Morning all.
It’s that time of year when footballers all over the world pop into hospitals and brighten the day for many young children who are very poorly. Some, if not all will spend their Christmas in hospital unlike so many others who will be at home with their families having a great time.
Our players have visited patients at Royal London Hospital and Whittington Hospital to hand out Christmas presents.
Back to the headline question…….
Is it because Arsene Wenger hasn’t won it for over ten years?
If so, then what about Liverpool, a club which has spent vast amounts of money in recent years and certainly more than Wenger has, yet one has to go back 25 years to find the last time they were crowned Champions.
Utd – same as Liverpool really, mega bucks spent, yet the LvG factor just doesn’t seem to being doing it for the football experts! I guess they are off the hook as Fergie won it so many times and they are ‘rebuilding’. lol
Tottenham – ok, everyone knows that they haven’t won it for so long that they wouldn’t know how to, so that’s them out. But don’t they consider themselves a big London club?
City, surely they should be and possibly are, favourites, yet still it’s ‘Arsenal will never have a better chance’ to win the league…
Even poor old Leicester, who right now are playing really well and sitting pretty at the top of the tree are not being given much of a chance at staying top until May. Perhaps that’s because they have never won the league, not the top one but if they carry on as they are, anything is possible.
The league this season is wide open and looking at the table, there are so many clubs who are in with a chance of being crowned Champions if league results go in their favour but as it stands right now, the pundits all seem to think that for Arsenal only, losing out would be huge thing.
Although I agree that Arsenal are probably in the best position they have been for a long time to win the Premier League, nothing can be taken for granted, especially when looking at the squad Man City have but my goodness, we are certainly in with a great chance of being crowned Champions.
There’s a long way to go yet and we’ve plenty of tricky fixtures to overcome but with just two points between us and the top of the league and with City one point behind, the pundits are right, we’ll perhaps never get a better chance, especially under Arsene Wenger.
Nine points over this festive period would certainly help us on our way….
Have a great weekend guys and gals…
Excellent post Rico. There will be many more twists and turns this season. I saw it in my crystal ball. Statistically of course, no team has ever won the PL without getting more points than the team in second place. Not a lot of people know that.
good morning!
Adam, what else was in your sausages? 😉
Hi Jm..
A good point, Adam lol.
Reminds me of the answer from a greyhound trainer years ago when asked how his dog would go…….if he leads and nothing gets past him, I reckon he will hold on and win.
The young, eager journalist lapped up the answer and never thought twice of it Hahahaha.
Morning all….great post, Rico.
The answer to that question is because everyone knows our potential. They know we can/could’ve won the damn league afew years back. We’ve had TH14 and RvP finishing as top scorers yet we couldn’t win the title.
Rico, people bash the best or the guys who are at the top. Arsenal has been flattering to deceive. We get bashed because there are seasons we’d lead the league for 6-8months then falter come may.
Liverpool, spurs are not in our level, everyone knows we have better chance of competing than them. It’s like in F1 if Hamilton went a decade without winning eyebrows would be raised, nobody would ask a question if Bottas finished his career without being crowned champion. Only the guys at the top carry great expectations hence expected to deliver. So is arsenal
We have fluffed our lines a numer of times Marshall, that’s for sure.
The season Gallas had his strop and again the season before last when we’d been at the top for so many weeks and instead of using January to sign one or two to push us over the line, we dropped off again…
Really hope this January is different and surely Arsene wants this title as much as we all do. If not more before he steps down…
I believe people like to criticise the club because they can not handle the fact that Arsenal are run in an ethical and self sustainable manner, a rarity in sport these days.
They can’t criticise the club itself, so choose to attack the perceived lack of success-I say perceived because we have won more trophies in the last ten years than most clubs have in the last 50.
That too Scott, most guys sentiments towards arsenal are just envy and jealousy which broods hate. They wish their clubs would be ran half as decent as ours, our profit margins, style of play, build a stadium and came out unscathed, winning top four even on our worst season -I too would ‘hate’ arsenal if I wasn’t a fan :).
So they take jibes on our soft spot- our recently ended trophy drought and the pl title.
Yes I meant ‘winning’ top four.
Rico, fingers crossed Santa Wenger will come up with goodies this transfer window
Scott, I reckon you make a good point there. Don’t think they like the manager either much, which probably goes back to signing so many overseas players after all, the critics are in the main, English/British…
We certainly need Santa and not Scrooge Marshall…
Not sure if anyone has tried to comment other than myself and Kev, but the comments are again disappearing.. Mine only appear via the admin page…
Trying to get this sorted out but in the meantime, night all and hopefully catch up tomorrow….
Morning house
LVG could be the next one sacked
Good morning lovelies and hunkies.
Rico….yesterday I tried to post several times. But it did not even allow me to send them.
RIP Jimmy Hill
Morning Mg, Devil and all..
Devil, there were problems with HH yesterday, all resolved now…
Mg. let’s hope not as the PP might go there…
New post up now.
Why do Arsenal get picked out over other clubs who haven’t won the league?”
It’s always been the case, at least as far as I can remember. The press was always full of Spurs and WHam supporters when I was a kid. Spurs were the glamour club and West Ham the true cockneys but despite Highbury being closer to Bow than the Boleyn we were always interlopers , a team full of disparate Irishmen , not true Londoners at all , not like the happy hammers that won the world cup for us. We have never had the best end of the media’s tongue.Wrighty was a hot head ,not fit to lace Shearer’s boots , no plaudits there. Henry got under their collective skins but of course he was French and Wenger was responsible for building France’s world cup winning side in London on the quiet. George Graham turned it to our advantage he understood it having played for the club it didn’t come as a shock to him and created a winning team to challenge the media darling Scousers but the press could not wait to put the knife in when the Agency dealings came to light. How Cloughie , Revie et al survived the full might of the Fleet street investigation , who knows ? George wasn’t the only one for sure and had our esteemed journos dug deeper perhaps we might not have agents raping the games finances now. However it was The Arsenal and a scalp worth taking and it did not upset the powers or their favourite sons. The media have always had their favourites and we have never been one of them which is strange because apparently they are very well treated at The Emirates. We ply them with the best food and drink our facilities are meant toi be the best in the country but they always turn back on us when it suits. As soon as Spurs get their extra 1000 and W. Ham become all Olympic watch the stadium comments change and the new Ashburton will be pushed to one side and it will revert to the same old theme.
All you can do is just take pleasure of spiking their guns and when you are in your local and as we pick up our more frequent trophies that they don’t :- just stick two fingers up them ( metaphorically ) of course .
Good Evening Rico.
What’s going on with our beloved HH?