What Have we Done? 2 More Yrs for Wenger and Chelsea's Title
New Hero
By Boris Mellor
May 1 2011
There were quite a few fans almost hoping Arsenal would lose as it might speed up a clear out. But I only had to see some obnoxious Man U fans cockily marching over the Fiszman Bridge to banish any such thoughts from my mind. I got a feeling that Karma was going to bite these big heads in the backside.
It was a sunny day and the crowd were angry about the past week, but subdued, they hardly responded to the calling out of players names, and Lehmann got the loudest cheer. Meanwhile talk at the Rocket had been of how fans didn’t care if Fab left, and that perhaps it was time for Wenger to go.
The first half bathed in glorious sunshine was played in a mostly subdued atmosphere. Normally matches against the top four, Tottenham and Barcelona are played in a frenzy of shouting and jeering; but the ambience was relaxed, as if it didn’t matter. Arsenal played lots of tippy tappy, but with no cutting edge, fortunately the antics of Rooney and the Referee began to irritate the crowd, and slowly the noise level built up.
The crowds temper heated up even more after Vidic used his hand to direct Walcott's cross away from the incoming Robin van Persie - an offence missed by the referee. I was at the opposite end and was unaware what had happened, but a friend text me that Sky said it was a nailed on penalty and sending off.
Arsenal went in at half time clearly having been the best team, but not having really tested the Man U keeper. We have seen this quite a few times against top clubs, plenty of possession but no end product. So it was with concern that Arsenal fans took their seats for the second half.
It looked like it was developing into squeaky posterior time, and Man U had 11 men behind the ball, if you include the referee who made some fine tackles against Arsenal.
But the crowd didn’t get time to get anxious as Arsenal got the goal they deserved after only 56 minutes, Ramsey passed a low finish into the corner of the net from a Van Persie cut-back. It was very skilfully put out of van der Saar’s reach.
Arsenal didn’t stop looking for a second, and Man U got a few breakaway chances, but Sczcesny was magnificent and almost single handedly kept them at bay. I would hate to make a criticism as he had such a fine game, but he needs to take care when putting the ball back into play, he gave Man U too many chances to re-launch an attack. Djourou got injured and Squillaci came on causing a few hearts to miss a beat. Not long after Eboue replaced the tiring Walcott, the crowd behaved well and pretended not to notice. Meanwhile, I was inundated with texts expressing concern about the substitutes. However this was the weakest Man U team I have seen in a long time and they failed to capitalise on the weakened defence.
Indeed Ferguson had intended to beat Arsenal and Chelsea to prove that this was a strong Utd team. I am afraid he lost his case this time around.
Indeed they were so poor that the Arsenal faithful didn’t start whistling until the last 90 seconds. The Gooner nation departed in high spirits singing all their favourites, except the Wenger one. Brian of BOF did his best to get it going, but not only would no one join in, but we were also rudely told to shut up. However the crowd sung the praises of their new hero Ramsey, and can watch MOTD for the first time in a very long while.
Bitter Sweet
It’s always good to beat Guildford Rovers and our spirits were high in the Bank afterwards, but we also felt sad that the season had been thrown away, that a great opportunity had been wasted. As one of the Bank of Friendship posse commented “What have we done? Two more years for Wenger and Chelsea’s title!” He also passed round a photo of a very fed up looking Dr Who, who refused to respond to the taunting of Arsenal fans.
At least they didn’t win the league at our ground, and they probably won’t win it next week either. Meanwhile the wonderful Spurs seem at risk of going out of Europe. Happy St Totteringham Day (Yes I know, but it’s not going to happen, 12 points and better our GD?).
If you do not already have an account Click here to Register.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2011:05:08:19:30:33 by Padre Pio.
"It is born out of hypocrisy and fundamental insecurity. There have been two kids on the block for the past 12 years. Suddenly, there is a third and that one is threatening to be more successful than the others and they dont like it." P Kenyon.
"When we had to suffer the team is a lion because they suffer together." 4 July 2020 at Wolverhampton Wanderers
Arteta on his team's first away victory at a club above them in the Premiership since September 2015 at Leicester.
BTW You aint seen cocky until you seen cockneys.
"When we had to suffer the team is a lion because they suffer together." 4 July 2020 at Wolverhampton Wanderers
Arteta on his team's first away victory at a club above them in the Premiership since September 2015 at Leicester.
Nice retort Padre."When we had to suffer the team is a lion because they suffer together." 4 July 2020 at Wolverhampton Wanderers
Arteta on his team's first away victory at a club above them in the Premiership since September 2015 at Leicester.
Occasionly we get a good result when it matters but not consistently.
Can We Now Trust The Process π€π€·πΏββοΈ or Should We Still Remain Cautious ππΏββοΈ
Quote:i'm not taking anything away from the team but winning this game is pointless cos it only serves to make wenger have more grounds to continue his madness..
Win or lose doesn't matter Wenger will continue the madness anyway..
"When we had to suffer the team is a lion because they suffer together." 4 July 2020 at Wolverhampton Wanderers
Arteta on his team's first away victory at a club above them in the Premiership since September 2015 at Leicester.
I resd an article by Terry Venables on Wenger,he said Wenger needs to go back to being a manager rather than acting like a director.