As Mike D say’s: Kick It!!!
First bit of good news yesterday – Top Four Tottenham- lost to Sunderland in the best way possible, 6 seconds after extra time was supposed to have finished! The simple, simple pleasurses of life. I punched the air & jumped around abit, girlfriend thought it was all a bit much but thats the way it is when Top Four Tottenham are (supposedly) breathing down your neck. Spit in ur eye Sky. And every other red-top & comatose pundit. Speaking of Sky – i forgot how truly, truly awful & deeply irrating the Sky Broadcasting Network is with there little Englander attidute. I mean “Englands number 1 is yet to make a mistake”. Wanker’s. And that Jamie Redknapp? Wish his name was Kneecap, cause i fuckin would.
So on to today and the and the talking is all over, lets see what we got. The first thing is to see was it all wishful thinking this pre-season?
1) Have we really gelled as a team? As all of our new captain(!!?) Gallas’s comments are stressing?
2) Our newly appointed captain, who likes to shout his mouth must realise that the back line must be stronger. This was the cause of so much frustration lat year. No club would find it easy to coop with the injuries to our front line. The front line cannot lose you a game, but the defence sure can. And we were soft last year. Very soft.
When you walk into the armory and are handing over a silly amount of money just because you managed make it over to a game at last, you see a wall of quotes, of which the last 1 roughly goes like “I knew very quickly that when i came to Arsenal i had inherited a back four with a university degreee in how to defend” or something like that. Gone are those days, only to be replaced by this Zonal System it looks like. A Bollox’s System is a more approtite name i feel, mark your man, do your job and if everybody did that we be in a lot better shape. During the preseason games it looked like we were suffering from the same problems, but i felt in the last game against Ajax which was a close to a real league game your ever gonna get in a pre-season tourament, we were better organised, we were tight. Not quite tight like a tiger & mistakes were still made. Fewer mistakes………………Fingercrossed.
3) The excuse of being in a new stadium is now not acceptable. I found it really hard to accept it past the first 3/4 game’s last season. The aston villa one is the only one i can accept if im being trueful, i could understand the huge pressure the Arsenal must of felt on the opening day off last season after limping in on the last day to fourth place, coupled with the pressure to impress & blow away villa.
4) The middle of the park must chip in with, well i was gonna say; with more goals but hey any would do, it was truly a weak performance goal wise. Cesc i remember at the start of last was saying that he wanted to aim for 15 goals. 2 at the arse end of a campaign that was basically over in the beginning of march is not good enough. Fair enough the rest of his contribution of pretty good, but if the boy knows it himself then don’t attackme. Helb looks way more comfortable in the centre and if given a run coul shoot for 10 believe it when i see it.
Christ its on in 20 minutes, lets see if i can find these websites that show it.
