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.
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Tony
That’s a brilliant, balanced write up. You’ve successfully captured what I suspect a lot of us are thinking today. I don’t mean to sound pompous but I reckon it should stand alone as an LiR reaction to such a big win. Just like Almunia has placed his pieces on here as actual articles, you should send an edited version (ie taking out the non-game related stuff) and send it to Ambarish for publication. Your version of events last night was a much more fulfilling read than was on the Guardian. Really well written piece mate. I’m impressed.
You mention flashbacks to an earlier game vs Manure? Was it 1997 (or was it the Lebanese resin playing tricks on your mind)? Almunia and I were discussing it on here post match last night. David Platt of all people, or old Mekon Head as we used to call him.
Poor old Pumpkin. I think he deserves some smoked salmon if you can get it in BKK!
https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/The_Mekon
An actual picture of the David Platt subbuteo figurine prior to being painted in either Crewe, Manure, villa., Sampdoria, Juve or Arsenal colours.
… Happy as a Turkey waking up in Boxing Day. Nice!
Thanks for the kinds words, K’phobe I’ll do that. Around that time and the Invincible’s. Ode has always reminded me of Bergkamp’s play. I know Bergy was a striker but he was far more as we all know.