So that wasn’t so bad was it. The summer lull has flown by, a new season is just mere hours away, and Mr. Wenger, as promised following last season’s predictable, and now annual, collapse has been “busy” in the transfer market this summer addressing all the problems which are prevalent in this team. Right?
A COUPLE of weeks have passed since the last blog, and how have things changed since then? Four competitions have faded into lingering hopes in one (scratch that – Bolton did a Bolton on us again on Sunday; it’s a 150/1 shot as I speak), and the usual weaknesses this team possess continue to haunt us. The most frustrating part in all of this is that the majority of neutrals love the way Arsenal play football, slick and stylish going forward, easy on the eye – like a Karen Koster xposé special, but at the end of the day, there is a soft centre in this team which prevents the obvious potential turning into success and silverware. In fact I’m sure the lovely Miss Koster probably possesses as much silver in her shiny wardrobe collection as the entire Arsenal team combined.
SO HERE we are again, the Christmas programme is over, the effects of the food and drink excesses still apparent (as the five-aside fitness levels have shown), and we’ve a new calendar year with the top of the Premier League table looking remarkably like the sports section of a 1998 newspaper (aside from the fact Man City found their level in Division 3 back then). The title run-in is upon us as I’ve no doubt we’ll be reminded from the gadget-happy Richard ‘hairy hands syndrome’ Keys and Andy Gray (if they are allowed back, that is). So how well placed are the ‘Gooners’ to end the trophy drought that we’re so reminded about? Those TV cameras really do like spanning around the Emirates for the gap years post 2005!