By 1970’s Gooner
Arsenal are slowly but surely edging closer and closer to the final stages of a remarkable league campaign.
A campaign where no points have been gained against the other major rivals in the title chase but where nevertheless still leaves us only two points from the top with only seven games left!
Out of Arsenal’s remaining games there is one that stands out as the most difficult (after the confrontation away at Blackburn). And that is the North London derby against Spurs.
They have been well marshaled by Harry Redknap with some creative and exciting players in their ranks like the Croatians Modric and Kranjkar.
Their quest for fourth place is gathering pace and unfortunately we are scheduled to meet them in three Saturdays time after Birmingham and Wolves.
The degree of difficulty of this game is very obvious. We will be playing them away in a period where they are desperate to stay in that Champions League qualifying fourth place.
What will make this game doubly difficult however is the fact that it will come right after our own battle in the Champions League second leg against Barcelona in Spain on the previous Tuesday.
And we all know how tiring these games can be. The Spurs game will be played three days after Barcelona at 12.45 pm on the Saturday.
But if Spurs win their FA Cup game against Fulham next Wednesday then they will have to play the Cup Semi Final on the Saturday they are due to meet Arsenal in the league (on the 10th April).
This means that the North London derby will have to be postponed and played four days later on Wednesday 14th April (at 8.00 pm). Spurs will have to play us after only having four days rest while Arsenal will have had a whole week’s.
Yes I know that we can beat them anytime, anywhere, anyplace but at this critical juncture of the season every little bit helps.
So let’s all cheer for Tottenham Hotspur in the FA Cup!
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"Out of Arsenal’s remaining games there is one that stands out as the most difficult (after the confrontation away at Blackburn). And that is the North London derby against Spurs."
Forgetting Man City
When we beat Fulham we play pompey on the Sunday, so make that 2 days rest... will still be a 1-1 draw, Manure will still win the league, and Barca the Campions League.
i agree with u bt nevertheles our toughest game should always be the 'next one',if we want 2 win the league,in that case Birmingham is on the line..one game @ a time til mentality til the end of season! Just Hope we win it
actually if we get to the FA Cup semi final that would be on the 11th April not the 10th therefore only giving us 3 days rest
i wil be cheering for them,all 4 the love of Arsenal..they wil be esp tired in the 2nd half when we meet,a case in point will be Liverpool,did u notice how lethargic they looked against Man utd in the 2nd half?
What is the "Yes I know that we can beat them anytime, anywhere, anyplace" comment for. Spurs have moved to a higher level now, they will get at least a draw from this game. Also remember Spurs next two games after A5ena1 is Chelsea at home and Man. United away, so A5ena1 will need Spurs help if they have any hope of winning the league.
14th April suits us fine - we might have Lennon and JD back by then. Bring it on!
Your team of cheating twiglet legged pansies will still be crying over being dumped out of the champions league by barca regardless of which day we play you. And when we beat you your lizard faced whinger of a manager will come up with his usual excuse that it's all a conspiracy to stop
you lot from winning anything. Hopefully he'll choke to death on a snail first and save us the misery of having to listen to his noxcious rubbish.
@ Stoney
you spuds are a joke.
you haven't beaten us in the league since 99.
calm down. it will still be a good game.
you will be lucky if you earn a draw.
To the dude at :51 pm, I don't think your racist nf Tottenham supporting stance regarding our manager's face holds such weight in the face of Harry Redknapp's melted Haloween mask of a visage that vibrates with a nervous twitch derived from tax evasion and illegal player dealing.
As a spurs fan all I want AFTER fourth spot is the Arse to finish above Man Ure this season. So come Arse pull your fingers out and show that bunch of northern twats that London rules the footballing world.
You will get hummered at the the lane as Lennon will be back.Lennon on the right bale on the left will rape you poor full backs:-) evey gunners a runner
As long time Arsenal Fan, it's a disgrace to root for those spuds. I would rather die than support those scums across the road.
I would rather you die as well.
Just continue to be under estimate Super HotSpurs at your own peril so that way you can be shown up come April.
You spuds are not good enough to be in the Champions League. Stick with the Europa Cup or League or whatever it's called now. You spuds will just be in last place in the group stages and miss out on the Europa Cup altogether.
