Arsene, pin this on the changing room door, this is what it feels like to be an Arsenal fan, no transfer talk, this is a battle cry!
So this is it, the match we have long waited for, the big one, the chance to go to Wembley, first of all though we have to beat the team that beat us in the first leg, Ipswich.
Now some of you will be too young to remember that day I went through Plaistow park when the pink blossom was on the trees, it looked wonderful, I should have been happy, but I was thinking about suicide, yes that’s right, I was thinking when looking at those lovely trees about slinging a rope over a bough and ending my life, and for what? It was because we had just lost to Ipswich in the FA Cup final, we were overwhelming favourites and we went down to an Osbourne goal and that was the end of my young dream. My childhood so cruelly shattered.
I was devastated, but I didn’t do it, you know why? It was because I had a dream, a dream that the following year we would stuff the Mancs in the same final, and 4 months later I met the lady that I eventually married and life got better, oh and also I didn’t have a rope on me that day!
So what did that teach me? It taught me never to underestimate the opposition and never to take Ipswich for granted, here we are 33 years on (Jesus’s age when he passed away) and we face Ipswich again, also one nil down, only this time it’s only half time and this team has the chance to right that wrong, and give me back my life, that life that was so cruelly ruined by the Tractor boys. So Arsenal, you owe me big time.
I wouldn’t field a second string, I would field our best team, or at least a team that can win, a team that will not accept defeat, a team similar to the team that beat Wigan, forget the fringe players, if we don’t win this one by two clear goals it’s over, simple as that, we have to win, let’s field a weakened side against Huddersfield, we may beat Huddersfield and go out in the next round, this is a must win game Arsenal, don’t screw this one up.
Put the team out that beat Wigan, then when we get the goals send on the subs, against Wigan we played like we did against the chavs, we shut them down, we chased the ball, we pressed and we shot on sight, that’s what we need to do, not start with Denilson, Eboue or Bendtner, sorry boys, you’ve been given too many chances, sure if we won with them in the team I would be delighted, but if we start with them, so will Paul Jewell.
I think this game is more important than any game we’ve played since we went unbeaten, when we played Barca in the Champions league final we had a chance, but it was always a big ask, especially once Lehmann went off, this one will define our season, it Ipswich for Christ’s sake, take them out and do it in the first half.
I’m predicting a big win, I will feel more comfortable with this starting line up though.
Chezzer
Sagna Djourou Kozzer Clichy
Wilshere Song Cesc
Walcott RVP Nasri
Put Gibbs, Chamakh, Bendtner, Arshavin and whoever else on the bench.
They will no doubt park the preverbial, but if they nick an early goal, they will never come out of their own half and that will be dangerous, remember West ham and Shitty? Yes we beat West ham but it was tight and we don’t want extra time or penalties, my little ticker wouldn’t handle it, not twice in 33 years anyway!
Arsene, this is your chance to show that project youth has sort of worked, I know we can win this, if we were playing the spuds or the mancs I may be nervous, but we are playing the team that lost by 7 to the team we beat 3-1, go out and play for the fans, get us to Wembley and do us proud.
This reminds me of the battle of the Nile, Nelson was after Napoleon’s fleet, he searched for weeks and finally saw them off the coast of Egypt, his management team advised against an evening kick off as that had never been done before, Naval battles were never played under floodlights, he was out numbered and out gunned, he went in as the sun went down with his strongest 11, he wiped out the French fleet and blew up their flagship the L’Orient, the moral of the story is ‘strongest team’ and an ‘evening kick-off’ blimey we even have a player that used to be on the L’Orient, go out there and win it for the fans Arsenal, you owe us and history is on our side!
Have a great day Grovers, I think this will be one of those dates that people will say ‘where were you on the 25th of January 2011?’
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Wouldn’t get ahead of ourselves yet.
The attackers were the key players in the end as Ipswich parked the bus and once Kos beat the flapping Fulop to the ball Ipswich were flat on their feet.
It was a bit sloppy at times especially when Ipswich pressed us you could even pinpoint a couple of the players in the first 59 mins but they got the job done.
I’ll give you that, it was frustrating and I had hoped he would make subs at half time, he didn’t and that could have cost us but hey-ho, we are going to Wembley and that’s all that counts!
I didn’t realise it’s our first Wembley final since Newcastle in 1998, my son was just a little boy then, happy days!
Geoff
u were calling Kozzer rubbish…so on and so forth..
Geoff
u were calling Kozzer rubbish…Song rubbish so on and so forth..
Ha, ha Lazio want Djourou, our best defender! Wankers.
An out of form AA23 still gives more than many hope to see him back at his best when Farca come home..
Bendtner for King of England. He orders Big Macs at Burger King and gets them even
Kush so what, he was. Song has improved but I would still prefer another.
Kozzer has also improved a lot but I still want another, Sakho would do as would Cahill.
Saying I said a player wasn’t good enough is a bit AKB’ish, I have said many times Denilson is crap, it doesn’t mean he won’t have a good game now and then, blind Squirrel and Acorn springs to mind, but if you go back to the start of the season I was saying that Kozzer is very Keownesque.
Rohan, Bendtner scored a good goal but he is not a winger and for me it’s dumb to play him there.
He also gets paid a shedload so scoring goals is his job, we shouldn’t be surprised.
Good morning!
Marmites – So some days you like them, some you dont. I thought either you like or dont like them
Geoff
fair play but he is certainly better than the likes of Lescott and Muamba…
Just because I don’t rate a player it doesn’t mean I dislike them, but Marmites is a good term, where did that come from?
Kush I wouldn’t disagree with that, though I wonder how good Muamba could have been had he played more than one game for us, I think had he played over 150 like Denilson he would have turned into a class act.
*he = they
…….licking the bobo, hahahaha
anyways we will never know enjoy and have a gr8 ‘un meet u all laters..
Touché Kush!
Have we signed Cahillofshit yet?
Very few I would swap for Song at the moment. I’d keep him over Mascherano and Mikel even and probably the likes of Inler and Khedira given his performances recently.
Yaya Toure and the Essien of 3 years ago are the only ones I’d take to be honest especially in our system.
And a word for Jack. How the fuck he does he maintain the level of consistency he has this season. For a 19 year old, absolutely phenomenal. I’d still like to see him improve a bit in the final third but liike Cesc that will come as he gets older.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrJy4LAHY2U
Eboue really is a clown isn’t he
I thought Song was hopeless last night.
This is funny http://www.talksport.co.uk/radio/parry-and-graham/blog/2011-01-26/watch-richard-keys-smashing-video-shocker?
so hopeless Denilson was chosen over Song!
I wonder if Jamie will be in trouble now we all know he’s a serial shagger, fucking video police, they should tell everyone to fuck off.
bnsb you took your time, but you got there in the end! Ha, ha, I wondered who would nibble that one first!
I hope to god the FA aren’t thick enough as to give Berbafuckingtov the player of the season over Nasri.
I’ll be absolutely mad, those manclovers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV9DmdNn3WM
That really was a great goal that, I wish he’d do it more. Playing him on the wing though is crazy.
New post!
geoff so L’Orient ko’d ipswich
Yeah, that and this being the first time he’s properly playing with the big boys in Cesc and van Persie.
He’s a confidence player and nothing will give him more than that goal. He’ll be a very crucial player in the run-in.
10 minutes to go and we need a goal, I’d bring him over Chamakh each and every time.
I absolutely loved how he cut back with his left peg instead of right back and completely befuddled the defender. Class