Arsenal v Tottenham. Can my heart take the strain? « Untold Arsenal: Arsenal News, supporting the club, the players and the manager
By William Le Dog McGraw
So we now play the neighbours and of course we have players who are doubtful…
Arteta has hurt his hip, Chamberlain has hurt his hip, Giroud has a possible hamstring, Ramsey has the groin strain, Sagna might not want to have his leg broken again, and Walcott has a buttock injury, which I think is just about the first time I have written that.
Definitively out in order of possible reappearance are Gervinho, Gibbs, Diaby, Rosicky, Fabianski
Cazorla is not injured but is tired having flown to Spain, flown to Panama, looked at the canal, sat on a bench, flown to Spain, flown to England.
Mertesacker played 90 mins for Germany against the Netherlands, but Podolski only played half. Koscielny played the full game for France, Giroud played 60 minutes. Jenkinson played a bit, and so did Wilshere.
The team thus could be…
Szczsczscycz
Sagna Mertesacker Koscielny Vermaelen
Arteta Wilshere
Carzola
Walcott Giroud Podolski
Possibles maybes and who knows…
Mannone, Djourou, Jenkinson, André Santos, Gnabry, Ramsey, Chamberlain, Squillaci, Frimpong, Chamakh, Arshavin
So what if anything do we know about this game?
This is the game that has been drawn a lot. This is the game where a team takes a 2-0 lead and then goes on to lose. This is our worst start to the season since 1982.
Quite honestly I haven’t got a clue, so I went to ask Dennis Bergkamp on his allotment at Enfield, and he told me that Jack is the key. That was it. “Jack is the key” he said, and no more.
The ref is Webb and he did our game against Liverpool He is the ref famous for having a game of two halves.
Here is his summary from last season’s analysis
“He did 15 different teams last season and we can see that 3 of those teams had a bias lower than his overall bias. They can be rather satisfied with his performances.
“Teams who are on the bad side of things for Webb are Chelsea, QPR, Liverpool, Fulham and on top of it all is Arsenal.
“A rather interesting thing is that in the un-weighted decisions Manchester United is rather a mid-team table for Webb. There are other teams that have a better bias score from Webb like Swansea, Tottenham, Newcastle, Stoke, Norwich and on top of it is Sunderland.”
So not much hope there.
I think everything depends on
a) how well Jack does
b) does Cazorla really feel ok after spending three weeks flying back and forth across the Atlantic
c) will Sagna be nervous
d) what happen to Walcott’s buttock.
To all these questions I have no answer.
Last year some Arsenal fans said nasty things about Adebayor while some Tottenham fans said nasty things about Mr Wenger. Now they are saying that any repeat of that will be punished. Will it? I doubt it? When stewards can’t even stop people shouting “Cunt” in the family enclosure my belief level in their competence is at about the same as the ability of anyone to press a cappuccino button in the bar.
The statement from the club is palpably untrue. It says, “Arsenal and Tottenham do not tolerate discrimination of any sort, whether it be on the pitch or in the stands. “ That is not true.
Tottenham have also said, “Flags and banners will be allowed with the appropriate wording and these will be checked before entry by Police/Stewards.”
Yeah yeah.
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