Top of the morning to Y’all;
It’s another exciting EPL weekend and the
buzz is catching on. It’s been an eventful week in England which saw England’s
Managerial Hopeful and Tottenham’s inspiration, Harry Redknapp being cleared of
tax evasion charges. And still on the Three Lions; England’s initial Want-Away Manager,
Fabio Capello threw in the towel in support of his randy, promiscuous, racist
captain, John Terry. In my humble opinion I feel the Italian only used the
incident as a perfect cover to get out of England before failing in the Euros, ‘cos
we all know he was not capable of leading them to success anyway. That dude
lacks “Cojones” – That’s Mexican for Balls.
Well anyway, enough of these sly- money hoarders, spineless
managers & promiscuous, racist ass-
wipes. It’s time to talk about a real team, though with an albeit severely
stubborn & egg-headed manager. Well, what can I say, we can’t always have
them perfect can we. But at least better stubborn than sly & spineless don’t
you think, lol.
This weekend sees the Arsenal team travel to the absolutely,
amazingly, in-form Sunderland. I’m sorry if my praise seems a little far-fetched
but honestly, y’all need to see these guys stats since that 4-eyed genius;
Martin O’neil took over from that pot-bellied United Old boy. They’ve been
amazing in recent weeks, notching up consecutive victories in the league &
even beating the filthy rich boys from the Blue half of Manchester in the
process, albeit by a clear offside goal though, but still, I would not begrudge
them the praise. They are also through to the next round of the FA Cup, after
dispatching a rather resilient Middlesbrough side to book a place against us
also.
The fixture is a tricky one for us indeed as Arsenal hasn’t picked
up 3 points against Sunderland at The Stadium of Light since 2008, when a
solitary goal by pacey forward Theo Walcott sealed the game for us way back in
May of that year. Right now, both Arsenal & Sunderland are on a resurgence
& would do everything possible to avoid
a break in run of form, Sunderland have amazingly found their bearing
based on a lovely trifecta; Sebastian Larsson, Steffan Sessengnon & of
course, Martin O’neil. These three men have put in inspiring performances for
this team, well actually two of them; the 3rd just does a lot of side-line
jumping, squatting and yelling, but still all to good effect.
This weekend sees the return of
our promising but severely fragile English Left Back; Keiran Gibbs, who returns
to full fitness after undergoing two different surgeries. Wenger hopes to
integrate him in the squad as soon as possible but I wouldn’t be counting on
it, neither am I really excited at the prospect.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m a Gibbs
fan, but what’s the essence of watching a promising starlet play two good games
then go out for 6 weeks before coming for two or three more games, it’s pretty
frustrating. And speaking of “Frustrating”; our Ghanaian, Deeenching, Iron-Man;
Emmanuel Frimpong has undergone surgery on Thursday after he sustained a rather
nasty cruciate ligament damage; an injury he’s sustaining for the second time
in his short Arsenal career. God knows I would love to see that boy challenge
Song for a place in the squad. Just another case of “So much promise, So much
talent, So many injuries”. He’s suffering exactly the same fate as his Arsenal predecessors
in Robert Pires & Edu who both have had consecutive cruciate ligament damages
in their careers at Arsenal, so so sad. We here at the Nigerian Gunners Online
wish you the very best Emmanuel & a speedy recovery too………..#DEEEEEENCH!!!!!
This week also saw our Ivorian version of Ronaldinho score
an amazing solo effort in the Nation’s Cup, showing all & sundry why
exactly he was given a Clone name from the Brazillian maestro, which I must say
sounds way way better than the one being conjured up for his clueless
compatriot; “Kaluniho”; WTF!!! Who thought about that crap anyway!!! Even Nigeria’s
Stanley Okoro deserves such a comparison ahead of that guy. I’m sorry Kalu fans
*If he has any*, but that’s the truth. That dude can’t skip past three dumb
defenders to save his own life. Now I know y’all are about to remind me about
his goal against Nigeria in the last Nations Cup; but I’ll have you know that
my condition was “Three Dumb Defenders”, not “Three Absolutely Clueless
Secondary School Defenders Wearing Green”. That narrows down the specification
drastically now, doesn’t it?
Well anyway, this weekend promises to be exciting, with the
OX on show & captain VanTastic in
the form of his life, it promises to be a great game. Arsenal would have the
mercurial midfield maestro of Alex Song to count on in that game, as Lee
Catermole and Sessengnon are both quite
a handful on a good day, but the Cameroonian has progressed with leaps and bounds,
a testament to AW’s praise for him after the Blackburn mauling;
"He has improved
his technique of transmission. When he arrived here, the passing of his longer
balls was not the best. But he was worked on that, improved on that and now he
can combine vision with technique. "I felt that, for example, the goal we
scored on Saturday, before the last pass when he gives it to Walcott, that
shows you the guy has vision. It is not counted as a final ball but it is
basically one."
And I just can’t agree more with the Boss. He’s been wonderful
for us.
But I do hope this week does not bring with it porous
refereeing & shambolic decisions, as we were all treated to a feast of it
last week.
So until Monday, when I bring you the review of the
Sunderland game & other EPL clashes…..
God Bless the Arsenal; Iree oo
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