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Saturday, April 3, 2010

Injuries are no joke at all. Wolves come for a visit.

I THINK INJURY NEWS ARE A FORM OF MIND GAMES.

We know Rooney got an injury in Germany, but he'll be out 2 weeks tops, and will only miss 3 games and be ready for City. Before the confirmation of that news, I think the whole world (esp Chelsea fans) laid in wait for news that he won't face Chelsea. In any case, United will be out to prove that they are not a one man team (they so are lol. Before, it was Ronaldo's team.). Chelsea haven't gone to Old Trafford and got a win in a long time and they're missing quite a few first teamers too, so it might be down to Malouda vs Gary Neville. Um. Is there even a contest there? Malouda is no Ribery but well, we see tonight. Faggotson will prolly play Park and command him to provide support for old Gary. Yet again, Asians and their work ethic.

After United and Chelsea fuck each other up their cunts, Arsenal will face Wolves. Regardless of the earlier result, we need all 3 points, no question about that. Denilson and Clichy who had minor injury complaints were passed fit and I'd expect them to start. Sometimes, resting players can backfire. Have a full team out there to provide continuity for Barca. That game at St. Andrews didn't do much for the teams morale.

Wenger in his press conference has clarified several 'rumours' about Cesc playing through injury with an already broken leg. I think that's pretty absurd, and it's funny how Wenger has MRI scans to back him up. I would think that Arsenal owns their own multi million dollar scanning machine since we use it so often. I can imagine us running a free clinic and still make money. But yes, only one Tony Colbert and I think he is the busiest man in the whole wide world.

More clarification on the Cesc injury is that he'll be out 4 weeks min, and 6 max. Not min 6 weeks. But you know Wenger and how he's obsessed with taking the max and quite rightly so. He gambled with injuries in recent times and I haven't really thought of any that really paid off, save for the Cesc cameo at home to Aston Villa. After that, he was out again.

The other injury we got that night was to Gallas. It sure looked serious and the official site said 3 weeks but Wenger feels it could be longer. And then Domenech comes out bleating and whining. Good Lord. International managers can simply fuck off, just just follow in Capello's footsteps. He doesn't interfere with club selections and minds his own business while plotting behind closed doors. That lousy Domenech, will never win anything for France. And he's too free from having nothing better to do, enough to shit Wenger for playing Gallas. Yo. We pay his wages. And for such a big clash like Barca, which walking wounded wouldn't want to be fit and play. That shit French manager can simply fuck the hell off. Arsene Wenger owes him nothing, and when he returned Diaby crocked from playing for him, there was nothing wrong with that.

Lastly, Mr Arshavin is a pessimist, but is not negative. I don't see how the two are unrelated really. Aren't they almost the same thing? Your poor outlook will add to negativity. He turns 29 at the end of May though, and at that sort of age, you know your days are numbered. Next season could be the last chance to win anything, esp if we don't win anything this term. If he didn't miss a sitter last week then we would be in an even better position now, not having to depend on Sp*rs. We have to beat them after Barca and then pray that they beat Chelsea and United. And it's a double-edged sword at best, because beating those 2 will put them in serious reckoning for 4th spot and CL qualification. I, however, think that it isn't such a bad idea. They don't have the squad capable for challenging in all competitions. When they were in the UEFA Cup, they screwed up the league and was fighting relegation. Then their current twitchy manager managed to haul them back from the bottom end for a mid-table finish, but not enough for Europe. The only reason why they're doing well this term is because they don't exactly have much to play for, just domestic matters. While their players are being awed by Europe's elite competition, they might just be fighting relegation again next season.

Before we can continue to dream again, we gotta do away with Wolves. This month, is going to be fucking crucial, and how many times have we played April with all to play for?

Labels: Cesc Fabregas, Man Utd, Sp*rs, William Gallas

A Little Drunken Madness @ 11:43 AM

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Post-Bayern, Pre-Barca

I got up at 1 p.m. thanks to the brother.

Thanks to MIO actually. Can't have too many complaints over the FREE Champion's League coverage, but that meant that it was only available for viewing in my room. The TV in the living room has been stripped bear of all cool cable TV gadgets because shouting outside in the living room will disturb the mother. Shouting in my room on the other hand, has less damaging effects. Also, with MIO currently only broadcasting the CL, it is not viable to get another box now. I will get another for the brother, otherwise, I can forgo all privacy, and if our games clash we will clash too.

But last night was rather enjoyable. I meant the game, save for Bayern conceding a stupid freekick which resulted in the United goal in like, the first minute, from the second pass of the game which was a LONG BALL, something in which the brother is super against because apparently, that's all Liverpool know how to do. It's all part of the game really, if Man Yoo don't hit long balls at all, then you are eligible to condemn Pool. Say, like if you're an Arsenal fan, then you can condemn long balls all you want. We do hit them, but at a rate of close to zero per game, considering that Almunia's distribution is also just as shitty as his handling.

As that game progressed, Edwin Van Der Sar got more and more impressive with his saves, and made me think of our keeper. I think VDS would be quite depressed to know that he reminded me of Manuel Almunia, but for all the good reasons for him, and the bad for us. We really need a good quality keeper that can keep us in games. Almunia has the ability no doubt, but his mental seems to be failing him quite a bit. We all know he can do a good job, but his flapping is getting worse and I really can't think of reasons for that. Is that John Terry screwing his wife?

United's first goal, was a gift from Zorro, a.k.a. Demichellis. He committed the foul, and then slipped when marking Rooney. Jeez. Can you get any luckier than that? But Man Yoo, not being themselves, decided to fuck it all up. I mean, I've never seen them play worse after gaining a lead. Normally, you know, they build on it and keep going and destroy the opposition? Did it to Arsenal, couldn't do it to Bayern. HMM. Mr Brother said after Rooney scored that MU were going to win 4-0, because MU's experience will show. But yeah, the curse of the sister struck again. I think I posted before, about the Everton-MU game over CNY period where it was an early kick off and we were all out on one of our big family dinners. He had no choice but to watch Football Channel on my phone and they lost 3-1. (and he blamed me hahahaha) Had MU lost by the same scoreline, it would have been quite the jinx. A loss, nevertheless. My phone and my TV sent a signal to Frank Ribery and woke him up in the second half. Alert, alert, red devil fan invading gooner territory. Exterminate, exterminate.

I would gloat, but I learned not to, because Arsenal play Barcelona tonight. Home form in Europe suggests that, finally, FOR ONCE, statistics are on our side. We've only lost 1 out of 27 home games in Europe. Don't need to remind you where that 1 loss came from. It's a pretty impressive record, but records are always there to be broken, so hopefully, good things happen and we'll have a chance to maintain that streak in the semis, i.e. by beating Barcelona over 2 legs.

Injury news now are all about Fabregas' fitness. Darn Birmingham City's shitty Craig Gardner asshole decided that he wanted Fab's legs but couldn't get it so he tried to take them off. Then that darn Howard Webb, representative of England at the WC, didn't even bother taking out a yellow from his butt pocket. Srsly. They should stop with the promo materials. He's a shit ref, and with no vested interest at the WC, I hope he fucks up his career in South Africa and just go back to being a policeman.

