So, i never post on here...

First post. i really dont know why. Laziness i guess. i spend too much time talking shit and wanting to fight pav in the thread.

Well, im fucking frustrated. Not that i should be or have any right to be. I mean, if you listened to all the papers and pundits before the start of the season Arsenal were doomed, a team in decline. We were resigned to missing out on Champions League football and finishing below sp*rs.

But Arsenal have a knack of suprising you and at the same time spoiling you. So when we dont play perfect football we all(Arsenal fans) get mad or frustrated or think our team is shit. This player is useless, that player cant pass anymore, so and so lost his touch and so on.

And ill admitt it, as an Arsenal fan im spoiled. We play the type of football that when its "on" its probably the best in the world. But when its off its reeeeeally off. And the past few games it seems to have been off. and thats annoying.

Wenger has been talking about how this team has a "hunger". Well, when its mattered....down the stretch, these past few crucially important games where the fuck has it been? we look comatose until the 75th minute or until we go a goal down. Only then do we start to play. And no bad pitch excuses or ref excuses(even though Aliadiere was offsides) its down to us. Our players to want to win these games and we just havent looked like we wanted to until its too late ussually.

Anyways, Sorry for the rant.

I still love this fucking team more than anything and that will never change.

Oh Ville Lumière, sens la chaleur, de notre coeur

PSG, the love of my life. Some friend of ours was telling us how PSG was truly the love of his life. He was 64 at the time and i was 6. He was talking about how for 26 years, PSG grew on him til his heart went blue and red. At the time, i was just starting to watch football, i went to my first football game, and just started to read (almost) decently. And this friend, was speaking of PSG as if it were a woman, an art, a lifestyle... he said it was his life.

Francis Borelli is the man i'm talking about. Emblematic President of Paris Saint-Germain, wonderful man, and excellent father. President Borelli died October the Second of 2007 of a horrible disease.  I miss him, we all miss him. 

The reason i bring up Borelli, is because he represented the true PSG fans. He was a football fan, and a french fan, but before everything he was a PSG fan. He lived for PSG and everything else came after. 

And that's what I am, a PSG fan. And everything else comes after.

Defining moments

There has never been a moment as intense for any british team as was the champions league final for Manchester United. It was the defining moment to mark the luckiest season to any team in the EPL.


so here is a little video, I still get eye watery

Are you watching?

Earlier this week I found something out.

A longtime friend of mine, who I had not talked to in about 2 1/2 months and fellow Arsenal fan, will be at Ashburton Grove on Saturday watching Arsenal take on Boro.

Needless to say, I was floored. My jealousy shot through the roof. How am I supposed to watch a game when a close friend of mine is in the stands... and I'm not?

To be honest, I will probably still watch. Curiosity will get the best of me and I'll want to watch Emmanuel Eboue stab Jeremy Aliadiere in the throat with his studs.

But it's going to hurt more than any match in recent memory.

-C. Tech

The Injury That Killed A Season

When Lionel Messi tearfully limped off the field during Barcelona's Champions League victory over Celtic a few weeks back, millions of Barca fans worldwide all thought the same thing; "Well, this season's over." In a split second, all of the optimism over the team's recent form, the fact that they were about to advance to the Champions League quarterfinals, and having clawed back to within 2 points of Madrid in La Liga had vanished. No one was realistically thinking "Hey, do you think we can still do this without him?" No, instead our thoughts turned to "Do you think we can convince Mourinho to take over for next season?"

This whole situation of course points to bigger problems for the club. No club, especially one as rich with money and talent as Barcelona should be so reliant on one player that the loss of that player effectively dooms their season. Sure Messi is one of the best players on the planet, but the fact that the team feels that they need him at 100% in every game to have any chance of winning is a huge problem. Just watch a game where they play without him; they're a completely different team. The whole squad looks down, disinterested, and depressed.

It also points to the problem of Messi being fragile. He's only twenty years old, but people are already beginning to wonder if he's doomed to be one of those players who never really reach their full potential due to constant injury problems. Will he have to change his style of play to avoid getting hurt in the future? Will he ever be able to play a full season? Only time will tell.

Lastly, the Messi injury may have put the final nail in the coffin for Frank Rijkaard. The revelation by team doctors that they warned Rijkaard after the teams previous game against Atletico that playing Messi against Celtic would be a huge injury risk only makes matters worse for the manager. So why did Rijkaard start him in the home leg of a tie that they already had pretty well wrapped up? Supposedly, because the press talked him into it. They were unhappy about the fact that he hadn't started in the loss to Atletico, so they put the pressure on the manager to get him in against Celtic. Taking the advice of the media over the advice of the team doctors is inexcusable, and hopefully Rijkaard will repeat that type of mistake when he's coaching Chelsea next season.

After last weekend saw Barca again fall 8 points behind Madrid, the press officially dubbed the La Liga season as over. Even the most positive thinking Barca fan has to agree. The team did get a much needed piece of good luck this morning though, when they were drawn against Schalke in the Champions League quarterfinals. Not to take anything away from the German side, but they are one of the only teams remaining in the competition who Barca can realistically handle even without Messi. If they do advance to the semifinals, Messi may be back to play in them. His return to the field, and his return to some level of fitness is the teams only chance of winning the Champions League, which is the only conceivable way to avoid this season having been a total loss.

-Dizzer

How do you spell relief?

Personally? I spell it "R-V-P."

Hearing that Robin Van Persie is back in the Arsenal squad was a good moment for me today. There were times this season where I had honestly forgotten that he was still on the team. So many days had passed since the last time he was on the pitch.

But, the thought of it happening again makes my planets go back into alignment.


C. Tech