Saturday, April 18, 2009
Nothing won yet
It was only a few weeks ago that the Arsenal were being written off by all and sundry. Wenger, so the percieved logic went, had failed to replace Aleksander Hleb and Matthieu Flamini and the club's place in the so called Big 4 had been usurped by Aston Villa.
It was bollocks then and it's bollocks now.
Hleb was one of the least effectual players in my Arsenal memory while Flamini had one consistent season in his spell at the club. But hey, who needs facts when there's a bandwagon to be jumped on.
Now of course there is a new bandwagon. Arsenal are in both the FA Cup and Champion's League semi finals and suddenly Wenger is a genius again.
Out come all the tired old cliches from tired old hacks without an original thing to say between them. Before we were crap if the likes of Henry, Pires or Vieria were missing. Now we have a new holy trinity of Cesc, Ade and Theo and when they are missing we are pants.
Let's look at some facts.
We lost to Fulham and that day we had Ade and Theo playing. Our next defeat was famously at home to Hull City when we had all three of our so called super stars playing.
Stoke City beat us at their place and lo and behold look who was playing for us then? Cesc and Ade while Theo came on as a second half sub!
We got thumped 3-0 at Manchester City and all three were missing from that game. As were Toure, Eboue, Gallas, Rosicky and Eduardo. Does that prove the argument? For the home defeat against Villa Theo played while Ade was sub.
On the other hand much of our current unbeaten run was put together with much of the trio missing. Indeed our 3-1 at WBA was achieved without Cesc, Theo and Ade while another much hyped VIP, Robin van Persie was a non playing sub.
Forget the hype, forget the bullshit being passed off as insightful analysis, nothing matters until an Arsenal captain gets his hands on a piece of silverware.
It was bollocks then and it's bollocks now.
Hleb was one of the least effectual players in my Arsenal memory while Flamini had one consistent season in his spell at the club. But hey, who needs facts when there's a bandwagon to be jumped on.
Now of course there is a new bandwagon. Arsenal are in both the FA Cup and Champion's League semi finals and suddenly Wenger is a genius again.
Out come all the tired old cliches from tired old hacks without an original thing to say between them. Before we were crap if the likes of Henry, Pires or Vieria were missing. Now we have a new holy trinity of Cesc, Ade and Theo and when they are missing we are pants.
Let's look at some facts.
We lost to Fulham and that day we had Ade and Theo playing. Our next defeat was famously at home to Hull City when we had all three of our so called super stars playing.
Stoke City beat us at their place and lo and behold look who was playing for us then? Cesc and Ade while Theo came on as a second half sub!
We got thumped 3-0 at Manchester City and all three were missing from that game. As were Toure, Eboue, Gallas, Rosicky and Eduardo. Does that prove the argument? For the home defeat against Villa Theo played while Ade was sub.
On the other hand much of our current unbeaten run was put together with much of the trio missing. Indeed our 3-1 at WBA was achieved without Cesc, Theo and Ade while another much hyped VIP, Robin van Persie was a non playing sub.
Forget the hype, forget the bullshit being passed off as insightful analysis, nothing matters until an Arsenal captain gets his hands on a piece of silverware.
# posted by Me @ 8:50 AM 
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