First of Ten Finals Begins Today

Couldn't get myself to do a bloody blog with all that has transpired over the past week. Its been heartbreaking to say the least, where just 3 weeks ago we were dreaming of at least one trophy in the barren cabinets of the Emirates while here we are today possibly staring at ending another season without any. For any club and its supporters to be out of 3 cups in a matter of a couple of weeks is shattering to say the least and its no different with Arsenal. What takes the piss out of me is the media spotlight on our failing campaign and how we are a bunch of chokers !! I'd just like to point out that we are where we are without spending over 200 million quid in the transfer market and still lie one place above City. We are where we are without spending 55 million quid in the January market on two players and are fighting for the top spot in the Premier League unlike Liverpool who will have to deal with Europa League for the third consecutive season. Yet i see no doom and gloom mongers running riot at these clubs.

Why isn't anyone taking these clubs, their management and their players to the executioner i ask  ? The answer for me lies in the fact that deep inside all the haters of Arsenal  Football Club envy where we have reached over the past few years with the kind of budgets that we have been operating on and the kind of infrastructure we've created. Right from the stadium to the youth set up everything we have is world class. And all this achieved while building a squad on whom money spent is marginally higher than that of Any Caroll's transfer fees !! There my friends lie your answers. I'm not saying its a conspiracy by the world against Arsenal, sure we have matters to be sorted, but to get the kind of coverage and grief we have been getting over the past few weeks is astonishing.

Enough of that now. Today marks the beginning of the first of 10 Finals that could see us lifting the trophy anytime between the end of April and May considering we win every one of those games. Like you i have my doubts on that but realistically what we need to do is match Utd for a every result and turn the tide upon them when they come visit us at the Wengerdome. Considering they are in 3 cup competitions the league could actually be a realistic option because at the moment Utd do look threadbare and the fixture list will take its toll on them. Thus a win in today's game is all the more important, even more so than the FA cup match and the CL match that we recently played. Lose today and its another opportunity missed at going joint top of the table equal on points and the two week inter lull will play its two bit part in creating uncertainty in the minds of the Gooners who seem to have lost all hope for this season.

While it all looks rather straightforward, barring tonight's game, we will have our full strength line up when we play Blackburn after the inter lull. Which means we'll have Cesc, Theo and Song back and the Theo Van Nasregas set up can fire us home in the business end of the season. We certainly know the potency of the team when these fellas play and there's no doubting the fact that they will be fired up in the last 9 games (when they return) to bring home the big prize. Doubts continue at the back of our defense though and lets hope the Sqillielny partnership comes good for us. On Almunia, well the lesser said the better. Only hope can save us on the GK side of things. I secretly hope that Mad Jens has told Almunia that there would be a cast iron awaiting insertion in his arse for every blunder he makes during the game and three cast irons should be concede a goal with his stupidity. Wishful thinking you might say, Lehman's in the locker room is my retort.

So i expect the team to line up as below

Almunia (Yikes!!)
Sagna-Squillaci-Kos-Clichy
Wilshere-Ramsey
Bendtner-Nasri-Arshavin
RVP

Lehman, Chamakh, Denilson, Ignasi, Eboue, Gibbs, Rosicky

I expect Ramsey to get the start ahead of Denilson with Wenger having Wilshere playing as the wall between midfield and defensive while Ramsey does what he knows best and creates chances alongwith Nasri.
Don't be surprised if the manager will play Denilson though but expect him to make a few blunders and nearly cost us the game. Sorry for the negativity with him and trust me i am one of the last to slate one of our own but with  Denilson i have no patience left, WHATSOFUCKINGEVER !!
Roy Hodgson will have his team set up to defend deep and hit us on the break and we know that they are well capable of doing that (need i remind anyone of what happened when they visited us) Its down to us to take our chances and score a couple and then get into the pass the ball around mode. We also need to approach today's game with the urgency that we showed against Chelsea and close down WBA every time they have the ball. We should have learnt a lesson or two during the ball possession classes we took while we played Cuntalona !!

Here's to a 4-0 thrashing of the Baggies at the Hawthorns and Bolton doing us a massive favour by taking some points off Utd who kick off at the same time.

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Down but definitely not out !!

‘It’s a total joke. How can I hear the whistle? Please explain that to me.One second between the whistle and me shooting? It makes it even worse. He’s been a joke all evening. What was he doing here? It’s a joke. These people are unbelievable. We feel betrayed because we worked so hard. The referee today killed the game.’

These my fellow Gooners are words from the flying Dutchman himself, stemming from the sending off that he received for a shot when he was flagged offside. We've learnt that the referee produced the card since he thought Robin was time wasting in kicking the ball on the goal !! You've taken the piss out of me, Mr Busacc-unt you despicable swiss whore of a referee.

