A Good Week At The Office

After the annoying 0-0 draw with Man Sh*tty, followed by the last-minute penalty save by Cesc against Leeds and the uninspired performance at Ipswich, last week turned out to be a good week at the office for the Gunners. First, they hammered West Ham with three goals (and a clean sheet!). Next, they travelled up by train to Leeds (classy Nasri was captain for the night – and even had Rio Ferdinand backing him for Player of the Year) and registered a 1-3 win. Then they hosted bogey team Wigan last Saturday and registered another 3-0 win with RvP scoring his first Arsenal hat-trick. The Flying Dutchman scored six goals in all those three matches and you can’t help thinking and wishing him to continue staying fit. If our excellent front four combination of Theo van Nasregas can continue to stay fit, there’s no stopping us. InsyaAllah.

Flying Dutchman!

David and Romeo Beckham were at the Emirates too. Wonder if Romeo was wearing an Arsenal scarf. It’s red and white

Wigan’s keeper was brilliant and kept his team in the first half with a string of saves. Cesc could have had a hat trick, Nasri and Theo also had missed opportunities

The mid-week was somewhat spoiled by Denilson’s interview with Arsenal Brasil carried out by Arseblog where he said Cesc was not a leader and that he could not see any leader in the team. I saw the interview and read the translation and unless someone screwed up somewhere, he did say something along those lines (and he also said Almunia is a good goalie!). To Denilson’s credit though, he later informed Cesc about it. And while Cesc was very understanding about it all, I think Denilson is wrong. We have Cesc, RvP and Nasri, even Rosický and TV5, and he said there are no leaders? Of course, Cesc is a captain and a leader (and outstanding one too, according to Wenger) and Arsenal’s good luck charm - Arsenal never failed whenever he scores.

And last but not least, there were the sexist remarks made by Richard Keys and Andy Grey, Sky Sports dinosaur presenters about Sian Massey, the female linesman at the Liverpool-Wolves match. Now I don’t claim to know everything about football (then again, I’m not a lines-girl or referee) but please kept your sexist opinions to your bloody selves. And it’s not as if male referees or linesmen get every call right or are consistent with their calls! This piece is an excellent read - if you are open-minded enough.

Nine matches for Arsenal this month, seven down and two to go. We have three more games at the Emirates in nine days before we travel north. Let the good day of the office last please. Amen.