VERY LATE TOTTENHAM/WIGAN REACTION!

That was one of the worst weeks I've had as an Arsenal supporter! Thankfully I'm finally over it hence this late post so apologies for not writing anything sooner!

As I explained in one of my previous posts I was there to witness the Scum slip up against Pompey, literally, but I was also there to witness our boys fuck it all up at Shite Hart Lane in the box... and luckily I wasn't at Wigan!

These weeks are hard to take, in football, nothing goes right for you, nothing makes sense, you start to wonder why you even like football then you just end up sulking until you hear a voice in your head shout, "just forget it you twat, take your mind off it then in a couple of days you'll be fine!" So I did just that!

At work on Thursday I didn't get much stick. I was lucky. I did, however, explain to someone that they shouldn't take the piss out of me as I didn't say anything about the Pompey result but that was the closest I came to defending myself. Other than that I was pretty calm and agreed with most of everyone else that on that shitty Wednesday night, we just weren't at the races.

Sol Campbell was my man of the match, for both teams. I am the most biased person in the world when it comes to anything involving Arsenal so some may say Gomes deserved it but I just couldn't see past Campbell. And it seems that no one could even get past him so I think I'm right when I say he was the best player that night. If we had Van Persie on for 10 more minutes then we probably would've won as Gomes would've eventually let one in (like he did with Bendtner) and if we had another 3 or 4 characters like the Legend himself, Sol "Brick Wall" Campbell (as I called him), then we would have walked away with it without any problems. And yes, that was the view from their box!

I think it was a jammy goal from Danny Rose personally and I think Gomes would've saved it! But even though it was a total hit and hope, I'm glad I was there to witness such an amazing goal! It was still jammy though!!! I also think it was sloppy defending as well to give them a 2 goal lead and then heads dropped and I was already hoping for a draw.

And I must say, as you see a picture of him being filmed by Sky Sports cameras, that it's so great to finally have him back. I absolutely love Robin so I'm glad he's back and I hope he helps us cement 3rd place because that isn't a guarantee anymore, especially as we don't know what Arsenal will turn up next!

Even though Wenger admitted after the game that the title was all but over, along with some of the players, I still thought we could do it. Or at least I felt keeping faith would help me feel better. But yea, I still had the belief. Call it stupidity, call it blind faith, call it naivety, I call it maths! With another Spuds win against Chelsea and we win up at Wigan it was back to three points and Chelsea would just have to drop points again and again with Man Utd and we'd just stumble past the finishing line with another Premiership crown on our heads. But that all ended with the quickest 10 minutes I've ever known! And I think Wenger forgot to tell the boys that Chelsea lost the day before!!! Which leads to my next point... Wigan!


We didn't play particularly brilliant in the first half against Martinez's men but with Totteringham beating Chelsea we still had a chance of winning something so I would've been happy with a boring 1-0 win like Wolves. Walcott scored a great goal before half time which showed he does have it in his locker, he just needs to show it more. Then when Silvestre scored for the second season running at the JJB/DW Stadium I thought to myself, "right, come on boys, let's get some goal difference back!" But for some reason it just all deteriorated!

Wigan pressed us and we just couldn't keep the ball. Arsenal barely put more than 6 or 7 passes together without a poor touch from someone, leading to a Wigan attack. The crowd became more and more up for it as the minutes slowly ticked past and as they got louder, their players got better, and as their players got better, the crowd got even louder. It was as if we just watched them destroy us without anyone doing or saying anything. Then Watson scored a brilliantly worked goal. I wasn't worried yet but I did see that we had completely lost any momentum we had. Fabianski again showed that he might just not be good enough. I say "might" because I just cannot be negative about an Arsenal player! So it was 2-2 and with so little time left I had given up on the title and the game. But no, there was more. Before I had even finished texting my brother the score it was 3-2, a cracking goal by N'Zogbia and that was it. Wigan's first victory against us in the league, another defeat for Arsenal, another shambolic display from our defence all over the pitch and another day at work where I was going to get abused.

This week hasn't been too bad though to be honest. I got over the Wigan result pretty quickly, I was over it by that night in fact and could laugh it off at work because when you're team loses a 2-0 lead in such a bad way, there's nothing to be bitter about, so I thought I dealt with it quite well!

I hope Wenger spends big BUT doesn't sell anyone! I say that because our squad just can't handle fighting on all four fronts for a whole season, so keep everyone, as squad players if necessary, bring in some top quality players, give the team a sense of competitiveness again and watch the trophies roll in!