Fair play to Barca for a performance which showed why they are regarded as the best footballing side on the planet at the moment. They played us off the park completely and did not allow us, as much as a sniff on goal throughout the match. They owned us all over the park and played a game of "donkey in the middle" with our players every time we tried to get it back. When we did get it back we obliged and handed it right back to them. Yet, until the red card all they had to brag about was the one goal and the fact that they were actually on the back foot and beginning to tire. But then fate and Busaccunt had other plans and we were down to 10 men.

Its difficult playing them 11 vs 11 but when you're one man down they looked for the kill and the scoreline really does flatter to deceive. Had it not been for Almunia the scoreline would have looked much worse. I guess he loves the games against Barca and puts in one sensational half every time we play them. The first goal was a thing of beauty and the second a clear penalty. No complaints, PENALTY ! Lucky for us, Busaccunt forgot to pull out his card for the challenge by Kos which resulted in the penalty. We did have a chance to kill the game in the 87th when jack played a sublime ball to Big Nik who instead of poking it over the keeper went for a first touch and we all know that his first touch is as bad as the refereeing. Could you imagine if he would've scored in the 87th and we would've held on for the next 7 Min's ?? Couldn't resist that thought, sorry back to reality now.

Wenger was reported to have had a spat in the tunnel and i do wish he would've knocked the daylights of the referee and Dani Alves and landed a drop kick on the back of Guardiola, thus paralysing him. Happy days. On the match Wenger said

‘I think two kinds of people can be unhappy: those who love Arsenal and those who love football can be frustrated with the referee’s decision because it’s very difficult to understand his attitude.
How can you kill a football game like that?  We have many regrets because we didn’t expect to lose the game like that. I feel sorry for people watching the game. If you have played football at a certain level you cannot understand that decision. It’s impossible. I just spoke to UEFA people. They are shocked as well.’

Enough said Wenger, lest you risk being given a 100 match touch line ban for uttering such things. I know it hasn't happened ever, but so hasn't a player been sent off for taking a shot on goal after the whistle blew for offside. FFS there were 95000 Spanish cunts blowing whistles when we had the ball, and you expect Robin to hear your whistle !!

How that cunt Abidal stayed on the pitch for grabbing RVP's neck, i do not know but hey stranger things have happened in football, like a player getting a yellow for a shot on goal !!

While on twitter Samir Nasri was quite vocal about his feelings on the match (read the last statement carefully), he tweeted " Thank you for your support once again you were amazing, sorry for the result, now we have to think about Man Utd game and we still have a league to win and by the way busacca is the best..pff

Well said boys and its good to the see the anger in the team at the way they have been undone two games in a row due to bad refereeing. Whats also great to see is that we have no drooping shoulders and no hung heads but a fire inside us to go for the next match and perform as if its our last. And that's all i have ever asked from this team. I could go another 6 years without a trophy if i saw my team take to the pitch every time with a desire to win the game and not just expect the opposition to roll over. The quicker we remove the memories of last night out of our minds the better it is. Let focus on knocking the scum out of the FA Cup now lads.

That's all from me today. Back tomorrow with news that Robin has been banned from CL football for 3 years, Wengers 100 match touch line ban and Busacca's kid getting admission into the La Masia. Nothing is beyond imagination after last night so i will not be surprised if any of the above come true.

Now a quick note to the fellow Gooners who read this blog about the fact that there has been a significant increase in traffic over the past couple of weeks and there has been a significant increase in page views as well. I'd like to Thank each and every one of you for the read's on this blog and look forward to continue with this for a long time to come. If you fancy a bit of banter too, do feel free and leave a comment or if you think there is something missing with this blog i fancy suggestions too.

Cheers Fellas.

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Liverpool hand the title back in Arsenal's hands

Evening Gooners.

Am sure most of us had a brilliant Sunday watching the capitulation of Queen Fergie and her girls for the second game running. Boy oh boy did it make my day. Never have i so passionately cheered a team other than Arsenal, as i did for the Scousers. And they didn't let me down. Phew !! So that effectively puts us back in the race with our game in hand, and should we beat WBA by a difference of 4 goals, we should be top of the table come 19th of March. Had the lineman and the ref got their calls right all we would've needed at WBA would've been a simple win and gone 2 points clear. Water under the bridge.

I did not do a post match review on Sunday because in all honesty it felt exactly like our Carling Cup loss. WBA beating the Brums in the Midlands derby put me in great spirits pre match but sadly, that was the only joy i had on an otherwise lousy Saturday. The team tried hard, and for that there is no dispute. What pissed me off was the performance of the first half and the absolute lack of urgency the team showed. Am sure Wenger hurled a few shoes in that dressing room at half time cos they came out in the second with a lot more purpose and urgency. Another key factor to our second half performance was the substitution of Denilson. I don't know where to start on this guy. He frustrates the living hell out of me and i for one, cant understand the value he brings to this team. He has no creativity, more often than not slows play down in a counter, back passes the tits of the ball, rarely plays a forward pass, more often than not fouls a player in a dangerous area, cannot close down play, the list goes on and on.

