The Rain Song
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Right, I’ve been following sections of this forum for a good 3 years now and thought I would finally make (or attempt to make) a contribution, apologies for the poor name it’s the title of the song I’m currently listening to which helps to calm me down after tonight’s result (By Led Zeppelin, great song check it out).
Right, nerves, anyone else a little anxious? For the past few weeks It’s been smooth sailing, at some points grinding out results, at others playing the most attractive football in the league. It was turning into a potentially great season, 2nd in our hands and the favourites to retain the FA Cup, who’d have thought that 2 years ago when we were grinding out an away win at Newcastle (I think) to scrape 4th from Sp**s. Then, Swansea. Right now with 4 games to play our season could finish with us either:
2nd Place Runners Up retaining the FA Cup
Or
4th Place no silverware.
Personally after the season we’ve had, which despite our form at the beginning, has been excellent and very enjoyable for me, our team looks a lot more balanced and most importantly we’re picking up results against bigger teams which was something that we’ve missed through recent seasons. Lets take for example last season’s winners Manchester City, this season against them we are P3 W2 D1 (Including community shield), add knocking United out of the FA Cup (Di Maria lawl) and various impressive performances I for one am very happy overall.
What worries me however is the fact that we could still finish in the latter option and which would then bring along the inevitable 2 ½ months of every single day being bombarded by every newspaper headline and twitter expert giving it the whole “Wenger out, typical Arsenal, London is Blue” bollocks that makes me want to have a hot bath and a cold razor. Couple this with the fact that everyone knows that Chelsea, Man U and Man City are going to go on a Jordan Belfort esq shopping spree this summer, FFP my arse they’ll find ways around it, and we can’t / I wouldn’t want us to match them in wage demands and transfer budgets (it’s just becoming a joke, imagine Falcao’s paycheque).
Therefore the next few months are crucial, we could either finish in a strong position, giving the players a great mentality to start with next season, continue to add quality to our squad in key areas and build on this next season to mount a real title challenge and attempt to get a better record among Europe’s Elite, or we can finish 4th, win nothing, enter endless criticism, potentially speed up Wenger’s retirement, de-moralise players and maybe make them start to hear the whispers of the “little boy inside of them”. I'm not saying any of those latter things will happen, at the moment for the first time in a while i don't think any of our players are head and shoulders about the rest / anybody else and unlike a majority of other teams, we are stable and imroving (emphasis on stable), becuase of this i can't see any of our first 11 wanting to force an exit anytime soon.
Tonights result has just made me dread the idea of Man U beating us on Sunday and finishing above us(after the season they've had it would be pathetic), then we lost the Final to the same team that a few months ago were close to setting the record for longest game time without scoring (I think they reached 10 hours?). That being said credit to Tim Sherwood, even before tonights result i was a bit :/ about facing them now, their full of confidence and passion with a form thats practically as impressive as ours in 2015. I think itll just need / take a moment of magic from a world class player (Alexis / Rambo) to get us the result.
Long story short, I’m a tad nervous, anyone else?
Right, nerves, anyone else a little anxious? For the past few weeks It’s been smooth sailing, at some points grinding out results, at others playing the most attractive football in the league. It was turning into a potentially great season, 2nd in our hands and the favourites to retain the FA Cup, who’d have thought that 2 years ago when we were grinding out an away win at Newcastle (I think) to scrape 4th from Sp**s. Then, Swansea. Right now with 4 games to play our season could finish with us either:
2nd Place Runners Up retaining the FA Cup
Or
4th Place no silverware.
Personally after the season we’ve had, which despite our form at the beginning, has been excellent and very enjoyable for me, our team looks a lot more balanced and most importantly we’re picking up results against bigger teams which was something that we’ve missed through recent seasons. Lets take for example last season’s winners Manchester City, this season against them we are P3 W2 D1 (Including community shield), add knocking United out of the FA Cup (Di Maria lawl) and various impressive performances I for one am very happy overall.
What worries me however is the fact that we could still finish in the latter option and which would then bring along the inevitable 2 ½ months of every single day being bombarded by every newspaper headline and twitter expert giving it the whole “Wenger out, typical Arsenal, London is Blue” bollocks that makes me want to have a hot bath and a cold razor. Couple this with the fact that everyone knows that Chelsea, Man U and Man City are going to go on a Jordan Belfort esq shopping spree this summer, FFP my arse they’ll find ways around it, and we can’t / I wouldn’t want us to match them in wage demands and transfer budgets (it’s just becoming a joke, imagine Falcao’s paycheque).
Therefore the next few months are crucial, we could either finish in a strong position, giving the players a great mentality to start with next season, continue to add quality to our squad in key areas and build on this next season to mount a real title challenge and attempt to get a better record among Europe’s Elite, or we can finish 4th, win nothing, enter endless criticism, potentially speed up Wenger’s retirement, de-moralise players and maybe make them start to hear the whispers of the “little boy inside of them”. I'm not saying any of those latter things will happen, at the moment for the first time in a while i don't think any of our players are head and shoulders about the rest / anybody else and unlike a majority of other teams, we are stable and imroving (emphasis on stable), becuase of this i can't see any of our first 11 wanting to force an exit anytime soon.
Tonights result has just made me dread the idea of Man U beating us on Sunday and finishing above us(after the season they've had it would be pathetic), then we lost the Final to the same team that a few months ago were close to setting the record for longest game time without scoring (I think they reached 10 hours?). That being said credit to Tim Sherwood, even before tonights result i was a bit :/ about facing them now, their full of confidence and passion with a form thats practically as impressive as ours in 2015. I think itll just need / take a moment of magic from a world class player (Alexis / Rambo) to get us the result.
Long story short, I’m a tad nervous, anyone else?
