Gutten tag Grovers, this mornings first guest post is brought to you by David from the comments section, enjoy! Check back at 0730 for the second guest post instalment!
She was my high school sweetheart.
Her name is Lara.
And she’s arguably the greatest love of my life. We did everything together.
On one of our puppy love adventures….I remember distinctively sneaking into the sickbay to pretend i was sick…. and she’d do the same ….you’d be hard pressed to find another jewel like that that would stick with you through your utter stupidity and love you for it all the same….she always had this smile you see…the kinda smile that broke down piss poor attitudes…the kinda woman that saves troubled young men you see….with her deft touches, her graceful stride and her dogmatic expressions…
“Either you do what it takes to change…or Im off…Ive had enough”
And i would listen. I’d always listen.
On my return from vacation, I discovered that she was gone.
Vanished. No word. No goodbyes.
‘I wished to all things celestial that I’d have one last chance to see her and hold her once more…and i would get my wish at a Senior year party. She looked ever so lovely…but my pride and my hurt didnt let me speak just yet. I was angry you see…i couldn’t understand why she left without telling me….she would come over to speak with me but id ignore her…and she looked ever so sad….I told myself we’d patch things up later….the last dance is the slow dance…I’ll grab her by the arm…pull her close…and tell her i love her…and that would be that…nothing else would matter.’
Stay with Me… by Al Green… One of My all time favourites.
When the call for the last dance goes…she’s nowhere to be found…her best friend tells me..
“She just left really upset and she was crying and she didnt tell me where she went”
I never knew why she left…until the powers that be invented facebook…but thats another story…
Let me be the first to admit that until last summer I was and still in many regards an AKB. Yes…I chanted the chants…I wear my colors and with every other sentence I would finish it off with Arsene Knows…
Conversation with friend the Summer of 2005.
Friend: Abramovich and his *expletive* money…ruining the league.
Me: Chelsea are looking Scary at the moment. We came second though.
Friend: Arsenal? You know you guys arent going to win anything for another 4 years right?
Me: WTF are you talking about? Has any team in the World ever been invincible before?
Friend: No, Im just saying that youre Manager had this project/experiment that he did in Monaco he…
Me: Nonesense…Wenger took an otherwise abysmal Monaco team to a champions league final…the man is Greatness…Legend…We will win it all next year…
Does this conversation sound familiar? If you find yourself nodding then chances are you are not alone.
To paraphrase…lets use The Board, Lack of Cash, And Stadium as = BCS
- The BCS are not to blame for us using the 4-5-1 when we shouldve used 4-4-2.
- The BCS are not to blame for Zero substitutions/half time adjustments when clearly IT WASNT WORKING!
- The BCS are not to blame for a perfectly fit Almunia and Eduardo sitting on the bench When Chelsea took a watery crap on us at the Emirates.
- The BCS are not to blame for injury prone players like Diaby and Rosicky that have NEVER failed to disappoint and yet we have not found replacements?
- Speaking of players the BCS are not to blame for the disgrace that is Silvestre.
- The BCS are not to blame for piss poor attitude from the players…Yes Adebayor Inclusive…We seem to forget that the WHOLE TEAM was Lazy start of the season….Is it not down to the Manager to Motivate the Team?
- The BCS is not to blame that we dont field our best potential and we stick with the dead wood, night in and night out….The Minute Bendy decided to start playing ball he was Benched for a Lazy Adebayor, The minute Carlos Vela started to show promise…we didnt just benched him…he disappeared into the reserves….the very day Jay Simpson Scored fantastic goals against a fully organized Premiership Wigan team he was shipped out on loan….the minute JD decided to stop committing stupid fouls and start putting in class act performances for Kolo Toure…he disappeared…the minute Alex Song yes people if we are Honest with ourselves…Alex Song Started to do a job in central midfield….he was shipped to Center back…and the hapless Denilson took his place….Jacky Boy Wonder, Ramsey all suffered serious dip informs either underplayed or being played out of position.
