Ta Ta Premiership Hopes Change the Rules and Count Nearly's
De Ja Vu
By Boris Mellor
November 7 2010
You can say it’s too early to write off Arsenal Premiership chances, and it possibly is. But you have to have been at the game to get the feeling that most of this team doesn’t care, it doesn’t fight, and it lacks urgency. At one stage Newcastle were passing the ball around them as Geordies chanted Ole! Has this team any self respect?
Shakhtar Sacrifice Is in Vain
Ok I am writing from post match anger, but will a team that has lost twice to recently promoted teams, at home, really be a title contender? In your dreams. I thought that sacrificing Shakhtar game made some kind of sense if we beat Newcastle. A weekend where there was a good chance Chelsea would lose, and they did, but what use is that if Arsenal lose their own games.
The Nearly Team
It’s ok beating West Ham 1-0 on 88 minutes, but when you get to 88 minutes and you are 1-0 down it’s a very different story.There is no need to exaggerate how poor Arsenal were the Gunners had 8 on Target to Newcastle’s three, but none of Arsenal’s went in, so it’s no use moaning about bad luck Arsene.
Change the Rules and Count Nearly’s
Many years ago, more than I care to count, I played for an office team that got thrashed on a regular basis, but we were never downhearted. We might have been beaten 3-0 but we always had a good tally of nearly’s (shots that narrowly missed or hit the post, bar etc.), these nearly's made us the moral victors.
It’s occurred to me that Arsenal are the champion nearly team, hitting the woodwork more than any other, that and near misses. I can see what Wenger’s getting at, fortune is against us, so let’s not just sit and moan, lets act. We must campaign for a rule change, nearly’s must count as much as real goals. That way the wonders of Wenger vision will be fulfilled, Arsenal would have skated it 8-3 today and I wouldn’t be feeling so fed up.
Perhaps abolishing November will also help. Here comes November - played two lost two.
What’s that you would like a proper report? Well the team pretend to compete, and I pretend to report it.
you asking the question that sums it all.. WILL A TEAM THAT HAS LOST TWICE TO RECENTLY PROMOTED TEAMS, AT HOME, REALLY BE A TITLE CONTENDER?
that is the top dollar question..i doubt..unless other teams keep losing but guess what...when they loose or drop points we blow it by loosing too... is the november curse really our problem..i'm really beginning to doubt it..every beginning of the season we know our faith based on players going and coming into the team.. its the same @#$%& over and over again..if wenger can't solve this @#$%& or sort our the GK and defensive problems plus the fact that since henry we lack a 30+ striker then he REALLY HAS NOTHING TO OFFER ARSENAL AGAIN...WE WILL ALL BE FOOLS TO THINK OTHERWISE..BUT LIKE YOU SAID IT MAY BE TOO EARLY TO WRITE US OFF..i'm holding my breathe on this
Can We Now Trust The Process ๐ค๐คท๐ฟโโ๏ธ or Should We Still Remain Cautious ๐๐ฟโโ๏ธ
a few rules changes could put us back in the driving seat.
1. nearly's count as one goal
2. No matches will be played in November
3. No newly promoted teams to be allowed to play at the arsenal in their first year. 9thanks to Sydney for this rule)
That should, clinch it
"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.
Arsene Wenger is the real problem now, compounded with his off-pitch antics which will certainly has a bearing on his readiness to concentrate fully on the TEAM with every tabliods out for his blood and digging more and more - real or imaginary - dirt on his private life.
Even if we buy in January, new players need time to gell with the team, and I don't think it is the solution.....too late for what we did not do in August.
That is no solution as a deluded and megalomaniac of a manager believed he can walked on water and will stay loyal to all his disinterested senior players come what may.
This megalomaniac is obsessed with being proven right by sticking with his bunch of pretty boys and french poodles which he handpicked, nurtured and groomed for superstardom.
Arsenal FC is just one big laboratory for this megalomanaic to prove his theory of "Pretty Boys and French Poodles" Team will surpass any English teams built by Ferguson, Mourinho, Mancini, Carlos Ancelotti, Benitez, Hodgson and Twitchy.
Perhaps he is right after all in 2014/15 season.
But my prediction is that the chickens ahd come hoem to roost after 5 years of failed experimentation witht he rest of BPL teams having learned, studied and absorbed WengerBall, instilled 'em into their tactics - (even WOlves and Bolton are passing team if youc are to take off your rosy-tinted bias) - and we have what we had in 2010/11 season:
BPL teams had caught up with WengerBall, and have the confidence, self-belief and tactical astute managers like Bruce, Owen COyle, de Matteo and Houghton to attack Arsenal with their passign game and that self-beleift hat they can beat Arsenal by attacking Arsenal.
You know, Joey Barton said it all when he identified Arsenal weakness and said Newcastle should attack Arsenal at their own game.
And BArton did not have to resolve to kicking and hacking to dominate midfield.
4 matches in 2010/11 - SUnderland, WBA, WHU and Newcastle - said it all as to how low Arsenal FC ahd fallen from its halycon days of 1997 to 2004.
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