Medium-sized German, we’ve got a medium-sized German…
Delightful day for all concerned with Arsenal yesterday. I wrote this article on SoccerWithoutLimits.com, and will be contributing to their site every now and again from now on, so keep a look out! Or studiously ignore it if you wish.
It’s still relevant as Olly G has still yet to get off the mark, but when you’re entering the pitch at 5-1 and with minutes to go, I think it’s OK that you don’t score really. He looked a little miffed after Theo scored, and booted the ball into the back of the net like we’d just conceded, but his time will come. He’s been stewing slowly and steadily, and will taste simply marvellous in Montpellier. Or something like that.
Six goals, man. Six goals. And we should have had a clean sheet had it not been for Woj’s wonky fingers. It’s concerning that everyone is so positive at the moment – I heard talk of title challenges nooooooooo – but it was certainly a display and a half yesterday. How about that Lukas Podolski eh? Fwoof, what a rocket. How nice to have a left-footed human on the team who can actually score a free kick! I was beginning to think free-kicks were just the pre-amble to goal-kicks. Amazing, amazing.
Less than 48 hours until our next match, which is really quite disorientating given the gap between this match just gone and the Liverpool match before it, but I’d sooner this veritable feast of frenzied footballing than scrabbling around for a dusty old piece of chewing gum only to find it’s stuck to the bottom of your bag as we were all doing last week and the one before it.
Lucky reader, this is just a short blog today, so upon that most horrendous extended metaphor of all the extended metaphors, I bid you goodnight and hope to speak soon after the tall, dark, handsome one has netted five past his old boys. (Kidding, no pressure Olly! Although you all realise that as he’s the ex-Montepellierian and is also extra pretty, he’ll be the one doing the Champions League press conference? And so all he’ll face is questions about his lack of scoring? I mean, even MORE of them? Just warning. I think this is what we call Ugliness’s Revenge.)
Anyway, Champions League is back baby yeaaaaaaaah!!! Sing it with me! Lasaaaaaaagnaaaaaaa. Goodnight.
derek vn wyk
245 days ago
podolski. the perfect van persie.tackle move ,assist and score.wow
derek vn wyk
245 days ago
is it only me or does gervinho looks like thierry henry in front of poles.best times are here
Dex
245 days ago
Ha! Were you in the North Bank lower on saturday? I only ask as I started shouting the title of this piece after Podolskis free kick!
James - No longer first timer!
244 days ago
Hey Sian, was so weird seeing you and other people I’d only ever typed to on Saturday, but it was all part of the experience. I’d been saving for four years to gear toward that match on Saturday and it was really all I could’ve asked for.
Anyway I’m gonna keep predicting Arsenal victories + Giroud goals until we actually get them. COYG!
Treez
244 days ago
James, We were all thinking of you as the goals kept going in. You certainly picked a good’un for your first match! Being such a devoted Gooner, you so deserved to be there. It was almost like Thierry was back. Good to meet you and hope you’ll come to many more games while you’re here.
James - No longer first timer!
244 days ago
Good to meet you as well. I’m going to try and get to as many matches as possible. Still trying to scrounge up a ticket for City this weekend but it’s proving difficult.
But Saturday was indeed like a dream come true. Totally surreal.
Daniel
243 days ago
“I was beginning to think free-kicks were just the pre-amble to goal-kicks.”
That’s better than lasagna.
Alex
242 days ago
Looking forward to more of the same Sian