Other than that, we're good to go. No really. Gallas will make it back and restore the fantastic CB partnership with Vermaelen, who decided that it was necessary to say that he quit Ajax to play against Barcelona. Heh. From Dutch football, to the premier league, and doing an excellent job so far. Yet another crown jewel unearthed by Le Prof. Chamakh scored last night with an excellent header and if he does come, I think he'll do very well over here, no matter how much I want Edin Dzeko. I signed him in FM and he is awesome. But yeah, we have Bendtner, who is the same type so Wenger will never sign him or it'll 'kill Bendtner'. Then when Dzeko becomes a big hit in another team, Wenger will say that he was considering a move for him but it wasn't viable. So, we should just stick to NB52 (nahbeh 52) and hope for the best, especially tonight. He will be jey no doubt, and his bust up with Adebayor wasn't the only bust up with another striker he thinks he's better than. In the very special Scandinavian rivalry, he and Ibrahimovic had a 'war of words' in the media when Denmark took on the Swedes. I always feel that the stars like to align on matters like this ergo make this all happen. Neither players have spoken about each other but I don't think they like each other very much. Nicky was on the winning team that time, 1-0.

I WOULD SO TOTALLY TAKE THAT SCORE TO THE NOU CAMP.

I think stopping the away goal is key, and I really don't mind if Arsenal put on a great defensive shift, i.e. being responsible at the back. We always have the ability to score, but not the ability to defend. Between 2 teams who rely so much of attacking play, perhaps the key lies in their defensive performance. Don't know what to expect tonight, in terms of tactics, but it should be a cracker of a game, regardless. And of course I exclude any possibility of Barca scoring and us not winning. (only then it'll be a cracker.)

Winning ugly when we absolutely need to, is another mark of Champions. Tonight, I don't care about the pretty football. All I want is a win and a clean sheet.

Do it, lads.

P.S. credit to Singtel for the free coverage. Nothing like winning Singaporeans over with FREE good quality stuff. A marketing genius. The queues outside ST shops will never subside and everyone I know will be catching next season's action. Offering lower prices means higher sales and more satisfied customers, while they have a chance to market their other channels, no matter how crappy they are. I'm just here for the football. The concept of Season Pass however, is a very good one.

Labels: bump Singtel, Champion's League, Man Utd, Nicklas Bendtner

A Little Drunken Madness @ 1:28 PM

Friday, January 29, 2010

Those are fucking good news.

Just when you thought things were getting worse, they actually are getting better.

It's so easy to slip into an completely negative stage when you suffer setbacks but if you've taken the cues from Arsenal, that's not what you should do.

Remain positive! And good things will come to you. Or, you can expect the worst and then be pleasantly surprised when the good things come.

Vermaelen didn't break anything in his leg. Which is splendid. I thought it would have been nonsensical if he did after being rested at Stoke so perhaps that tactic did work. We all expected him to be out for a long long time but would you take a look at this? He could even make United if he recovers within 2 days. If you'd compare the 2 injuries the team picked up at Villa, Eduardo is completely out of contention for the United game. Vermaelen with a suspected serious injury could return.

Must be an awesome roller coaster ride for United fans who may have been a little more happy that we lost one of our key players of the season.

Of course, they too think that the FA moves in slow motion. No, they don't. Experiences with Moneybags Adebayor and his stamp on RVP tells me that retribution is swift when it comes to being charge with violent conduct, even if you poach video evidence (from Mascherano) to support your case. You'll see C. Ronaldo and the use of Messi's video to help his case but failing (and in the process, piss off fatherly Xavi). In any case, when the ref puts in his report that he would have sent the player off and awarded a penalty to Hull, that pretty much means that you'll get a 3 game ban, simple as that. Except that he chose to plead 'not guilty' and it's byebye Rio for Arsenal game and 3 more. 1 extra suspension for a 'frivolous' claim. Good thing Adebayor pleaded 'guilty'.

It's really stupid on Ferdinand's part but not surprising. If he were available for United then they'll most probably field their first choice centre back partnership of Ferdinand and Vidic. Good news for us. Vidic should be back though, and partner Evans.

Wenger also stated that Eboue and Song are back in London as planned. I think 2 more days of rest from them till United is a good thing. Had the game been on a Saturday then chances of them featuring will be slim. Sol Campbell has himself fired up to face United and knows that he faces the task of stopping Wayne Rooney. One man does not make a team though, but we still need to stop him. Cut off supply to him and he'll start lumbering back into his own half to try and nick the ball from us and that makes him less effective. We need to keep possession well and get our passing game going. Bendtner's back and despite his inability to shoot, being tall makes a world of difference. We can play the ball off him and bring the other midfielders into the attack, of course, if he doesn't give the ball away as a result of a crappy return pass. We all know what to expect. No other choice though, because he happens to be the only striker left.

If Vermaelen can't play, I'd put Campbell in. Song needs to be in that holding role. If Diaby is scared fit too then it's obvious that he partners Cesc. The front 3 will be Arshavin, Bendy and Tomas. I hope Denilson doesn't play. Every effort on his part to win the ball back from the opposition have been half-hearted lately and it's irritating me. Either you're in or you're out. There's no in between.

It should be a crackin game at United. Maybe a game against Villa didn't fire up the lads as much. United, should.

Labels: Emmanuel Adebayor, Man Utd, Sol Campbell, Thomas Vermaelen

A Little Drunken Madness @ 2:06 PM

Sunday, January 10, 2010

At least we've cleared Everton out of our system.

I said that I wanted a Tomas goal that wasn't for shiok value only. That I got. Except that it wasn't the difference between a win and a draw, but a draw and a loss.

Good all the same, but I would have preferred if we had won.

If you gave the game considerable thought about the manner of our goals, you wouldn't consider them lucky. Yes, both were a result of deflections, but those were clear reflections of the tactics David Moyes set his team out to do.

Defend in numbers. Get bodies in the box. Throw bodies in the line of fire.

And that is what you get really. No clear cut Arsenal goal but deflections.

They could moan and blame their luck but in the spells where we were superior, we deserved to win as much as they thought they did. Their goal from Pienaar was not a result of brilliance but a result of us wanting the winning goal so badly to get the 3 points. Credit to them to know exactly what we wanted and to use it to their advantage but I am not disheartened by the performances of the lads. In truth, they could have been better but the spirit was there.

The headlines all read that Arsenal were lucky but these are the ignorant fools of the press who do not know any better. It was simply down to the way Everton defended. If you put that many things in the way of the keeper, you got to watch out for deflections. I don't need to make myself any clearer than this. Just take a look at the Beach Ball incident at Sunderland. Even a lousy pool beach ball can cause a deflection that great to leave no chance for the keeper. What about men in front of the keeper. The beach ball they could get out of the way. Everton players? They're no better than the beach ball.

At least this time, it wasn't an Arsenal fan who put the Everton player there. The Liverpool schoolboy is probably still living in utter shame.

On another day, if we had Fabregas in the side, this game could have been a done deal. And yesterday, we saw how important Song is to us. Denilson, who got stretchered off injured, is no Alex Song. The key to a successful attack in a 4-3-3 is a good holding midfielder to be there whenever we lose the ball, to shield the defence. Without one, we put our defence in a whole lot of shit. I dare say, that had Song been playing, the Pienaar goal wouldn't have happened. That said, their first goal was from a corner and we didn't show enough desire to close down the ball.

Their goals perhaps could have been prevented had Song been playing but more importantly, a good holding midfielder also holds the key to good attacking play. He is important to the team at both ends.

I thought Donovan did pretty well today. For a player to come and slot right in immediately in the league and do well is quite remarkable. I'm wondering why Wenger never considered bringing in players from the MLS on short term loan to provide cover. There aren't many strings attached and Beckham is a good testament to their worth, even though he ain't American.

The good thing is, Man Utd decided that they really do want us to over take them, or at least have the possibility to. So they drew 1-1 with Birmingham. What's left is Chelsea. They are expected to drop more points because their chief goalscorer is currently in Angola. I never realised the Chelsea were pretty dependent on their African players till, well, now. There's Drogba and Essien for starters. A team missing those two could genuinely be short on quality.