I can't wait for the Man City game although we will probably lose and Adebayor will bang one in! Let's hope I'm wrong! I might even put a bet on that piece of shit scoring a goal against us!

Keep the faith people! Wanting players and managers out won't do anyone any good! Let's just stick together, if not for the players themselves then at least for this mighty club we all love! Because I fucking love Arsenal and I can't wait to watch us win the title and Champions League double next year when Wenger spends a shit load of dosh! Haha, let's at least hope so ay!!!

RRREEEDDD AAARRRMMMYYY!!!

SPURS SPY WILL STRIKE AGAIN!

I've done it twice before and it looks like I will have to do it again! It was tough both times but ended up being worth it both times! Tomorrow night will be even harder so I'm hoping the result will make it all worth while!

Confused? Yes, you should be! The company I work for have a box at Spurs, not just any box, but THE box! It's just above the dug out and has a pretty much perfect view that you'd expect to see at any football match. Although the standard of football seen throughout the season has nothing on what you'd see at the Emirates. Or probably even Hull!

I've been quite a few times in the last three years. I've dressed smartly, behaved properly (and being a Gooner, it's hard), kept things calm when the opposition has scored and just generally enjoyed the night or day out. I'm a football fan so when I get the opportunity to go to a box I won't ever turn it down, no matter what team it is. As you can see I've also met a few famous faces. Most notably my good friend Eduardo. This was during a Spurs v Dinamo Zagreb game that the Scum won, but Eduardo and Slaven Bilic were there to meet a few of their Croatian friends after the game. It was during Eduardo's time out after that horror tackle. I saw him, got my phone out and funnily enough the Croatian manager himself took this picture and I'm not even joking. I did of course get a picture with Bilic (and no, Eddie didn't take it) and in the bar I got a picture with Pat Jennings so I couldn't believe my luck. And just quickly before I get back to the actual point of this post, I was wearing the yellow away socks, from last season, underneath my suit just to feel calmer about being surrounded by everything Tottenham and after I got the picture taken with him I tapped him on the shoulder, lifted my trouser leg up and pointed to the socks and said, "I'm a Gooner!" I think he understood me because he laughed but I'm probably hoping he understood me as that just makes me feel better!

Anyway, here's the real reason for the post. Becuase my boss owns the box and Spurs have somehow got to Wembley three seasons running, they're allocated 8 tickets for every match at Wembley so the boss can either buy them for customers or sell them to everyone in the office. So for Spurs v Man Utd in the Carling Cup final last year, I went. And yes, HELL YES, I was there to see Pompey sink the Spurs to another Wembley defeat this weekend just gone.

Both times I had to keep my head down as everytime I made slight eye contact with a Spurs fan I thought I'd somehow give away my true colours. Or I thought they would just be able to tell that I was a Gooner! It was all in my head though, luckily. The Man Utd game was good because I hate them probably just as much as I do Spurs so I absolutely slaughtered Rooney, Lady Boy Ronaldo and Nanny, and at the same time I wanted them to win. I just didn't want to go home with cocky Spurs fans raving and chanting about having one of those rare seasons where they win something and we don't!

The Portsmouth game this weekend was even harder! I don't hate them! And I thought Spurs were going to walk through to the final. Shit! The tickets were cheaper than the Carling Cup final and I just love Wembley so I had to go again. So this was my second time being a spy and even better, we were up against them after this game so I could get a general vibe of what they think about the derby. Portsmouth banged one in in extra time (which made me so happy, 2 hours of sloppy, slippery football against a team that were just going to contain all pressure and go for the break, excellent, especially when we were having a week to rest, train and get pumped) and seeing those Portsmouth fans go absolutely mental made me want to just shout my f*cking head off and join them but I had to keep my kool. I literally sat there and just bit my fingers.

Also, I must just quickly add how surprised I was at the Portsmouth fans being so bitter about all this Harry Redknapp business and all the players that have been traded between the two teams. Well, surprised is the wrong word to use as I know about all the problems they've had this season and I know what it's like to hate someone that's played for you and left you. I guess I just forgot about it and didn't expect them to act like that. I say "act like that" as I was on the train a couple of stops away from Wembley and we slowed down to one of the stops on the way there and you could hear all this chanting, I thought it was going to be Spurs fans, but I was wrong. This large group of early to mid twentys nutters came on and some of the shit they were coming out with was f*cking brilliant. I was surrounded by "Scummers" at the time (that's what they called Spurs fans) so I didn't say anything but I had a huge grin on my face. This is some of the shit they were singing... "HE SCORES, HE CUMS, ALL OVER HARRY'S BUM, JERMAIN DEFOE, JERMAIN DEFOE!"... "HARRY'S A CUNT, AND SO'S DEFOE, HARRY'S A CUNT, AND SO'S DEFOE!"... "WHEN SOL, WENT UP, TO LIFE THE FA CUP, WE WERE THERE, WE WERE THERE!"... And they even used one of my personal favourites... "DER DER DER DER, SOL'S A GOONA', DER DER DER DER, SOL'S A GOONA'! I've never seen Spurs fans so quiet, not since we beat them 3-1 at the Lane in the 07-08 season (Adebayor wonder goal and Fabregas from miles out!). It did kick off though at Wembley Park so it had my adrenaline pumping and as I said to my mate, who I took with me, at the time (he's a Spurs fan), it added spice to the atmosphere!

