november 27th
3 fantastic goals gave us 3 points in a 3-0 win yesterday but it wasn’t all one way traffic as Blackburn caused us problems right throughout the game.
The first came from Cesc Fabregas who curled in a fine shot from outside the area then came what is probably the most Arsenal goal we score. Pires played a beautiful ball through to Thierry Henry who arrived at pace, took it first time and finished with aplomb into the bottom corner.
That was another record for Thierry, his 100th goal at Highbury. Congratulations to him and all the players who have helped him reach it.
The final goal came in the last couple of minutes. Robin van Persie showed again what quality he has. With the ball out on the right he cut inside two defenders, resisted Robbie Savage’s attempts to take him down, got to just inside in the box and from an acute angle curled a brilliant shot in off the far post. He is such a threat and it’s great to see his progress. I think that’s 7 goals in his last 7 games now (although I could be wrong).
As I said Blackburn had chances but didn’t take them, Jens made a couple of good saves and for me he’s been as good as any keeper in the league but the thing everyone will remember is Robbie Savage being the absolute cock we all know he is. In an altercation with José the Spaniard brushed his beatufiul, Afghan hound hair and Savage clutched his face like it had been ripped off. An embarassment to his club, the fans and his team-mates surely. A Blackburn fan emailed during the week to take me to task for my mostly tongue in cheek portrayal of his club as a bunch of kickers. All very polite but I mentioned to him that any team with Savage in it can’t really take any moral high ground and so it proved. The more you see of him the more Dion Dublin can be held in legendary status for headbutting him a couple of seasons ago.
There was even a nice moment at the end between van Persie and Andy Todd which was good to see but Savage’s histrionics are utterly shameful.
Afterwards AW praised Thierry’s achievement saying “The records witness his outstanding quality. I played a few games and never scored 100 goals, not even on different grounds!” and was happy with our performance saying “I sense in training that our belief and confidence are returning. There’s great spirit in the side.”
So we’re up to second, my team won 3-1 yesterday against a team above us in the table so all in all it’s been a very satisfying football weekend. Enjoy the rest of it, Arsefans.
