Why The Fork Did We Bring Park?

…..53 days since we signed Park Chu-Young…..

What was the point of signing him? We haven’t played him a minute of League football so far. Are we going to load enormous amount of pressure on RvP till he chokes, crocks and leaves? Citing the same old reason – Top signings weren’t made and hence I don’t see ambition and some such! A 26 year old striker who bangs in goals for South Korea even in his sleep is not even given a freaking chance to prove himself, Why?

Was the transfer a gimmick to bring in more Asian interest? Is this all about running a business now, Arsenal Football Club? Don’t make this hard for the fans. This ain’t funny any more. It is getting harder and harder by the day. Sure, we are trying to come back to the top half of the table – But who are we kidding? If Robin van Persie is rested one game, can The Arsenal pick a win? Arsene doesn’t even have that confidence, he will probably again start van Persie tonight against Marseille. Give the man a rest, not because he has over-burned himself, but because he deserves it.

In other news, Thomas Vermaelen has shown the middle finger to Samir Nasri by signing a new contract with the club. Does that mean he doesn’t want to win trophies? No, it is because he has fucking loyalty-understanding in his blood which the French Fucker doesn’t have!

To France tonight, on the injury front, no Gibbs, means Santos starting, Ramsey might not start, but giving Rozza two games in 4 days is dangerous with Stoke coming up in a few days. More so, coz Rozza was in scintillating form. It is THE major decision that the manager has to take, apart from that, the team looks quite easy to draw -

Lezczend – Jenkinson – Mertesacker – Koscielny – Santos – Song – Ramsey/Rosicky – Arteta – Yossi – Arshavin – RvP

Theo needs a rest not because he has earned it, but because..well..he needs to rest…and play some FIFA12 on console with JW and come back strong with his basics cleared.

To a great game tonight, for all of you who are travelling, have fun at France.

Come on Arsenal, lets get full points tonight!

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Wake up Gunners, Play for the Crest!

“We need to make the fans happy”

- Alex Song

No, sir, you got that absolutely wrong. You don’t have to play for the fans. You play for Arsenal, you play for the crest, you play for the club, you play for Herbert Chapman, you play for Cliff Bastin, you play for Graham, you play for Jenkings, you play for Bergkamp, you play for Thierry, you play for Arsene! You fuckin’ should play for the CREST, the pride of North London – Arsenal!

The way Ramsey played on Sunday didn’t really look like he is aware of the tradition, history, pride of Arsenal. Is he aware of the rivalry? Is he aware of how Thierry and the likes gave their all when they played against Spurs? Arsenal never lost to Spurs in that particular period. It was massive. It is massive. You cannot drill the sentiments into a player, you cannot teach him how to be an Arsenal fan, you can only hope that he realizes it. ‘Realizes the importance of playing in that Red and White’.

Good form, good defending, good striking ability, these won’t bring Arsenal back from the grave. Only PRIDE will. The realization of playing for a fuckin’ great club will. If Aaron Ramsey wears the shirt, looks at the crest, feels the power of it, and understands the need to be fucking brilliant and 100% committed, only then he and his fellowmen will perform, only then will they turn things around, only then we will get our Arsenal back.

It’s not far away when ‘BlackScarfing’ could be a Global Gooner Phenomenon. Keeping my fingers crossed, that day never comes!

PLEASE. Come. on. you. Arsenal!

Enjoy the festival, live life! More, later!

Arsenal – Guard your Fortress First

Aloha boyz!

I woke up really early this morning to observe two minutes of silence and recited a prayer in Hebrew for our boys. No, we don’t run a pedophilic association, I meant for our boys in Red and White, apparently they are still not men. Having not downloaded a single game this season, I feel bad as well as disappointed about things at the club. [I download all games which Arsenal win 'good' every season]. How do we change things without being too drastic?

Well, first and foremost, let’s get through with this analogy. A game of football is like a war. Your goal is your fortress, you need to first think about protecting your goal and then if ‘made sure’ it is in ‘safe hands’, venture forward to attack and demolish your enemy. Simply put, if ya’ fuckin’ fortress ain’ guarded well maite, don’ fuckin’ venture forward maite!

Arsene hit the nail on its head by admitting the fact that the team needs to defend like a..well…team. The four defenders as per their designation will do their jobs, I understand, but the rest of the team needs to pitch in too. Look at Wayne Rooney, he is sometimes the last defender during set-pieces for Manchester United. He makes sure that his goal is protected first and only then does he spray passes to that Portuguese guy who scores like …fuck…lets not even go there! Depresses the shit outta me.

Up next in a few hours – Bolton, who used to be our nemesis a few years back when that gum-chewing fat Sam was at the helm. Now, they have Coyle, who loves Arsene more than he loves his wife, which means, they are not going to ‘rough it up’ against us. So, boys, go get them! Concentrate. Defend Well. Wingers, cover your Full Backs! Song, DO NOT leave your half, please ‘Dortmund’ the visitors! Strikers, well, take your chances! All is gonna be good, yeah!

For proper Match Preview, click this – Written by @Amlan_Majumdar.

Bring it on. Come On Arsenal! 

Until, later!

The Daily Arsenal Blog Dose

Hola Friends,

It feels real bad, almost 8-2 devastated for keeping this blog not updated.

Well, I have my reasons, too much work and I write on a weekly basis for Arsenal on the website www.thehardtackle.com.