What's left to do now is for Rosicky to return to full complete fitness because he was a gem when coming on. It's always an 'all hands on deck' situation at Arsenal so we need everyone. EVERYONE. I don't believe Arsene Wenger is close to signing anyone besides Sol Campbell. I am so not betting on January signings. The minute he excluded Edin Dzeko for being too expensive I stopped praying even. There aren't a lot of tall hitmen around who can slot right into the Arsenal team so that's it. We'll most probably have to rely on whatever we have. Arsenal Football Club is a bunch of scrooges when it comes to transfers. Good thing the window is closed over Christmas or they'll be the red and white grinches stealing our Christmases.

Dream signings will always be a dream. I mourn Dzeko. Chelsea always signs him in FM and he always scores against Arsenal. Booooo.

Labels: Alex Song, Man Utd, Tomas Rosicky, transfer window hoo-ha

A Little Drunken Madness @ 1:09 PM

Monday, January 4, 2010

West Ham couldn't do a Leeds and we aren't Man Utd (thank goodness)

There is only one Aaron Ramsey.

This dude has the fans singing the Arsene Wenger chant with his name in it, and quite rightly so.

It's a classic example of taking chances. The opportunities for him in the first team came and so far he has taken them in style, showing everyone what a big player he is going to be for us.

He became the darling of the team when he first arrived when Alex Ferguson and United legend Welshman Ryan Giggs couldn't convince him to join them and he chose us instead.

Look at how far he has come, this time, popping up at the right time to score the equaliser to set up a grand stand finish for Eduardo's header, which was nothing short of fantastic.

The game was pretty evenly matched from the start. Both sides created very little but eventually, West Ham got the goal they deserved for all their hard work. I'm not sure we needed to give a game to Silvestre who really isn't the player he was at United. He was slow to react and Diamanti managed to keep onside thanks to him and got the goal. I don't see why Traore couldn't continue in the first team since Wenger chose to keep 3/4 of his back four intact.

He shuffled the pack in front of the defence somewhat but Song kept his place to play one last game for us before catching the plane to Angola. Ramsey kept his place too with Merida completing the midfield trio. Up front Wenger brought in Vela and Wilshere but chose to play Vela in the centre and dudu on the left. I think Eduardo should be primarily deployed in the centre. He's not new to playing centre forward and is a natural striker while Vela has been mostly deployed on the wings. If Vela's in the centre because of height then there is not much case for that since there isn't a very great height difference between the 2. Overall, before Diaby and Nasri were brought on, we struggled to get behind their defence to create anything.

West Ham came out after the break and started to settle in a little more. At 1-0 against any Arsenal side there is simply no time to sit back. Behrami and Kovac continued to match us like for like in midfield and were doing a good job at that. Then Wenger, who has been really smart with his substitutes as of late, brought on Diaby and Nasri for Merida and Wilshere. I think before, if you mentioned Diaby as a sub late on to change the game, I would have laughed it off and expected things to stay status quo. But he came on and did really well and if he manages to stay injury free and consistent, he can make a difference this term.

So the draw for the 4th round has happened and looks like we'll be travelling to Stoke City. It's so early in the Cup and we're facing all the premier league sides already.

Sp*rs entertain Leeds United. Heh. I'm wondering if they'll learn from United's lesson or simply be Sp*rs.

So, this was quite the eventful 3rd round of the FA Cup. Man Utd crashed out to Leeds at mighty Old Trafford and Hull City, who created all that drama from nothing last season are out as well.

Ferguson has declared that the peeps who took the pitch tonight are not fit to face City in the Carling Cup semi final coming up in midweek. I think that'll do the youngsters' confidence a world of good. So much for youth development.

Labels: Aaron Ramsey, Abou Diaby, Carlos Vela, Eduardo Da Silva, FA Cup, Man Utd

A Little Drunken Madness @ 2:20 AM

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Wolves do not belong in the Premier League

Wolves beat Burnley at the weekend to further justify fielding an under strength side against Manchester United.

Arsene Wenger is simply the professor. You could quote him all day long forever and ever and it wouldn't be enough.

"We will have to compete with Manchester United over 37 games instead of 38"

Such brilliance.

If you'd recall, Wolves fielded a full strength side against Arsenal and matched up to us pretty well until, well, it all crumbled. But they started well and if they had gone all the way they would have been able to squeeze out a result. We worked hard to get that 4-1 win while at United, it was practically a walk over.

He didn't consider the long list of injuries United had and perhaps, their heavy 3-0 defeat at Fulham would be indication enough that had they chosen to fight the same way they did when Arsenal visited, they would have had more than 3 points at the end of last week.

That said, I have a new found respect for Burnley who do not lay themselves out to be shot but went for it, and they beat United at the beginning of the season and fought successfully for a point when we visited. Frustrating as it was for us to drop points at Turf Moor, for the neutrals, that is the way the league should be. No game should be a walkover.

When United visit Wolves for the reverse fixture, I don't think there'll be any more to it then United coming away with all the points once more. By then, it'll be 36 games instead of 37.

I don't know the extent of these decisions have mentally on players but it does give them reasons not to step up and show up for the game when they're up against opposition they perceive to be stronger. They can just throw that game and work hard for others against lesser or more similar opponents when they feel like. Being a footballer and wearing the shirt means so much more. You got to strive to outdo yourself every single time otherwise, there isn't a point is it?

If I were a Wolves player I won't put my life in the hands of Mick McCarthy. I would sure as hell put mine in Arsene Wenger. That's what our players do. You so got to get a copy of Sagna's interview in the December issue of Arsenal magazine. Sagna speaks about the boss and how he trusts his players to deal with their trying times. We saw how he allowed Almunia to handle his own personal issues at the beginning of the season. Sagna is pretty endearing. There's pretty much nothing to hate about him. He gets his head down and plays his heart out for the team.

We all saw how Arshavin ran to celebrate with the boss after his goal. We have seen Henry do it too. Fabregas did it at Milan. I'm sure there are more. This is what a manager is. Plus, he makes such witty remarks it's difficult not to jump on his bandwagon.

I tried to imagine him blasting the players in the Anfield dressing room and it made me LOL so hard.

Oh Arsene.

P.S. If Wilshere does go on loan to Burnley under Owen Coyle, it's actually a good thing. I think Coyle is a decent manager and it'll do good for Wilshere's footballing education. It would be some feat if lil Jack played a part in helping them stay up, a team that deserves every moment they have in the top flight.

Labels: Arsene Wenger, Burnley, Man Utd, Wolverhampton Wanderers

A Little Drunken Madness @ 4:54 PM

Monday, November 9, 2009

'Oh my God, this is so ugly!'

is what Robin says when he watches other teams on TV.

Imagining him saying it in his Dutch accent makes it funnier.

He had some tough choices to make at 14 and he chose football over drinking and smoking and stealing candy so that's a good thing.

This dude is desperate to win trophies with Arsenal, having only won 2 in his Arsenal career, a meaningless community shield and the FA Cup.

And we all know how Cesc is on the same frequency with this.

It's FABPERSIE!!

The way these 2 link up is awesome.

So anyway, the Wolves game was a good win. Yes. Now it's time to examine the other positives. They were all wet from the heavy rain and there was Ramsey. And then Nasri came on. Did you notice all the cute faces on the pitch?

Arsenal ain't just a team that plays beautiful football. They are beautiful.

And Nasri's English lessons have paid off (assuming he hired a tutor). His English is sexy.

So, last night, Chelsea and Man Utd played the ugly game. I mean, I got so bored I went to watch How I Met Your Mother, switching after each episode to check the score, not that it matters. HIMYM is friggin hilarious. Neil Patrick Harris FTW srsly. Anyway, I still managed to catch Johnny Evans' double kick on Drogba and his theatrics. Give that guy an oscar!!!!! He totally vibrated on the ground like he was reaching orgasmic enlightenment. If anyone didn't know, like the blind referee, he's just trying to get the player sent off that's all.

