A Good Weekend in More than One Way...
Monday, 10 November 08, 11:27 AM · Comments(1)
After an awful 10 days the best response was, of course, to go and get the better of the current champions (in both England and Europe - hard to digest though to may be to say that) in a pulsating game. As a result the other Arsenal bloggers have rediscovered some of their optimism regarding fourth place (we'll worry about titles if we get the opportunity), have more to say on the team and found some time to realise one performance against a big side needs to lead to some performances against the smaller clubs.
As with most Arsenal fans yesterday was a chance to actually enjoy reading the Sunday papers and even discover that Old Red nose was actually quite positive about our win if not happy obviously. He did also manage to moan about the fact they play away after all their Champions League games (as much as I hate to say it , that does sound slightly odd) and he thinks, of course, that they were denied a blatant penalty (as opposed to the one on Nasri or the Carrick foul on Diaby both missed by Webb!!). I think I'm pining for the days when he slagged us off all the time as you get the feeling he's being nice is that he doesn't think we're such a threat any more.
Oh and on the subject of Webb, I (and my other STH mates) felt he was awful on Saturday. The incident that summed it up for me was when Rafael threw the ball away in disgust at not being awarded a throw-in and yet escaped a booking. It's petty, I know, but all fans realise that any blatant dissent these days gets a card unless you do it within sight of the Man Utd manager obviously.
On a rather irrelevant but interesting note why did so many players get a brace of goals at the weekend. Off the top of my head I can remember Keane, Nasri, Bent, Tuncay, Anelka & Saha all scoring twice on the same weekend - odd that.
The other good point of the weekend was Easyjet's decision to move the flight from Basel to London from Stansted to Gatwick. Yes it's a bloody early flight but the return from Gatwick is so much better, Stansted is an abomination of an airport that is too small for the huge increase in low cost flying that it has accepted. No security queues, more space and less chavs - what more could I ask.
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I think you're right about Fergusson being nice because he doesn't see us as much of a threat. I hope he comes to regret that judgement.