The Finish Line

- We're finally at the finish line. Even though the team has surpassed most expectations, there is a twinge of disappointment in the air. We cannot feel warm about the past few weeks, but let's not wipe away all of the earlier moments from this year.

- When I wrote that the draw against Barcelona at the Emirates might be the high point of the year, I was right. In the second half of that match, Cesc stood up and played for our shirt. That is something to treasure forever. He deserves a warm round of applause tomorrow when he will presumably take a lap of honor with the first team after the match.

- Suggestions that there should be a mass walkout at the 80 minute mark should be ridiculed on the spot. Nobody deserves that kind of treatment, not even our goalkeepers. Imagine if such a stupid thing did occur, do you think Cesc would want to stay? Would any players want to come to play for a club with such bitter and deluded fans?

- Whether or not Gallas appears tomorrow, it seems as though the next week will tell us whether or not he'll stay with us. I maintain that it would be easier to give into his contract demands than find a player of his ilk, but his mind is his mind. If he leaves, that's another player we would definitely have to replace.

- Mikael Silvestre brief stint looks to be at a close. I was baffled when I heard we had signed him, because it came out of the blue. Regardless of his spotty play on the pitch, he has probably provided wise words for some of our younger players.

- I could say many things right now, but I just want to watch the game tomorrow before I delve into the problems of our team.

- We need a point against Fulham tomorrow, and with that, we would finally celebrate St. Totteringham's Day. It has taken far too long.

Who Looks Stupid Now?

Manchester City blew it and I am glad.

Back in September, City fans went nuts when their team beat Arsenal 4-2. At the start of the season they viewed Arsenal and not Liverpool as the team they were confident of replacing for 4th place in the Premiership.

Arsenal's only purchase last summer was Thomas Vermaelen for 10 million pounds. Manchester City on the other hand spent 118 million on new players. Their fans became cocky and arrogant, confident that money will buy them success.

City's belief, was that once they had secured a Champions League spot, the superstars would follow. Kaka, Ronaldo, Ribery, Fabregas, and Torres.

This dream will have to wait another season and City will have to make do playing in the Europa League with the likes of Burnley.

I'm not happy that Spurs have a chance of making the Champions League group stages. However, they deserve to finish fourth and have done so without the crass spending power of Manchester City.

If City had qualified for the Champions League qualifiers, there is no doubt that they would go on an aggressive spending spree, using the highest wages and Europe's premier competition as bait. Now all they can offer is the world's highest wages.

A mercenary culture will prevail at City, where players with the same attitude as Adebayor will join, with money their only motivation.

Players such as Stephen Ireland will leave and prove City wrong by prospering at another club, where their talents will be utilized more effectively and where they will feel wanted because they will be an important component in that clubs progression for honours.

City are the Paris Hilton of football - a Paris Hilton that has fallen in love with Prince William, who would never consider dating such a materialistic woman of abundant wealth because she has no class. That's how the likes of Torres and Kaka view City. A club who last won a major trophy back in 1976 and who last played in a final back in 1981.

No doubt City will spend big again this summer, but not making the top four is a massive blow to signing the likes of Ribery et al.

It's also a massive blow to football in the northwest. London now has three clubs in the Champions League next season. Fulham are in the Europa League final. A power shift has occurred. It may only be temporary but with Spurs about to build a new 60,000 seater stadium, it could eventually be permanent.

Spurs need to say a big thank you to Damien Comolli. After all, he only signed 7 of the players that beat City 1-0. Sure, Harry Redknapp has added resilience to those players, but he joined a club that had very good players.

The plus side to Spurs making the Champions League qualifiers is that it will force Wenger to act regarding transfers because he knows that Spurs can now offer Champions League football and a life in the capital.

Keep it Arsenal

The New _pur_

_omeone told me that _pur_ have clinched a CL place for next term. I couldn't be more apathetic. Yet I am happy that Man City have not. We don't need another Chel_ea.

Yeah, _ome of my key_ broke. I need a new laptop.

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No Mas

- The Blackburn match was supposed to be televised on ESPN2. Instead, the match ended up not being televised in the US. Somebody at the pub had a laptop, so we used it to stream the match. Fifteen men huddled around a 15 inch computer monitor whose wallpaper was of the owner's Hebrew tattoos. The stream was solid, but I couldn't see much of what was going on. I knew when we scored, I knew when we conceded, and I knew when we lost. And that was that. Usually, I'll try to watch the match in full later in cases like this, so I can get a full impression of the game. But this time around, I chose not to. Can this season please end?

