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Arsenal Embrace The Not Knowing


By Shane
August 20 2018

I don't know if anyone has ever explored the additional features of a DVD. I have on occasion. Sometimes I have watched the alternate endings of a film.

You still know the ending - but you don't know how it ends and I got that feeling when watching the Arsenal match yesterday.

 For a while it looked set to be the same old horror story that we've seen at Stamford Bridge far too often under Arsene Wenger. I can't have been the only one who wanted to put both hands over their face and watch on by slightly parting the fingers when Chelsea went 2-0 ahead. 

But then Henrikh Mkhitaryan scored and I thought, 'Hmm okay this is different. This bit doesn't happen in the ‘other version'. Alex Iwobi then brought it back to 2-2 a few minutes later and I thought, 'Okay this definitely doesn't happen in the ‘theatrical release'. 

 I didn't really think of any of these things by the way – I’m being metaphorical.

 In the end it was the same old story because we wound up leaving the Bridge with zero points but don't tell me that this isn't exciting. Don't tell me it isn't exciting because in the other version we lose 5-1.

 For the first time in many years we can no longer predict what's going to happen in the soap opera that is supporting Arsenal. We no longer know for certain how things are going to end. Hell, we no longer even know who the heroes are anymore, by virtue of the fact that Iwobi of all players had a cape on for some 75 minutes.

 This is what you were asking for when you were asking for Wenger to leave. You were asking for change, good or bad. You were asking for something else. You were asking for a different script.

Embrace the not knowing, my friends. I am.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2018:08:28:22:59:24 by Padre Pio.

Padre Pio
20/08/2018 18:54
Nice one Shane, its how I feel. Some fans moaning at 3-2, when not so long ago it was 5-1. I felt exhilarated afterwards, not at all depressed. Here is a manager not scared of taking off big names, or players pi$$ing about with contracts. They are all equal now.

"When we had to suffer the team is a lion because they suffer together." 4 July 2020 at Wolverhampton Wanderers
Arteta on his team's first away victory at a club above them in the Premiership since September 2015 at Leicester.

SuperRob
20/08/2018 22:45
Fully agreed. We've lost at the bridge 6 years in the last 7 I think.

Flava
21/08/2018 07:18
Well written Shane and it sums up pretty much how I’m feeling. I like Xhaka and Özil getting hooked for underperforming. I like the fight they showed coming back to 2:2, I like the glut of chances we created and I like the different approach even though my old fatty heart can’t take it.

I’m excited despite the two defeats.

Shane
21/08/2018 07:41
Thanks mate.

hippogunner
21/08/2018 08:26
I can recall that 6-0 thrashing, Wenger's 1000th game, some years back. The wife and I were doing our monthly 8 mile walk along the Grand Union canal and she asked me if I wanted to know the score. I expect we lost by three or four, I said, because I knew, as most fans did by then, the routine defeats we endured at Chelsea. I was entering my gently indifferent phase of support around that time.

Now my interest in the club is rejuvenated though it's not yet fully restored.

Bergmars
21/08/2018 09:16
Quote:
hippogunner
I can recall that 6-0 thrashing, Wenger's 1000th game, some years back. The wife and I were doing our monthly 8 mile walk along the Grand Union canal and she asked me if I wanted to know the score. I expect we lost by three or four, I said, because I knew, as most fans did by then, the routine defeats we endured at Chelsea. I was entering my gently indifferent phase of support around that time.
Now my interest in the club is rejuvenated though it's not yet fully restored.

Merlion96
21/08/2018 14:53
It is like this.
After being in bed with the same-old same-old for 22 years, suddenly a nubile 40+ something throw herself at you … you decide this change is good or bad?

"The idea is to be more unpredictable every year and be more difficult for the opponents to stop and nullify what we want to do. That’s what we have now, especially at the back and in the midfield the options we have, to open up the spaces, we have many more options than we had last year.” Mikel Arteta

weedz
23/08/2018 01:08
Cheers Shane. I enjoyed the read

Since the end of WW1, 1919, when the FA restarted its 4 tier football league, with Arsenal fc in the 1st div, there’s only ever been one club to have never been relegated from Div 1/ EPL.

Arsenal fc

Let’s keep making history

Shane
23/08/2018 10:42
Thanks mate.

Gunnersingh1
24/08/2018 12:30
It's very exciting watching Cech, Mustafi, Ramsey and Xhaka making the same mistakes...

I'd love to embrace "the not knowing," except i can't because i knew we'd lose, even after it went 2 each!

The only remotely interesting aspect is thinking how good Guendouzi and Torreira will be in a few years time.

This side won't finish in the top 4 and it will take at least 3 years to challange for it, that's the reality am afraid! Wenger has left such a shite squad!

Shane
24/08/2018 13:57
So, if Arsenal aren't a top-four team going into the 2021-22 season then it's still Wenger's fault?

Gunnersingh1
24/08/2018 14:06
Obviously not but no one can deny Wenger left a poor unbalanced squad behind, with a huge wage bill and haven't spent huge amounts in recent years on mainly poor players.

The culture of the club and players will take a long time to change, that's clear to see.

Shane
24/08/2018 16:29
Arsenal scored more goals than Spurs, United and Chelsea across all competitions, and reached a Europa League semi-final last season. On what planet did he leave a poor squad, and on what planet do we give the recruitment team three years - or SIX transfer windows - to improve it?

I'm not saying he left a brilliant squad because he didn't, and it was - and still is - unbalanced, but if we jump off Gary Neville's dick for a moment we'll see that Emery and the recruitment team will have failed miserably if it takes them until 2021 to improve Arsenal.

Gunnersingh1
25/08/2018 15:49
This very different from the last 5 years, isn't it...

Shane
26/08/2018 06:37
It's not often West Ham should've scored six goals away to Arsenal, so yes quite different, albeit for the wrong reasons this week, but that's the point.

Padre Pio
26/08/2018 08:47
Not often we play both full backs up the other end for most of the match either

"When we had to suffer the team is a lion because they suffer together." 4 July 2020 at Wolverhampton Wanderers
Arteta on his team's first away victory at a club above them in the Premiership since September 2015 at Leicester.

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