I will be spying again tomorrow! No not at Wembley because farms don't interest me, but at the Lane! Yes, today my boss personally asked me if I wanted to watch MY team play his, and believe me, he is fully aware I'm 100% RED AND WHITE!!! So I've said yes and now I've got to work out how to wear a shirt and suit with an Arsenal shirt underneathe and not look fat and blatant that I'm an Arsenal fan. Wish me luck!

I'm not going to write about the game because I'm just too nervous and scared at the moment. I know so many Spurs fans and losing to them will end my life probably, so I'm just going to say this. Van Persie is back and although I don't believe he will be involved as much as some of us would like, his inclusion in the squad will hopefully put a rocket up Bendtner's ass and add confidence to the team's performance. Not that I think the team need it!

I'm excited because I may even meet a few of both sets of players and I'm always up for a picture with a footballer, but the main thing is the result and I'm praying that it goes our way! Especially now that Chelsea are creating a bit of daylight between them and the Mancs! Enjoy the game where ever you are and just be careful! I cannot f*cking wait!

RRREEEDDD AAARRRMMMYYY!!!

I'M NOT GOING TO MENTION HIS NAME!

You have all heard his name a million times and I don't want to read or hear it anymore so hopefully I can stick to not mentioning his name tonight. There are hundreds of reports on the net about the game anyway and I'm over 24 hours late so this is going to be a nothing post.

I'm not all that gutted about the result last night. I went absolutely potty when Bendtner scored, don't get me wrong, and the first thing I said to my Dad was, "wow, I bet the Twelve Pins is rocking!" Well, it would have only been rocking for 2, maybe 3, minutes. As soon as it went to 1-1 I still had a little hope that we could do it, but 2-1, then 3-1 down and I thought that was it.

I'm never one to give up so I still believed we could do it as long as we kept it at 3-1 and possibly knicked a couple in the dying minutes. But realistically, it was over. We all know about the statistics running around that we score a lot in the last 10 minutes, so there was some support in my thinking. Until you know who done you know what, again.

And just to clear things up, I'm not bitter about the defeat. We weren't at our best and you know who capitalised on that. We were out classed by such a brilliant team, the best in the world. I did actually hear on Talk Sport today that if the brilliant little shit wasn't playing we would have won 1-0, personally, I think that's bullshit. It wouldn't have been 4-1, maybe, but we would definitely have lost somehow as we just weren't at our best and they are the reigning champions, and most probably will be the first team to retain the European Cup in its Champions League format. We all know someone else would have come up with a performance of world class standard as they have it in abundance.

Never mind. It's not that hard when you lose to such an amazing team. We just now have to pick ourselves up and go for the Premiership. Chelsea lost a destraction when Inter knocked them out (although they're still in the FA Cup) so that may explain their recent run of 3 wins and 14 goals, Man Utd are now out of the Champions League to those cheating Germans (according the the big red nosed, chewing gum, twat) so they're now going to focus fully on the title so the next game against the scum is now our next target. I am definitely not predicting or even writing before that game. So 5 cup finals left in the season and if we win them all then surely we're in for a shout for the Premiership.

No Carling Cup again, no FA Cup again, no Champions League again but thankfully we're not out of the title race. In a way it's good that Wenger believed we had the squad to challenge for the Champions League and Premiership double, for the players' confidence, but now looking back, don't you just wish we went for a draw or win at Stoke and taken our chances in the FA Cup as well? There's never any guaranteed silverwear but now I just wish we went for the FA Cup. Ahh well, it's easy for me to say that as there's no pressure on me as I'm not the Arsenal manager. Ignore me anyway, I'm just in a crappy football mood, although I'm glad I saw Robben (the dickhead that walks like he has shit himself) bang in a Zidane-like goal against Man Utd (you know, the one against Bayer Leverkusen in the 2002 final?).