- What more is there to say? Fabianski was fouled by Jason Roberts, who bragged about Blackburn's tactics to The Sun today, on the first goal, but our defense was completely all over the place. Our players don't know when to track players; they only know how to follow the ball. And for the second goal, all I can hope is that Wenger sees that we have to buy a goalkeeper. That unfortunately isn't the public face of Wenger though, but let's hope he's playing poker.

- Fabianski being a lights out goalkeeper in training tells me something else about our team. It means that nobody is giving him a hard time in training. Nobody is challenging him. Nobody is putting their body in the way in the manner these grafting teams will do. We don't want to emulate these teams, but we have to prepare for them. What Blackburn did yesterday was no surprise.

- Vela did nothing. Walcott did close to nothing. It's bad that we have a ton of injuries; it's worse when most of our players who fight back are amongst those injuries. But where is the fight in Samir Nasri that he showed earlier in the season? What happened to these guys?

- As for the picture on the top of this post, you might as well enjoy something right now. Because in terms of Arsenal, it's terrible. Even the almighty ladies lost to Everton yesterday. And now, we get to watch Sp*rs attempt to join us in the Champions League. Lovely. Wake me up when the transfer window opens.

Deja Fucking Vu

Blackburn are a horrible team with a manger who makes them play disgusting football. If football has a cancer, then Sam Allardyce is it. His tactics are simple. Kick high balls into the Arsenal box and put the Arsenal goalkeeper under pressure. Foul the Arsenal players at any given opportunity and score from set pieces, especially corners by putting your two biggest players on the toes of Lukasz Fabianski.

Fabianski is shit. Once again he has lost Arsenal a game. I'm not blaming him for Cuntburn's first goal because I believe he was fouled by Jason Roberts.

Every time the ball went into the Arsenal box, the Cuntburn players looked to elbow or barge Arsenal players out of the way. It was constant, consistent, cynical little fouls by Cuntburn. Eventually, the referee is going to let one go and he did with Cuntburn's first goal. True, there was no-one marking David Dunne at the far post but the foul should have been called beforehand.

Critics of Fabianski will say that his punch from the corner was poor but Roberts had unbalanced him by deliberately barging him when he went for the ball. Sportsmanship and players coached by Sam Allardyce are like oil and water. This was summed up by Cuntburn's Australian midfielder Vince Grella. He was was booked in the first half for pulling at Eboue's shirt when the Ivorian went on a run into Cuntburn's half. Then late in the first half he looked to see where Van Persie was before giving him a nasty elbow in the head. The referee did nothing.

Allardyce has a lot of nerve in his pre-match press conference saying that Blackburn are not a long ball team. It's like the Taliban saying that they're not Muslim.

An example of Cuntburn playing the long-ball was their goalkeeper Paul Robinson taking a free-kick close to the half-way line in the 82nd minute. They played long balls all day, looking to cause Arsenal panic in their penalty area so that they could win a corner and crowd Fabianski out of his own penalty box.

This tactic worked.

Blackburn's winner was scored by Samba who had a free header standing on the goal line. That can't be allowed to happen. Fabianski looks like a woman goalkeeper finding herself playing against physically imposing men. He was feeble. I don't care what Wenger says about Fabianski, the fact is that he's shit and has the presence of a mosquito. He's not strong enough for top flight football.

Arsenal have now only won one Premiership game with Fabianski starting in goal.

But the Polish clown wasn't the only non-performer today. Carlos Vela did zero. Theo Walcont was his usual frustrating self. His final ball into the Cuntburn box was sloppy and he couldn't get past Gael Givet. I know that he's only 20 but then Mike Tyson was only 19 when he was Heavyweight Champion of the world and Pele was only 17 when he scored two goals in the 1958 World Cup final.

This is Arsenal we are talking about. A club where the finished article is required not some young English sprinter who has bags of potential but can't past Gael fucking Givet.

Chris Eagles of Burnley would have been more of a threat than Theo Walcott today.

The only good that Walcott can give you is winning a corner. But the Arsenal players failed to stand in front of the Cuntburn keeper and put him under any kind of pressure. That said, Arsenal did score from a corner in the first half.

Last word: Cuntburn fans are fucking inbreds. They have one chant: "Same Old Arsenal, Always Cheating." And they boo. At the end of the game they celebrated Cuntburn's win as if they had reached the Champions League Final. So did the Cuntburn players.

It was depressing to say the least.

Keep it Arsenal

Winning The League

The team that wins the league can fuck off.

And if it's United, they can fuck off twice.

Let's be clear though, I don't care for Chelsea any at all.

I just hate United.

Keep the faith

The 1st Signing of the Summer