SAF probably thinks the ref was blind too. Everytime they lose, it's the usual complaints and the blasting of the referee. It's so typical it's boring now.

So Chelsea go 5 points clear and then the press has decreased Man Utd's title chances. That is purely lame. It's as though they have nothing else to write. Maybe their naive minds believe that Chelsea, after beating United, will go on to win every damn game this season so the 5 point gap is enough to win it for them.

So, Man City seems to be on a downward spiral. They should know that the rest of the world will laugh at them when things go wrong. And the City fans are labeling Mr Adebayor a lazy sulk. It's sooo funny. It's funnier when his last goal was against Arsenal. I mean, after he started the season with aplomb, scoring in every match leading up to the face off with us. And then his motivation went out the window.

Again.

I think he'll stay at Man City all his life. I don't think the clubs he dreams of joining (Milan, Barcelona) will want him now. He is a quality striker but his attitude is not there. He ain't gonna get more money for playing better really.

At this point in the season, Robin has 7 league goals while Cesc has 6. Adebayor has like, 4? That's on par with Arshavin who probably hasn't even kicked into top gear yet. And somehow, that's not down to being lazy.

Who, at the start of the season, would put $ on Cesc scoring more goals that Adebayor at this point?

Now, I read the City fans and how proud they are of Adebayor after that win against Arsenal and I really want to laugh. Guilty as charged. Counting chickens before they hatch. Celebrating a player not worth celebrating. Then 5 draws in a row. Hilarious.

Man Utd has lost a great player in Ronaldo. (Nobody mentions Tevez either) Arsenal ain't whining about losing Adebayor. In fact, he was a weak link. I mean, he was first choice at Arsenal and he had Fabregas and Van Persie providing good service to him. Yet he only moaned about how it sucks to play in the lone striker role. Look at Robin now. He is thriving. He had a rough start while adapting to this new role and now look at what hard work does for you. Peak of his career, scoring more goals than ever, enjoying his football, and of course, fatherhood.

I love you Robin Van Persie.

Labels: Cesc Fabregas, Chelsea, Emmanuel Adebayor, Man Utd, Robin Van Persie, Samir Nasri

A Little Drunken Madness @ 12:12 PM

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Bad things happen at the Eastlands...again.

Geez.

There seems to be nothing much to say, besides 'Adebayor is a mother fucking cunt'.

I had some other funny thought about this game - it was like an Arsenal vs Manchesters mini league.

Arsenal's fixtures:
Man U vs Arsenal
Man City vs Arsenal

And City's fixtures:
Man City vs Arsenal
Man U vs Man City

With United's fixtures:
Man U vs Arsenal
Man U vs Man City

And when they made a table for that, Arsenal's at the bottom of the group with no points while the 2 Manchesters will battle out for top spot.

What a weird thought and a horrific league consisting of sheer and utter cunts.

Arsenal had no shot on goal in the first half. Once again, it seems like this team has returned to the team of last year. Does traveling to the Eastlands have that effect? Last time around, after that painful 3-0 defeat, Arsenal turned it around (not quite actually) and went on that long unbeaten run, which consisted of more draws than anything plus that 3 goalless retarded games in a row.

City shaved 3 points off us again, and by an emphatic scoreline nonetheless. Arsenal losing 3-0 and 4-2 are horrific scorelines which shouldn't happen but has happened.

I was terribly upset over the first goal. After this international break, everything seems to have gone haywire. Bendtner got 2 goals in 2 international games and then got big headed and set his targets for this season, to get 20 goals in 40 or so appearances. He too declared that he wanted the central striking role which Robin now occupies. There's something about this Dane. When he has something to prove or something to say probably, like to declare his targets, he plays his heart out and gets the goals and then the attention to do so. Thereafter, it's like making an empty promise and not delivering. Seems to me like he has this huge tendency to get thick-headed and cocky and then he stops working hard. When you tell yourself that you prefer to do the alternative instead of going on the path you're on, like say, playing on the right of a 4-3-3 instead of the one in the middle, you tend to lose focus on the task at hand. Nevermind Adebayor who has declared you as his no. 1 arch enemy thanks to some shoe incident in the dressing room.

How often have we had comparisons of Bendtner's and Adebayor's heading ability?

Who comes up tops eventually?

Watch how Adebayor skips past the challenges to put in that cross for SWP to miss. If it were he on that right wing, without a doubt, he would do so much than Bendtner.

I hate to agree with Adebayor but he is right about Bendtner. He's had it easy all his career. Simple.

In a war to prove a point, Adebayor made his, Nicky did not.

I wished it was Eboue who was coming on for Bendtner instead of Sagna. Sagna is the rock of our defence. When the centre backs happen to stray out of position, he's there to cover and clear the ball into touch. Put Eboue there and we have an attacking full back who plays the opposition on side.

Eboue has improved a lot this season but with Wenger converting him to more of an attacking player, it does affect the player's mentality and making him fill in at right back in a time where we need to score can backfire this badly.

Tactically, Wenger scored points at this one area where I know, I know, the people of the world will declare me a biased crazy fan.

Rosicky.

If it was the substitution to get the team going and get them to start their engines, this was it.

He's been out a long time and it's deja vu all over again, just like when Eduardo returned.

A pity the effect was shortlived but you know, this dude just proved that he's the grand master of scoring meaningless goals. How many a times do we have to see him score and reel away without a happy face?

Oh.

When he scores the goals to seal win. Breathing space.

And that was what Emmanuel Adebayor did for City. He made the 3-1. And yes, exactly as how everyone's going to put it, he ran the full length of the pitch to celebrate in front of the away fans.

When he scored, it was instinctive. I knew he was going to do that.

I only enjoyed how enraged the visiting fans were. A fucker like him declared that Gooners are fickle supporters. We're so fickle we might stop hating him tomorrow.

NOT.

If Wenger steers clear from signing African players for good, I might support him. This rags to riches and planning for retirement story is getting extremely old. All they want is more and more money. People who are born in Europe understand this goodness and I believe they're more inclined to be more passionate towards the club than to money. It's as easy as saying that people who have never seen money before will be possessed to go after it a lot more than regular people.

I guess he's very damn happy at City. Good for him. He could be the one to steer City to ultimate glory but seriously, I don't get how their fans can love and cuddle him when obviously, he's the grandest cunt of all. If C. Ron ever came to Arsenal I'm not sure if he'll be loved immediately. Then again, I don't think he'll celebrate the way Adebayor did if he scores against United. The other man to watch is Tevez, who sort of left on bad terms but it wasn't with the fans.

Arsene Wenger is a star maker, but he seems to also be a cunt maker. That's 2 to his name, including Ashley Cole. With these two it sure looks like money is the root of all evil.

And then.

I haven't even gotten started at how Adebayor was trying as hell to injure our players. I mean, if he went for Bendtner we'll all understand.

He went for Cesc's leg and Van Persie's face.

OMFG.

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH HIM?!

These are the two nicest dudes in the Arsenal team and I can't imagine anyone going for their leg and face respectively just because. You can headbutt Bendtner and that's fine. His head is too darn big and he makes it even bigger himself.

I don't think I will ever be a Bendtner fan. Sometimes he wows me, other times I just want him off the bloody pitch.

When Walcott returns he might kiss that first team place goodbye.

And that's exciting because Walcott's pace could add a whole new attacking dimension to the 4-3-3 and I guess I'll save that for another day.

I whacked my friend the minute Rosicky pulled on the Arsenal shirt. Whacked her even more when he came on. Burgeoned her when he made that assist.

How I miss you so.

And he scored. On his return. He played 42 minutes.

