About Me

I have been a Red since I was about 6 or 7. My boyhood hero was Kenny Dalglish and I have an autograph from him while he was still at Celtic. Thanks Gran! As such I gravitated towards the team he played for. So I have been Scottish-South African- Scoucer for about 30 years now! I am extremely passionate about our club, and have felt the need to start this blog in the face of the abject nature of our performaces under Benitez and the Hicks/Gillett ownership.

Wednesday 10 February 2010

Gunned down by a Webb of Defensive Dros

Well I am sorry to repot that I told you so.

Wenger played Bendtner up front and we played our 2 tackling Hobbits. Result - we got stuffed. Arsenal have just come off the back of 2 heavy defeats to 2 teams who used their power and pace on the counter attack to destroy them.

So what does the useless,incompetent,stubborn FSW do............. Play the same crap formation and team he has done all season!!!!!!!!! Brilliant I bet Wenger didn't see that coming!!!!

Agreed we dont have a lot of power and pace in our squad, but who's fault is that? almost 70 players brought in and over 80 moved on and what do we have..... nothing better than when he started.

Surely this game cried out for Babel at least from the start instead of Ngog or Maxi? Instead our counter-attacking consisted of Dirk, Maxi & Ngog, neither of whom would beat a tortoise with a piano straped to its back over 10 yards, never mind a Back 4 with the pace of Arsenal's! I assume we were counter-attacking because we didnt attempt to cross the halfway line in the first half and gave up after a little bit of effort in the 1st ten of the 2nd half!

Its been the case too many times under Benitez, we only start to play once we are behind. He went to the Emirates and played like Wolves (oh no, they won!), hoping not to lose but not doing anything to try and win the game. Almunia's first contribution came in the 81st minute when he made great save from the only person on the pitch who had a shot in anger at their goal in 95 minutes... Babel, who sadly only played his usual 15 minutes.

As to the goal itself, how the fuck does a 6'2 guy not get marked at all when we are defending under pressure. If you watch the cross, Skrtel is at the near post marking the ghost of Xmas past(well there wasnt anyone there!!) and Degen is at the actually defending by blocking off Walcott. What exactly were the rest of the team doing????? Not a single Pool player in a defensive situation was located anywhere between the 2 posts 6 yard out. WTF is that, surely not even Rafa's rubbish zonal non-marking teaches you to vacate the 18 yard box when the other team has the ball out wide and are about 10 yards from the deadball line.

Next the magnificent Howard Webb, not the worst ref in the Premier League in by a long way (that honour is a toss up between Mason & Bennett), but how could he book Bendtner for diving, there is contact from Agger by unlike the newly legally blind Andy Gray declared before a replay was shown, it was outside the box, not inside so not a pen. Honestly the more Mr Gray pundificates, the more he sounds like that Irish clown the let do the La Liga games. Anyway i digress.

Mr Webb's next crime against football was at the end. Blatant handball by Fabregas for that last free-kick, so that should have been a sending off. And as Fabregas wasted 75 seconds deciding were we should take the 1st free kick from, we should have had another free kick and at least another minute of play. This is not sour grapes, we deserved bugger all and thats what we got.

Thank God we will be undefeated this weekend, and can now take 10 days to prepare for Urine of Romania or whetever they are called in Europa-diddy-not-quite-good enough-trophy. Which everyone remembers the winner of.......NOT

YNWA ....... but I an getting tired of the direction we are going in.

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