I have no clue what Wenger sees in this nutter and if i was given a chance to speak to Wenger, this would be one of my first few questions. The moment Chamakh came on the team suddenly seemed to have got a new lease of life and more purpose and sadly the Morroccan did not have a goal to his name at the end of the game. Am not going to talk about the penalty and the offside since a lot of blood has already been drawn and no point going down that road. Wenger spoke after the game saying

'The players are very down and, of course, I worry about that,' This was a good opportunity but the team is mentally strong and the season is not over. We have a big game (Barcelona) and the size of the game will help.'

 

Liverpool's win against the Scum leaves them 3 points ahead of us with us having a game in hand plus a notable mention is the fact that the Scum have conceded 3 more than us. Yet for all and sundry we are the team in crisis. Up yours you stupid cunting Pundits and commentators. Lets hope that our draw at the weekend doesn't allow Chelsea to recover points over us and no guesses that i am rooting for Ian Holloway's warriors tonight.

The attention will now shift completely to Barcelona and the news that Fab will travel with the squad is encouraging. Wilshere too seems to have knocked off the ankle niggle that he carried at the end of the Barca game and will start. The news on Song's injury isn't good and it has now been confirmed that he will not be on the flight to Spain. Which worries me completely cos i have absolutely no belief that Denilson can do half the job that Song does and Diaby's performances are of the Jekyll and Hyde nature. feck knows which one will turn up on match day. More on that in tomorrows post. The boys have been speaking before the game as well, Fabregas says

'We will have to be completely at our peak if we want to be in the next round,' 'It's going to be different this year from last season because we have a first-leg lead this time, but we will still have to go there and think we must attack. 'They will have a lot of possession because that's how they play, at home especially. So we know what to expect and when we have the ball we'll have to play quickly, get players forward and try to score the away goal.'

What Fabregas forgets to mention in the above is the fact that the difference between last year and this is the fact that he will be playing as well. While our very own superstar with Arsenal DNA, Jack Wilshere says

"We know we can beat Barcelona, we did that at the Emirates. If we beat them again we know we have a good chance of winning the tournament. "We will go there with confidence but realise we have to defend well and hit them on the counter-attack. "If we get a goal, they will have to come at us but we can win there. "We do not want to go to Barcelona looking for a draw. It will be an open game and we will create chances. We are looking to score and then see what happens. "We have shown we have the character to come back from a goal down against the best team in the world and are going there with a massive amount of confidence.  Cesc is massive. He is our captain, our leader and great on the pitch "

I love the way this lad speaks and i do hope we can tie him down to a 20 year contract with a release clause of $ 100 billion. Doesn't kill anyone to dream does it ! What we can bet on tomorrow evening is the fact that this 19 year old midfield, legend in the making will play with his heart on his sleeve and play like this is the Champions League Finals. That's what i want from the rest, even if we lose it, it shouldn't be because one of the 11 felt they didn't need to try hard enough.

That's about it from me today. Back tomorrow with a full game preview.

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High Five

Good Morning Gooners.

So i didn't get to see reports on JohnTerry's wife caught in bed with Cashley Cole as i had hoped i would but in return i was treated to a Goal fest from the B team against Orient. Is it just me or do most of you agree that the game wasn't a treat to watch with pretty flowing football and wasn't one with brilliant link up play for the goals. What it did do was show the efficiency of Arsenal in front of goal and all our 5 shots on goals being actually converted into goals. It helped to a large extent that Orient did not play a "plonk the ball in the opposition half" kind of game and use a mutant of a striker up front whom they would feed the balls to. Rather they tried to play football and the game actually witnessed more passes than the Arsenal vs Cuntalona game. Sweet !!

You know its your day when Abou Diaby manages to complete 100% of his passes and when Squillaci and Denilson manage to just pass the ball without falling over it or losing it. Almunia had his moments as well and did hard to convince the manager that he really is, that bad a keeper. How I'd love to see the back of that clown in the transfer window. He's right up there with the Kirkland's of the world. Cunt ! The game also signalled the return to form of our funky Moroccan who scored in the 7th to calm the nerves. Let's hope that builds confidence into him and he's back to his early season form. I actually feel sorry for the bloke, he's a top player who works really hard for the team and has brilliant link up play. If only he showed more balls in shooting from a distance, he'd be the whole package. And then Gael Clichy scored for Arsenal !!! That in itself is reason to celebrate and win a match. The shot on goal was sweet and i reckon he should try and belt them from the edge of the box a lot more than he does.

