three straight losses
the last three games have been emotional rides for me. all three games were losses and the feelings i came away with were different each time.
our loss against bolton left me hollow and disappointed. apart from a couple of our players (especially lauren) we didn't show up and were rightly dominated by a tough bolton side. even so, there was no feeling of despair. we lost, we deserved to lose and it seemed to be nothing more than a blip.
then last week we played our hearts out and got taken down by shabby reffing and shearer goonery (i do recognize the pun and accept it with good grace). my emotions after the game were fury and...well, fury. but at least my anger was not directed at the gunners.
today i am just sad. again i'm not mad at the gunners, but i saw something today that i haven't seen in years -- even when we've been playing badly -- today i saw a team who had given up. nobody on the pitch but lauren (and lauren's small mistake on cole should not even be rated. he is the only gunner who has given his all all season, and he's a hell of a lot better on the left than any of our other current options) and lehmann believe they can win.
henry doesn't believe it, campbell doesn't believe it, pires doesn't and freddie doesn't. and if those four don't believe it the young guys sure as hell aren't going to believe it. still, chelsea played well, but not well enough. i think a more accurate view is that chelsea's back line played well (minus another dodgy performance by cech).it's a sad day for arsenal and arsenal fans. our team has finally given up. where do we go from here? major changes became inevitable today. we're going to have to get ready for a rocky couple of years. i didn't believe until today that we were at this point, but we are. you know, though, in some ways this is a good thing. we can stop worrying about the title for a bit and start loving the boys again. i just hope we get into position for some european football next year. i'd even take the uefa cup at this point.
gunners: milos, brontë and i love you -- no matter how you're doing on the table.
posted by bananas @ 11:39 AM
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i love you too - i'm still torn between liverpool and arsenal. but it is a sad day indeed. i hope the gunners can get their chins up and remember what a great team they really are.
that post made me sad too.
The problem as I see it is that two things are happening:
1) Arsenal is having a lot of breaks go against them (the brutal call on Van Persie's goal, Henry hitting the post three times in the last few games, some questionable decisions by the refs on Gilberto, Essien, etc)
2) Arsenal doesn't have the confidence to rebound when these things happen. After Henry hit the post twice against Bolton, he disappeared. Same thing yesterday. Really after Van Persie's goal was disallowed the team seemed to give up. Perhaps the ability is also lacking, but the optimist in me is saying that once the team gets some confidence they'll be fine.
I don't think that the problem can be corrected by bringing in a couple of players in the January transfer window. Of course, if we continue to struggle this season it becomes harder to lure top players to the team and to hold onto our stars (Henry?). I suspect it might be a few years before Arsenal makes another run at the title.
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