I know, I know, we all love a central defender who goes forward from time to time and aids the attack, and we love it when defenders like Chelsea’s David Luiz, or our own Thomas Vermaelen scores a goal from action or offers an assist, but look where that took Arsenal!
The young Welsh captain Aaron Ramsey came back from a horrific injury last year and all Arsenal fans feel sorry for the way his development was so cruelly interrupted, but his performances this season have simply highlighted his need for some psychological training to regain his former confidence.
I fully understand Arsene Wenger thinking that the Arsenal midfielder needs some game-time to help him regain his former glory, but I question why Wenger continues to put him in the starting line-up in games that are simply must-win games for the Gunners.
Poor Arsene Wenger. Three games to go in the Barclays Premier League, and down two of his top players.
Both Theo Walcott and Mikel Arteta are out of the remaining fixtures due to injuries.
Walcott suffered a hamstring injury in the recent match against Chelsea, meaning he will be out of action for about three weeks.
Arteta suffered an ankle injury in during the encounter against Wigan, putting him out for the remainder of the season also.
So its decision time, who should go on the pitch against Stoke in their place.
I know that Aaron Ramsey is an easy target at the moment as it seems that 90% of Arsenal fans (including me) are calling for Arsene Wenger to drop him for today’s game against Chelsea (Release the Ox!!!), but I have just found a quote from Ramsey himself where he agrees that he didn’t play well against Wigan.
“It was a disappointing result and we wanted to win that game, being at home as well,” Ramsey said on Arsenal.com.
Certain media outlets are fabricating stories about Van Persie’s status at Arsenal again.
“Barcelona plan to use Cesc Fabregas to convince former Arsenal teammate Robin van Persie about a move to the Nou Camp.
The Daily Star Sunday says Barca will point out to £40million-rated Arsenal skipper Van Persie that Fabregas has already won THREE trophies since his switch from The Emirates last summer.
Van Persie’s trophy cabinet, on the other hand, is empty as Arsenal have failed for the seventh successive year to land a cup.”
I have read today the most vile, disgusting and uncalled for attack on Arsenal fans, by a Spud that should be done for racism (or inciting violence as a minimum). Obviously this Tottenham blogger feels he has been attacked by Arsenal fans in the past, but to be so aggressive in print makes me feel that retaliation is needed.
The Arsenal striker Marouane Chamakh was photographed smoking a Sisha pipe after the Gunners 2-1 defeat by QPR at the weekend, but even worse he was celebrating with one of the players that scored for Arsenal’s opponents during that game!
He is earning 70,000 pounds a week for doing very little but sitting on the bench, but Chamakh still seems to think that when Lukas Podolski arrives at the Emirates next season he still has a chance of getting in the first team.
Many people criticized Arsene Wenger this season and sometimes they were right, especially after Arsenal’s panic buying at the last minute of the transfer window. Wenger’s ambition not to buy anybody and his stubbornness to keep believing that Nasri and Fabregas won’t leave has cost the Gunners a lost season and huge disappointment to their fans.
By the time Wenger realized that Fabregas and Nasri were really leaving it was too late to agree a deal for one of the many players the Gunners wanted, and that lead to a completely missed season and an extension to the six-year trophy drought.
Arsenal’s board doesn’t seem too interested in the football side of the club being highly concentrated on earning money. So it seems that they are looking to make money through the club’s cash profits even if that means disrespecting Arsenal’s amazing history and using players who are clearly below the levels those from Henry’s generation would have needed to be.
Chairman Peter Hill-Wood said: “We are proud of Arsenal’s record and consistency over many seasons and have the foundations in place, at every level of the club, to ensure we remain a force in the seasons ahead.”
The London derby between Arsenal and Tottenham started horribly wrong for the Gunners but ended in great fashion as Robin Van Persie lead his team to perhaps the most successful game of the season.
Two quick goals from Saha and Adebayor from an invented penalty saw Arsenal lead 2-0 very early in the game and Wenger seemed hopeless after only 34 minutes in the London derby, while Dalglish was probably already thinking that he’ll rendered a club legend after he’ll leave the Spurs for the English national squad, but the Gunners had other plans.
