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Arsenal 1 (Pires) The Mighty Blues 1 (Terry) Premiership 13th January 2001
A Game Of Two Halves
After several pints we eventually made it to Green Park tube station, where I actually found a London Transport employee explaining
to me how the fucking tube ticket machines work... Thank fuck I only go up there once a year.... General discussion was centering on what formation the Italian guru was going to play.... 4-4-2, 3-5-2, 4-3-3, Christmas Tree or Easter
Bunny ? I suggested 4-5-3 until somebody told me to get a fucking calculator.. Got to Highbury... one of my Danish friends suggested we have a drink... did a left outside the station .. ended up walking all around
the library without finding a pub... what a dump (Highbury) what an idiot (the Great Dane)... One salmonella burger later, we sat in pur seats, not seeing a fucking thing as per usual.... Where did we go from here ? To hell and back... Dennis as wing back.....Jimmy on his own up front and Pires and Henry running past
Frank le Beef at will.....if he ever wears a blue shirt again i shall screeeeeaaammmm ! What an arsehole.... what he did was plainly a refusal
to work. He should be sacked on the spot.....no point blaming Wise and Dalla Bona for Pires' goal, it was down to Franck big time..... Gus could have changed the game after a couple of minutes, but missed a glorious one.... first half our defense was awful... Terry and
Marcel did their best but again without Franck...... Jokanevic did try to rival Le Frog as the worst player on the pitch but I still think
Franck just shaded it..... Second half totally different.... 4 4 2 Ferrer and the Danish Ryan Giggs (Gronkjaer) on the pitch... certainly better than the Italian Ryan Giggs (Ambrosetti ?) we
had last year.... scared the shit out of Dixon, but totally confused our strikers with some perfect crosses... must be a new
experience for them.... the goal was only a question of time.... My Little Pony flapped at a corner...England's new centre half (Terry)
scored... delirious.... Jimmy should have won it but luck wasn't on his side, whereas Dalla Bona should take volleying lessons from
Sparky.... Shirley Temple ran up and down, sometimes with the ball, sometimes without, but it didn't make any difference.... 5 Arse
corners in a row... we also survived that.. and went home reasonably happy.....
"We're just too crap" admits Wenger
The manager of Premiership side Arsenal officially conceded the title race to Manchester United yesterday, following his team's draw at home to Chelsea on Saturday.
Arsenal were heavily outplayed by Chelsea in the second half especially, and many commentators felt that they were fortunate to get a point from the game. Although his team started promisingly with a goal from Pires after only three minutes, Wenger said that the Gunners then proceeded to "run around a lot and try to do some fancy ball skills, but created no chances". Chelsea dominated the possession, keeping a steady barrage of shots against geriatric German porn-star lookalike David Seaman, who showed a lack of spunk throughout the game, and were unfortunate not to have equalised before half-time.
Chelsea's well-deserved goal came after some decidedly amateurish defending in the area, enabling 21-year-old John Terry to head the ball past Seaman. Having been denied a penalty for a blatant foul in the area on midfielder Gus Poyet by referee David "Monkey Man" Elleray, it was certainly no more than Chelsea deserved. Hasselbaink, Gudjohnsen, Wise and Poyet all had more chances, but with another foul in the Arsenal penalty area, this time on Gudjohnsen, going unnoticed, luck, like the referee, was on Arsenal's side and they took an ill-merited point from the game.
Arsenal have now fallen to third place in the table, below Manchester United and some budget side from the north east. Wenger made his statement yesterday evening, saying "I have to say that Manchester United are out of sight and out of mind now. We'll just have to concentrate on staying in the top three now, with a view to another opportunity next season to make dicks of ourselves in the Champion's League by playing like nobodies and getting knocked out by some third-rate club no-one's heard of". "It's not looking good though is it?" Wenger continued, "first we get a total slapping from a bunch of Scouse car-thieves with a team full of Krauts who've won bog-all for a decade, and now this. I can't help feeling that I've been buying the wrong sort of players - I mean, all these poncy French tarts like Viera who are only any good at late challenges and diving in the penalty area. It just doesn't cut the mustard these days" "I'd love to try and win another trophy before I retire, but you have to know when to hold and when to fold. Arsenal are going to end up with squat at the end of this season. We're just too crap." What do YOU think ? Want to add your point of view ? Here's your chance to send me some feedback. NB: Opposing fans: abuse will be laughed at and then binned, so don't waste your time. Considered, intelligent argument, presented in the spirit of friendly rivalry guarantees a response.
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