Arsenal v We aint got enough money to buy a ticket « Untold Arsenal: Arsenal News, supporting the club, the players and the manager
By Billy the Dog McGraw
It is wonderful how when an article appears under the name “Sir Hardly Anyone” some people still take it seriously. Goodness, any moment now and someone is going to think I’m real too.
But enough about the garden shed; the last I heard from Dennis B. was that Olivier Giroud is a bit of a doubt. Abou Diaby is fit, but won’t play for another week.
Big news in the allotments is that Manchester City returned 912 unsold tickets (not 911 not 913 but exactly 912 to Arsenal). Maybe they don’t like our prices. Maybe it is because they are six points behind where they were this time last year. Maybe they don’t like the price of beer. Maybe they don’t like London. Maybe they don’t like Arsenal.
Maybe its because Yaya Toure has gone to Africa along with our old pal Kolo. Aguero is out and so is the delightful Mr Nasri.
But it is not all cut and served on the dinner plates for HH Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. He is the Deputy Prime Minister of the UAE, Minister of Presidential Affairs part of the clique that runs Abu Dhabi (not to be confused with Abou Diaby.)
HH Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed bin Zayed Al Nahyan’s team have not scored at the Emirates in the league for six years while their last win chez nous involved Rodney Marsh. We did actually get HH Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed bin Zayed Al Nahyan to come and meet Dennis and I at the Enfield dig-and-grow emporium but he spoke in Arabic, which neither of us is very good at, so it didn’t go too well.
So I’ll have to make the rest up. There have been four red cards in the last five league games against the Sheikh’s team which is just one less than the number of goals. We do get penalties, but miss them.
And so to the team:
Szczesny
Sagna, Mertesacker, Vermaelen, Gibbs
Arteta, Wilshere
Cazorla
Oxlade-Chamberlain, Walcott, Podolski
Down on the beach enjoying the winter sun:
Mannone or Martínez, Rosicky, Coquelin, Arshavin, Jenkinson, Ramsey, Giroud (maybe), Gnabry, Koscielny.
The last three games were were:
Manchester City 1 Arsenal 1 (Koscielny), September 2012
Arsenal 1 (Arteta) Manchester City 0, Premier League, April 2012
Manchester City 1 (Silva) Arsenal 0, Premier League, December 2011
So yes we’ll all be a bit nervous, but actually in the current Premier League form listings we are third (one loss in last six). But we have only won nine all season which is a little less exciting overall.
However here is a good one, we have scored more goals by this point of the season than last season – when we had the un-replaceable RVP in the side! And Man C are six points lower than at this time last season. But again they have not won at the Ems or Highbury since 1975.
So what’s it to be?
Four pints for me and one for the dog should do it.