The Bullet from Flamini: Arsenal 3-0 Newcastle

Guten Tag. I wanted to write the match review after waking up at 5:45 am (or 85th minute Arsenal time) and after finding out the glorious score. But i gave in to sleep (sleep is evil) and so i bring this to you at 2 pm.

The match was not shown on cable tv at all and i wasn’t very impressed. After watching the goals and highlights, i was even less impressed. Not by the goals and performance by our lads but by the stupidity of local cable company. I tried calling them but they put me on hold for the longest time and eventually i got through.

“Good evening, S******, how may i assist you?”
“Yes, my name is Steve-o(no its not), i’d like to enquire about your cable programming?”
“Yes sir?”
“Question, you know about channel 26, yes?”
“The football channel sir?”
“Yes, exactly, the Football channel, is there a reason why football isn’t showing tonight?”
“Sir, i’m not quite sure…”
“I’m referring to the broadcast of ‘Live’ BPL matches that i pay good money for. is there a reason why tomorrow morning’s BPL matches won’t be shown ‘live’ nor ‘delayed’ nor ’same day telecast’?”
“Sir, let me go and check…”
“No, you don’t have to check with anybody, this is the 3rd incident i’ve called and whoever you check with will give you some answer that i’m not satisfied with. Listen, i’m registered under **** ****** *** **** and the S*** *** account is ******** so all you need to do now is, log this conversation down and refer to it as “the 3rd time”. Can i make it clear that there shouldn’t be a 4th time?”

…is what should have happened if i continued to wait on the line. But i gave up listening to elevator/cabletvoperator muzak and just went to ensure i did my part for the Arsenal.

So its the same scoreline against the Geordies and i’m very happy because i don’t have to redesign the review template and also because we won quite convincingly (judging by the highlights and goal clips i saw). I can’t really comment on the play at all so there won’t be the usual section of “Steve-o’s Mentionables”.

Goal comments -
Adebayor’s Header: Loved it. Sagna loses the ball high up our flank, Willie wins ball back, ball goes to Hleb, Hleb passes first touch to Fab, Fab first touch passes to a rushing Flam, Flam runs up, takes the ball over and past a tackle, crosses it into the box, Adebayor plants his header past Shay and into the left of the net. Neat passing, simple cross, spot on header.

Flamini’s Smasher: Diaby keeps ball in play on the left flank after Toon defence clears a cross, passes it to Cesc, who spots Flamini in space, Flamini takes a look up and drives the ball hard and fast into the top right corner. It doesn’t get better than this and seriously this should be up for contention for Goal of the Season. What a goal. I told sggooner that if the match was shown on telly, i would have screamed so loud that my neighbours would have had a nice wake up call. Lucky neighbours. (clip courtesy of arsenalist)

Cesc’s Left foot: Freekick taken deep in our half by Clichy, ball reaches Big Ben who’s in the box, he takes one touch to control it and with the 2nd touch, passes it to Cesc who puts his left foot into the ball straight away for a shot. GOAL, get in there you beauty! 4 touches from a freekick and this is simply divine to watch.

I think my M.O.M would be Flamini and please, for fuck’s sake just sign already. Suggestion, lets send a petition over to the club for him to sign a new contract till 2014, who’s up for it??

Did i mention that i really really hate my cable operator?

We’re back on top for the moment and like my friend says, hopefully Pompey will hold Yanited back. Sorry Merv. Wish there’s more to blog but i’m glad because i have tons of work to do and i’ll just end today’s post now. Thanks for reading you glorious Gooners (and a few other fans of other clubs). Seeya tomorrow.

Match Preview: Deja Vu?

Good afternoon everyone. I’m very tired and fatigued from a whole night’s worth of work and i haven’t stopped since so i’ll try to keep this as coherent as possible. Try.

Well, it seems like we’re playing Newcastle tonight at home and the last time we faced them, we beat them 3-0 with Adebayor scoring a brace and Nicky Butt helping himself to the odd own goal. I’m such the Arsenal fan, i remember stats like this so clearly that i recall the scorers from a game that was played half a season ago…what? The last time we met the Geordies was just 3 days ago? Are you sure? What? The last time we met the Geordies was just 3 days ago? Are you sure? Must be Deja Vu then. Must be Deja Vu then.

