april 10th
A very handy three points yesterday but it’s a game that will be quickly forgotten, and rightly so. One of the dullest, most tedious games I’ve football I’ve seen in a long time.
Both teams looked heavy-legged and sluggish from the word go. There was hardly a thing worth talking about in the first half apart from Jens ability to lose his rag after the opposition take a corner without any reason for it at all. He seemed to be upset because a Boro player was standing still.
There were no real chances to speak of and at half-time Dennis Bergkamp came on for the ineffectual José and nobody noticed the difference.
The goal was a scrappy affair, the ball bounced across the box after taking a nasty deflection off a Boro player and on hand was the master poacher, Robert Pires, to stick it away. It was always going to be enough, although a slipe by Philippe Senderos (who was otherwise our stand-out player again) put our old nemesis Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink through. With a right foot as powerful as his you feared the worst until he, for some reason, decided to be cute and tried to chip Jens. It was an easy catch for the keeper and my how I laughed as the look of agony crossed Hasslebaink’s face. Seeing as the fucker nearly always scores against us it was nice to see him fuck it up.
After the game the boss praised Le Bob saying “The kind of goal that Pires gets you know, where nobody expects him to be in the box and he scored his 11th goal of the season and got us the three points.”
He also spoke about him being offered a new deal, saying “Pires has one year to go. He will be 33 next year, and then we will go from year to year.”
Follow this link to find the boss talking about the FA Cup, what it means to the club and how he believes success in this competition has meant Arsenal haven’t always performed in Europe. Not sure that’s what our woes in Europe are about but certainly last season’s FA Cup semi-final didn’t do us any favours coming just before the second leg against Chelsea in the CL.
Other than that it was pretty hilarious to see Demento pick another of his weak teams to play ‘feeble’ Norwich and get turned over good and proper. How many times does it have to happen to him before he figures it out? Hopefully lots more.
Right, that’s it. Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
