Another good result 'up norf'... and another good showing by Eboue who this time won us a goal!
Is that the sound of silence I hear from his critics? Or are they just banging on about it being offside... which it may or may not have been.
I lost money on this match – I hate to say it but I thought that the writing was on the wall... I had 2 bets:
£2 Davies (to score) – Won @ 5
£10 Arsenal/Draw HT/FT - Lost @ 20
£10 Arsenal/Draw HT/FT - Lost @ 20
So £2 down... if Walcott hadn't come on a sliced them down to 1-3 with his snakey run and mazy legs to set up the third goal and demoralise them as they were chipping away at our defence (literally in the case of Clichy) I could have been £200 up!
That's the second time Walcott has lost me money... still – I forgive him.
The MOTD coverage was a disgrace – which, in my book, bodes badly for our season. If the talking heads are trying to establish an anti-Arsenal template (again) it can only be because we are being set up for a fall (again)... shall we say that it might be some time around the start of February (again) that the wheels might fall off our wagon and we get robbed game after game after game (again)?
I'm going to predict that the 26th of January (onwards) will be the date when our dreams will start to fall apart... why that date – well, it's Chinese new year of course and while the Chinese are eating dim sum with their nearest and dearest; all power goes to the European bookies to utterly and completely fuck with our game with gay abandon safe in the knowledge and freedom that they will not be getting their fingers burned in the Asian markets, no matter how obvious their corruptions are (again)!
*checks fixtures*
Shit... Tottenham (away) is around that time - bugger.
And while we are on the subject... I hate to crow about the plight of the spuds but what the fuck were all yous boys on about preseason? All I heard was "we're going to be top 4" and "we're going to finish above Arsenal". When will you learn to keep it fucking shut? It's getting boring... it's one way traffic – like our rivalry.
Back to MOTD. The grey-mullety talking head and the one seemingly attending a job interview to be the next manager of 'Newcastle (not at all) United' both leapt off their seats in full apologist mode when the ex-spud talking head asked them about the tackle on Clichy. The upshot was that it was a perfectly fair challenge... hard but fair – and if you can't take that kind of 'football' then you are a (southern/foreign) "jessy".
So – there you go, apparently it's ok to throw in leg-breaker challengers on "Jessys" (i.e. tricky Arsenal foreigners) and so say all of us pundits and 'experts'... so it must be ok.
You know, I'd like to play a game of football with them two... After 8 years of Kung-Fu - I've got a bagfull of 'hard-but-fair' challenges for them... northern shit-kickers.
Also – The Eboue goal was 'shown' to be offside by a camera angle of the ball at Bendtner's feet while Eboue was in an offside position – the video was then flipped into 'real time' (no slow motion back/forth over the moment of the pass) to show Eboue scoring... It may have been offside - but I couldn't make my mind up from the clip where it was obvious that there were trying to show him as offside as possible?! In contrast the Liverpool goal (disallowed) on MOTD 2 had a full 3D virtual reality spin-cam-blah-second-life recreation to 'prove' (from a computer simulation) that the goal should have stood... I don't doubt that it should have stood, I could see that from the fucking video?!?! in further contrast – the Bolton goal, which came off 3 fouls against us, was declared "all too easy".
There may be trouble ahead... again.
*Arsenal News*
They weren't lying about the cash were they... damn. What does this mean in terms of the Jabba man... and what else, other than a human shield against the Usbeck blubber mountain (and a bit of brand marketing), can Kroenke possibly offer us?
And, more importantly, what will he want in return?
