Mr Drummond
Active Member
I think most of us can agree it's two games that really stick out. United and Swansea.
After we beat City in December we all thought it was ours to lose. We then had a run of bad form, 2 wins in the next 7 games with a 4-0 dicking by Southampton to boot. Typical Arsenal, have to blow up when were are serious contenders. 10 years of the same ****e.
But then we beat Bournemouth and we went into the Leicester game thinking if we beat them this is still our title to lose. Thinking we've had our seasonal run of bad results. We've gotten bogey teams like Chelsea, Liverpool and Southampton out the way with our rivals still having a lot of tough games to come.
We win that game with a last second goal and I've never seen the stadium in euphoria like that. We were singing for close to 10 minutes after it ended. We were on a massive high.
Can it get any better? Well United have only gone and named a makeshift team, arguably the weakest we've ever faced, so yes it can! We demolished these clowns 3-0 in October when they were full strength and top of the league as well.
We start pretty well, Monreal misses a chance to put us in front but no worries it's only the 1st few minutes and it looks like we are in control. Then some no name Sixth Former gets two goals in the space of 3 minutes......... **** me we a broom stick.
We're playing dreadful and creating nothing. Then just before half time the person we all want to score against United more than anyone else gets us back into the game. We're think that was a ****ing piss poor half but we're 1 behind and have 45 minutes to sort this rubbish out.
It's the hope that kills you.....
From their the 2nd half was just complete torture. But even then it gets worse somehow. Swansea are next and they're bad enough this season even when they're playing their 1st team. But they gift to us on a plate. 2nd string squad and the managers sick in hospital. Short of them throwing the game you couldn't get an easier gimme. But there's more! Leicester have only gone and dropped points the day before and Sp**s are losing on the night. Woooow, we could get out of jail here a little.
Campbell puts us in front early on and the nerves have settled. I even remember the commentator saying that it was now damage limitation for Swansea and that it could be 4 or 5 before the nights over. That after just 15 minutes and with them being only a goal down. That's how dominate we were over a poor swansea side.
The nick it back to 1-1, we are a little pissed but we've been so dominate and we've still got 60mins to go that you think it's just an early consolation for them. What followed next was nothing short of one of the worst, most shambolic, most embarrassing most toxic 45 minutes in Arsenal history.
Two games. 1 away and 1 home. 1 against a so called top team and one against fodder. Two polar opposite scenarios that you could distill down to just the 2nd halves of each game and sum up Arsenal these past 10 years. Anyone asks you what Arsenal have been about these last 10 years and you show them those two games.
After we beat City in December we all thought it was ours to lose. We then had a run of bad form, 2 wins in the next 7 games with a 4-0 dicking by Southampton to boot. Typical Arsenal, have to blow up when were are serious contenders. 10 years of the same ****e.
But then we beat Bournemouth and we went into the Leicester game thinking if we beat them this is still our title to lose. Thinking we've had our seasonal run of bad results. We've gotten bogey teams like Chelsea, Liverpool and Southampton out the way with our rivals still having a lot of tough games to come.
We win that game with a last second goal and I've never seen the stadium in euphoria like that. We were singing for close to 10 minutes after it ended. We were on a massive high.
Can it get any better? Well United have only gone and named a makeshift team, arguably the weakest we've ever faced, so yes it can! We demolished these clowns 3-0 in October when they were full strength and top of the league as well.
We start pretty well, Monreal misses a chance to put us in front but no worries it's only the 1st few minutes and it looks like we are in control. Then some no name Sixth Former gets two goals in the space of 3 minutes......... **** me we a broom stick.
We're playing dreadful and creating nothing. Then just before half time the person we all want to score against United more than anyone else gets us back into the game. We're think that was a ****ing piss poor half but we're 1 behind and have 45 minutes to sort this rubbish out.
It's the hope that kills you.....
From their the 2nd half was just complete torture. But even then it gets worse somehow. Swansea are next and they're bad enough this season even when they're playing their 1st team. But they gift to us on a plate. 2nd string squad and the managers sick in hospital. Short of them throwing the game you couldn't get an easier gimme. But there's more! Leicester have only gone and dropped points the day before and Sp**s are losing on the night. Woooow, we could get out of jail here a little.
Campbell puts us in front early on and the nerves have settled. I even remember the commentator saying that it was now damage limitation for Swansea and that it could be 4 or 5 before the nights over. That after just 15 minutes and with them being only a goal down. That's how dominate we were over a poor swansea side.
The nick it back to 1-1, we are a little pissed but we've been so dominate and we've still got 60mins to go that you think it's just an early consolation for them. What followed next was nothing short of one of the worst, most shambolic, most embarrassing most toxic 45 minutes in Arsenal history.
Two games. 1 away and 1 home. 1 against a so called top team and one against fodder. Two polar opposite scenarios that you could distill down to just the 2nd halves of each game and sum up Arsenal these past 10 years. Anyone asks you what Arsenal have been about these last 10 years and you show them those two games.
