march 28th
If you haven’t already put your clocks forward, then do so now or you’re going to miss the kick-off. It’s now one hour later than you thought it was. If you have put your clocks forward then it’s exactly the time wherever you are when you look at your watch right now.
I bet you did look, too. So it’s the big one today. A match against United is always going to be tough, despite their relatively indifferent form of late. In games like this form goes right out the window. We all know how shite Spurs are, but games against them are never easy simply because there’s more to it than other games. There’s the rivalry, history and when it comes to games against United, there’s nearly always a title to play for. Certainly that’s been the case in recent seasons and Arsenal v United has become the biggest game of the season for both sides.
Demento reckons, with all his years of football wisdom, that Arsenal have had a better season, but United will always be a bigger club. Fair enough. I couldn’t care less if United are the Leviathan of world football. A merchandising behemoth turning over shirts and bedspreads and baby-grows and raking in millions from their fans all over the world so long as we had a better team. Maybe Liverpool can claim to be a ‘bigger’ club than us in terms of history and fan base, but it’s the league table that counts. Liverpool can be bigger, we’ll just settle for being much better. Last month is history in football, let United be content with having more fans than us, we’ll take the silverware, thanks.
I reckon it’s going to be tough today, and very physical, despite United’s claims that what happened at Old Trafford is forgotten. They know we’re playing good football and they know they’re not. Their first priority will be to stop us playing, and hoping to wind us up along the way. I can’t see us falling for it though, especially as AW has been stressing all week the need to maintain discipline.
In terms of the team it’s likely to be the same line-up as we put out against Chelsea the other night, with Gael Clichy coming in for Ashley Cole at left back.
And if you’re struggling (for some reason) to get fired up for this one, take a read what that dimwit, shitehawk, toad faced cuntbag who used to present The Word has to say “Nowadays as a football fan there’s no place you can go without passing reference or due deference to those diving, cheating, time-wasting, elbowing, referee intimidating, over-hyped, over-praised bunch of drama queens known as Arsenal.”
Pots. Kettles. Black. etc. The cunt. I’m away for the Sundays. More later.
