march 21st
First Robert Pires scored, then Dennis Bergkamp scored to make it 2-0 yesterday after 25 minutes or so, and I started to get greedy. I wanted us to get 5 or 6 to really make ‘Big Sam’ upset. Then that Grimster wannabe Ivan Campo got one for them and it was 2-1 at half-time. Then they seemed to have the upper hand in the 2nd half. I saw Allardyce interviewed and he said “We told them to press Arsenal further up the pitch, to see if they could pass it around as easily. And, of course, they couldn’t.”
If I was a Bolton fan I’d be wondering why the manager didn’t think of doing that from the start. As an Arsenal fan I’m glad, and I was glad when they hit the bar, and when Kevin Davies missed a sitter and I was super mega hella glad when the final whistle went because beating Bolton was important because it made Sam Allardyce sad, and I was shitting myself that they’d score in the last minute and nick a point. With United and Chelsea both winning, it’s as you were at the top. We have 9 points on the blues and 12 on Demento’s men, two teams we’re undoubtedly going to be sick of seeing, no matter what happens in the upcoming games.
I deliberately didn’t mention anything about records or what have you before the game. Not because I thought I’d jinx us, but because we’d have lost 12-0 if I had. Anyway, we’ve now equalled the record the most consecutive games unbeaten from the start of the season. So there you go. But AW said yesterday that records don’t really count for anything, they’re inevitable when you’re playing really well, trophies are what counts at the end of the season, and this week will go a long way to seeing how full our cabinet is going to be at the end of May.
In a quick Sunday round-up there’s a nice piece about Edu in the Independent, although it’s not going to tell you anything you didn’t already now it’s nice to see he’s getting the praise he richly deserves from manager, captain and the press. George Graham speaks about the current Arsenal defence and he says the defensive improvement this year is what’s put us so far out in front. Is there anything that makes people state the obvious quite so much as football?. Still, George has some nice things to say about us and it’s worth a read. Who’s this Juan fella though?
Ok, by now everyone should be seeing arseblog on its shiny, super-fast new server. I’ve spent all weekend working on it, so this morning is beer time. Laters.