I don't really care about the league table at the moment. Not too long ago we were doing really well and we started to falter. No one knows what this season holds. Just when the defence looked like they were tightening up, shit happens.

There's time between now and the next big game to improve and do better. It's the midweek game next.

Adebayor's a huge cunt and everyone knows it. Not need for more reiteration. It's still pretty early in his City career. He has a lot to prove now so he's upped his game. Wait till he gets bored again. I'm sure the City fans will be singing his name out loud week in, week out.

I think it looks as though I've blamed the whole defeat on one Nicklas Bendtner. It was never my intention. This dude just frustrates me a lot. I think it was collectively a poor outing from the team and I couldn't feel the passion.

I hope they get it back again soon. Having no shot on goal in 45 minutes is simply disturbing for all that good passing and movement.

Labels: A tag for cunts, Emmanuel Adebayor, Man City, Man Utd, Nicklas Bendtner, Tomas Rosicky

A Little Drunken Madness @ 1:33 AM

Sunday, August 30, 2009

It's always retarded to give away goals so cheaply

What a cold morning. I guess Autumn is really coming. Obviously I'll be on a plane home before all the transformation takes place. The changing of seasons have always facinated me. Too bad there is no such thing in Singapore.

The weather's fantastic. It's cool and nice and it's pretty cold at night but no one here seems to think so. I'm the maniac who walks around in a hoodie.

Anyway, last night's game.

I totally fell asleep. I hate late kickoffs sometimes. After watching Liverpool squeeze out a win they didn't deserve, I didn't realise the same thing was going to happen with United. Those two teams hate each other to the bone and yet, they are pretty similar at being tyco.

I watched it with the brother and he was pretty funny. He woke me up when Arshavin scored lol. And then I went back to sleep.

Now I've figured out that everytime I sleep through a game bad things happen. Bad refereeing happens. Bad things just happen.

The media is a powerful tool and they're retarded too. And Mike Dean is an asshole.

Ok off to shop my wallet away~

Labels: Man Utd, what kind of fuckery is this

A Little Drunken Madness @ 8:49 AM

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Jun's in Seoul!

Here I am, blogging from Seoul. Rest of you dudes should be already comfy at the Liz, waiting for the game to start while the Liverpool game should be on to irritate you.

I mean, they're like the luckiest team ever.

So anyway, I hope the boys do well tonight. The majority of Koreans are MU fans thanks to 3-lunged J.S. Park.

I'm so tired from the trip here and the immediate transition into shopping. Like hah. I totally spent like almost all my money at the Face Shop already. Goodness gracious.

Myeong-dong tomorrow! It's going to be fantastic. I'm eating my face away at all things Korean.

Come on you Gunners!

P.S. the beer here is dirt cheap. There's a lemon flavoured one too.

Labels: booze is my downfall, Man Utd

A Little Drunken Madness @ 11:51 PM

Sunday, June 28, 2009

I dream a dream of Benzema and Robin appears

We probably need to take a moment to laugh, at this.

It's probably the most laughable and untrue transfer speculation linked with Arsenal this summer.

Karim Benzema to Arsenal for 30 million quid.

Financially, this is a battle Manchester United will win hands down because they simply have the moolah. They've lost Tevez for free, but they are getting 80m for Ronaldo and that money is definitely going towards rebuilding the squad with quality signings which can soften the blow.

Benzema is probably high on their shopping list right this moment.

I'm not sure if that's the case for Arsenal.

Milan aren't exactly making much effort to sign Adebayor and if you asked me, they are stalling because they don't want to pay that much for someone we are ready to part with. They maintain that their first choice is Edin Dzeko so I don't know how Ade's 'dream move' will transpire.

If the article had to have some truth, I'd say that I believe Benzema would prefer Arsenal to Man Utd.

It's practically the French connection at Arsenal.

And I'm sure people in France have long heard of Arsene Wenger and dreamt of playing under him.

I see him going United's way though. Arsene Wenger is not one to break the bank.

There's something interesting about Robin. He wants to be the best player in the world. And more insight to the Arsenal team talks with Wenger drawing inspiration from Barack Obama. That made me lol real hard. Especially this:

"Obama was always calm. Whenever Presidential rival John McCain shouted and screamed, Obama remained in control."

Shouted and screamed. Bahahaha.

Robin has thought out his method of achieving the world player crown and he knows it's down to his fitness. He now keeps away from red meat and doesn't drink during the season. Apparently it has helped. For the sake of doing better, the steak-lover has given up beef. Considering that he is Muslim, that doesn't leave much left besides fish and chicken. Swine is red meat anyway.

I never knew red meats are that much more unhealthy. I kinda hate chicken except when it's fried or barbecued. Maybe it's just me.

Everything's looking positive at the Robin side of things. Next season could be his season. I think we are all hoping it is.

For starters, stop hitting the crossbar when taking freekicks. <3

P.S. I realised the most laughable transfer nonsense is not Benzema to Arsenal, but Van Persie to United in The Sun.

Labels: Man Utd, Robin Van Persie, transfer window hoo-ha

A Little Drunken Madness @ 2:33 PM

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Unknown Destinations

Twitter is fantastic.

I can post a load of rubbish there and not care about spam because Twitter is all about spam and random thoughts. On Facebook though, who decided to have status updates twitter style, isn't the right platform with all your friends and family on it. There's no freedom of speech there.

Then I realised I linked every damn thing via the same username/email address that it's so easy to find me. That is stupid on my part. Someday, it could come back to bite me in the butt.

Anyway. It's fun to read the opinions of Gooners all over the world and reply. We all stand united in one thing and that's our love for Arsenal. And we don't do retarded petitions on Facebook saying "we want Iker Casillas" or "we want Villa or Aguero" to united because it's not Football Manager and fans aren't entitled to a wishlist unless you're Florentino Pere$.

Do you think SAF will bother himself with this:

To Sir Alex Ferguson:
We love Edwin van der Sar , but United needs to reload. Make an offer for Iker Casillas and let's keep the Reds at the top of the table!

Bunch of retards Man Utd fans are on Facebook. After their Champion's League loss they disappeared for a while. Then a little more when Ronaldo declared his departure. Now they're back, planning the shopping list with the not-yet-inherited £80m.

This is why Facebook is annoying. It has endless quizes and pointless flash games and people have no discretion to not post every damn thing. No one realises that such quizes are no true reflection of the topic in question or their personality and it's all in the name of fun.

There is another issue which will never go away until it finally happens. It doesn't matter how many times Cesc comes out and says he sees his future at Arsenal as the captain. We'll always be disturbed. He's in South Africa with his Spanish mates and there will always be that slight unease when he's not in Gunner town with the rest of the lads. He's Spanish. He's born in Barcelona. He was raised in Barcelona. He grew up with Xavi, Iniesta, Messi, Pique. His idol is Pep Guardiola. None of these point to him never returning to Barcelona.

Yet he still is at Arsenal. And we should believe in him. He wants to be at Arsenal. He is happy.

Another dude though, might not be that happy. That's Adebayor for you. Hah. His apparent destination is in question and the boss wants him to stay. Not sure all the fans want him to. I guess time will tell. It's still quite a long way till 1st september so I guess all we can do is wait it out. He could still be here come the start of pre-season but that's no guarantee of anything.

Eboue has stopped stirring the pot, for now. I don't think anyone wants him either.

