Untold Awards 2: The worst player of the year who has played against Arsenal. « Untold Arsenal: Arsenal News. Supporting the Lord Wenger; coach of the decade
By Billy the Dog McGraw.
A little while ago, while celebrating Robin Van Persie’s Double Player of the Year success, the idea came up that we should have our Untold Awards.
These were duly set out, and now we are running through the results. We have already announced that Francis Coquelin wins the award for the player most likely to break through big time into the first team.
Now we move onto the award for the worst player of the year who has played against Arsenal.
We got a wide range of suggestions – I have included one or two comments from the nominations list which I thought were particularly pertinent.
- Nasri
- Barton
- Mario Balotelli
- Paul Robinson (letting in 7 to Arsenal at the Emirates)
- Ledley King (“Walcott twisted him inside out during the 2nd half,like a pretzel.
- Torres (“impressively poor”)
- John Terry (“the sight of him headbutting the floor as RVP scored was priceless”
- Armand Traore
- Aguero (“I had hoped for a better performance from him but he was too busy hiding behind kos”)
- The entire Tottenham team for throwing 13pts away
- El Shaarawy (Ac Milan) for the second game.
- Rafael Potential
- Gareth Bale (“he was pathetic and of course diving all over the place”).
- Scott Parker
- Andy Carroll.
- Alan Hutton
There was also a nomination for Zamora – “we played against him thrice, 0 wins, 1 draw, 2 losses! hurt us the most” – which may well be true, but isn’t quite what we meant.
Choosing one person is difficult, so we initially produced a short list of men who all got a lot of nominations:
- Nasri
- Barton
- Mario Balotelli
- Ledley King
- John Terry
- The entire Tottenham team
- Gareth Bale
An impressive bunch you will agree. We decided we couldn’t go with the whole Tottenham team since that was slightly outside of the remit of the question. But we’ll give them an honourable mention.
Nasri could have got it but our feeling in the end was that he was more annoying than anything else, and has by and large played fairly averagely all season – when he has had a game that is. No one mentioned Cesc leaving – perhaps because it was felt he was honourable and anyway, didn’t actually win anything apart from a fairly insignificant cup.
Barton we felt had just be obnoxious and disgraceful for too long, Balotelli really does require mediacl help, and for that he has some sympathy. There was also sympathy for Ledley King since it is not right to laugh at crippled old men. And Bale… well Bale certainly could have won it because he is supposed to be so good. But he gave us a great laugh with his supposed statements in the last week about leaving Tottenham if they don’t get into the Champs League. Such is life.
But in the end we went with good old John Terry. Alleged racist, a man who seemingly sold visits to the training ground for £20k a shot, whose father seems to have an involvement with drug dealing and whose mother has been cautioned for shop lifting and then had the temerity to claim that she didn’t understand that this meant that she’d admitted and was going to appeal and then… well, didn’t.
Oh we could go on and on about J Terry, and the nature of a country that actually lets him play for them and be their captain. But this is a family web site, so that’s enough.
The winner of the Untold Award for Worst Player of the Year to have Played Against Arsenal is…
John Terry
with an honourable mention to the entire Tottenham Hotspur team for throwing away a 13 point lead.
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