Arsenal Lobby

Samuelj29060 wrote:Writing an Arsenal season preview which should be online by Friday. Writing it for GFN (Get Football News) on twitter.

Will post it in the lobby so you can have a  if you want  

Arsenal-Villa preview will be on forum on Thur/Fri too.

New season getting closer. No signings (yet) but the butterflies in the stomach are still there!

You're all legends  

Spoiler:

urbaNRoots wrote:I will do RG's share, will post it later.

There’s a great bit of stand-up from Chris Rock in which he talks about the polarisation of opinion, from a political point of view.

   Everybody’s so busy wanting to be down with the gang. “I’m liberal”, “I’m conservative”. Bullshit! No normal, decent person is one thing, okay? I’ve got some shit I’m conservative about, I’ve got some shit I’m liberal about.

The same could apply to football, or specifically to Arsenal. Too many positions are utterly fixed nowadays. There were people complaining last night that winning was bad for Arsenal because it interrupts the narrative of misery. There were others saying that a win justified the manager’s decisions this summer and provided a big can of shut up juice to those who had been complaining.

Position A, Position Z. Nothing in-between, no thought that it’s possible to be more nuanced than that.

It’s certainly possible to believe that Arsenal’s work this summer has been sub-par yet enjoy what was a good performance and a very important win. Doing so does not mean you think everything’s ok with the squad and we should just carry on as we have been. Conversely, this win and that performance is no justification for having a squad so threadbare that Arsenal fans across the world almost pooed themselves when, having already lost Laurent Koscielny, our only other centre-half went down writhing on the floor in pain.

That’s a ludicrous situation for any football club, let alone one with the power and resources of Arsenal to be in. We have one fit centre-half. One. It’s nonsensical and it impacts very strongly on our ability to win football matches. But beating Fenerbahce last night was, whether you like to think so or not, a good thing. A very good thing.

I have never understood wanting your team to lose. Some of the people who were so relieved and, dare I say it, happy, that we’d finished 4th last season now wanted us to crash out of the competition that was so important back then. For what? So the manager might get sacked? If you think that’s what it would take you’re mistaken, and in the meantime your team suffers. You want us to sign players? We’re already finding it as difficult as licking our own elbow, this would only have made it worse.

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