The rest of my crap should be on Twitter. =D

Labels: Cesc Fabregas, Emmanuel Adebayor, Man Utd, one of my many theories, transfer window hoo-ha

A Little Drunken Madness @ 3:45 PM

Sunday, June 21, 2009

An Injury Free Arsenal Will Never Exist

After a while, you'll figure out that football ain't all about winning trophies. Completely. It's utter bullshit to Gooners who only desire trophies. Always the talk about winning trophies. Hell, even Thomas Vermaelen said:

"I just want to assure the Arsenal fans that I will give everything for this Club and I hope we can enjoy winning some trophies together next season"

Always the trophy talk. And then at the club with a trophy cabinet possibly full, people are just not happy because either it's too easy or it just sucks to play for Manchester United. I suppose for these people, money comes before trophies. Maybe Tevez might cross over to Citeh and realise that it's shit over there because you can't even win away games let alone trophies.

So it's byebye Tevez and Ronaldo. Ronaldo who hasn't exactly completed his move yet. I already predicted he'll fail his medical when they pick up herpes on their STD detection scanner, of course, if it exists.

I think it's still too early to write off Man Utd. I wonder if Ferg is fuming though, and then thinking about an early retirement heh heh.

On the Arsenal side of things, I really wonder what number Verm is gonna take. If it's '6' then Senderos is definitely off. Kolo's been linked heavily with Citeh and frankly, I have no idea how that will turn out. Now that we're all appeased with a new signing, what's to follow is not another signing but a departure. That's probably the part I hate most, save for old man Silvestre and probably the clown Eboue. Did you know he makes records in Ivory Coast? If his football career doesn't work out he has a plan B. That's quite rare in football I see.

I don't think he'll quit Arsenal if nobody comes for him and I don't see anyone making a move.

It's been rather quiet on the Adebayor front and this fellow just pisses me off on football manager. You can run around dancing when he scores for Arsenal but the goal will just be ruled for offside.

Another part of the game that is somewhat true.

Then it's quite difficult not to go touch the FM editor application and tweak things a little. What did I do? I erased every damned injury on all Arsenal players (Fab, Diaby, Dudu, Bischoff, ROSICKY) and set their injury proneness to like 2/20.

AND THEN YOU HAVE A FULLY FIT ARSENAL SQUAD.

Which exists only in a computer game. Rosa's injury proneness is like 16/20. Might as well make it 20/20.

Anyway the point is, with everyone fully fit, it's difficult to pick the first 11. There is quite a bit of depth in the squad and one that we will never enjoy in real life.

That is just saddening. We're not short on quality, we're just short on luck with injuries.

Which made me realise that Arshavin never got injured big time throughout his season. Besides the stitches he had to get from the Blackburn game and his lack of fitness when he first came. Let's hope next season will continue this way. He really changed the second half of Arsenal's season and it's still a dream to know that he'll be here for a long long time. Still feels like we got him on loan only!!

Filling in for football is my dramas. It's been forever since I watched a Singapore one but who can miss out on a Fann Wong one ahaha. (to many people's dismay I know) Being dragged out on week nights means missing episodes and guess what? Tudou has people (i.e. Singaporeans) who uploaded the series to the web. I am amazed beyond words. Chinese of the world watch Singapore dramas?

They'll always be fed with one consistent feature of Singapore shows:

sure confirm guarantee plus chop someone will act siao*.

*siao = crazy

No one really knows that the truly crazy ones are those who seem normal and live among us.

Labels: Andrei Arshavin, dying from the lack of Arsenal football, Emmanuel Adebayor, Emmanuel Eboue, Kolo Toure, Man Utd, Thomas Vermaelen, transfer window hoo-ha

A Little Drunken Madness @ 1:37 AM

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Good language empowers all arguments

I have crazy bad sleep patterns. This comes from having a total lack of things to do or just basically, enjoying not sleeping.

I woke up at 4pm today. It's getting later and later. I sleep at like 10 in the morning. It's diabolical to say the least.

This way, I'll definitely sleep half my birthday tomorrow~~~

I'm turning 22, Arsha's turning 28.

In other news, the Singapore media really sucks, especially our sad and sorry excuse for a tabloid. They just won't leave my friend alone, her being the first H1N1 case. What sick people need is complete and undisturbed rest and it's something these gossip mongers do not understand. They even named her. What the shit.

No one understands that some of us like to live our lives under the banner of avoidance.

Maybe she should grant them a up close and personal interview at hotel TTSH CDC 2. Phone interviews not accepted. Come feel the virus. Bastards.

In other other news, the warring siblings is set to continue. But whatever. He wants to bask in the great joy of beating Arsenal 3-1 at the Emirates then go ahead. Not like we never won at Old Trafford before. We kinda won the league there. It is so completely not the same as winning the semi final leg 2 at our home ground.

I am thankful for the boys of old.

Realistically, cuckoo United aside, we saw last night what the finished product of a football-playing team is like. And while Arsenal can boast to play the same type of football, it's just not the same thing. We do not have the players to finish off the game and to take each and every chance. Off the ball Barca are fantastic. Perhaps you could count the seconds they take to get the ball back once they've lost it. And they are amazing keepers of the ball and look at Arsenal, who give the ball away in the areas which makes us concede.

If the boss doesn't reinforce this summer beyond the 2 15-year olds he's adding, we're probably going to be screwed against next season. The good thing about Arsenal is youthful exuberance and it makes us all feel young watching them. This feeling though, is transforming to frustration and we need to start winning things.

Granted, the reasons why I support the Arsenal is because of everything else. Surely history is rich and much to be desired. It's about the present now. We emphasise player development and instil the Arsenal values from a young age. It is more of a footballing education. For this sort of system there is a need to excel and to graduate from it and winning things is the only way up. The fruits of the academy and the belief the boss has in his young guns has to translate into trophies.

I don't think the Arsenal fans can take this stick of not winning and fighting only for fourth any longer. We support our team with our heart and soul and we don't run and hide when things don't go well. We need to start winning and send those other dumbass fans to their graves or just shove it up their holes.

For us, the future is always brighter. For teams like United, Ferguson probably has found the right mix of young and old. Their old are getting older.

And it's funny how Sp*rs do not come into the mix of things at all. Ahahaha.

Labels: A tag for cunts, Man Utd, the brother the cunt

A Little Drunken Madness @ 4:58 PM

Facebook war? more like everyday war at home.

Multiple posting about a single topic is kinda stupid but ahaha, it has to get airtime.

So my FB status reads:

Sarah Lau is lol-ing at all the ManUre fans who thought they'd won before the game was played.

and then the loser called the brother had his status in reply:

Abel Lau 2008-2009 Honours: Manchester United: EPL Champions, Carling Cup Winners. Arsenal: NIL. (since 05) Liverpool: NIL.

which is hugely entertaining.

I thank Arsene Wenger for pointing out that United only won 1 game against a top 4 team. That makes them ultra worthy champions. I wonder how that fuck face is going to reply to that.

Besides, he got it all wrong with my statement.

I was taking a swipe at the people who were counting their chickens before they hatch. So apparently he feels he's one of them. It's a dumb move really, since football is ever so unpredictable and you never really know who will win.

Of course, the Man Utd fans have now disappeared from the face of the earth. Or they'll be like the dumbass brother of mine who'll just be in denial and say oh, at least we won the league and the Carling Cup. Ahaha. Were United worthy champions? Benitez wouldn't acknowledge that. 15 of their total wins were 1-0s. Entertaining to watch? Not at all. The brother hates teams who play long balls. I don't suppose he'll appreciate those who play the ball on the ground? There's only one Arsenal who does that in the English league, yet he supports Man Utd. Hah. Tell me Man Utd do not pump long balls from defence to attack. They're always doing it to Rooney on the left. Why Rooney is playing on the left is also beyond me.

That's the business of United.

After all the drama, I've just come to realise that the fundamentals of winning a damned football game is to just play your best players in their best positions full stop. Then let the other influencing factors do their jobs. Things like players' attitudes and commitment and tactics. Just play the boys in the right positions please.

