Arsenal Can't Be Bothered. That's Nice For the Paying Punters!
Sunday, 16 November 08, 02:18 AM · Comments(0)
Oh dear. I guess my hunch was wrong yesterday. The lesson learned there is don’t trust William Shatner. It would be very easy and quite satisfying to launch into a tirade about yesterday’s defeat to Aston Villa, our second home defeat of and our fourth overall this season. The problem is that everything has been said before. We know why we lost, the players weren’t able to motivate themselves sufficiently to beat Villa. It’s really as simple as that. What the solution is to our staggering rollercoaster ride of inconsistency is as much a mystery to me as it appears to be for Wenger.
I didn’t watch the highlights last night, I couldn’t bring myself to, but from listening to the commentary team on Sky Sports and BBC it sounded as though Villa deserved to win. We didn’t create any chances or even reach a level were we looked like threatening. That is a real shame. It would be easy to point to our lack of strikers on the day, but that didn’t stop us against Man United. Bendtner has completely failed to grasp the opportunity presented to him by Adebayor’s injury and RVPs stupidty, which is a pity because I like the guy. The fact is though that there are hungrier and more skilful strikers in reserve who have a rightful claim above Bendtner next time we have a striking crisis. Anyway, it’s all beside the point, yesterday’s defeat wasn’t down to Bendy, it was because for the forth time this season the team couldn’t muster themselves to give a sh!t.
By the way, how many goals have Silvestre-Gallas conceded now? It must be time to bring Toure back into the team, at the very least his game has some zest about it.
I have no idea what Arsene plans to do about this. His post match comments claim we were unlucky but if you are beaten 2-0 at home after being dominated by the visiting team for virtually the whole match, then that to me isn’t unlucky, it’s a fair result. Although I applaud Wenger’s defence of his team to the media I hope that he doesn’t convince himself with his own rhetoric. Despite what he says week in week out, our squad isn’t mature, it isn’t experienced, it doesn’t show great character and most importantly it doesn’t stand a snowball’s chance in Theophilus P Wildebeest’s pants of winning the league in the foreseeable future.
The real shame is that after coming quite close last year last, this year we are going to be massively behind the other teams. We have gone from a position of strength to a position of weakness, whereas all of our rivals have improved markedly. It’s all very well having England’s future in our reserves but that doesn’t help Arsenal now or in the next couple of years. There won’t be anyone around to instill fighting spirit in them anyway, especially if none of the senior team have even had a sniff of a trophy in their careers.
I can feel a rant coming on, but like the Arsenal I just can’t be bothered, they aren’t worth the emotional energy.
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