May 22nd
I woke up on the sofa this morning at 6.30am – my neck hurts, along with the rest of my aching body which was battered last night with beer and mojitos. Celebrating cup final wins is fun! Poor Mrs Blogs didn’t have such a good evening but that’s what you get for supporting the dark side. heh.
So, the game itself. Manchester United fans must feel like we did in 2001 when Liverpool stole the cup from us. We played a very strange 4-5-1 system with Dennis Bergkamp as a lone striker and I have to say it’s probably the worst I’ve seen Arsenal play in years. We were fucking crap.
We had nothing to offer going forward and United made all the chances in the first half with Gazza Wayne Rooney bringing the best out of Jens Lehmann who made two outstanding saves one of which saw Rio Ferdinand have a goal disallowed for being a fucking horrible cunt.
I thought we might change things a bit in the second half and we did bring Freddie on but the system stayed the same. We still created next to nothing and United always looked more likely to score. Rooney hit the post, some other stuff happened, we brought on van Persie late in the day and then it went to extra time.
Extra-time was pretty uneventful until José Antonio Reyes became only the second person in cup final history to get sent off. He and Kevin Moran can share the glory over a jug of sangria one day.
So it was penalties and any Arsenal fan would have been touching cloth at that point because of our record in shoot-outs. As it turned out we needn’t have worried because our five penalty takers took fantastic kicks. After the first penalties had been scored up stepped Paul Scholes. He might be a short ginger cunt but you’d expect him to score. Jens Lehmann had other ideas though and he pulled off a brilliant save. It was the only kick United would miss but it cost them the cup.
Lauren had scored our first and the subsequent takers, van Persie, Freddie and Ashley Cole all stuck theirs away. Roy Keane scored which meant it went to the final kick and it was up to the captain to take the penalty which would win the cup for us.
Patrick Vieira tucked away his penalty without problems to give Arsenal the cup and to make Rio and little Ronaldo cry like the bitches they are.
Freddie drank a bottle of champagne on his own as the team walked around celebrating with the fans, the drunkard, but that’s normal for Swedes if my experience of those fuckers is anything to go by. But great celebrations from the team, especially as they knew we’d pulled it out of the fire. On performance there’s no way we deserved to win that final but as we all know performance means nothing unless you put the ball in the back of the net and United couldn’t do that. How it must hurt them this morning to look back on yesterday and see us as the winners. How we must laugh at their hurt.
Any cup final win is special, it gives you that warm glow inside, but this one was up there with the best. It was an unforgettable game, an insipid Arsenal performance playing a type of football I hope I never see us play again but we beat United, who have been a thorn in our side this season and that’s what makes it memorable. It’s great to see young guys like Cesc, van Persie and Philippe Senderos pick up their first piece of silverware. It’s nice that the others can add this medal to their collections. Nice to see Edu sign off with a win however it came about. And how must Jens Lehmann feel? Out of the team at the turn of the year and you have to doff your cap to the boss because that little shake-up obviously worked. His form since he came back into the team has been brilliant. He made some great saves yesterday and he saved the Scholes penalty which, when it boils down to it, was the difference between the two sides and won us the cup. Well done, Jens!
Cue tears from Rio, who was nowhere near the penalties the big cock, and little Ronaldo whose weak chin meant his salty tears of despair left puddles on the Cardiff turf. Quite hilarious to watch and there was some talk afterwards that Sir Alex refused to go up and get his medal because he was so pissed off. All I do is repeat the words of yesterday’s post-match blog: Shove it up your holes, you cunts.
I’m not linking to anything this morning – if you want more reaction and articles follow the News Now link on the right hand side there. I’m going to get the Sunday papers, get a hair of the dog and a sandwich and sit in the sun and enjoy the fact we won the cup. And hope my head stops hurting.
Well done, boys. WE LOVE YOU ARSENAL, WE DO…..