Now onto the Big Dane. Never have i known of a player who divides opinion as much as Nik does. He can be the most frustrating of blokes on the football pitch and sometimes looks too disinterested to even play, quite like a certain Berbatov. But what is undeniable is that the boy has talent and confidence, and that too, truck loads of it. At the start of the game he looked like he would be happy just dragging his arse all through the game and couldn't give a monkey's ass. But the three goals that followed, yes i count the penalty as well, were pure class from a player who is just 22 !! The first was a header that in my books was as good as a goal a striker can get, cos the cross didn't have the power in it. The second, which IMO is becoming a trademark of sorts with the Dane, was curler with his right foot and once again going for precision and placement rather than power. And the penalty too was a hard one, pounding the back of the net in the bottom corner. That makes it his second hatrick for the season and this display should bode well against Sunderland and Barca. Trust me folks this boy is a big game player and if he's given the time he will be a bloody legend at Arsenal. If only he could get his work rate and i don't give a damn attitude a shot in the balls he'll do just fine. He said after the game

“It was just what we needed to bounce back in a positive way and this was the best way we could have done it,” he said. We have to put that (Birmingham) behind us now, and learn from it. It is a part of football and you have to move on from that. It is done, they (Birmingham) won it [and] we didn't. We have three other things to focus on now and that is what we will do. We have the players and the mentality to create something special. At the end of the day, we know [we] are going to be rated on one thing, and that is what we are trying to achieve.”

Well said big guy.While on the Barca tie ahead he again had something to say !!

"This is a dream scenario (playing barca at the Nou Camp) It is a difficult place to go and Barcelona have not failed to score there in forever, but we have to try to do the same as we did [in the FA Cup win over Leyton Orient], try to be compact and press in a good way, to have a good balance in the team and then obviously take our chances because Barcelona always score when they play at home."

While on the other hand our injury list seems to be piling up. Song is out for S'land as well and might be back in the squad against Barca. Big miss for me this weekend. While Kos too is a doubt but is definitely OK for Barca. Great news comes in the form of Aaron Ramsey having a chance of returning to the squad for the S'land game. If he's back I'd love Wenger to give him a start and push him in the center of midfield with Nasri and Bendtner alongside him rather than play Nasri in the middle with Shava. Fingers Crossed. Cesc should definitely be back in for the Barca game and might travel with the team and be on the bench, should we need him to make an impact around the 70 minute mark. Lets hope not and that he just enjoys the ride to Tyneside with the boys and comes back as an unused sub. But this is Arsenal we are talking about, so don't count on things going easy tomorrow.

In other news Kolo Toure has tested positive for a banned substance and might face a 2 year ban. The results of the test on his A samples confirmed this and the B samples have now been called for questioning. I really hope that he gets away with it and it turns out to be a big mistake cos he is one of the nicest guys around and as we all know wouldnt have left Arsenal had Wenger not had blind faith in that French cunt from the Bridge. The mail reports that we are after Izzguirre from Celtic as a back up since Clichy may not extend his contract with Arsenal. The British media frustrate me with their cooked up stories. Even if Clichy did go, don't they know we already have a ready replacement in Gibbs for his position. FUCKKKKKK the hell off !!

And that about it from me today. Back tomorrow with a preview of sorts.

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I'd like to leave you with the link to goals from our very own Goal of the month competition

http://www.101greatgoals.com/videodisplay/arsenal-february-goal-the-month-8656594/

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Time to stand up and deliver

Good Evening Gooners.

As our spirits were firmly going down south  following Sunday's events we found an unlikely hero in Frank Lampard who buried his penalty in the back of the net and bring a big wide smile to our faces. Yes, i know he is a cunt, one who is the crown prince of cuntery, the King's obviously being John 'keep me away from ur missus' Terry and Cashley Cole but you gotta admit, this is one cunt who bought a lot of joy into our lives and to some extent helped ease the pain of the Cup final defeat. Would that penalty have been a season changing goal in Arsenal's season only time will tell, but what its done is, for the moment at least, has brought a renewed sense of optimism in North London and a shot at the title. The attack on the title should start this weekend with Sunderland. and victory there will ensure that, by beating Utd at home we will definitely go two points clear of them and should only then match them for results week in and week out. More on that during the Sunderland review and pre match build up.

Moving onto some news ahead of tonight's match, Wenger has confirmed that dooms day is upon us by confirming RVP will be out for "at least 3 weeks" which in Arsenal terms means until early May. Fuck !! He says

"Unfortunately, we had bad news on the scan and he will be out for the next three weeks for sure,” said Wenger. “It could be longer. The shortest delay we can imagine is three weeks [so] he is definitely out for Barcelona"

That should help soothe the nerves ahead of barca shouldn't it ?? Anyways, lets hope we do at Mourinho at the Nou Camp and manage a clean sheet there playing a 8-1-1 formation. Wishful thinking innit !! I place my money on Chesney and Kos saving us in that one and making up for the howler in the finals.