I understand it is easy to point fingers….and say this is what you did wrong…but for 4-5 years? We couldnt find a DM? We couldnt find a good RW/LW winger? One Class Keeper/CB?
Jabba offered to give us 60-100 million and we said no???
Grovers,
We still have time to put things right…we dont know what is going on financially…nobody can seem to tell the truth at our club. But what we do know is that this team as is…is not good enough.
We almost missed out on Arshy…. lets not miss out on Matuidi, Melo, M.Diarra, Toulalan,…
I told you a story of my high school sweety…dont be like me Arsenal…Swallow your pride…eat that humble pie…bring back Flamini…we are hurting since he left…he is hurting since he left….so is Cesc…do the right thing…and appreciate the Flamster and bring him back…the last dance is one week left…we might never know the real reason why Flamster left us so suddnely even though we all thought he would return….but we CANNOT afford to stick with DEnilsong another year…Diaby for DM? God help us all. This is the time to grow stronger when the opposition is Ronaldoless…and with a new Coach…and with the Back 4′s all pushing and shoving each other around…
Arsenal…do it for the fans…or else the fans will be off without warning as well.
thats y i askd
im only 13 so i dnt no too much
bcuz he played left back for chelsea thats y i thought he was a lb
if huntelaar is that good why dd real by benzema and now selling him. there is something they have seen at real about huntelaar which is unconvincing. u think rooney is not available at the right price. he is not good enough for barcelona, real, juve or ac milan because those teams play proper football. where do u think he will fit at those real big clubs. that why they wanted adebayor instead of him. do u think fletcher has had a bid from real in his life. he will never. if you dont like wenger’s judgement call for him to leave. where were you when the whole of emirates pleaded for him to stay. why didnt you display wenger must go placard of yours. why should other players paly to suit cesc. what for. trust what you have and trust wenger
By definition just about every piece like this is written with the complete benefit of hindsight and that means there is no chance of being proved wrong. If only Wenger hadn’t played that particular formation we would have won. If Wenger had made that substitution 10 minutes earlier. If we had a decent goalkeeper we would have won the CL final. Having said that I too am perplexed at some of the decisions that Arsene makes but I also remember hearing similar complaints during the year we went unbeaten. This or that player was never good enough for Arsenal etc, etc. Look at how succesful Man Utd have been then take a look at the names in their CM and I guarantee that many would say they would not be good enough for Arsenal. But Fergie gets them at it and even Carrick and Fletcher and an ancient Scholes have done the business. Football is a strangely unpredictable game and fans are fickle.
Lou: 100% agree
Funny thing is that Man Utd fans are whining like crazy about Owen and Valencia replacing Ronaldo and Tevez. The day Fergie said he was done with his shopping for the summer they were up in arms… The stingy bastard, they should sack him.
Matt. Agreed. I don’t say that there are not odd choices made and I agree that, as soon as some players seem to have turned a corner, they are quickly relegated to the reserves. The decision not to play Arshavin at Wembley worried me though and I was troubled that it gave a clear insight to Arsene’s muddled thinking. To say that he wanted the team to see that they could win without Arshavin was borderline lunacy because 1. They couldn’t and 2. Why, when the club had paid a huge amount of money for him, was the reminder needed anyway. You may as well send the reserves out for the same reason. I feel it had its roots in the 2-0 defeat of Man Utd in the cup several years before when he dropped Henry and played Jeffers. It was saying to Fergie “I don’t even need my best team out to beat you”. It worked that day but failed sensationally against Chelsea. There was also a whiff of the same arrogance in the CC tie against Spurs. Perhaps there are too many decisions that just don’t make sense.
Good post mate. That was a good read!
Excellent post well written shame some of the bloggers were of a low standard!!
Nice Post David.
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Very good,especially agree bout Flamini.Man I would love to have that guy back