Defeat at Bolton gives Arsenal the Blues…
3 comments January 17th, 2005
Bloody unlucky blue kit.
Bloody blue wangers top of the league.
Bloody blue monday.
Blue, it would seem, is the colour.
We weren’t very good at Bolton. I think the comment left on the end of this post sums it up best. Almunia was awful, Hoyte was a hinderance, Toure looked tired, Cesc was cream-crackered, and van Persie…. has ruined the alliteration of this sentence.
We didn’t seem to have enough in the fight. In that sense, Mathieu Flamini was missed.
It’s tough to know how to fix it. I’ve supported Almunia since he came into the side, but on Saturday he was shocking. When one reads this interview with Jens, he sounds almost sane. It’s tempting. I think that as long as there is no real bust-up between Lehmann and Wenger, we might see the madcap German return before too long.
I think that it might be worth trying something defensively. Without Gilberto, and with Cole, Cesc, and Reyes as regular members of our first XI, we do lack a little height. It has been said by some that we are forgoing graft in favour of craft. And also, that we play lots of little people. In order to sort this out, why not stick Big Phil Senderos in at centre-back, and shove Toure out to the right. Especially on days like Saturday, when Lauren is injured, and Hoyte is crubbish.
Dennis Bergkamp returns on Sunday. Let’s hope it’s the good one, not his evil, untalented, “I do nothing for 90 minutes” twin that they occasionally put out.
Can’t fool me.
Ps. I had a dream that I parachuted in to Arsenal’s training ground. Emmanuel Eboue and Kolo Toure weren’t very pleased to see me. Arsene Wenger was, though, but then soon lost patience and told me to sod off. And David Seaman had replaced Gerry Peyton as goalkeeping coach. In secret.