Further short term injury news on Song who is out for tonight and S'land with a knock on his knee and Kos who has a tight hamstring. Chesney is resigned to a place on the bench for tonight with Almunia filling in. Conspiracy theories suggests that both of them have been dropped but most of us knew even before the cup finals that Wenger wouldnt play them tonight. Have a laugh at the British journos will ya. Cunts.

Rolling on to tonight's game, i expect the below line-up for the match. Expect Wenger to spring a surprise or two though

Almunia
Eboue-Squillaci-Ignasi-Gibbs
Diaby-Wilshere
Bendtner-Nasri-Rosicky
Chamakh

Subs: Chesney, Sagna, Clichy, Djourou, Arshavin, someone from the reserves to make up the numbers

The squad seems to be good enough to put a couple past Orient and get the job done. If we can manage a bloody goal fest nothing would cheer me up more. Well news that Ferguson was caught with his pants down with Rooney at the end of his dick along with the news that John Terry's wife was caught in bed with Cashley Cole would make my day, but that's not gonna be reported anytime soon, so bollocks to that, the goal fest wins.

Mind you this is an important game, as important as it can get. Cos a victory today would re-iterate the belief in the mentality of the squad that Wenger keeps talking about and there's no bigger test than the game after a cup final. A defeat tonight might as well signal the fucking collapse of yet another season, but I'm one of those glass half full kind of people so I wont tread down that path.

Well then, that about it for me today. Here's to a victory at the Wengerdome tonight and progress to the next round to meet Ferguson and Co.

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Come on You Reds !!

Sign of things to come ? I think not

*We lost to Birmingham City in the cup finals* - woken up from my sleep around 2 a.m. No we didn't you moron, it was a bad dream.
*We lost to Birmingham City in the cup finals* - woken up again around 4 a.m. No you stupid fuck, we didn't, it was a bad dream.
*We lost to Birmingham City in the cup finals* - wide awake at 6.30 a.m. Yes indeed we lost to them !!

Didn't know what hurt more, my head which after 5 bottles of the finest lager or my heart after witnessing the 89th minute calamity at Wembley. Still trying to figure the answer to that one out.

I don't even know where to begin on Sundays match. Once again we saw an Arsenal side that had more possession of the ball and yet ended up on the losing side. 12 shots on goal and we still cant get more than one in. How do you manage it Arsenal ? How ? I don't even have it in me to go through the game and give an analysis of the 90 minutes. Why you ask ? Because i never wish to see the replay of that match. NEVER ! I don't have the heart to watch the crest fallen faces of our squad when the whistle blew for full  time, i don't have it in me to watch the image of Jack being consoled by Pat Rice when the Brums were picking up their medals, i don't have it in me to imagine the consequences that last night might have on the squad.

The boys clearly  knew they blew a glorious chance at lifting a piece of silverware and by far the easiest of the 4 that were on offer. B'gham may be a good side but didn't we thrash their arse in their own backyard scoring 3 !! I don't want to hear arguments like Fab wasn't in the squad, fair play he was missed but there was enough quality on that pitch to beat B'gham all year long. Sadly, yesterday wasn't that day.

No point going into that now i guess, we just have to move the Fuck on. Chamakh has been speaking to Arsenal tv  and says this of what the squad thinks of the famous duo that cost us the goal


“We are all responsible for the defeat. That’s football. You have highs and lows”

"The way we conceded the second goal doesn’t matter. If we had conceded a top-class goal the result would have been the same, we would still have lost. We lost a Final and it’s hard to take.

"We have a feeling of frustration and disappointment because we feel that we could have won the game. To be honest, I was expecting it to go into extra time and maybe to penalties but not to lose in that way.”

Fair play to Chamakh and I must say i agree with him on the blame game. There's no point blaming kos and Chesney, is it ? Cos if the fans are going to blame them, i suggest we also blame Nasri, Shava and Rosicky for missing loads of chances. We don't do that do we ? So give it a rest then. Am sure they've beaten themselves up over the past two days and in all probability wouldn't have even had a good nights sleep since Sunday. I guess the only way the two of them can exorcise their demons of the fuck up is to work their asses off when we arrive at the Nou Camp and play the game of their lives. Cos for me, if we can pull off a victory at the Nou Camp that win would mean much more than a Carling Cup. So i guess chin up and move on.

