Thus Spaketh Idd Salim

Lying to Arsenal fans since 2004

What a game! Welbeck scored against a top-4 team for once. Park and Rooney did the usual. Scoring against Arsenal for Kicks. The last time Arsenal Conceded 8 goals was against Loughborough 115 years ago

The result… well, nothing to write home about, really. Man U team A beating Arsenal team C, at Old Trafford is nothing to be proud of.

Arsenal are in shambles and hit with suspensions, injuries (already!!).

It was like a 7ft tall muscular man taking a sweet from a toddler and boasting about his conquest. Even Liverpool beat us AT HOME and we drew to Newcastle. Big deal? Right? WRONG!!

But let us not lose perspective here. 2-1 or 3-2 is a normal score for a Man U vs Arsenal match. Like I said LOSING is not the problem. It is LOSING BADLY that is. Quite simply this game was a rout, an embarrassment, a roasting, a hammering, a devastating day for Arsenal.

My initial reaction after the match was to buy some Man U fans next to me a few rounds. Partly because my heart was at peace. I was happy to FINALLY and FOR ONCE share a table with Man U fans who knew something about football. People who know what position Dennis Irwin was playing. Who was wearing Number 7 before Cantona.

Not the 2008/Ronaldo/Beckham Man U fans we see all around. Also, I threw a few rounds to aid the celebration of beating Arsenal. Because they are Man U fans, generally, hawanaga doo. They had been BJ-ing the same bottles since the Man City game. Ahem!

I was sad for Van Persie. Sad for Arshavin and Sad for Rosicky and Theo. Worldclass players forced to play with toddlers against a team of the caliber and might of Man United (Yes. United. Not urinals today. We have to respect the winners.) I am not angry that we lost. I am SORRY for the players.

But that is where my Sadness ends. The rest is all bliss. A simple 1-0 win for Man U would have made Wenger think we are OK. But a complete annihilation that it became showed Arsenal up for the pussies they are. A team with no Spine and in need of a monster DM, defender and midfield maestro. Thank you Man United.

When Fabregas left, he stated that he left because:

He had been at Arsenal for over 7 years and won NOTHING. This is because of empty promises by Wenger of signing players that never materialized and continually being made to play with players of a low pedigree. Wenger killed hsi faith. With 7 years at Arsenal he won nothing. With 2 weeks at Barcelona, he has 3 medals. In Arsenal, as soon as players mature, they move on.

Players like Van Der Vaart were available for dirt-cheap. Stingy Wenger signs Chamakhkhk. Ashley Young was available for 15M. Wenger signs Oxygen Chamber for the same amount. Young showed his class today. I will not be Angry at all if I woke up in the morning and read that Van Persie has left. He deserves better than this.

City are signing Dzeko, Aguero, Silva, Baloteli, Nasri and the like. Chelsea are onto Mata. Man U are signing better young players and still RETAINING their best still. Fucking Wenger is on a firesale. Losing Fabregas and Nasri and Clichy and only bringing in 3 kids.

Discipline is also a factor. We can’t have Gervinho fighting on the pitch and getting a red-card EVERY GAME and hope to challenge for top 6. Soon we will receive a fine from the FA.

Most likely, the Arsenal Board was playing golf and not even bothering about the game. That is how much they don’t give a fucx. By December, Arsenal will be 13th, Just a point above Bolton and Blackburn. They will be out of the CL and out of Europa.

Ofcourse, most Man U fans will be palepale-kidoo but in heaven juu wanashinda hata kama hawanaga waafrika. The majority I know have no life outside football. Habari ya leo? Ball… Leo ume-unda doo ngapi? Ferguson. How is business? Rooney. What do you want to be in the next 6 months.. Shogaritto.

Back to code…

Wazi.

Even the best are replacable

Finally. If all the ‘credible’ news sources are to be believed, these two are finally leaving Arsenal today.

Nasri will be sold to Man City and Fabregas will finally be allowed to get re-united with his bromancers at Barca.

Both within the next 48 hours.

Arsenal Fans are split on this. Nasri was ‘good’ last season. For a game or 10. Cesc has always been Cesc. Master-passer and ball holder. I will not be all gutter-pressish and player-hattering on them and TRY to even suggest that they are not good players and that we will not miss them. Cesc more than Nasri ofcourse. We will miss them. Big time.

But then comes the realities of life.

Cesc is in love with Barca. He was taken from Barca, and now wants to go back. Blame the trophy draught. (Well, if you ignore the fact that the reason we did not reach the CL semis or better is because Cesc ‘accidentally’ back-heeled the ball to Xavi who passed to Messi for their goal.). Blame Wenger’s penny-pinching and mean spending. Blame the young squad. Blame the Bad football played in England rendering all the good players ALWAYS injured. Blame it on the Anti-Arsenal racist media. Blame the rain. Blame oxygen. Cesc was always going.

That is why Wenger signed Arshavin and the likes of Ramsey and Wilshere so that as soon as Barca put a price that we want, 35M+, then Cesc would be sold without us feeling a thing. By then, Arshavin will have adapted to the EPL and Ramsey and Wilshere will have matured. Talk of a Genius MasterStroke from Wenger.

I would be more worried if Vermaelen, Wilshere and Van Persie left right now. Cesc and Nasri are HUGE and important players. But Midfielders. And these, we have plenty of.

The Life Lessons

I see two lessons here:

1 – Prepping: Some things in life are un-avoidable. Planning for change if a MUST for any organization or setup. Your best will leave. And leaving will hurt you big. Especially if you did not have an apprentice or a better/equal player in place, ready to step in. We suffered this once in 2007 when Gilberto AND Flamini left before Song and Diaby could mature. Song is better now but Diaby is the same old lazy, slow, indecisive fuck he was 3 years ago. Totally stagnated. No improvement whatsoever.

You must plan and prepare for change and adapt. Otherwise you will fail. Because change is inevitable.

2 – Prunning: It was painful for the more Artistic Gunners like me to watch players who DO NOT want to be in the club get a regular spot every year. More saddening was seeing players who are inundated in hubris and delusions of grandeur block better prospects  from playing. I am sure Merida is now kicking himself. He should just have waited one year.

No matter how good one is, if they are NOT part of the team, or feel MORE IMPORTANT and worthy that the rest, then a decision needs to be made. No player is better than the team.

Cesc was never a fit Captain. But Wenger knew that the best way to keep the kid was the ArmBand. As he plans for a replacement.

We will miss Cesc and Nasri. But Arsenal was here before them. And will be here loooooooog after they are gone.

Cesc will be behind Xavi, Alcantara and Iniesta. I guess he likes it that way.

Back to code…

Wazi.