Now, I plan to write a post over here every day, am trying to figure out what is the ideal time for that, when I’ll have time to update this. I’ll do some thinking, not-the-thinking-our-defenders-do-when-opponents-counterattack, the ‘real’ thinking. Hope to keep the promise this time and destroy the cobwebs forever and ever and…you get it!

Will be back very soon! Later!

Back – And that too during an Interlull

It’s been a long long time since I visited my good ol’Arsenal blog. This place feels really good even though I had left it quite some time back. The cob-webs are cleared now, the new fragrance surrounds the dark irony of the place which reads ‘Still fighting for silverware’. The ‘season’ is far from over, we were the only team in the league challenging for four trophies a month back, now we are challenging for one. THAT elusive silverware, the League!

Remember, we managed to lift one in 2003-04, where we were well, unbeaten in the league!? That was a long time back. Since then, Thierry and Freddie have had spells at Hollywood, Lauren has gone missing, they last heard from his via an SOS from Madagascar. Sol and Mad Jens have had two spells at the club, Adebayor missed catching the flight to Milan who bid 150 Million Pizzas for him and ended up in Blue Arabian Hell of Manchester! We have moved from Highbury to The Emirates. But, one thing has remained a constant, it’s THE Arsenal and it’s favorite manager, Monsieur Arsene Wenger!

 

There! HE is watching. We'll have to win it for Hitler!

In between all the rage and frustration due to not being able to win trophies, we have had European Seasons year after year which has made this club financially stable. It is so stable that it can afford top class players like Koscielny and Squillaci, our big money transfers! Oops! We are now in the ‘business end’ of the season. Funny! For some clubs, January is more like THE ‘business’ end of the season, nevermind! We need to win all games which would mean, we win the league, it is THAT simple, Yes!

Let’s give our full support to our team from tomorrow! Dratt! It’s the freakin’ interlull. Okay, fine, please pray for our team that they don’t lose more than two bones in every game they play. Blackburn, we are almost there with 22 bones less. B.E.W.A.R.E

COYG!

Can’t walk away from The Black Cats!

We were just 30 secs away from topping the Premiership table for the first time in this season. Calamity happened. Darren Bent, surprise surprise, scored. 2 Points dropped. We sit second at table with all of United, Chelsea and Liverpool yet to play in this weekend.

Lets analyse the match.

Wenger’s strategy? Right? Wrong?

- I am of the opinion that if you have played a midweek Champions League fixture, you HAVE TO rotate the squad irrespective of the performance in the midweek. Players get tired. They get rusty. They lose sharpness. It’s very normal. We could have easily given Rosicky, Gibbs and Eboue a start. So, one WRONG!

- On the other hand, the young legs of Jack are too good for Arsenal at the moment. He is running the show in the center, with or without Cesc. This guy has a big future at Arsenal and his development is even more complete with a deep-role in the midfield. So, there, RIGHT! (and I have contradicted myself too, Hah!)

Positives from the game

- Koscielny and Squillaci were excellent. So was Almunia. Was it possible for him to block that last shot? No. Please!

- Rosicky, Nasri, Jack and even Denilson after coming on, looked really good. They kept hold of the ball and tried their best to feed Chamakh.

- Chamakh was massive. The Moroccan has it all that is needed to become a top striker in Premiership, perhaps a little bit of technical ability is lacking. I would love to see him take on defenders one on one and beat them by dribbling/dogging/mocking at them/abusing them in French…something…

- Alex Song was very poor. I, actually wanted him to be subbed at half-time. Sadly, he left 10 minutes later. Yes, we can argue, it wasn’t a red card, I agree, but, he was poor and tackles were stupid.

A strange bad day at the office for Song!

- Clichy is dodgy with his defending right now. Wingers are easily beating him. Perhaps, I am being a little too critical of our only Gunner who has won a Premiership medal, but he really needs to step up a notch or two.

- Without Cesc, we are a different Arsenal. Rosicky and Nasri are fantastic footballers, but they are not Cesc. Sigh!

- Rosicky should have never taken the penalty. Nasri should have. But, nevermind!

- The ref was pathetic. *Period*

11 Points from 5 games. 2 points lost, honestly.

Let us hope the injury with Cesc is not serious.

Next time.

…and We are back atthemirates! Bolton next.

Jack wore their color. Disturbing!

My baby is back. Stop getting imaginative, I am talking about this blog (or maybe little Jack). I have given it a new look and new feel and i dunno what the hell that means. With a ‘controlled’ avatar, I’ve been writing for our wesbite for the last 6 months, which made me ignore this little darling of mine. I thought it’s high time to get this rolling back on the scene because attheemirates should be up and running in the season Arsenal finally win the league. Optimism and all that jazz.

We play Bolton tomorrow. Yeah, I know, Bolton freakin’ pain-in-the-ass Wanderers. But, don’t you worry, they don’t have Sam or Megson anymore, it’s Coyle now, who wants to play ‘football like us’. Haha. Incredibly funny. THAT would really help us in attacking them and cutting them into pieces. Mind you, that old son-of-a-little-deceased-mongoose Kevin Davies still wears the Bolton colors. Be afraid.

For more on team news and other pleasing stuff, please visit our match preview here.

For more stuff about Arsenal, another day it’ll be.

Later!