The Cesc is still good

He’s still here isn’t he? Despite all those years of media muppet-ery (muppetiness?) he’s still here.And he’s still our captain fabtastic.That’s all that counts for me.

Cesc joined Arsenal from Barcelona at the age of 16 and has recently turned 23.In those 7 years he’s Played almost 300 games and scored almost 50 goals.Probably has 75 odd assists to his name as well.He’s reached numerous semi finals and a few finals as well, the most promising being the Carling Cup against the chavs and the Champions League final at Paris against You-Know-Who. But what has he won?
I concede that apart from the Emirates Cup he’s not got a lot of silverware to show for his efforts,but then,has he not won the chance to showcase his talent to the world?If he were at Barcelona all this while I’d think he’d still be a hot prospect in the shadow of Xavi and Iniesta.At Arsenal he’s our beloved and revered Captain and has become arguably the world’s best young central midfielder.
Arsenal owe a lot to Cesc,and Cesc owes a lot to Arsenal.His 7 years of service to the club have been excellent and we can but hope there are a few years left of his breath-taking play in an Arsenal shirt.

I’m not entirely convinced that he’ll go,they’ve just spent £34m on David Villa and that takes their debt to over £300m. Where the money would come from for a deal of this magnitude is a big question.He might want to leave,and they may well want him,but if they can’t cough up the green stuff then his ‘DNA’ isn’t going to help much is it? A player exchange deal might work but I’d rather keep our Captain than get in someone who is unproven in the more physical English league.The best players from other leagues have failed to make their mark here and there’s no guarantee that a player who is a promising player in Spain would do just as well here.
I trust Arsene to make the right decisions.

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Barcelona-‘more than a football club’?Yes,I can think of a few other names for them right now.

Lucky Me

Just my luck.
When I started this blog I was 1 day into an interlull,and now when I restart it,it’s 1 week into the season break.Pfffttt.

It’s hard to blog when you have little or no interesting content.Cesc to Barca stories have become the mainstay of the media and I sincerely hope Laporta and all those other Barca prez-candidates would shut up.Even if they will,their media puppies spread the shit.
In other transfers related news we were linked to Neverton’s Jagielka, and although I think he could become an important player for us,he’s already important-ish at Neverton and I think the transfer fee could be quite exhorbitant.Plus he’s not a Wenger-esque signing enough,if you know what I mean…
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England won the t20 World Cup last night then, congratulations to the lads for that,well played as well.First ever world cup just before a football world cup? Hmmmm ominous.Or not.

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You know there’s nothing to write about when I talk cricket. *sigh*
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I think I’ll do a player profile/team of the season tomorrow,unless something worth mentioning happens.
Later.
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Suggestions welcome,ofcourse!

Back Without a Bang

Right, so I’m back.

Cue tumbleweed applause.

Ok so whats happened in the last 2 months then?We got the Champions League-FA cup-Premier League treble?No?Okay..

But seriously, at the beginning of the season if anyone had told me we would be serious title contenders in mid Feb I wouldnt believe him.Third place was the best I thought we could hope for, and only a series of goalkeeping errors,injuries unfortunate events ensured that St.Totteringham’s Day came as late as it did.

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Moving onto more recent news, there were reports that Cesc was considering his future at the club seriously and would like to move to Barcelona before the World Cup.Now my only insights into Cesc’s brain come via his interviews and comments, and his sister on twitter.From what Ive read from those sources Im not too worried.

Reports have also suggested that Eduardo and Carlos Vela might be out of the club and I personally think maybe it’s time to cut our losses with Eduardo,he’s done well for us(10 goals in his first 18apps… but 11 goals in his next 51) but when you hesitate before going into every tackle then England probably isn’t the best place for you.
Vela on the other hand I still think can become a good LW/CAM for us- he has the class and the pace but the lack of drive has been worrying.I’d like to see him get a proper run in the first team before passing judgement.
The arrival of Chamakh will surely mean the end of the Arsenal careers of atleast one of the two above, and the fact that vela has been getting games in the last few before him would indicate that it’s eduardo I think.Plus I don’t think Eduardo is at a point in his career yet where he can afford to spend the season starting from the bench.

Wenger confirmed that he was interested in strengthening our defence after we conceeded 41 league goals last season and I think that comes as a relief to all of us.Surely that leaky defence improvement plan will include a keeper worthy of the name.

Nice to be back and yeah yeah I feel like a new signing and all that.

