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Two Punch Ups, Wonder Goal, Saved Pen and an Adrenalin boost
Eddy feels the lurve
By Boris Mellor
December 20 2009
What more could you want from a game? Perhaps some decent football in the first 45 minutes you might reply. For most of the first 45 the tippy tappies were tippy tapping with the occasional off target powder puff shot. Hull were defending en masse and it was not looking too good.
Nasri's act of genius
As Arsene admitted afterwards the team were heavy legged and sluggish (well something like that) due to their exertions of the last week. It was then that Nasri had a brilliant idea why not give the team an adrenalin boost. So he trod on Garcia's foot and started one of those mass punch ups that all WWF fans love. It was a calculated risk he could have been sent off, but got a yellow. It was well worth it. Act of genius you query? Well it's a fine line between genius and stupidity.
Denilson's Exocet
The mayhem and resulting adrenalin woke up Arsenal at long last, but Wenger insists the turning point was the Denilson wonder kick. He might be right, but Diaby seemed more determined after the handbags and ran straight at the Hull defence, it did the trick winning the free kick. Tim Stillman tells me we haven't scored directly from a free kick for two years (headers and knock ons, but not direct). It was time for desperate measures, give it to a Brazilian - they know what to do. It was a strange free kick, it travelled at mid height and seemed to move about as if radio controlled. From my seat I couldn't understand why the keeper didn't get to it, it must have been the spin, or perhaps it was radio controlled.
The crowd had to change its half time talk
We had just finished writing our hair dryer, and tea cup throwing speech to the team, but now we had to change it to well done lads, more of the same and they will be done for. So instead of berating them we cheered them off as if we had just won a cup.
The penalty that never was
It now seemed fair set for a good victory as Hull had to come out, when Gordon Bennett (It's Steve Bennett. Editor. I know you twit, it's a saying. Boris) the ref gives a pen. I had a great seat upper tier 14 rows back right on the centre line, it was no pen. MOTD replays clearly showed that Silvestre was innocent. Now we all expect Brazilians to score but not Almunia to save penalties. But save it he did, if goals change games then so does missing them.
Eduardo shown the lurve
Eddy was having a good game but suffering a bad dose of Adebarndooritis, he had already missed several cows' bottoms with a banjo, albeit stylishly. (Bottoms? Editor. Yes bottoms NewsNow is very strict on bad language)
However the crowd did not berate him instead they hypnotized him, "you will score, you will score", they gently chanted. Well not quite, they did the Eduardo song you know the one, "Eduardo, Eduardo, Eduardo, Eduardo" a bit like a crowd of drunks waiting in a mini cab office after midnight. One or two new attendees unfamiliar with the words managed to pick it up with the help of the bouncing ball and soon joined in. It really rang out around the ground, it's fashionable to slag off Arsenal fans, but at time they can be very kind with players off form. Look how kind they have been to Theo for the last two years.
Enveloped in such love Eduardo could do nothing else but score from Diaby's excellent run and cross. But he couldn't miss from there you cry? Well I have seen Adebarndoor and Freddy miss from similar positions.
Tango Tango Whats the Score
Christmas had arrived at last (Surely 19 December is not that late. Editor. I dunno my Co Op has been selling mince pies since October. Boris) and the crowd celebrated with all their favourite festive songs. Full of goodwill, and half time pints, they sang, "you are getting sacked in the morning", followed by, "stand up if you hate Phil Brown", and most stood up, but my favourite was, "tango tango what's the score?"
Diaby then put the icing on the cake by smashing in a shot that Myhill could only parry as it sailed in. Game over.
Grinding out results
Well the team might not be on good form but they have managed seven out of nine points in the pre Xmas week, Man U and Liverpool have only managed three out of nine, and Chelsea 4 out of six at home.
However don't overdo the Xmas Pudding Villa got 9 out of 9!!!
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It will be fatal that when Lady Luck deserted 'em and they are left with too much to do when 2-0 down before half-time.
WHy cna't Wenger get 'em to focus from the very 1st minute?
a great british night.
"When we had to suffer the team is a lion because they suffer together." 4 July 2020 at Wolverhampton Wanderers
Arteta on his team's first away victory at a club above them in the Premiership since September 2015 at Leicester.
for them.
So next up is another proper test-Villa. Nothing less
than 3 points lads.
"When we had to suffer the team is a lion because they suffer together." 4 July 2020 at Wolverhampton Wanderers
Arteta on his team's first away victory at a club above them in the Premiership since September 2015 at Leicester.
Can We Now Trust The Process 🤔🤷🏿♀️ or Should We Still Remain Cautious 🙇🏿♀️
"When we had to suffer the team is a lion because they suffer together." 4 July 2020 at Wolverhampton Wanderers
Arteta on his team's first away victory at a club above them in the Premiership since September 2015 at Leicester.
"When we had to suffer the team is a lion because they suffer together." 4 July 2020 at Wolverhampton Wanderers
Arteta on his team's first away victory at a club above them in the Premiership since September 2015 at Leicester.
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