First up – apologies for another collapse this afternoon. I’m not talking about the incident in Asda where it dawned on me that ‘picking up a few bits’ was a poor idea after a morning of perfecting the ultimate Absolute Cranberry.
I understand that the person responsible for HH being offline again was dragged by their ear to a place that everyone else in the static home office could readily view them and severely pistol whipped with a Luger. A fitting repercussion on a day that would’ve been the Fuhrer’s birthday.
So to the football.
Arsenal drift from one fiasco to another. After the humiliating business of their learned manager not understanding how additional time works, we got fresh meat today courtesy of Fibreglass claiming his comments in the Spanish press were ‘misinterpreted’.
‘Lost In Translation’ was a cracking film, but like much of the guff that emanates from the Emptycrates this is just more whinging, whining and the usual cobblers that befits a club that lives in its own cuckoo land of reasoning.
I think we’ll smash them. I don’t just want this to happen but genuinely believe it will be the outcome.
The strategy for this contest ought be a simple one. The French are at their best when they have the ball and the space with which to ping it about amongst their better midfielders. The way to nullify this is by retaining possession of course but also by attacking.
Our wing-back’s contributions worry me. A&E does occasionally great if predictable work. Charlie is bloody slow. Modders will have the space and Dances with scones ought make himself pivotal. Flick that round thing past, over and generally beyond their midfield, Their defense is eminently unlockable, unmemorable.
Prediction? Let’s just do what we do best. Fly by the seat of our undergarments and …do ’em.
No matter who we play, how big the game is or the pressure of the match BAE plays his game on his terms, its utterly admirable.
Cannot help but marvel at his performance tonight
Can’t wait for tonight’s replay. Sounds like a corker of a game.
Enjoy it. We may not have won, but it was a proper game.
maybe it’s the beer talking, but I am far less disappointed than i thought I would be. Lay off Gomes, I say.
I’m in that number, just. I’m trusting that Gomes knew Van Persie was offside.
The doctor now says it’s safe for me to turn down the pace-maker two notches and the nurse has left me a cup of cocoa so I’m starting to unwind.
What a magnificent game of football. Two incredibly attacking line-ups giving it absolutely 100% commitment from the get-go. Incredible.
I thought the lads showed great determination and character in the second half and shaded the chances but I don’t think either side deserved to lose. It kind of reminded me of the classic Benn v Eubank clashes in the early 90’s.
Szczesny’s save from Modric was out of the top drawer and Gomes tip round the post was none too shabby either. Impossible to pick out a MOM but respect to BAE who seems to get better and better by the minute and is probably ‘unrecognised’ player of the season so far… VDV must have ice in his veins though for that penalty!
Re: VdV’s pen, given he’d sent his previous five to the keepers right, and had failed to score with two, he’d have wanted shooting himself if he’d gone that way again. Their goalie looked like he’d done his research, so congrats to VdV for changing it up. Thankfully Defoe was nowhere near the scene. :freu
Managed to calm down now and for me the thing that stands out most is that it was just a fantastic game, one of the best I have ever seen.
Perhaps I’ll spellcheck my own moniker in the future! I Sky+’d the game, so will perhaps get the chance to apply my own take on individual performances tomorrow once I’ve sat through it again.