A Little Less Conversation

I’ll let the pictures do the talking today.

Arsenal-Aston Villa (1-3)

Fenerbache-Arsenal (0-3)

Fulham-Arsenal (1-3)

Arsenal-Fenerbache (2-0)

Arsenal-Spuds (1-)

Ollie’s turn this time

Sorry, what north London divide?

Rain On Wigan’s Parade

I was supposed to be at this home match but the match was rescheduled when Wigan made it to the FA Cup Final. So instead I was watching the first-half from home because I couldn’t sleep due to jet lag.

The match was refereed by Mike Dean, the bugger who refereed 16 past matches for us but only one win and he looked determined to add to that biased tally when he ignored fouls made on the Gunners. He awarded a free-kick which Maloney converted and drew Wigan level with us just before half-time. Poldi had earlier given us the lead.

We didn’t start the second-half well but soon got back into it. Theo bundled our second goal, Poldi scored his second to put the match and Premier League survival beyond Wigan’s reach and Ramsey finally scored Arsenal’s fourth.

We must win at Newcastle and hope for the Toffees to give Moyes a win for his last match in charge of them so that we can finish third and avoid Champions League play-off. It’s all in our and Everton’s hands now... Don’t we all now wish we had scored more against QPR and won over ManUre?

That’s More Like It

After another difficult ‘super-crisis’ week where we crashed out of the Capital One Cup at Bradford, Lady Nina’s tweets and Titi’s meeting with the dinosaur Usmanov, Arsenal travelled again, this time to Reading. I have always maintained the players are as much to blame for not delivering and last night, they stepped up and delivered. I tweeted some of the players and told them (yes, I know they may not read my tweets but I don’t care) that I don’t care if it’s a 1-0 scrape, I don’t care who scores, I don’t care if it’s not a clean sheet as long as Arsenal WIN. I told them that Wenger has faith in them and that they should repay it. I told them that the fans have faith in them but that they must win and fight for us, that they must prove that they’re worthy and proud of playing for Arsenal. Oh sure it was against Reading who currently occupy the basement spot in the league but we have seen all too often how Arsenal can even screw matches against lower placed teams.

Poldi opened the scoring followed by a hat-trick from Cazorla and Theo rounded it off. Cue sighs of relief.