The ManUre brother and I might share common ground when hating Liverpool but make no mistake - I dislike all teams but Arsenal. And probably Valencia, the team which I am convinced, hire on looks.

Hurhur.

Do I need to go on about how dumb he is in his personal life? Just a little further. He thinks Chinese girls are ugly, you know, in Singapore, where the Chinese is kinda the majority. Apparently his girlfriend is half Japanese. She's been to my place quite a few times and I still don't remember how she looks like. No impact visually, and if no one told me about the half Jap part, I wouldn't be able to tell. Not that I can, armed with the knowledge of it and all. But good luck anyway, at dating especially. Bahaha.

Being with someone is so much more than nationality and DNA. It's about the connection.

Thank you Barca for silencing ManUre fans, or rather, perform the vanishing act. Heh. Byebye?

Labels: Man Utd, one of my many theories, the brother the cunt

A Little Drunken Madness @ 7:14 AM

Barca won. Yay.

The better team won.

Thank heavens it's Barcelona.

The Man U shits can sulk all they want. What a heavenly result.

Labels: Barcelona, Champion's League, Man Utd

A Little Drunken Madness @ 4:43 AM

Sunday, May 17, 2009

The team can do without Adebayor

A little late here post match. I normally shoot my views immediately.

Is because of the game having less importance I guess, and being caught up doing other stuff hahaha. But yeah, my Granddad's birthday celebration at my place was fun. I'll skip the part where I grab the food at 7.15pm, talk a little with my family members till 7.30pm, welcomed my newly converted Arsenal fan friend to my humble abode to catch the game at 7.40pm, grabbing a bowl of desert just before. Hoho. Cake cutting had to take place at half time? Bahahaha. And all along no one knew why I wanted it at my place instead of at a restaurant till now. I am such a planner when it comes to football. Besides, doing it this way means combining house warming too.

After I get rid of my exam study materials beside my TV I'll show you how it looks when the game is on.

I get to show you though, where I catch the game. It's pretty cosy and points in the direction of the TV of course.

And I only got to take such a neat photo because I cleared my stuff because people were coming over. Heh. But yeah, that's my bed and I love it. Kinda like a bed-couch. So far it's been tested to hold up to 5 people. Nothing dirty of course. Just watching show in bed. How cool is that.

Anyway, I caught a video of Adebayor on BBC. There is no doubt that there'll be people who'll take apart the interview and try and agree here and disagree there but I'm so sick of tired of this whole thing. I'm not sure what leaving him out of the United clash means. Perhaps it was to cool things off. The only other thing which is to be considered is how Arsene has branded the away fans fantastic and home fans otherwise. If that were the case, then there would be no harm playing Adebayor unless he was going to be shipped off somewhere. I have nothing to say about his interview because we've heard too much already and he blames the media for his dire state rather than himself. I've always thought that no one could be more in denial than I am and I've been proven wrong. Everything Ade has said about leaving and the lure of Milan was right from the horse's mouth. Plus, no one can doubt the aunthenticity of the Beyonce comment. So whatever he has said about being framed by the media is all bollocks.

He got one thing right though. No matter what he does he probably isn't going to regain the same support he got last season right before his summer madness. Other things he got really wrong was the booing of players. The fans will never boo Fabregas or Robin. They did to Eboue but not to Fab and Robin. There are those players who have Arsenal running in their blood through their veins and it's those two. Eboue was a different case. And if anything, he worked hard to prove the fans wrong and they applauded him for his efforts. These things don't go unnoticed. He can probably contend with the knowledge that it's Adebayor who has less chance of such a turnaround. It was funny when he referred himself in the third person. I had a laugh.

So tonight's game. It was a goalless draw. And a good performance at that. When I saw the starting line-up I was moaning and groaning over the formation and certain personnel.

Van Persie was tasked with leading the front once more with Fab in the hole with Arsha on the left and Nasri on the right. In the centre of the part it was Diaby and Denilson with Song partnering Toure in centre back, Gibbs and Sagna to the left and right. Fabianski kept goal.

Robin isn't a out and out striker to play alone up front. Fab shouldn't be playing off Robin. It should be Arsha. No Walcott. Diaby and Denilson. Song at centre back was okay.

And despite all that, the team put in a very good performance. No goals, but still good. It was a team effort and it proved my wrong. No matter what stupid formation takes the field, no matter who takes the field, it all down to how much the people want it. It could be a crap formation to begin with but it could still be a great performance.

I don't have much to say already, now that it has came down to this. The boys proved that they can do it if they want to. Does it take a shareholder meeting with player bashing to get the team going like that? It was a highly disciplined performance and they kept the ball well. Lost the ball, got it back. Everyone was committed.

This makes whatever analysis about tactics a piece of crap doesn't it? When it's all down to what the team wants. There isn't going to be any talk about wanting Fab to be in his preferred deeper role, Arshavin in the hole, Walcott playing, Diaby out of sight and all the usual stuff.

They can do it if they want to.

And anyway, I thought walcott not playing was a good choice. He got owned by Evra over the two unfortunate legs. We would have wanted to switch Nasri to the right and him to the left to torment O'Shea instead but it didn't happen today when he came on.

I'm going to disappear to dreamland now.

Durian cake. Goodwood Park Hotel. To die for.

Labels: Emmanuel Adebayor, it's a team game damnit, Man Utd, Theo Walcott

A Little Drunken Madness @ 2:11 AM

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Hit it with your best shot

What an intense day yesterday was. Intense enough to garner such a blog post like "Grey's Anatomy fucked my brain" hahaha.

First I watched Angels & Demons. Wasn't planned. Just did. And that movie is intense 100% of the time o_o. It's been a long time since I watched something like that. Ewan in a dress!

Then my great friend decided to drop me an sms while I was out and unable to watch the season finale of Grey's Anatomy. IT WAS A SPOILER.

I nearly fainted.

And then I rushed home to catch Grey's. While I was watching, someone disturbed me!

I have an ethos: disturb me during Grey's and I'll stick a scalpel in you.

But I managed to watch my show anyway and since I got spoilt, in such a horribly way, whatever happening in the build up was enjoyed as much until the outcome came. That was really shit man. Seriously.

AND THE ENDING. OMFG.

I shall not commit any crime of spoiling people out there.

Except that it wasn't an ending but a huge chunk of cliffhanger stuff to take to season 6. Which airs in the fall. It's like I'll past the entire summer transfer window first. And a long period of no football.

Withdrawal will kick in.

And so today. With Arshavin in the mix of things for tonight's game, it's going to be another intense night don't ya think? Unless the boys do not rise to the occasion. Let's hope Arsha's bashing of the boys to the media after the Chelsea game did have a good effect.

I want to get a heart attack tonight. Please deliver.

Labels: Andrei Arshavin, Man Utd, what kind of fuckery is this

A Little Drunken Madness @ 11:43 AM

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

A little bit of everything

The news in the football world today is amusing to say the least.

That to be touched on later, I've read other Gooner's reaction to the Chelsea game and we all share a common thought, that it was a game to forget. Hah.

I think I've long put it behind. After string of bad shitty results after so much hope what more is to be expected with a squad like that. Even the very basics of team selection is all wrong with players playing out of their best positions.

And we have Emmanuel Adebayor who frankly, should leave in the summer. We don't need a non-committed player like him really. We know how good he can be. If he really wanted to, he could score a goal like the one against Villarreal. That goal did put us on track for the semi-final, even though it more more of psychological help going into the 2nd leg since we didn't really need it with a 3-0 win. And after going through you'd expect him to be fired up to win something after he keeps talking about trophy this and that but he played like shit so why did he even bother in the first leg.