Enough. Trolling around the Arsenal sites i don’t find a hint of any squad news for tonight so…*GONG*….Gunnersing’s Probable Starting Magnificent Squad of 16:

Almunia
Jens Lehmann
Bacary Sagna
Willie
Senderos
Clichy
Justin Hoyte
Mathieu Flamini
Cesc
Hleb
Abou Diaby
Theo Walcott
Gilberto Silva
Eduardo
Adebayor
Nicklas Bendtner

I’m not sure about the safe pickings today so i’ll just post Steve-o’s 11.

The changes from saturday’s win would be Sagna coming in for Hoyte and Diaby playing from the start. I have a feeling Big Ben would play a bigger part today but we’ll see. It would be nice if we scored 10 goals against them tonight but i think we’d be better off hoping for a respectable scoreline of 2-0. (my heart tells me it’d be a tense 4-1 affair)

Ahead of the match, our little General, Cesc Fabregas says “We will see what happens, but all we know is that we have to keep winning,” he growls while sharpening his teeth against a leather hide, “i’ll cut and eat up our opponents limb by limb if i have to.” Great way to rouse the fire in our bellies, Cesc. Great way to scare the bejeezus out of opposing teams too.

Le Boss warns us against the growing hard-on that is Michael Owen. “”In this game he will be harder than he was then. You see that the stiffness is there, but he is not 100 per cent yet.” Which might imply Owen would be either a standing rod of goalscoring fury or he’ll be impotent in front of goal. Please pour your sacrificial whiskey for the latter. Danke.

If i’m awake tonight i’ll provide some mirth on msn and some ire on the Arses. Both are equally entertaining. But not as entertaining as the match itself. Remember, wherever you are, Sing for the Gunners! Because they love it!

“Adebayoooooor, Adebayoooooooor, Give him the ball and he will score….”

No-Link-Monday: Kolo, Woody & Man Yanited

Good Monday to you and welcome to another NLM at Gunnersing. Which means fuck all except that you don’t have annoying links to click and i report the stories to their fullest, juicy, detail. In a summarized fashion of course, or Steve-o will be caught “lifting” articles wholesale from the original source. You know what that means.

Kolo Toure’s groin injury suffered at the African Cup of Nations is not as bad as we feared. According to the Arsenal medical team who flew King Kolo into Paris to assess him, he’ll be fine in “eight to 10 days”. Le Boss says “Kolo has a Grade One groin problem,” he smiled with a mischievous glint in his eyes. “Heh, i said groin, hehe, *ahem* ,it will keep him out for eight to 10 days - but he will stay with the Ivory Coast squad for the rest of the tournament.” Good news then, but Kolo won’t be back in time for the FA Cup tie against Yanited (more on that later). I hope Big Phil continues his good run of form then.

There was a 5 minute flurry of transfer rumour activity for me today as i took a break from work, we were linked with a last minute bid for Boro’s Jonathan Woodgate. Allegedly the 3rd party to sneakily sneak in to scupper Spurm’s efforts to bolster their defence, the news was reported on a few reputable Arsenal Blogs, Soccernet and Skysports. I was genuinely flummoxed, why Woody? I’d spend the reported 7 million pounds plus 4 million on top to get Micah Richards. And in 5 minutes, an announcement from the Club’s Official Website, Wenger hrmphs and says, “I do not know where that story came from, there is no truth in it at all. We have never been in touch with Middlesbrough about Jonathan Woodgate.” before putting his spectacles back on his nosebridge, smiling his mischievous smile for the 2nd time today. “Heh, i said Wood.” Yes you did, Boss, yes you did.

And the big news today is that we drew Man Yanited for the next round of the FA Cup. When i saw the draw, i thought we were gonna get Barnsley or Huddersfield, but of course, the lords of football (read: the corrupt forces of the underworld gambling mafia) didn’t agree and sent Arsenal to Old Trafford for the tie. “Fuckety Fuck Fuck,” Siren texted me after i told her that we drew Yanited. “Fuckety Fuck Fuck,” she said again after I told her that we will play away at OT. I could only manage a “Bleah”. Looking at the pic above, i realized so much had happened since the last time we won the FA Cup. DB10 retired, PV4 gone, Reyes became a wanker, Cuntley Cunt became a question mark, CescFab4 cut his hair, Lauren’s part of the Dad’s army and most importantly, we’ve had a good run of results against the hated redblacks in recent times. I won’t say anymore to continue my silent belief of the anti-jinx. Let’s look forward to screaming our heads off when the tie comes around then.

Alright, i’m going back to work and i hope to read you tomorrow. Get in the comments huh? its getting a little lonely tonight. Guten Morgen and all that.