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.
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:
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
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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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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