Hull 1 - 2 Arsenal: Goodbye Phil Brown, Hello Title Race
223 guns March 15th, 2010
Hull 1 - 2 Arsenal (Arshavin , Bullard (pen) , Bendtner 90+3)
Highlights | Arsene’s reaction
All the great players have an arrogance about them, but not all arrogant players are great. Nicklas Bendtner’s ability may never meet his own estimation of his worth, but if he continues to score goals at this rate during our run-in he’ll be forever fondly remembered regardless.
His 93rd minute winner at Hull brought two joys: not only did it keep us firmly in the title race, but it accelerated the sacking of Phil Brown. Brown has now been placed on ‘gardening leave’, which is a terrible shame for him - any green fingers acquired will clash horribly with his orange face.
Hull did nothing in this game to ease our troubled relationship with them. The conduct of George Boateng exemplified their approach: he escaped a red card for poking Nicklas Bendtner in the eye, then rightly received one for a second booking for a knee-high stamp on Bacary Sagna. He’s lucky it’ll only be a one game ban rather than the warranted three. Fortunately these Tigers have something in common with their feline counterparts: they’re highly endangered. Whoever replaces Brown has a hell of a job on their hands to keep them in the Premier League. By May, we could be rid of them.
We took the lead early on through Andrey Arshavin, who is playing with more spark since his return from injury. Whilst his aim isn’t fully calibrated yet - he missed one excellent chance on Saturday, blasting a Walcott cut-back over the bar - his goal saw him show a typical combination of quick feet and determination to burst between two defenders and finish sumptuously with the outside of his foot.
Hull’s equaliser came from a penalty that should never have been. Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink was offside when he latched on to a flick-on. Sol Campbell’s challenge was clumsy and was always going to result in a penalty, but the fact the commentators and Brown then insisted he should have been sent off rather than recognising that the penalty ought to have been invalid was absurd. Nevertheless, Bullard tucked it away with aplomb, and from that point on Hull acquitted themselves well - even when down to ten men.
It looked for all the world like we’d drop two vital points, but then Myhill palmed Denilson’s longshot out to Bendtner, and the Dane side-footed home. It wasn’t an easy chance - the ball arrived at a difficult height, but Bendtner dealt well with it to net a crucial goal. That’s 6 in 5 for him, if I’ve added up right (which I probably haven’t).
A huge win, and one with two very obvious prizes. Goodbye Phil Brown, Hello title race.
18 Comments Add your own
1. John | March 16th, 2010 at 12:07 am
You somehow omitted to mention Campbell putting Hull’s Zayete out for the rest of the season. Wenger’s selective amnesia must be catching.
2. Hugo | March 16th, 2010 at 12:22 am
John, John, John are you referring to the tackle Campbell won that not a single person outside Hull thinks was even close to a foul? It was a fair tackle, unlike Boateng’s, so stop moaning. Bloody northern fairies, they don’t like it up em!
3. Nick | March 16th, 2010 at 12:26 am
John - He won the ball and his feet were on the ground. It was a hard but fair tackle. Fagen should have seen red and Boateng should have seen red earlier.
In the end a great result for a game we wouldv’e drawn last season and will make the players believe that we can get a result anywhere. Come on you Gooners!
4. Stew | March 16th, 2010 at 12:50 am
These Northern Softies are alway whinging!
5. GoonerGraham | March 16th, 2010 at 5:36 am
Any chance you can find a picture of Captain Cesc without that obnoxious twat from Man City in it?
6. JamieNaijaGooner | March 16th, 2010 at 5:49 am
considering the Campbell tackle “incidence”: Arsenal just can’t win with the press, can they? when you don’t tackle hard you’re called softies. when you tackle hard and fair, you’re called bullies!
Bring on West Ham
7. DJ | March 16th, 2010 at 6:21 am
Northern pussies! I hope his leg gets gangrene and falls off and becomes poisonous and kills half the Hull team. Really.
8. Chris | March 16th, 2010 at 6:42 am
What is Ade-Bye-Whore’s picture there with Cesc??! Remove please..
9. lettraggad | March 16th, 2010 at 7:38 am
Hugo// Absolutely brilliant comment .. Its well known those northerners are a soft touch .. so we really should get stuck in more often.
10. matt | March 16th, 2010 at 7:46 am
john, i think you’ll find that if he hadn’t gone in studs up to try to do Campbell in the tackle then he would have been fine. Some might say he brought it on himself!
11. Daz | March 16th, 2010 at 8:14 am
And to think I was cursing Denilson just as he struck the ball from 35 yards……………………my instant reaction was ‘what a f**king waste’ soon changed to ‘well done son, you have won us the game’ as Bentdner stroked the rebound in!!
12. DAF | March 16th, 2010 at 9:08 am
Three points:
1. I was bemoaning Song’s absence for the Hull game - but had that ball arrived at Song’s feet instead of Denilson’s in the 93rd minute, Song would NEVER had had a pop at goal. So, might Song’s absence have won the league for us I wonder?
2. Am I alone in thinking that Jan Vennegoor not Hasselbaink knocked into Campbell’s leg and threw himself to the ground in a most comical flat faced dive??? I know the penalty was likely to be given, but never let it be said that Campbell knocked him over. He DIVED. Watch it!
3. Er…oh yeah - to all the whinging HULL supporters - try to play football with a bit of passion and bite for God’s sake you Northern weaklings. It’s a man’s game and it’s all part of football (as the whole English-loving football world of punditry has been telling us Arsenal lot for years). If you can’t take it. then don’t dish it out in the first place, etc, etc, blah, blah. Twats.
13. AnonymousGun | March 16th, 2010 at 10:33 am
NB52 did say he had to score 2 goals per remaining game to reach his personal goal target this season after he returned from injury.. so lets cheer him up ^^
14. Sue | March 16th, 2010 at 10:34 am
A propos everyones response to John
Its a mans game thaa northern whippet racing pie eating muppet
Compare and contrast Campbell and Dawson / Boateng.
Campbell wins the ball hooks it away and has finished the tackle before Zayete got to the scene if there is a foul its Zayete kicking Sols foot.
Sol is low to the ground to ensure he takes the ball, he angles the tackle to try and avoid contact - OK he didnt succeed but if Zayete had realised he was going to lose the race he could have avoided the collision.
Boateng / Dawson both high and late over the ball and angled so that if they missed the ball they would inescabably take the man. In both cases had Denilson or Sagna had the leg planted on the floor they would have gone off on a stretcher
Zayete is terribly unlucky and I am sorry for him but if he was any good he would have beaten Sol to the ball and got away, or he would have sen he lost the race and hurdled Sols leg
15. chris | March 16th, 2010 at 12:34 pm
It’s too soon to say how good Nik will be -
I don’t see why we have to say he may not ever be world class when he equally might
DAF’s not right about Song, though
6 wins - Wham has to be one of them - plus a much tougher couple of weeks coming up for ManU and Chelsea
16. KING GOONER | March 16th, 2010 at 12:58 pm
WHINGING NORTHERN MONKEYS-SAME OLD ARSENAL..”TAKING THE PISS”!!
17. Jack Scurvy | March 16th, 2010 at 3:53 pm
WTF is gardening leave? Does Phil have a Rhododendron emergency to tend to back home? Is this his day job? Well, perhaps now it is. Happy trails, Tango you insolent twat.
18. Emma Johnson | May 6th, 2010 at 4:25 pm
If you love R&B music then you gotta love Chris Brown also. He’s been my music idol for the past few years. ,
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