Glory or mediocrity?

God kväll! Idag har det varit ännu en händelserik dag i Arsenal-världen, men istället för att skriva om allt som hänt (allt finns i stort sett uppe på Arsenal.com) tänkte jag låta en vän till mig skriva en gästblogg. Han heter Richard och är som ni kanske redan märkt engelsman. Han har hållt på Arsenal ända sedan han var ett litet barn och ser nästan varenda match live. Han har nyligen tagit examen från universitetet och ser för tillfället över sina möjligheter i det kommande arbetslivet.

Jag tänkte egentligen inte skriva så mycket mer om honom, utan ni får helt enkelt sätta er ner och läsa vad han har att säga om dagens Arsenal. Det är väldigt intressant, tro mig! Ni får mer än gärna kommentera inlägget (både på svenska och engelska om ni så vill).

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Since the season ended in M a y we have had to live with daily dross from the Catalan scum (I’m now too angry to write their name) which has sanctioned their players to say what they like as they frantically try to unsettle Arsenal into making a move. It hasn’t materialised as of now and it looks unlikely, so why can’t they just give it a rest? We all know it’s tapping up but Fifa won’t do didly shit about it and so it will rumble onto next season. Frankly I didn’t think much of the world cup but the Cesc story took a background, the day after the world cup final though it all started again. It’s just beyond a joke, the media don’t want to write about anything else and so we have to live with the constant shite, thank you Daily Mail, Telegraph, Guardian, Sun all your morons that write for you. They do a fantastic job making every other article complete and utter shite.

Over time I have evolved from the ultimate optimist along with another #arsenal channel member (on IRC) blade thinking we were always going to pull it back into the ultimate pessimist. I look back and it upsets me that I have aged 5 years watching us scrap wins over the likes of West Ham and Aston Villa. We simply haven’t had a good enough defense to win the league and through my eyes I don’t see us doing it again. The way I see it is this, we go on about how great we all think Song has been, but hasn’t he just been the best of what we have? Not the best of the title winning teams, and there you have it. We don’t have the players that are good enough to win the league, we may think we do because we love our best players but compared to the likes of Essien, Drogba, even fat frank bastard Lampard, we aren’t as good.

What’s sad is the fact that Arsenal charge so much money for 60,000 to flood
through their doors every other week and to earn all this massive
capital and in my opinion Arsenal to them is no longer a football club,
but a cash machine for opportunistic investment. It’s all about the
profit, what they fail to notice is that the real heart of this club are
these 60,000 people (and the hundreds of millions of people around the
globe who’s money on satellite TV goes to the Premier League) that come
to watch 11 employees of Arsenal FC do battle in an environment that
should be about excitement and entertainment, these days that couldn’t
be any further from the truth. Football is a game for the people, this
bollocks about its fashionable for oligarchs and pant sniffers from
Kazazhdurkagurkstan to invest their trillions of blood money is utter
bollocks, they are killing clubs. See Liverpool (heheeh). I have heard
rumours from friends that season ticket sales are down by 5% and that it
was extremely hard work trying to fill in the empty season ticket
seats. Everyone says ‘oh yes it would be great to have a season ticket’,
but at that price it is a massive commitment on finances, and if you
live in London you’ll understand that a normal person wanting to shed
themselves of a 1k is barely possible without eating plain rice for a
months salary or even walking to work!

If I’m honest to
myself, I’m really looking forward to the season like a little kid, I
always get like this at this time of year, but I have more
responsibilities now in my life and so have turned into someone wanting
success over night than having to wait another 5 years (I’ll be 28 by
then and I know I shouldn’t expect it, but then they shouldn’t charge me
so much!) for Arsenal to shape into the new invincibles team that we
were promised this new set of players would become - and here it is. We
could probably go a long way to becoming champions with 3 or 4 players,
like we have ALWAYS SAID, we are a few players light, but has it EVER
been addressed in the past few years? The answer is no, because Wenger has put trust into players that aren’t good enough, sadly he doesn’t
have the killer instinct like Taggart to take players out if he doesn’t
think they are good enough.

Case Study one is the
goalkeepers, Almunia, Fabianski should both go, they are both fucking
useless and let’s not even build a case for them because there isn’t
one. They have both cost us crucial points over a season, a world class
goalkeeper like Cech or Van Der Saar makes the “wonderful” saves that
Almunia supposedly makes and then doesn’t make the fucking special
school div mistakes that he makes. I used to train a cricket team when I
was younger and there was a special group of kids, (bless them they
were brilliant) and I’m sure even they mastered the basics better than
Almunia does when we compare their level to what should be given basics
to a professional goal keeper of the Premier League it’s looking likely
that we will have to lump it with that cunt in go once again. Pity.

Case two is the defense. We have always won the league under Wenger with 2
solid midfielders, with this 4-3-3 formation I feel like we are slightly
exposed because we only play 1 defensive midfielder in the formation as
opposed to two with one in front. Our strike force is complete, I will
give it the benefit of the doubt, Van Persie is brilliant if fit,
Chamakh, Arshavin, Nasri, Bendtner, Walcott, Vela, it’s enough to be
really pushing for the title, what will be the problem this season is
conceding goals when we are in front and holding on to a lead. mark my
words.

If we could get someone as good as Song, as I
mentioned earlier he is the best of a bad bunch, but I’ll be honest,
someone alongside him equally as good as him might be enough to win the
title, that won’t come though and already we have doubts for the start
of the season with injuries etc. Is this really good enough for the
Arsenal? If you answer that as a yes then you’re deluded because we will
be fighting for 4th this season. I can’t see Liverpool being as shit as
they were last season and Manchester City will surely push on. Can’t
say I give a fucking monkeys about the scum and Harry “brown envelope” Redknapp, he can go and play in a big pit of maniac rabbits for all I
care but if we under estimate the fact that this season will be harder
than last season we could be looking at the Europa League next season
and sadly this is the first time since I can remember actually being
concerned by more than Man Utd & Chelsea.

I do offer a
ray of light though and that comes with a good start. If we start well,
then ok we have a chance, but again the results at the big boys have got
to improve on last season. I will happily print this article off for
those that disagree with me and eat it should we win either the premier
league or the champions’ league.