So on we must fight for our fourth Premiership crown. Let's hope they're not down in the dumps because they have got to be on it for their next encounter. Cheer up boys, we've got 4 or 5 first team stars that we need to win the title for now!!!

RRREEEDDD AAARRRMMMYYY!!!

I WOULD LOVE ANOTHER BIG EUROPEAN NIGHT FROM THE BOYS!

It's nights like these that make football what it is! The nerves, the anticipation, the belief, the dreams of victory, and more importantly, the boys in red and white coming away with a result!

We've seen them do it before! Inter Milan 5-1 (in the group stage), Real Madrid, Juventus and Villareal (all in one season) and AC Milan 2-0. It's not like we haven't got it in our locker so I'm hoping I can add another Spanish giant to that list.

We've also been on the end of those sort of nights that we ourselves have dished out before. Man Utd last year in the semi finals and Liverpool in the quarters after the AC Milan result. However, win or lose, these European nights make football. It makes the Champions League, it makes us who we are as fans and it makes the players who they are when they put on that Arsenal shirt.

I'm not going to predict anything tonight, because I can't! I don't know what's going to happen and to be honest I don't think anyone does. We're capable of knocking out Barcelona because we do have the experience and I truly believe that, however we are also capable of another Man Utd in the home leg of THAT semi final! So I really don't know what to predict. My first thought is defeat as I feel they will be too strong for us, but don't you dare think that will stay in my mind for one second when the whistle blows and the game starts.

I do believe in my boys, and unfortunately I will not be attending the Twelve Pins to show my support, but I will be at home with Sky Sports, my white Arsenal shirt and my fists clenched praying that we can have a posotive impact on the game. It's going to be another classic I think.

Enjoy it if you're there, help the boys by trying to drown out the 95,000 Catalans and just believe in them. I'm sure if we can all think positively from NOW till 10:00pm tonight there's a slight chance the footballing Gods can help us. If you're not there, and you're in an Arsenal pub, make as much f*cking noise as you can! If you're at home with your parents or at your mate's house, make as much f*cking noise as you can! And if you're an Arsenal fan, just think positive. We have nothing to lose. No one is betting on us winning. No one is expecting anything from the boys in red and white so just stay positive.

Injuries have played their part on our season so far and we've not done bad at all considering, and I'm more than happy enough with whatever Wenger will go with (although I can't say that for the first leg). Will Walcott start? Will Campbell start? We will find out!

I just cannot wait! CUMMON YOU GUNNERS!!!

RRREEEDDD AAARRRMMMYYY!!!

BBEENNDDTTNNEERR!!

Well aren't I just that big, fat, ugly Pokemon known as JYNX! Or Gynx! Or however you spell it!

There's a reason I never bet on Arsenal, or predict their scores seriously, or even talk about them winning. It's not because I'm negative or I don't know my football, I am just a jinx.

I would always rather bet on Arsenal losing so if they do lose I win money and if they win it ends up being money well spent.

My first ever blog wasn't too bad, could've been better, but then again I'm always harsh on myself so I'm never going to write something that I'm truly happy with. I said that I wanted to absolutely smash Wolves, gain confidence before Barcelona, improve our not so good goal difference and you know, watch the Arsenal of old that battered teams. That didn't happen which is frustrating but I know that at this point in the season, points are more important, so the three points that we Nick'ed right at the end of today's game matter more to me than the actual performance.

I listened to the first half on Arsenal TV Online, then fell asleep at half time, woke up to the Soccer Saturday panel laughing at the Sunderland v Spurs match then realised I had missed quite a bit of the second half. Shit! I waited for the scores to come up and Arsenal 0-0 Wolves appeared. Shit! Again! "Ahh well we'll knick the points right at the end," I thought to myself. And luckily that came true.

Sagna crossed from the right and Nicklas Bendtner nodded it past Hahnemann with 93 or 94 minutes on the clock (it wasn't a great video). I heard that fat nosed Scouse twat shout "GOOOAL!" and initally thought that Wolves had knicked it, but when I saw that it was Arsenal, I didn't react, I didn't even shout, I just sank back into my pillow and calmly thought, "the title is back on!" That's the calmest I've ever been while hearing Arsenal score, at least compared to how mad I went when I heard Nasri score against Birmingham last week.

Anyway, Bendtner scored, Walcott played well or poor depending on whether you're with him or against him and that Tommo (fat nosed Scouse twat) said that before this game Walcott would've been a shoe-in for the first team in the Nou Camp, but now, not so much. But I'll watch higlights tonight and see what I think. To be honest, I don't care, I'd still start him, I love him, I love all the Arsenal players, no matter how shit they're perceived to be, because they wear the shirt that I so dearly love!

