dry threat to leave the club if he didn’t get his chance and that, I fear, will work against him. We all know how stubborn Wenger is. He won’t be bullied into playing anyone.
Despite our feelings on this subject we must remember that ‘In Wenger we trust’ and I truly believe that Wenger must be seeing something negative in the 3rd and 4th choice keepers in training which has forced his hand in entrusting the responsibility to the two main flappers.
Maybe it’s stage fright and they’re actually unbeatable in training? But I struggle to place too much emphasis on confidence and mind-set. These players are playing football. It’s meant to be fun and enjoyable.
Yes there are pressures, and psychological state plays an important part as it does in any job in any walk of life, but it’s not like WW3 will kick off if they let a goal in the net FFS!
I don’t understand how or why, goalkeepers in particular have confidence blips. We expect them to concede sometimes. It’s natural. You just cannot stop every shot from getting past you.
Maybe they need to relax more. Besides, Aluminiumwrists© has had enough good moments and confidence boosting saves in his time at the club to refill his confidence so why does he lose it so easily if it is a case of confidence.
Ah, bollocks to confidence, it’s pretty clear that the answer is that both Manuel Aluminiumwrists© and Flapihandski are just bad goal keepers. Too bad to be playing for a club of our standards and stature anyway.
So, what’s the answer? The answer is there is no answer. We can pray or demand or protest as much as we like. Wenger will make his decisions and we’ll have to like it or lump it. Wenger will stick to his supposed top two lumps, I mean keepers, for the foreseeable future until injury allows the others a chance and ‘BY GUM’ they have to take it! I say-BUYBLOODYGUM! (warning: subliminal chewing gum advertisment alert!)
Some ‘Gooners’ on various forums have been calling for Wenger’s head and demand he be sacked if he doesn’t buy a GK in January. This sort of reaction is ridiculous and I don’t have much time for ‘fans’ like these. They clearly haven’t a clue how to envision consequence. I don’t need to go into what these consequences could be if Wenger was sacked in the near future – true fans already know what they would be.
These silly comments follow the news regarding our financial position, which is healthier than expected and will set us up as a self sufficient force for the long term. Unlike Manure, Chavski, Man El Citeh, Liverpool etc…who are far from being self sufficient and with their debt laden owners are always at risk of a severe plummet should there be a financial crisis in the foreseeable future. I’m not sure about every other Gooner but I feel extremely proud of this fact and in pure Benitez style, here are some facts:
*To have been a top 4 team every year under Wenger’s reign.
*To have been in the Champions League every year since including an appearance in the 2006 final and some memorable games.
*To have moved into a beautiful new stadium that most other clubs envy including our poor neighbours.
*To have converted our historical Highbury into luxury apartments.
*To have won the trophies we’ve won since 1997.
*To be the club of ‘Invincible’s’ in 2004.
*To have produced or introduced some of the most amazing and often unheard of ‘Stars’ ever to grace the premiership – Bergkamp, Henry, Viera, Pires, Fabregas, Wilshere etc…
*To have set the highest standard of pure, beautiful ‘shexy’ football in the premiership that every neutral and true football fan of any club enjoys to watch (apart from the odd blip against WBA of course!)
…… all these fantastic elements that we as Gooners enjoy, all brought to us essentially by one man. How can anyone with a sane mind demand that Wenger be sacked. It’s ludicrous!
So we ‘HAVE’ to keep the faith. That should be our new entry song at the Emirates –
Bon Jovi – Keep the Faith’ – Awesome!
We’ve got Partizan Belgrade on Tuesday which will be a tough away fixture. The players have to look at themselves and brush the weekend ‘Twilight Zone’ horror behind them. They must win emphatically on Tuesday and whoever is in goal must keep a clean sheet. The defence must protect the keeper. The defensive midfielder’s must remember when they should bomb forward and when they should do their bloody job and help protect the back four. We need these things to happen if we have any chance of being prepared physically and mentally for the Chavs on Sunday who, despite their loss on Saturday in a supposed game of football against Man El Citeh, will be up for this even more and will be our toughest test yet. If we can’t beat WBA at home what chance do we have against our closest rivals for these elusive trophies.
In summary; Diaby must lift up that Bruce Forsythian chin of his and work harder, sort his passing out.
Clichy must concentrate positionally for 100 minutes even if only 94 minutes are played.
Rosicky needs to learn to keep his shots below 10 yards off the ground.
Song must stop pretending he is a striker and do his DM duties. Sagna likewise.
Shavva has to stop sulking, smile a bit more, enjoy it more and sort his passing out.
Chamack needs to work on his positioning for crosses, we all know he can be lethal with his head, we’ve seen him do it. So just bloody do it.
And as for the keepers, well…….fingers crossed eh!