A lot  of people have been saying that this loss will have a domino effect on the mentality of this squad. I beg to differ !! Why you ask me ? Cos we were in a fucking cup final, one in which we outplayed the pants off the Brums and lost to a stupid goal. We didn't lose it because we failed to show up did we ? Did we lose because the squad turned out to played Huddersfield or Orient ? No we did not. We played a good game, one which would have us victorious all year long with a 3-0 scoreline. Had the answers to all of the above been negative we should've had a reason to piss our pants.

The only reason i do see a dip in our performances will be down to the fact that our 3 most influential players will be out for the next 2 weeks and that will have the doomsday conspiracy set upon us once again. I urge you to keep the faith in this squad, it is important that we show belief in them, cos let's accept it, we all fuck up at some point in our lives don't we ? Give it a rest.

In other news Jack Wilshere has come out against the stupid excuse for a human being who goes by the name Barry Ferguson for slapping Kos in the head. He tweeted


'Well done to the BCFC player who slapped Koscielny on the head when they scored, very big of you!'

There's not much that I'd like to comment about the episode except for the fact that Birmingham City is a club managed by a filthy whore who cant get his mouth off Alex FergusonsYeung and Alex McLeish to be ass fucked by each and every one of their players and then have then repeat it in the reverse. Cunts !!

Now that I've finally got that painful job of writing about the cup final out of the way lets all hope that the Russians do us a favour tonight at the Bridge and give us a reason to cheer. Am going to be up for it tonight, not because i love watching either of them play, but for the simple reason that i want to be happy after a game of football when the result goes our way !! Don't you dare fuck it up for me tonight God, I'm warning you (Loads Gun)

And that's about it from me today. Back tomorrow with a preview to the game against Orient and hopefully some good news to report back from the game featuring the Russians against Howard Webb Utd

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We love you Arsenal we do, We love you Arsenal we do, We love you Arsenal we do, Oh Arsenal we love you !!

Judgement Day

Good Afternoon Gooners.

So our day of reckoning is here and the day which each and every one of us Gooners  has so painstakingly awaited for over half a decade.

I told you yesterday that i wont be able to do a meaningful blog today cos i wont be able to over ride the emotions that i am experiencing and probably all of you are. So am just going to wish our team all the very best for the evening and hope that for the 90 minutes that when we take to the pitch at Wembley, we play like its the last game of our lives.

Lets do this for the Club, the players and the fans the world over. Come on you Reds !!

I'd like to leave you with a nice compilation on our journey in the Carling Cup this season.

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The Small matter of a Cup Final

Good afternoon Gooners.

So here we are, SIX fucking years since we last saw our team in a cup finals, six years is a long time. Six years have seen governments change, Lindsay Lohan get sent to rehab, the sub prime crisis, the US presidential elections, Lindsay Lohan get sent to rehab, Brazil and Spain winning world cups, Chelsea sacking their manager, Lindsay lohan get sent to rehab, Chelsea sacking their manager, The Arabs taking over Russians as footballs sugar daddies, Grays and Keys getting sacked off Sky Sports, Chelsea sacking another manager and Lindsay Lohan being sent to JAIL !!

You could imagine what its like then to spend six years without winning a trophy and having to read your daily paper dishing out all of the above in not exactly the same order but with alarming regularity. Its one day away from putting that ghost back in the closet alongwith Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears and hoping that the two of them will spook the shit out of him. Its one day away from when people can stop ridiculing us and quit asking us questions like "If they dont win why is it that you still cheer for them" ? "Why, when you live in fucking India that you wake up at 1.30 a.m at night, even though you have a big presentation/exam the next morning and watch them play"? "Why do you feel for a team that plays in bloody England" ? "Why would you rather risk the wrath of your parents/girlfriend/wife for choosing to watch a game of football being played by a team which has won nothing over the years"? "Why don't you choose to support Utd or Chelsea, they seem to be winning a lot amongst themselves"?? Blah

We've all answered the questions above at some point in our lives and over the past few seasons especially when every pundit, footballer and even media person wrote our team off as the one who will drop out of the "Big 4". Yet we've pushed ourselves as a team, fought against all odds, built a world class stadium, have a youth academy everyone in the UK is envious about and reached our first cup finals. We all know when we've been asked by the scumbag supporters of Utd or Chavs what have Arsenal done over the past 6 years we have our usual repertoire of answers like the new stadium, youth set up, brilliant football, etc, etc, whereas what we would really like to have said to them would be motherfucking trophies. Don't get me wrong folks, i do appreciate everything that has gone on at this club over the past 6 years and if i had a chance to go back the 14 years when i first made my choice on the football club i support I'll pick the Red and Whites every day of the year.

