Arsenal Embrace The Not Knowing
By Shane
August 20 2018
I don't know if anyone has ever explored the additional features of a DVD. I have on occasion. Sometimes I have watched the alternate endings of a film.
You still know the ending - but you don't know how it ends and I got that feeling when watching the Arsenal match yesterday.
For a while it looked set to be the same old horror story that we've seen at Stamford Bridge far too often under Arsene Wenger. I can't have been the only one who wanted to put both hands over their face and watch on by slightly parting the fingers when Chelsea went 2-0 ahead.
But then Henrikh Mkhitaryan scored and I thought, 'Hmm okay this is different. This bit doesn't happen in the ‘other version'. Alex Iwobi then brought it back to 2-2 a few minutes later and I thought, 'Okay this definitely doesn't happen in the ‘theatrical release'.
I didn't really think of any of these things by the way – I’m being metaphorical.
In the end it was the same old story because we wound up leaving the Bridge with zero points but don't tell me that this isn't exciting. Don't tell me it isn't exciting because in the other version we lose 5-1.
For the first time in many years we can no longer predict what's going to happen in the soap opera that is supporting Arsenal. We no longer know for certain how things are going to end. Hell, we no longer even know who the heroes are anymore, by virtue of the fact that Iwobi of all players had a cape on for some 75 minutes.
This is what you were asking for when you were asking for Wenger to leave. You were asking for change, good or bad. You were asking for something else. You were asking for a different script.
Embrace the not knowing, my friends. I am.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2018:08:28:22:59:24 by Padre Pio.
"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’m excited despite the two defeats.
Now my interest in the club is rejuvenated though it's not yet fully restored.
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I can recall that 6-0 thrashing, Wenger's 1000th game, some years back. The wife and I were doing our monthly 8 mile walk along the Grand Union canal and she asked me if I wanted to know the score. I expect we lost by three or four, I said, because I knew, as most fans did by then, the routine defeats we endured at Chelsea. I was entering my gently indifferent phase of support around that time.
Now my interest in the club is rejuvenated though it's not yet fully restored.
After being in bed with the same-old same-old for 22 years, suddenly a nubile 40+ something throw herself at you … you decide this change is good or bad?
"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.” Saint Thomas Aquinas
Since the end of WW1, 1919, when the FA restarted its 4 tier football league, with Arsenal fc in the 1st div, there’s only ever been one club to have never been relegated from Div 1/ EPL.
Arsenal fc
Let’s keep making history
I'd love to embrace "the not knowing," except i can't because i knew we'd lose, even after it went 2 each!
The only remotely interesting aspect is thinking how good Guendouzi and Torreira will be in a few years time.
This side won't finish in the top 4 and it will take at least 3 years to challange for it, that's the reality am afraid! Wenger has left such a shite squad!
The culture of the club and players will take a long time to change, that's clear to see.
I'm not saying he left a brilliant squad because he didn't, and it was - and still is - unbalanced, but if we jump off Gary Neville's dick for a moment we'll see that Emery and the recruitment team will have failed miserably if it takes them until 2021 to improve Arsenal.
"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.