Lets Ruin the Party

Arsenal vs Manchester United, it’s not the clash everyone was hoping for, which was that it would be the title decider as Arsenal choked up their chances. But rather it’s a clash of pride, Arsenal have had nothing to cheer about of late, and Man United have had quite the opposite, and I for one am tired of going to work and the guy sitting next to me is suddenly a Man United fan…. “David Beckham for life”

Today sees the Gunners host Man United who are on route for a record breaking 19th league title, I say lets ruin their party, if not only for a while. Arsenal have home ground advantage and need to remind people that we are still a great side, we may have gone yet another season without winning anything but let’s go out in style. I for one am very excited for this game and I pray that the Gunners can win, so I can were my Arsenal shirt to work tomorrow and do a little victory dance.

If we look at the potential sides I would say they would line up as so:

Arsenal (4-2-3-1)
Szczesny; Sagna, Djourou, Koscielny, Clichy; Song, Wilshere; Walcott, Fabregas, Nasri; Van Persie.

Manchester United (4-4-2)
Van der Sar; Rafael, Smalling, Vidic, Evra; Valencia, Anderson, Carrick, Nani; Hernandez, Rooney.

On Paper, come on even Man United fans would have to say we have more class, at least in the midfield, defiantly not our defence, which as Fletch has put it, is like a sieve. But Arsenal’s class has not shown in this last third of the season and United have shown their BMT. As history tells us United have an edge on us and certainly in recent times United have won the last 4 meetings and Rooney has scored in 3 of those. Let’s hope today is different because, Arsenal today will play for themselves and for the fans and to show people they are still a great side (will be the greatest next season) so let’s ruin their party and maybe even give Chelsea a hand.

For Arsenal who haven’t had a lot to shout about its nice to have look back at the class acts of old……

United too Strong for Blues.

At the beginning of the day I had hoped that Chelsea would be able to overturn that one goal deficit, but it wasn't to be those bloody Mancs did it again and have booked themselves a place in the final 4, with a 2-1 win on the night making it 3-1 on agg. They are likely to play Schalke 04 as they meet Inter tonight who have a mountain to climb after their 5-2 loss at home, and at half time the Germans are up 1-0 my word how the special one made a difference at Inter. 

So United will meet the Germans and in my mind and I’m sure for most others, will be favourites to advance to the final at Wembley, let’s just hope that the Spanish team they meet (yes Spanish, spurs you have no chance). Last night I was hoping that Chelsea would pull all the stops, but Carlo Ancelotti the clown put Torres in to start ahead of Didier Drogba, seriously what was he thinking, Torres couldn’t find the net if he was a fisherman, and Drogba the scourge of Arsenal who always has his BMT trump card, waiting to be thrown down. And it showed United were one nil up at half time thanks to Father Time’s, i.e. Ryan Giggs’, cross and Javier Hernandez put it in. Drogba was brought on in the second half and sure enough he scored, What was Ancelotti thinking…..clown….but that was all in vain as the dog eating Park stepped up for the winner and to make it 3-1 on agg. 

So United go marching on and hopefully all these competitions lead to fatigue, injury and slip ups so that the mighty Gunners can sneak in there and bring home the title. I’m still keeping the faith, but that’s just me.