But the bittersweet truth in life is that we are all measured by our successes and no one remembers that you nearly did it, or you played brilliant football or that you built a world class stadium. No one remembers who came in at # 2. Its the top prize that matters. And tomorrow folks we have the chance to put that record straight and hopefully march onto something really special at this football club. Cos' it would be a real shame if a team that consisted of special talents like our first 11 were to look back at their time at Arsenal and have no medals to show.

Nice to get that out of my system, phew !! Moving on to some news before the game tomorrow, the media is all out against Wenger again digging out their archives to point out that Wenger said that the Carling Cup isn't very significant in the scheme of things at Arsenal. They've already started chiding him and am sure that the "Oh you haven't won a trophy for six years will be replaced by You've only won a Carling Cup". Wish i could throw each and everyone of these biased, cunt faced, arsenal hating media persons into the cabinet along with the ghost, Lindsay and Britney. Wouldn't have much to say about then, would you !! RETARDS

Early team news suggests that we have Diaby back in the squad for tomorrow and i expect the line up to be:

Chesney
Sagna Djourou Kos Clichy
Song-Wilshere
Bendtner/Diaby-Nasri-Arshavin
RVP

Subs: Almunia, Eboue, Squillaci, Rosicky, Denilson, Chamakh

If Diaby makes his way into the team i expect Nasri to move to the flanks and Diaby playing in the center. I do feel that he would get the nod ahead of Bendtner since we will have to outmuscle them in midfield throughout the game. I predict a 3-1 scoreline en route to lifting the CUP !!

And that's all from me for today. Don't think I'll have the mental stability that's required to do a blog tomorrow, so a really short one maybe.
For all those Gooners from Mumbai i will be at the screening at Big Daddy in Bandra where i expect to see an entire contingent in Red and White which would be over a 100 mad ass Gooners. See you folk there tomorrow.

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I would just like to end with a little line for tomorrow:


We long for it, our team longs for it, they crave it, it is the stimulus they need to go on and achieve greatness and it all starts tomorrow.

Here's a bit of nostalgia back when we picked up our last piece of silverware

Have a good day wherever you are.

Injury Gods Strike Again

Good afternoon Gooners.

Not much good news in the Arseverse this Friday morning. So we already knew that Walcott has twisted his ankle and will definitely miss the CC final. The blow comes with the news that Cesc will, in all likelihood miss out as well. As you would have read on the blog yesterday the skipper seemed distraught at the eventuality of missing out on a day he has dreamt about his entire Arsenal career. The only bright side to this is that we will have our skipper back for the CL clash against those Spanish cunts raring to go having tasted and felt a real cup (i say real cos we lift the Emirates cup every year). Thank you dear Injury gods, we missed you over the past few months.

If there was a bright side to this and believe me its quite tough to find a bright side to this non sense, its the sight of watching our very own Mr Arsenal, Robin Van Persie walk the team out of the tunnel. If there is any one more befitting to lead this side out, and in my opinion he edges Cesc out on the loyalty bit, only one name comes to mind and that is RVP. I know a lot of you will say that he has hardly ever been fit and he has not  been the striker we have wished for over the years, but if there's one thing about Robin that cannot be denied its his love and loyalty towards the Red and White and his dream of winning, lifting and driving this team towards the logical conclusion - SILVERWARE. In his interview on the official magazine, Robin says

" I don’t have the inclination to go anywhere,This is the best team for me to be in. The bottom line is that I want to win trophies with Arsenal, not with anybody else. I know you can win trophies in many countries and in many ways, but I want to do that in our way and in an Arsenal shirt.

I’m sure I could win things at another team in another country, but would it feel like our trophy, my trophy? I’m not sure it would. Anything we win here will come from the heart and that’s what I want. It’s my dream and I see no point in speaking about other teams when I have these dreams. I think other people know that about me; I’m just hungry to win with Arsenal and that’s it "

Brilliant don't you think ? And from a player of his stature. BRILLIANT !!

In other news we have Sandro Rossell moaning and whining about the morality of Arsenal during the capture of Toral. "morality" - Mr Rosell, you and your bunch of cunts at the Nou Camp are talking about morality ???? There's more morality in a whore talking about the virtues of virginity than you lot !! Doesn't the youth academy there have more non EU players in their Cadete A and B teams than EU players. You lot go around the world picking up south American and African players at a young age from academies for a pittance and talk of moral issues at Arsenal signing a 16 year old whose contract had expired. And we went about our job of signing him discreetly and through the right channels. Not by having our youth team players giving interviews in the press talking about Toral's English DNA and then pulling a fucking Arsenal shirt over his head !! Give me a break. Blah...

Last night the UEFA cup resulted in Mancini having his job at least until they are ousted out of the competition with a victory at the Eastlands. Liverpool and Rangers were the other two notable teams that made it to the final 16. In my opinion, this competition seems to be the only realistic chance that City have at lifting silverware and i wouldn't be surprised if Mancini now cooled off on his intent of winning the title and focused only on retaining their # 3 spot. Expect a big rest to key players before the cup matches for City.

