Of course I am pretty excited for the North London Derby tomorrow at Shite Hart Lane, hence the title. To make it more interesting, Manchester United has just beaten City 2-1 at Old Trafford. I have never been happy in my life seeing United win except for today. Not letting City have those 3 points means there will a minimum of 5 points difference after tomorrow’s North London Derby. I am pretty confident we gonna improve that point difference to 8 f*king points!
We need to win tomorrow and we will! We are in some great form, Spu*s have been shit and ESR is back. A backline of White, Gabriel, Saliba and Zinchenko.. fully fit midfield of Partey and Xhaka and the front 4 of Saka, Odegaard, Martinelli and Eddie will going to be too much for the Tottenham. Our Captain, Martin, has won the Premier League Player Of The Month and Mikel, the manager of the month for Nov/Dec; Saka and Martinelli has been high on confidence and playing some of the best football of their life; Eddie has been scoring and didn’t let us miss Jesus till now. I’m sure they would be buzzing for a North London Derby and I’m sure they all want to score tomorrow.
On top of that, we will have ESR on bench, who comes as a sub and makes an instant impact. We have a fully fit Tomiyasu and Tierney in case we need them. Midfield has been a concern but I am not in a mood to complain today.
There are couple of things to worry. We haven’t won against Spu*s in our last 8 PL games at Sh*te Hart Lane, having lost 6 and sharing points on other 2 occasions. We need to change that. The other concerning thing is the refereeing and Kane/Son going down like they love the smell of the grass. If you are an Arsenal fan, you know at some point there will a tiny touch from one of our players, a dive from Kane or Son and Referee pointing to the spot. VAR will not find it important to take a look, or even if they do, they will use only couple of angles which lets the penalty stand and they score. Unfortunately, that’s what happens!
Irrespective of it, I am excited for the Derby. A 4.30 PM start for our UK readers (10 PM Indian Standard Time) is a perfect way to end weekend with a win and 8 point lead at the top.
Lets do it, lets thrash them! Lets go for the league.
Keane looks like he’s angling for a role in the next reboot of Ned Kelly. Ever read Peter Carey’s ‘true history of the Kelly gang’ kp? Unusual and enjoyable.
I see a profligate Arsenal winning one nil. Combination of wasted chances and De Gea brilliance. Ramsdale to be redundant.
Just hope Xhaka doesn’t decide to put manners on McTomminay.
Wolves didn’t give us a run for our money today at all. The city chase is on. Time to hit back!!
Highlights from LG today. This from legendary communicator, future pullitzer prize winner and chief Arteta fanboy Pedro
Arsenal needs to make themselves bonified title contenders.
Duh! Obviously not a Latin scholar and still not qualified to talk about himself in the 3rd person (as he’s started to).
And there’s a new poster there called ‘Nelson Vivas’s weak moustache’ which I quite liked.
Fuck. The pink bomber jackets are back!
Good to see Cesc. I still love him. Never blamed him for going to Chelski, rightly or wrongly I put that one on Wenger. Was Arsenal’s greatest loss since losing chippy at his peak.
I gave up on Peter Carey after ‘Oscar and Lucinda ‘ but I’ll look it up.
Ever seen Dusk til Dawn? Keane would go down well in the Titty Twister…
De Gea is Manure’s Almunia… You can take it to the bank.
We’re rampant and looking good.
Good start! Fair enough but I do BH lame Cesc over going to Barca. It was Incean in its awfulness.
Tony—as you must be well-aware by now, I’m rarely at a loss for words, so my “contraction” had far more to do with issues related to my online conditioning than being fearful of offering up too much personal information…that said, I do appreciate your thoughful and insightful words…over the years, I’ve noticed that it’s become rather commonplace for some to exaggerate their personal accomplishments as a means to either big-up other posters or as an obvious counter to those who wrongly suggest “who are we” to second guess the actions of this or our former manager…as such, when I reread my comment, I felt that it pertinent, rightly or wrongly, to make a minor adjustment in the wording used, so as to maybe make my statement more palatable for those whom I might have rubbed the wrong way… of course, you can’t please everyone all the time, but I fully understand how posting is a very nuanced undertaking, so sometimes expressing some self-awareness and/or clarity can provide some oft-needed context for those on the receiving end of the equation…thanks again and take care
Our normal 20 to 30 minutes of blistering pace has been limited to 8 minutes.
Going to be a tough game
Takes till now
1- Man U got a hang of Martinelli feints at high speed. Defender not committing
2- Plan is to wind up Gabriel and try to get number advantage when he gets sent off
3- Arteta not wised up yet
Now we’ll see what we’re made of
Fucking Rashford again. Test of character now that’s for sure.
No need to panic, and little that could have been done about that shot. Partey was trying to thread Saka through so no fault there for me.
Beauty ❤️
That’s better and we’re made of strong stuff.
Almunia you ok? 🙏
The speed of that sends all the right signals. You’ve upset us. You’re in for it!!
bright start, but a little too eager to sit-in as soon as possession is conceded in our own end…simply can’t allow Rashford time and space, as he’s on a heater right now…several times already this match our momentum has been negatively impacted by Xhaka’s incessant need to pass everything to our forwards back foot, so they have to stop and regroup before pushing forward…would love to see the percentage difference between ManU shots/shots on target versus ours, as we must become vastly more clinical in and around the box…I feel a bit for Marts, as he’s definitely going to feel the pressure of Trossardwaiting in the wings, as there’s no way our manager would be savvy enough to use our new acquisiton in place of Xhaka…nice to see an equalizer though!!
Our set piece coach is worth his wright in gold, not to detract from Eddie fox – in-the-box movement
1-1
We are back
Eddie Unket. Wan-Biscuitbarrel rooted to the spot. Headed goal!
Ferguson = Father Jack = driiink/girls/feck