Cya later.
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Sorry for the vanishing act

ah been really busy. sorry. just posted right now so wordpress cant get rid of the blog. be back in mid/late may.

see you then 🙂

Stoke Poke+Delaps secret training sessions

I’ve decided to take matters into my own hands.Delap must be stopped.I’ve resorted to hiring a set of ‘nice and friendly’ blokes who’ll do my bidding and take care of the Potters’ main man Rory.

I report to you thus:

A.First I had them cover Pulis’ training sessions with him.His exclusive and secret one-on-one sessions.

While all players have warming up and stretching as part of their exercise,Rorys session seems to solely consist of the same. After a quick jog around the D his fitness training is done, and he moves onto the core position work.

Tony Pull-his

B.Mission Make-or-Break

A trained negotiator proceeded to have a quick word with Rory.Now, I wasn’t there but I expect the conversation to have gone along the lines of,
Negotiator:”You will have to withdraw from the squad against The Arsenal.”
RD:”Says who?!”
Negotiator:”Says the 9mm in my pocket.”
RD:” Stoke have my life insured for £500K and my arms insured for £20m. Do your worst.”
*Long pause*
Negotiator:” What about your legs?”
RD:”….dunno…nothing I think….oh shit NO! STOP! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?!?
Aaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!!!……….”

C.The Saga Continues…

No escaping the long arm of Delap.

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The news from Arséne is rather expected. Eduardo should return to the squad with a spot on the bench but Diaby,Gallas,Arshavin are still out.

I’d have a midfield of Cesc,Song and Nasri and Eboue,Bendtner,Rosicky up top and tell them to get stuck in and make sure the systematic fouling of the captain is contained to an extent atleast.Nasri and Rosicky have never been the back down from a tussle sort so shouldn’t be too much to ask for from them.
Three points a must today and hopefully chelski drop theirs against Citeh and Bridge gives John Slippy a good one where it hurts.
With Unitit playing Villa in the Youth Cup Carling Cup Final tomorrow,our winning today and chelski losing would have us within 3points of the leaders and 2 of unitit.
Shrek and Frogba injured would be asking for too much I think,but I’ll take what I can get.

In related news Clichy says we’ve been training to prepare for delap and should handle him alright

Arsene has a poke at the time it takes to keep Rorys balls dry.

Off the pitch, Arsenal’s charity bet of the weekend is Theo Walcott will score today which surprises me a little but you never know- the clayheads DID have 120mins against Citeh and Walcott cutting through the defense like a hot knife through butter has me ‘tingling’ with anticipation all over.

The clubs also put up the mid-term financial report which you can read about here. The irony of our clearing up over £140m of our earlier £332.8m debt in under a year being reported on the same day as Pompey going into administration is almost cruel,if your a Pompey fan.

That’s all for now, perhaps redterror04 will post a post-match post later, post the match probably.But that’s upto him.

Also, Happy Birthday to Arseblog from us at I Did Not See It.Cheers for all your great blog posts and arsecasts over the years.

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Why we’re better than (most) other arsenal blogs

Good ‘morrow to you and hope you had a pleasant Spud-free night and had no unpleasant dreams of reading and re-reading the Nicklas Bendtner of Arsenal blogs…oh wait….

Good stuff from redterror04 today on his full blogging debut and hope to see more of the same.
Right, so we are,better than most other blogs because…( and I’m just rolling this off the top of my head, haven’t thought about it the whole day or something)

1.We’re like a new signing.
Like 150 hits in 2 days.That’s a lot. Or atleast I think it is.

2.Two heads are better than one.
Most arsenal blogs have one blogger-in-chief.We go one step higher,faster,stronger,sharper,higher, and stronger.

3.Only WE can show you exclusive pictures of our next seasons home kit.

In honour of the first shirts we wore back at the start

Yeah ok ,Ive flicked it off the comments section from ‘holics blog.

4. Pre-preview
While other blogs preview games, we pre-preview them too.(or are just doing it this time around)

Stoke pre-preview
No more injuries reported. Must break Delaps hand(s).Must score goals.Must not concede too easy. And that wraps it up.

5.We’re inspired by the actual best Arsenal blogs out there.

Namely

Arseblog ( my personal favourite,though not necessarily a family blog)

Goodplaya

Goonerholic

EastLower

And some others that you can find on our blogroll.