That is the worst blog that I have ever read.
Post a boring blog; get a boring reply.
N.E.V.E.R. I can't believe you even had the gall to post this article.
I would rather lose out for the rest of the season than root for *****.
I would rather sell my soul to the devil for a half-eaten pack of crisps.
You aren`t worried, yet you feel the need to bore the proverbial`s of us with your need to convince yourself of your scums invincibility. Grow a pair!
"I would rather sell my soul to the devil for a half-eaten pack of crisps."
Nobody would doubt it. Well known fact that Satanism and Goonerism go hand in hand.
Don't worry - you Arsescum won't win anything again!!!Ha!ha!ha!
Man U will win the league and you will fall against Barca.Get back to Woolwich where you belong!!
Why is the Chelsea Football Club’s squad so ancient? This appears to be because various spendthrift managers shelled out loads of money for players at their peak with no regard for their long-term contracts or re-sale value. Replacing these dinosaurs without the use of Abramovich’s dollars, roubles or goodwill has now become quite an issue for a club whose squad, in the main, now park their zimmer frames alongside their Bentleys. So have Chelsea blown it totally or will those creaking bones make it to the end of the season now they’ve exited Europe’s biggest stage and dropped yet another couple of points?
As Inter showed in the Champions League, one bunch of really old gits are quite capable of knocking over another bunch of old gits. Especially when they’ve a more street-wise manager than Chelsea’s. In all honesty the Chelsea-Inter Champions League match was like watching two has-been heavyweights slug it out when both were clearly well past their sell-by dates. Plenty of experience on show but just a few flashes of inspiration from Inter were enough to see off the flash London wannabes. Their match with Rovers showed us little or no football, but by the end of the game we saw one bunch of diving hoofers trying to out do the other bunch and delightfully the Chavs dropped two more points. They have now blagged a rather pitiful 7 from 15 in their last five league games. Rovers rattled their zimmer frames and hung on. Chelsea’s fabulously cultured, expensive and experienced squad of internationals showed us just how much class and how many millions it takes to hoof it down the middle in the vain hope that the 32 year-old Dogsbreath might latch onto something. He didn’t. For much of the game I was wondering what the hell Steve Bennett would do or give next, in a match where about half a dozen cards for diving wouldn’t have been too many at all.
But these Chelsea pensioners now beg the question, have the Chavs even got the staying power to sustain a reasonable run-in for the Premiership? Will (load of) Ballacks (33 years ancient) be prepared to knacker himself out for their cause prior to this summer’s World Cup? Can Lumphard (31) any longer shuffle forward to score as he used to? Why haven’t Hilario (34), Belletti (33) and Deco (32) all long since been put down and how much longer do their now entirely useless, to Chelsea, contracts have to run? Is Ferreira (31) just counting his money or will he get another game or two and what’s happened to Carvalho (31)?
Can Anelka (31) be bothered or is he too saving himself for South Africa? Has Terry (30) not only lost the plot and run out of steam, despite his ability to run over Chelsea’s staff? Of their other experienced players only Malouda (29) is currently cutting the mustard so judging by his sustained effort it would appear his World Cup berth in the French squad is maybe uncertain. Cashley (29) is now taking longer to recover from injuries. Following his long-term injury Joe Cole (28) is struggling to both nail down a new contract and regain a place in the first eleven. They have Essien, a sprightly 27 year-old but with no return date and the youthful Boswingwa (27) out till the summer. While Hilario has an alleged groin strain (and we all know how that was caused), Cech is out till the end of March so here’s hoping they try and rush him back far too soon. Has time finally been called on the blue flag’s zimmerframe brigade? If it has then could the league possibly end up as a two horse race?
Shouldn’t Arsenal be out of the title race by now?
Arsenal shouldn’t have won at Stoke. We shouldn’t have won at Hull either. And we certainly shouldn’t have beaten West Ham. I’ve seen this film before: the potential hero gets close, bravely close and then narrowly misses out when Manchester United gets the girl. The title race was not meant to include Arsenal, it was supposed to be about United and Chelsea. Arsenal were supposed to bow out gracefully. So how are we still in it?