Chelsea won convincingly at Old Trafford and are 3 points ahead of us with Man Utd only 1 point ahead of us. I would have preferred a last minute John Terry own goal for it to have become 2-2 but hey, you can't always get what you want. And in my case, you never f*ckin' do!

Arsenal have won against Wolves and now have to prepare for Barca round 2. Let's do 'em! And before you start worrying, no, I'm not predicting anything. I am now just going to comment on stuff that's already happened. And before games I'll only say stuff like, "let's hope Arsenal win!" You will be seeing a lot more hopes as apposed to any other words as I don't want to jinx anything.

So let's stay positive and keep taking each game, game by game.

TWELVE PINS ON TUESDAY NIGHT!!! CAN'T WAIT!!!

RRREEEDDD AAARRRMMMYYY!!!

BARCELONA GAME WAS BRILLIANT! NOW WOLVES!

Wednesday night showed me something I've never seen before! Today, I want to see something that I always used to see!

So here we are, my first blog. I've never really been a writer in this sense so please forgive me if you spot thousands of mistakes and bad grammar. I was always pretty good at English at school, primary and secondary, so it shouldn't be too bad.

Anyway! As I say, Wednesday night showed me something that I've never seen before, as an Arsenal supporter. Barcelona played against us how we play against most other teams. Although it was brilliant to watch for a neutral, or even as a football fan as well as an Arsenal fan, like me, it was still frustrating to see Arsenal deal with it poorly.

Almunia kept us in the game after what can only be described as a complete battering for the first twenty minutes or so. And also some last minute interceptions and headers out for corners. But because I've never seen Arsenal pegged back like that before I didn't know how to react. I was watching the game at home with my Dad as I couldn't get a ticket for love nor money, so no matter how much I shouted for my team to go for it, no one could react to it so it didn't make a difference. Still though, keeping me quiet whilst watching Arsenal is as hard as keeping Ca$hley C*nt's and Cheater FC captain Terry's dicks in their pants at a Girls Aloud concert.

Thankfully Theo came on, changed the game for us and Fabregas showed us that he really does love us and even possibly risked his World Cup to give us as good a chance as possible of getting something from the Nou Camp that could send us through. I love Cesc. The passion, the fact he is Spanish (I am half Spaniard), the pure class, the pure quality, the celebrations of his wonder goals, his 19 goals this season and his leadership. Cesc, you will be missed, but I don't doubt that we can do the double for you. Cesc is now, unfortunately, another soldier added to the list of players that we will have to win the double for.

2-2 isn't the worst result we Gooner faithful were given on Wednesday considering how the game started and how our squad are dropping like flies. Plus the fact Barcelona are the best team in the world by a long shot and are exactly the kind of team Wenger wants his Arsenal to be like. But we have to be positive. I'm sure the squad are.

And this now leads on to my next point. Barcelona pinning us back and not even giving us a single second to even breath or think was something I had never seen before. But what I have seen before, many a time, is Arsenal absolutely battering teams and giving weaker opposition this 'Barcelona treatment'. So this brings me on to Wolves. They have put together a good three or four game run but we have got to stop that today. We're not on a bad run ourselves and now I want to see us batter Wolves. I want a healthier goal difference considering ours isn't as good as this new free scoring Chelsea and Grandad Man Utd. I want to see Bendtner get a couple of goals as he hasn't scored since Hull and I would like to see a better performance from Diaby because we all know he has it in his locker. Walcott hat-trick, Eboue double and Vermaelen from a corner. Not that I am underestimating Wolves in any way at all because I know they work hard. I just know that if Arsenal can concentrate on their game then they can do anything, even come back against the best team in the world.

I'm not going to the game today, which is a shame, but I will be listening to it on the Arsenal TV Online website and I expect Arsenal to be confident going in to the game. They have to be. Wolves is now the biggest game of the season right now. Chelsea are 1-0 ahead at Old Trafford and it's half time, girly Joe Cole scored and Man Utd are shocking without Shrek at the moment. Let's hope Terry scores a last minute own goal and Arsenal win today to give themselves a boost for their title hopes.

I hope that those of you who are going to the game today go absolutely mad. Give them your best support and I hope our mighty boys in red and white give us all something entertaining to watch. I'm not expecting Barcelona standard football... I'm expecting BETTER... ARSENAL STANDARD FOOTBALL!!!

RRREEEDDD AAARRRMMMYYY!!!