March 28, 2009

Gunners set for late title Push,..

This is an international weekend and we don’t get to watch our favourite clubs in action until next week.
Therefore, it’s a good time to reflect and take stock of our club’s performances.
Who would have imagined that the champions of England, Europe and the World could lose two matches in a row?
Thank goodness they don’t have to play this weekend…otherwise it would have been the third straight loss! Man United should be grateful for the international break otherwise they could have surrendered the lead this weekend.
Chelsea was expected to give a close competition to United, but again the Blues have not been convincing despite the lively performances of Michael Essien. The aging squad is finally finding it difficult to cope with the frenetic pace of the Premiership.
Little wonder that the honeymoon enjoyed by their interim manager is finally over. Liverpool is the form team currently. The Reds will continue to pound teams left right and centre until the day they met the Gunners.
However, having said that, it doesn’t mean that the Poodles won’t drop points. They will have the occasional draw here and there against the likes of Sunderland and Stoke City.
Currently Arsenal are exactly where they would want to be, given the season’s fortunes of draws and injuries. A top four position and on course in the cup competition is good returns so far. Actually with just ten points difference, the Gunners could eventually surprise everyone including themselves with a late title push. The ball is round and it can roll to any side, so is the title!
{Kenyan Arsenalist}
So fake tickets have been sold to unsuspecting fans! Who has done it? Now we have been warned that anybody holding a fake ticket will be promptly arrested if they attempt to gain entry into the stadium today.
The question is, as an ordinary supporter how will I know that the ticket I am holding is fake? The best thing is for us all to stay away from this risk by staying in our homes on that day.
Then Taiwo Atieno will not play, aah! Some of us were so enthused at the thought of seeing something a little different from what we are used to. If as FKL are alleging Fifa had okayed the young man to play what is this other fear of appeal by anybody else? Isn’t Fifa the know it all and the say all about matters football?
Finally can our sports writers stop their unpatriotism and support the team coach? I have in mind the various unfavourable words you have been using when referring to coach Antoine Hey.
{Kenyan fan - Via Email}
There is a concerted effort to stop Manchester United’s procession to a third consecutive Premier League title. All Manchester haters have gone green at the prospect of the Red’s nipping a quintuple.
It does not matter how the Devils are to be stopped but stop them at all costs including hacking down Cristiano Ronaldo.
It kills me when people pass around this crap that Manchester United stars are protected. Of course you know the purveyors of this hatred— Arsenal Goons.
Ronaldo is receiving the worst kind of treatment in the premier league and Red Devil fans fear he could opt for Real Madrid in the summer.
Rooney was raging after Phil Dowd’s poor handling of the Fulham game. If Paul Scholes sending off was correct, Rooney’s was far from it.
Yet it is the hurting Arsenal fanatics who are yapping the loudest that Ronaldo is ever whining forgetting they cried the loudest when Birmingham’s mowed down their average Eduardo da Silva.
Do they want the same to happen to our dear Ronaldo? What will it serve them yet we are not playing in the same league?
While Manchester aspire to play in the Uefa champions League, the Gooners aspire for Uefa Cup. To ye all Manchester haters, the championship title is going nowhere? Unless of course you come with jawbreakers at Old Trafford and with help of such referees as Phil Dowd!
Sir Alex is too experienced enough to let the title slip. Arsenalists have pointed out to 1998 when their massively underachieving side overhauled Manchester’s 10-point lead to win the first of their only three titles.
That is another decade. What they should be worrying about is the prospect of meeting Red Devils at the semis of Champions League.
Pray that you lose to the Yellow Submarines to avoid misery at Old Trafford. If you asked me whether you should kill me tomorrow or today, I would the latter. It is no use living through hell waiting for the hangman. Rather than go to El Madrigal and pack the bus in front of goal like 2006, Arsenal should open up and bow to the sword.