We haven’t stopped yet… there’s still time to have more thoughts on the Tottenham game. « Untold Arsenal: Arsenal News, supporting the club, the players and the manager
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By Walter Broeckx
Well, well well. It looks as if we are developing a few lucky charms these days.
Let us start with our regular reader Shard. Boy oh boy what a time to come to London. I don’t know when you are going back home again but please reconsider your plans. I do insist. You must and if you are not willing to stay out of your own free will I think someone should kidnap you and hold you here. And just take you to the Emirates whenever we play. Do you have tickets for the Milan game? If not I expect one of our readers who has tickets to give it to you so you can be in the stadium to see us go further in the Champions League.
All jokes aside I think Shard will be the most privileged Gooner on earth these days. 7 against Blackburn, 5 against the Totts… I’m sure he will have enjoyed every minute of it (apart from the first half hour yesterday maybe….)
Another lucky charm is me having a cold. Okay against Blackburn the cold was a bit more than just a cold but it started with the just average cold we get now and then. And just recovered from being sick I got another cold this week. Not as bad as the first one but still I felt sick the whole week and again we trashed the opponents in the Emirates.
So if anyone has a cold during the next weeks, just come over to see me and pass it on and I will take it from you. Because after games like this you don’t feel sick anymore.
Let us move on to a bit more serious things. Not that I really feel in the mood to be serious about anything at all for the moment. Sunday was the first time in ….well I can’t remember how many years that I was not able to see a game live. I had my own game that started half an hour after the Arsenal game. I was a bid sad about it but as it was an important game for myself so I had to go. I asked Tony to give me the final score if he would be so kind. He would do it he told me.
So when at half time of my own game I came in my phone was buzzing for what happened to be the 5th time in one hour. The last message said : Rosicky 3-2 up. I then looked at the other messages and found out that we had been 0-2 down at one stage. And now 3-2 up. I just knew we would go further at that moment. And beat the hell out of them. After my own game coming in the dressing room seeing 2 more message. So that could be 2 more goals. But for whom? I opened the last message and it said : 5-2, Parker off, 3 mins to go.
This was beyond my wildest dreams. Trashing the best Tottenham team in 50 years in our worst season in a very long time. From that moment on the day was one long celebration and feeling good. The only bad thing was the fact that the after game reception and meal took too long for my liking before I could go home and watch the game.
But I did watch the game. I saw the 12 Tottenham players celebrating the first goal and watch the Tottenham player dressed in black to the right of the picture. http://www.arsenalnews.co.uk/video-is-ref-mike-dean-celebrating-spurs-goal-against-arsenal/link/114563/ I then saw the dive (you were right in your message Tony it was a dive) from Bale and of course Dean would give them the penalty to win them the game, they thought.
And then I saw some kind of anger in the players. Some kind of rage. It was as if they were furious about that injustice done to them once again by Dean. It was as if all the players said : enough is enough. Like Sagna said after the game: “In our own stadium, against the ENEMY, we could NOT LOSE!” Bacary, a true Gunner and boy it is great to have him back at his best
And so the Gunners rose above the Spurs. They rose above the ref (the assistants did a rather good job in my humble opinion). And they went from strength to strength. We just scored 5 goals in half an hour. Just like against Aston Villa in the FA cup we just played them from the pitch until we got the game in the bag.
I think it is terrible to pick a player out to name him man of the match. All the players on the pitch played with a passion and with a big heart. On arsenal.com Rosicky is getting most of the votes and I think this is great for him. After that long time out with injury, and working so hard to get back to his level and finally he seems to be getting there. After all the abuse received by many fans about getting rid of him and declarations of dead wood that had to be chopped. Great to see him perform like he did at his arrival and great to see glimpses back of the Rosicky from old days.
Looking on the internet I took the way to the sewers of the Arsenal blogosphere. I just had to see what they were saying. And can you imagine that some “fans” sorry you can’t call them fans. Let alone call them supporters. That some of them were angry when we scored 3-2. They said: “oh damn now we won’t get rid of Wenger.” Can you f*cking believe this????
We just came back from 0-2 down and get 3-2 up and they say: shit, we will not get rid of Wenger.
This site has always been very supportive for Wenger. It is on the top of the site. And when we lose we get some people coming over saying that we support FC Arsene and not FC Arsenal. But my boy there are people out there who want us to lose even against the Spurs because it could be good for Arsène Wenger if we win.
Coming back from 0-2 down and go 3-2 up is not just good for Wenger my dear sewer rats from down below. It is most and for all good for Arsenal. It is good for the football club and good for the supporters. And if you cannot celebrate that fact then it is time to leave this club as a supporter. Or maybe it is time to show your true colours and admit that you are a supporter from another team.
Any supporter who has even the slightest doubt when we came back, because it might be good for Wenger, is more obsessed about Wenger than we maybe are at Untold. Of course it was a great day for Wenger. And I admit that I really liked this for him personally. But this was more than about Wenger.
This was about restoring the pride. This was about all players on the pitch wanting to win this game. For themselves, for the fans. Who knows even for the manager. This was all about players wanting to let the ref see that even his cheating wouldn’t be enough to make them lose.
Last year almost on the day we got the biggest blow of the last years when we lost the Carling cup final under Dean. Maybe this game today will be the start of a new Arsenal. An Arsenal that can fight back against all the odds and against the combined forces of the FA and the PGMOL. The message has been sent : we will not surrender even being 0-2 down against the best team in the world and the best manager in the world according to some who pretend to know and against one of the most biased refs in the EPL.
3 wins in a row in the EPL in the last 3 games. Scored 14 conceded 4. 4 goals conceded from a great free kick, a Mertesacker injury slip, a deviated shot and a wrong given penalty. But we fought back with heart and passion. And boy that is all I can ask from my Gunners on the field.
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