Arsenal were not meant to score twice late at Stoke to win 3-1, or to strike very late at Hull to win 2-1. We shouldn’t have beaten West Ham, that’s for sure. We got an early goal - that much we can be allowed - it made losing Vermaelen to a sucker red card all the more sweet a script. What was then meant to happen was that Diamanti or Cole would apply the closing moments to our supposed title challenge and then Arsenal could be neatly packed away. Yet here we are, still in the frame, still in a position to affect who wins the title. Possibly by even winning it ourselves.
In the real world we didn’t get a penalty at Stoke, Bendtner’s follow-up at Hull was saved, Diamanti scored his penalty and Cole’s shot went in off the post. We didn’t win any of these matches. But Arsenal aren’t operating in the real world. Most penalties get scored. Cole’s shot was heading in until it neared the goal and then it veered and hit the post. We shouldn’t have been in a position to win the match 2-0 late on with a penalty. So what is happening?
Sequences work for the team that wins the league. Incidents, events that would scupper everyone else don’t quite the scupper the team that hence becomes the champions. You can’t get anywhere without a mixture of talent and luck, one alone is not enough. We know that Arsenal have the talent, so dare we risk to think that it is we, Arsenal, that have had the ultimate luck turn our way?
Ramsey’s injury was hardly a good turn though was it? No way. Was it positive for Arsenal that United scammed an equaliser out of Liverpool and then beat them 2-1? Not exactly. I’ve never got why Liverpool fans rate Javier Mascherano, he’s a fouling idiot who always look likely to get sent off. Time after time Mascherano holds onto people and when they fall down he turns around half smiling as if it is inconceivable that he could have done anything wrong. Well against United, with Liverpool winning through a magnificent header from the formidable Fernando Torres, Mascherano ludicrously held on to Antonio Valencia who waited until he reached the penalty area before flattening to the ground. Liverpool, despite amounting to very little more than Torres, Steven Gerrard and a bunch of nobodies, could have got a result at United. Mascherano’s lunacy ensured that it was a defeat.
So how does this mean that Arsenal might have the ultimate luck that you need to win the league? United’s victory doesn’t do us a favour. But our victory and Chelsea failing to match this, by drawing at Blackburn, means that United winning in their typical way doesn’t end anything for us. All we have suffered is to have played another round of matches. We should have completed United’s picture by dropping points to West Ham. The villain is supposed to gain from the hero getting his come-uppance – but we’re still standing.
If Chelsea had the ultimate luck they would have skanked a late winner. In fact, Diouf wouldn’t have equalised against them. Ivanovic getting injured was a big unwelcome kick in the guts that Chelsea were not expecting. Ivanovic is a henchman, someone to take care of business. Well he went off, Paulo Ferreira came on and Ferreira did not take care of business because Diouf got up above him to deprive Chelsea of two points. Bang. That is all it takes.
Something goes wrong for Chelsea, they lose ground. United skank a penalty, they win. The next part of the sequence is then that Arsenal missed out too, after Diamanti’s penalty and/or Cole’s long ranger gave West Ham a win/draw. But that last bit of business never happened. We won too. It should all be working out now for United.
Match of the Day 2 last night ignored Valencia's dive but derided Torres for kicking up the penalty spot. They talked lovingly, longingly, yearningly, romantically of 'United!' and of Park's goal "finishing off" something. I hope they meant the move rather than Liverpool as there was still half an hour to go, or the title as there are still seven matches to go. Five Live this morning were talking like the title had been conclusively decided for United by Chelsea drawing. Chelsea may be beginning their ending, but Arsenal are annoyingly still in the frame.
Champions override every single factor to finish top of the pile. Injuries, suspension, weather, kits, referees, anything you could mention, the media too frankly – the champions overcome all hurdles put their way. It is very hard to know for sure how the title will conclude and the most likely outcome is that United win it, because that’s what happens, that's what the establishment prefers. Arsenal may though just be benefitting from a different script.
as usual the tiny totts from tottingham are supporting their true club MANURE-it doesn't matter when we play them-although it would be nice to pick up the title at shite fart lane again!3 times!how embarrasing for them would that be?
