may 10th
So our unbeaten run continued yesterday with a 1-0 win over Fulham. It most certainly wasn’t a pretty performance from us, but it was definitely functional. As much as the slick passing and nice goals have been a feature of our play this season, so has our solid defending. Fulham never really created any dangerous openings, apart from one chance for the Dead Snake in the first half which Jens made a good save from, and a cross shot from the impressive Moritz Volz (who looks like Luzhny with pace) in the second.
Arsenal’s goal came from José Reyes who nicked the ball off a lumbering Edwin van der Sar and tapped home for his second in two games. Afterwards, AW spoke about what it would mean to go the whole season unbeaten if we do Leicester at the weekend. He said “I don’t think the players fully realise what is at stake as there is no history of it happening before. For me it would be something massive. There is real history to be made and certainly, football-wise, immortality as I don’t think it will be done again.”
So one more game to go and we’ll have done something no English side has done before in modern times. Yes, I know Preston did it many years ago, but their season was just 22 games back then. To go the whole season unbeaten would be remarkable, and while the exits from the Champions League and the FA Cup were disappointing you have to remember they’re knock-out competitions and these things happen. Arsenal fans hardly need reminding of that. If we complete the season without losing a game, we’ll have achieved something nobody ever thought possible, especially at the start of the season when we were being written off all over the place. Chelsea were signing all the midfielders in the world, United were making lots of signings (which luckily for us turned out to be pretty shite) and everyone thought keeping the same squad of players and adding only Lehmann and Clichy wouldn’t be enough to see us challenge.
It’s nice to prove people wrong sometimes.
Today is also a new day for me. I’ve decided that a number of things have to change in my life. I’m no longer willing to put up with the shitehawks and wanklords that I have to deal with day in, day out. I’m making lists of things I have to do and trying to figure out ways of doing them. There may be some risks ahead, but you don’t get anything in life by sitting around waiting for people to hand you opportunities on a plate, you have to go out and do it yourself. So I am. Not quite sure why I’m telling you this, maybe it just makes it more real. Having thought about it all weekend and discussed it with the missus, I’m now excited and nervous about the future, instead of tired and bored in the present.
So how was your weekend then?
