Showing posts with label Wenger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wenger. Show all posts

Monday, December 1, 2008

London 'Bridge' is falling Down! :D



It is one of 'those' days for the Gooners! Now, 'those' days in this season actually gives you a very confused thought-process. Is it the after-match-day of a Fulham/Stoke/Sunderland/Aston Villa/Manchester City/Hull City where we sit down, heads hung, questioning what went wrong with our team? Or Is it the after-match-day of a Fenerbache/Manchester United/Chelsea where we put up a stupendous performance and we wonder 'How did we!!!'? Strange right? Today, I am talking about the latter. Feels good naah? Ohh, it sure does! :-D We have now beaten both Manchester United and Chelsea, the teams who have shared the Premiership for the last four years, two years each. And on the other hand, we have also lost to Stoke City, Hull City and a few others I have lost count of! Mind you, those two I mentioned, were not even in Top Division last season. So, what do we conclude from these? ...That we are struggling with our consistency, we are losing our focus in matches where we need to grind results, we are not getting motivated for these not-so-big matches. If we try to connect the matches we played, one at The Emirates against The Red Devils and the one against The Blues at Bridge, we see our team tremendously motivated and willing to put it across the teams at any cost. So, why do we miss this certain 'cutting edge' in other matches where teams sit back and defend? Pretty simple, we don't have 'that' experienced head in the middle who'll be like..."Listen guys, we won't be able to play our free-flowing game today, these guys will sit back and defend, so we need to take our chances, some of us will have to make those runs inside the box, give those diagonal crosses into the D, make that extra-effort of winning headers, try our best to clear loose balls without any show-boating, basically a little bit of dirt needs to be thrown into our beautiful policy of beautiful football. You see!" Yes, it is that simple.

All said and done, nothing is in our hands, we can't even wait for another 30 days and guarantee ourselves a solid CDM alongside our captain. We just need to respect whatever Wenger thinks is good for the team. We'll have to hope that Cesc can motivate our team everytime we get on to that field.
And finally, well done boys! Brilliant performance. And Van Persie, for that second strike of yours and the way you handled the question about Gallas in the post-match interview. **RESPECT** :-D

Go Gunners!

Monday, November 3, 2008

..in HIM we trust?.. Do we??

OK, yeah, it's a crisis! It's a mad crisis! It is a crisis of titanic proportions! Do I sound cynical enough, or do I need to repeat the above lines 666 times to make it sound Cynically Satanic, whatever that might mean!!?!!

The entire situation revolves round one man and he is none other than our beloved Lord Arsene Wenger! This man managed two teams in two different eras!
The first team had these fellows in his arsenal:

Thierry Henry
Dennis Bergkamp
Nwanka Kanu
Robert Pires
Ray Parlour
Freddie Ljunberg
Patrick Vieira
Gilberto Silva
Edu
Sylvian Wiltord
Lauren
Sol Campbell
Kolo Toure
Ashley Cole
Jens Lehmann

Ladies and Gentleman, the team above, also known, ok, no, feared as 'The Invincibles' won the League in style. Why did they win? They had a steely determination. They had massive, massive quality. They had experience. They were feared by opponents, plain and simple!

The second team that our Lord Wenger manages, looks something like this:

Emanuel Adabayor
Robin Van Persie
Nikolas Bendtner
Samir Nasri
Abou Diaby
Denilson
Alex Song
Cesc Fabregas
Theo Walcott
Emanuel Eboue
Bacary Sagna
Kolo Toure
William Gallas
Gael Clichy
Michael Almunia

Yes, the team above is supposed to win the league. Come on, give me a break! If you sit down and start comparing both the teams, it'll give you cold shivers. What there was? What we have now? It is tragic, I tell you! The only common element between the two teams is one Arsene Wenger, his belief stays the same, his concept of passing football stays the same, but unfortunately the players have changed, and we don't have the team of world-class players(except for one poor thing called Cesc Fabregas) anymore, neither do we have experience to hold these young lot together! Young bloods are like new-born birds, they want to fly, they have the potential to fly high, but their parents don't let them, they surround them, they cover them and slowly and eventually these newly-borns are let to fly.

Pretty simple to understand! But, what matters is, one man, one obdurate man doesn't understand! Yes, there is a flaw now, a big flaw, it is evident! Come January transfer window, if the cheque-book is not taken out, we'll have to be satisfied with a fourth finish, if we play some really consistent football, that is! Now, is that enough for a mighty club like Arsenal? It is left to Lord Arsene Wenger to ponder about! In him, we trust, it seems! :|
 
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