The reason you beat Spurs at home because King was not fit and the Spanish one got lucky when Palacios fell over King got stuck with is dodgy knee . The last goal should not have been given because our defence stopped for a free kick and the ref waved play on .We are in much better shape now and all our players will be back Sol will age ten years when our Croations finish with him ,and Bale and Lennon will leave him gasping and sent of for is despairing tackle's 4-2 to the Mighty Cockerels ARSENAL NEWT AGAIN
@ mail:
"The last goal should not have been given because our defence stopped for a free kick and the ref waved play on". Yes he did, and it is the ref who controls the game, not your players. Therefore the goal SHOULD have been given.
And why do so many of the tiny totts have this idea that lennon,bale and king are world beaters that we will have no chance of coping with. There's a reason that they're at a nothing club like yours- they're nothing players.
61 and never again.
Forever in our shadow.
You "remarkable" league campaign? You will finish 3rd, and will win nothing.....AGAIN. And Spurs will beat you to scupper your title hopes. Perfect :-)
PJ
All the guys that rather dye than wish for a spurs win, Please do so will you?
why don't spud fans just realise, they will never be as good as Arsenal and just get over it..
i don't think Arsenal fans are really too bothered about spurs fans, and what they have to say. Every year we have to put up with a load of shit about how your going to beat us.. still waiting!!
I think you're missing the big picture here, 70s Gooner. We should cheer for Fulham since we play them on the last day. If they're in the FA Cup final they'll most likely rest a lot of their best players. And those that do play will be more worried about getting injured than about losing a meaningless league game.
Also the postponing of the NL derby will just give Defoe and Lennon more time to get fit. I say the sooner we play them the better.
seriously, you should have never written any articles about spurs, EVER on an arsenal blog. It will only attract their rude, deluded pest and low life racist fans on here who will continue to call arsene a pedophile and what not when their it's their manager who should have been jailed (with proof not their made up criticism of arsene).
the sad fucks only ever care about us not winning. look at how many of them are desperate for manutd to win the league, that's just sad. one thing for sure is they haven't beaten us in the league for a whole decade. haha! but they are still saying we will get trounced at their place.
their hatred for us is quite scary really when you see 'dan' commenting and hoping that an arsenal fan will just die. again, how sad...
these spuds fans are already anticipating that arsene will have a ready made excuse for their imaginary win at the lane in april when in fact some of them were the ones making up excuses after excuses for getting thumped 3-0 at the emirates.what a bunch of hypocrites!
bagpuss is the only manager to lead 3 clubs into administration, last time they were in europe they out out a weak team because they couldnt compete. forever in our shadow and nearly 50 years since they last won the league, they will never be a big club.
shut up mate
A lot of Spud's shouting their mouth's of about beating us. Haven't we heard this all before?
It will be the same before the start of not next season. When they will spend five times as much as us (again), tell us how this year they will finish above us (again), and in the end get nowhere f*cking near (again)!
Bollox to cheering them on in the FA Cup. If we are worried about our boys being tired after Barca, send the Arsenal Ladies to Sh@te Harte Lane to get our 3 points, simple.
I don't think it ,akes much difference when we play Spurs; Arseanl are a class above and could beat anytime. Personally, 14-0 to Fulham would be a good result.
van Persie showed how old and crappy King has become//munn
marianne, what the hell you on about? how about you stop bitching and moaning yourself and stop reading an arsenal blog.
And don't try to act as if all spurs fans are the superior fans above any other club on here, i know alot of spurs supporter at the start of the season was hailing arry as the best manager for spurs for a long while, then, after losing to wolves wanted harry gone pronto and wanted hiddink at spurs! some even wanted martin jol back. Now though they are changing their stance again after several wins. lets face you lot are just, if not more fickle than us. And of course deluded to boot.
post when you win something in europe scummers..
we lost to barca and you'll be happy? oh well, at least we lose in Quarter Final in CHAMPIONS LEAGUE its better than NOT IN CHAMPIONS LEAGUE at all right? :-)
better focus on getting the 4th spot. or you'll be playing for league cup next season again.:-)
Spurs will beat us one day & I have a bad feeling it'll be this time. The Champions League games will take too much out of us. The reason we won't win the league wont have anything to do with Spurs - it'll be the 12points we lost to Chelsea & ManU.
Funny how Spurs fans are wetting themselves about getting Champions League for the first time while we done it what 10years on the bounce? Yet they still think they are better than us. Sad!
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