march 23rd
19.23 – Arsenal 2-1 Everton (Cygan, Vieira)
See that guy to your left? He’s a fuckin’ legend and I love him. After Everton scored their equaliser, Andy Gray said on Sky something to the effect that now is when your big players need to stand up and be counted.
Up stepped Paddy – latching onto a ball that broke lose in the Everton box – and he buried it past Richard Wright. 2-1 Arsenal.
He was superb in midfield today against an Everton side whose main tactic is spoiling. Niggly free kicks, holding, tripping, obstruction – Everton are very good at it, and in Wayne Rooney they have a very special young player who scored another fabulous goal against us (although somebody should tell Pascal Cygan that it’s much more difficult for a player to score if the defender actually makes some kind of an attempt to tackle him).
Anyway, I’m not going to dwell on anything negative, coz the big bald useless fucker got himself a goal, smartly heading in Thierry Henry’s corner. Well done Pascal. I wonder did anyone have any money on him to score first today? 40-1 if you did.
A tough game, especially when Everton threw on big Duncan Ferguson. They’re not in the top half of the table for nothing, but we coped pretty well overall – the left hand side of our defence still curdles my bowels though. Sol Campbell was superb again though, and I thought Lauren played very well too.
We’re back on top. Let’s make sure we stay there and let’s hope this is only the first victory this week over a team that plays in blue.