6.We’re not hit mongers
*cough*

7.We’re probably amongst the younger Arsenal bloggers (and hence cooler than Ye Oldies)
At 17 and 18, definitely not experienced but we’re only going to get better (or so we hope)
Just need a run of posts in the first team…

8.We’re Cesc’s favourite blog.
Or will be.Or can be.Or not.

9.Two posts in one day.(not necessarily a bad thing)

Sometimes,if your nice,and if we have time.

And last but not the least…..
10.Your reading this right now,rather than some OTHER blog.Nope,too late to change now,we know your out there.Comment.

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Welcome to the team

Hey quick post just to welcome redterror04 to the team as co-editor.
Hopefully will help take the blog to an all new level.(sega FM2010 language,I know) 🙂
Good to see 90+ hits in just 2 days just need some more reader interaction now… (Put in a fake email id if that’s what’s putting you off from commenting,it really doesn’t matter)

Later

Boring Boring Arsenal

No significant arsenal news today, but my new found bloggy spirit simply compels me to type out some drivel anyway for my audience of 5. (Including me. And my tortoise)

Our famous backline of the ’90s keeping a line high enough to frustrate the opposition with the number of offsides(sylvester tries this,but *sigh*), and our often negative approach to a game had opposition fans mocking us with “Boring Boring Arsenal!”. Well yesterday I caught 95-odd minutes some of the most ‘fascinating’ and ‘Jaw-dropping’ displays of attractive football possible, expecting some entertainment from the pudlians.Naïve you say?Can’t disagree.

With all those big names and price-tags on the pitch,you’d expect better but wasn’t to be. Still, everytime Agger closed and pushed Adebuywhore down it brought a smile to my face 🙂 Maybe Gallas and Vermaelen should take a look at that video….

Anyhow expecting the pudlians to do us a favour by beating both chelski and the unitits isn’t exacting a water-tight plan,but meh- Ive heard of weirder things…..Plus we’re desperate.

We’re by no means completely out of the running and the best case scenario would be a draw between chelski and unitit, AND them losing to both Citeh and ‘pool… Plus us winning,say,10 of our remaining 11 matches…

As it Stands….

IMHO the worst case scenario would be us coming 3rd. I really can’t see Citeh with their discord and lack of cohesion and ‘pool with the poor luck and form and injuries challenging us for 3rd place. I mean, they had ONE shot on target apiece yesterday,and it wasn’t by any means a top class defensive performance either.
With regards the spuds, if recent memory serves correct, they’re about to self-destruct anytime soon and drop a place….

And another……

And another…..

I’d love to mention the Wigan pitch but don’t want wordpress taking me off for ‘mud-slinging’ after just 1 blog.You deserve more.

Here’s hoping for another injury-free training session today,Cheers.

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Hello There!

Hello there, and thanks for taking a look at the “I Did not see it” Arsenal Blog.This being my first time as a blogger there’ll deffo be some things to iron out and any non-spuddish suggestions would be warmly welcomed.

Getting down to business straight away, I thought i’d start with a review of yesterdays game against Sunderland,who arguably,are in the worst form possible (with no wins from 13 games it is I think,since their last win against….us) so pretty good time to play them.
We started off great with Walcotts great run in the 4′ and you could tell the team wanted to bounce back after the two embarrassing slip-ups at Porto on Wednesday.
There were a lot more chances in the half but won’t dwell on them,cause,well, we didn’t take them.But you could see a goal was coming sooner rather than later and finally it was returning-to-fitness nicklas who had a tap in from 3 yards.Easy.
We pushed for a second and could well have got it but some poor luck and finishing meant the half ended 1-0.
We started off the second half eager to put the game to bed but despite a number of chances and even more half chances ( get well soon persie!) had to wait till an injury time penalty after ex-unitit Fraiser Cambell brought down Cesc in the box,so he could tuck in his 15th for the season,and gave us our first penalty since the arshavin one against Stoke.

Cesc going down after Campbells challenge.

We finished 2-0 but really shouldve scored atleast 2-3 more after absolutely outclassing them and creating what must have been atleast 10 chances per half.
Still it was good to see a reaction from the lads and the fact that no one picked up a knock from the game quite frankly has me both surprised and relieved!

With the unitits being chewed up and spit back out by everton last night we’re just 2 points behind them now and we’re back to joint leaders of the GF table 😀

Anyway Wenger knows what he’s gotta do and he prob wouldn’t have been too unhappy abt the performance esp with the effort put in by Walcott Bendtner and Eboue and cesc-in-waiting,Ramsey.

See you soon-ish.