Let's Hope This is Rock Bottom

I'll get to Gallas in just a second. 

What can be said after today's performance?  Really how do you sum up today, nevermind the last few weeks?  1-0 can be excused.  2-0 could be seen as a poor result.  3-0?  3-0 is an asswhuppin'.  3-0 is taking your lunch money.  3-0 is kicking sand in your face at the beach and leaving with your girlfriend.

There are no positives to 3-0.

The team was played off the City of Manchester Stadium by a City team that is still finding itself.  Injuries, suspensions and a lack of self-belief seem to have caught up with this team. 

We are relying on a team full of players who have yet to prove themselves in the Premier League at all -- nevermind against the cream of the crop.  Unlike Fabregas and Van Persie, who were slowly phased in and had serious vets around them to pick up their slack, there isn't anyone available to pick things up when Song, Denilson, Bendtner and Diaby fail to raise their game.  

That's not their fault, to be sure.  They have talent, but aren't anywhere near the polished products that we've been losing the last few years. 

What makes it worse is that all the other 3 "big" teams didn't win.  So this was the perfect opportunity to regain some of the lost ground.  Instead, now I really have to start worrying about next year's Champions League spot.  The #4 spot on the table isn't certain anymore.  And Dynamo Kiev comes to the Grove on Tuesday.  Nut-check time.

Now onto capi....

The big news pre and post match was the stripping of the captain's armband from William Gallas.   That the decision follows his interview with the AP indicates that Arsene Wenger finally had enough of his bullshit and dropped him. 

Now I can only ask...How dumb can you be?

Maybe Gallas thought he'd be smart and get ahead of the criticisms.  Maybe he thought he'd motivate his teammates.  Or maybe he thought of grilled cheese and fruit before lunch and after the interview.

But in blasting his teammates all he did was lose the support of the one man who was behind him and could keep him playing.  The one vote that mattered.

The question now is: does he go in January or does the team release him outright before that and lose any chance at a transfer fee?