And that 's about that for today. More tomorrow with a full game preview and predictions for Sunday.

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Have a good day wherever you are.

 

Stroke it up

Evening Gooners.

 It has been a long hiatus from the world of blogging on my beloved AFC due to personal shit that hit the roof. With most of it sorted out i now look forward to getting back to daily blogging with a vengeance, much like Arsenal in last nights game against the Thugs from Stoke Rugby Association.

The game was one which would not stand out in terms of the beautiful football that we are known to play. Instead we were witness to a game which was won because our team spent 95 minutes of their lives grinding out a result which all of them should be proud of. Stand out performances from yesterday came from our very own Jack Wilshere who was absolutely brilliant in the center of the pitch. It amazes me how a boy so young has the kind of ability to read the game, control and dictate terms. Had it not been for the average height of 9 feet that the thugs have in their side, we would've seen some exceptional long balls played by Jack being met by the attack. A tip of the hat to Arshavin as well, the little Russian showed us that he is definitely on the way up when it comes to form. Brilliant play between him and Nasri in stoppage time to keep posession of the ball and had he expected a cross from Nasri we should've sealed the game around the 93rd minute. Our defense yesterday was superb and with each passing game Johan Djourou's stature as a solid CB keeps growing. Who would've expected a bloke who was out of the first for all of last season to come back into the squad and have such an impact. I cant wait for Wenger to finally have a selection headache when it comes to defense once TV5 returns. Imagine having to choose between TV, JD and LK as your first choice defensive pairing. Surely a headache most managers would cut their arms off for !!

Another player who did a lot in the background was our very own Wojecsjddjfdkll Sczeajdhdky (or whatever it is that his name is, i prefer the alias Chesney as made famous by our very own Ladyarse). He, for me is one in the Wilshere mould and made a hell of a difference when it came to defensive organisation in front of the goal. He was loud, shouting out instructions and moving his team mates as would like them placed before Delap plonked one into the box from one corner of the ground into our penalty area. I cant remember the last time my nuts were in the sack where they belong, instead of rolling out on the floor when we played Stoke. I credit this to the brilliant season our keepers Fabianski and Chesney have had and i can truly say our back 4 and the keeper is a department that we need not worry about too much for now.

Wenger speaking at his post match conference gave credit to the team saying

"We did the job in a very professional way. We faced a Stoke team that defended very well, very compact, but we were intelligent, calm, patient and overall I believe that we were resilient as well when Stoke had their strong moments because we didn't give in when they did what they do very well.Tonight was a night when nobody else played [well] and if you can take three points and glide closer to the top, that means that your team is really hungry for success. The number of games we play, not to make a mistake at any stage... we were less sharp creatively but you could feel the team did not want to make a mistake and that's a very positive sign."

So a 1-0 victory over the thugs has now put us a point behind Utd and 7 ahead of Shitty which gives us a good breathing space between us and them, while it piles pressure on Utd to get a result in their next. Considering the nature of fixtures that they have in their next 3 i would bet my mortgage that Utd are bound to drop some points and thats where we need to ensure that we collect all 3 points from now, going on until the time overtake Utd for the pole position. Lets hope our friends the Russians (Chavs) and The Americans (Liverpool) do us a massive favour and turn this title race on its head. We've done you favours in the past havent we, time you paid us back, methinks.

Awful news on the injury front with Walcott having being ruled out for the cup final and fab due for a scan later today. It would be a shame for them as players and for us as well if these two werent part of the team that beats the Brums on Sunday. Massive miss for the team. The injury for Cesc seemed to have him disappointed and distraught when he asked to be taken off. Wenger had to say

" He was very upset, I am as well, but it is not his fault and it is not my fault, it is part of sport. It's strange that it happened early in the game but we have to face it. Theo is disappointed of course."

While El Capitan was busy on twitter speaking like the man who has simply spent too much time dreaming of the day and feels cheated that an injury could keep him away from leading his team to glory in a cup final on Sunday. He said "I dont know if ill make sunday or no, but all i know is that from this moment to sunday 16.30 i wont sleep if its necessary. Ive waited too long to captain a final for arsenal and i wont give up till the last second "

What more can one say about his commitment to the Red and White and to our cause. Folks these are words from a man who lives and breathes Arsenal and see's the injury set back as one which could ruin his dream of lifting our first piece of silverware for Six years and break into the virginity of the Trophy cabinet at the Grove.

Lets hope we have good news coming out of our Colney Medical center and hope that RVP's placenta doctor is no where near El Capitan promising him a miracle recovery.

Thats all from me for today. Promise i'll be updating this often than i should.

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Have a good evening wherever you are.