And then Man Utd have a player in Tevez, who wants out since he doesn't feel as loved as berbatov. Now seriously, I can understand how he feels with him being on loan and stuff and not a permanent member of the squad, with his status for next season not quite cemented. But he goes and declares he wants to play for Liverpool instead and I think it will have United kicking and screaming. The truth is, it could be a ploy to send some urgency to sign him permanently since he took heed from Heinze who used the same tactic to engineer a move out of United, ending up at Real Madrid instead. The players who don't feel the love. I already told the brother that he'd want Pool since Arsenal wouldn't buy him in a million trillion years while it's just highly unlikely with Chelsea since I don't see how he can fit into their squad. Anyone can play for Liverpool really.

Ha.

Chelsea flop Shevchenko who is on loan at Milan has ruled out moving back to Chelsea even though he has a year left to see out. Hah. He went back to Milan and didn't really dazzle as much as before. What happened? Lol. That I can't figure out. Or perhaps being kidnapped by Chelsea greatly reduced his ability. Or he's just getting old. Paying 30 million for a 30-year old will always be the joke of the century especially when the 30-year old failed on all accounts to be the star player he used to be. Such is with players from the Italian league. They seldom thrive when they make the move to the English game.

And I'll have to contrast Sheva with our Andrey!

God I love him so much and I really want to gather all his haters and cook them in a cauldron of fire. Just a few bad comments to the press about lady drivers and whatever and they all hate him. No one really considers that these interviews are translated from Russian and need I say that things often get lost in translation. But I don't care about these people because they can go fuck themselves. Majority of the bitter ones are the pool fans who can't fathom 4 great goals at Anfield. Did they hate Baptista after his 4 as well? Nope. They couldn't bother themselves with Julio because Arsha is so much better and is a greater threat to Reina.

Ledley King will be charged for causing bodily harm and now Harry Redknapp wants to ban alcohol from Sp*rs dickheads. I couldn't laugh more really. keano might go into withdrawal. Jamie O'hara might have to break up with Danielle Lloyd. She's a party girl who loves alcohol. He likens footballers drinking alcohol to pumping diesel into a Ferrari which is a joke really. We all know that Sp*rs are no Ferrari. They're Chery QQs if they had to be a car, old rotten bicycles they are.

So then, the 'fit and proper' test for foreign owners have more rules now. It could prevent any takeover bid by fat cunty oily Usmanov (he should try the Face Shop green tea wash). 777 rules at that. There were 322 rules before, and none of which included a no to Thai fugitive. There should be more boardroom drama come the summer. It's weird to keep branding the month of June summer because in freakin Singapore, it's summer everyday.

I take my exam papers at expo and when I'm there, my middle name is 'eskimo'. It's like freakin cold. I went as far as wearing a woolen vest. When you're doing an exam and sitting there for 2 hours or more with only your hands moving, the rest of your body kinda is more susceptible to the cold. I wore 3 layers. Of course, when stepping up of the igloo expo is, I start stripping but not so much as the 2 fellows did at Holland V. That was outrageously funny. Streaking in Singapore is a no-no no matter how hot it is. If they wanted to expose themselves so badly, just record a sex tape and have it released. Afterall, the laws only persecute the distributors of pornographic material not those who make it. That in itself, is flawed. It's like Tammy, oh the famous Tammy of NYP, who got her phone stolen by her jealous friend who distributed some of the home-made goodness in the phone and got charged for it. I don't think the law will go as far as charging poor Tammy with possession of pornographic materials since she's kinda in it. These are the classic stories which will never be forgotten. My sympathies.

So now we should just hope and pray that the magic 777 rules are not as wonky and will keep out use-my-knob and leave Arsenal as the only club in the big 4 not participating in the billionaire's playground.

Labels: Andrei Arshavin, boardroom drama ain't my thing, Chelsea, Emmanuel Adebayor, Man Utd, one of my many theories, Sp*rs

A Little Drunken Madness @ 8:10 PM

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Greatest game the Emirates ever graced? The kids went down without a fight

Is there any blame?

I don't think I'm in any position to point fingers.

Looking at the starting line-up, it was what the fans wanted, with Diaby absent and Djourou instead of Silvestre. There was no doubt about Gibbs in left back.

Except that the formation was a 4-2-3-1. Sometimes I wonder why Arsene Wenger is hell bent on putting Adebayor up against arguably, one of the best centre back partnership in the world. They're good, but when Gallas was around with Toure, it could rival that too. The point is that Adebayor vs either 1 of them is a handful already. Adebayor handling 2 of them at the same time is probably creates the least chances. And then he forced Robin out left with Fab in the centre, who interchanged with Nasri.

Arsenal started out well, but that lasted all of everything before the 7th minute.

The mentality was that they had to score 2 more to win so they went on a full scale attack from the beginning and if the lack of experience failed to remind them that they have to defend. All United needed was an away goal to seal their passage through. They already had the lead they brought from Old Trafford so counter attacking was what they should employ. And they did it to perfection.

The first goal was key. And Gibbs has been doing well till perhaps a while ago but there is no blame here.

Playing an odd 4-2-3-1 formation means it's not so straight forward who has to cover the full backs. In a 4-4-2 it is understood that the left and right flankers cover the full backs on their side. In a 4-2-3-1 the 3 up there tend to concentrate more on attack, leaving the full backs utterly exposed. Obviously SAF knew that to send on Park instead of Tevez to cause trouble and it worked. Took all of only 8 minutes.

The only thing I enjoyed was Robin going over to Gibbs to tell him it's ok. So you'll expect the more senior players to rise to the occasion.

And then Almunia fails to keep out Ronaldo's free kick.

There is yet again, no blame here. The quality of the shot was impeccable. And no one did their homework. After that goal Almunia improved to keep out the rest of the freekicks but it was a knack too late.

And this is precisely why Arse fans do not want any 'Almunia for England' talk. That kind of added pressure to try and entice Fabio Capello instead of concentrating on the game is not welcomed. Almunia may not have set out to do it, but mistakes like these drags him into the spotlight, and and rather bad one at that.

Still nothing compared to David James' error at the weekend but no Almunia for England please.

And there is also no blame for the third goal because this is a cup game and Arsenal threw so many bodies forward, all United needed to do was nick possession and send it towards our goal instead.

Then just before the last 15 minutes of the game, Darren Fletcher brought down Fabregas from behind, which the entire world proclaims to be a bad decision. I don't really care. Like it matters. I have no sympathy for a team who's worrying which player they won't have for the final.

I have only anger for the team who allowed it to happen yet can anyone pin point who to blame? It was a collective team effort and a comprehensive defeat, like SAF planned every minute of that game. Not to perfection though, because he wouldn't have wanted that red card.

Biggest game of their Arsenal careers? Makes me want to cry thinking about it. The fans did their part until some couldn't bear to watch when it was 3-0. The players want the fans' support and watch till the last minute but srsly, do they deserve it?

60,000 in the stadium with their flags and voices, placing their happiness and trust in the hands of the 11 people on the pitch and they get screwed over in the 8th minute.

I tried to be positive and it lasted all of 3 minutes before Ronaldo's freekick went in.

sidenote: David Beckham couldn't be a bigger cunt. He made use of Arsenal to maintain his fitness and now comes back to jeer. He should have flown back to Manchester instead. Does SAF take in strays? Or will he take the opportunity to throw a boot again?

And I now know why everyone misses Highbury. The Emirates is magnificent, but the games she has hosted so far haven't lived up to it's billing.

And I don't want to read in the news about revenge or whatever shit because the team will be playing Man Utd again on 16 May at Old Trafford. It doesn't work that way. It's a load of crap so if anyone even mentions that I'll get really pissed.

Labels: Almunia, Champion's League, Man Utd, one of my many theories

A Little Drunken Madness @ 4:37 AM