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Saturday 16 January 2016

Elneny to debut against the rugby team?

Sort your barnet out mate


Let's just put it out there straight away - the current Stoke team plays far more good football than any we've seen in recent years. They have the likes of Bojan and Shaqiri playing some lovely stuff at the top end of the pitch, with Arnautovic looking a better footballer than he did up to now. However, they also still have Ryan Shawcross, Charlie Adam, Arnautovic and Jon Walters. They are not short of kickers and thugs. As a squad they now reflect every facet of Mark Hughes when he was a player - wonderful ability but downright dirty.
I imagine that Stoke's thugs are the thing that is playing most on Arsene Wenger's mind when it comes to giving Mohamed Elneny his Arsenal debut. Is the new boy sufficiently aware of what he might be walking in to if he starts the game tomorrow? It wouldn't surprise me to see the new man starting as a substitute so that he can get a good look at just how hard the game can be in a Premier League midfield. It seems more likely to my eyes that we will see Ramsey and Flamini in midfield again tomorrow and both of them must be more aware of their role than they have been in recent matches. Flamini mustn't move from in front of the defence, and Ramsey simply has to be told that it isn't all about him in the Arsenal team. Yes, he scores the odd goal, but his constant giving up of possession with his insistence on trying to be clever is more than a frustration. The simple fact is that Aaron Ramsey isn't as good a footballer as he thinks he is. He is living on a six-month spell two seasons ago and that isn't enough.
Wenger seems very reluctant to bring in Alexis Sanchez who constantly seems to be on the verge of a comeback. Interestingly, to me at least, is the fact that he hasn't featured in the training photos in the last couple of weeks which tells me he might not actually be in full training after all. Theo Walcott, his goal against Manchester City aside, has failed to impress on a recent run in the side and has been totally outshone by Joel Campbell. If Alexis is back tomorrow it has to be Theo that he replaces as far as I'm concerned. Meanwhile Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain looks a shadow of the young prospect he was a couple of years ago. What I would say is that he started this season scoring a cracking winner at Wembley in the Charity Shield so he's not so far away from his best form as we maybe think right now. That being said, I don't see a quick way back in to the starting XI for The Ox any time soon.
The draw at Liverpool the other night adds some pressure to our result tomorrow. I suspect most of us would have been happy with four points from six out of these two fixtures going in to them. However, we threw away two of those points on Wednesday night making tomorrow a game that we really have to win. We have failed to take so many opportunities to put daylight between ourselves and Manchester City that we can't afford to drop many more points. As my brother said yesterday, City won't keep dropping these points, and they've played almost all of the more difficult away games in the first half of the season - the total opposite to us. Other big teams have already fallen over at Stoke this season, and we have an abysmal record there, so the omens are not good. All the more reason to get business done and send the zombies back to their slums unhappy.

18 comments:

  1. Really? Why do you write a blog when you clearly have no understanding of football. Thugs, You have to be kidding right? You are basing your rhetoric based on the setup of a team three years ago rehashing sensationalised headlines from cockney journalists who were trying to sell their paper.

    I was at the Britannia on that fateful day. The Shawcross/Ramsey tackle was a 50/50, both players going at 100% to win the ball. Shawcross got lucky Ramsey did not.

    Perhaps when your on your laptop trying to make you feel self important you should actually base your opinions on fact rather than fiction.

    I suggest that you are probably of limited intelligence and peddling your uneducated views in some way may make you feel better with the world.

    I suspect you'll be watching from your armchair tomorrow rather than making the effort to travel all of 130 miles. Mind you why would you travel we all know what the result will be, Arsenal will once again capitulate, bottle it and your esteemed manager will once again lose his head.

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  2. what a bunch of bellends you arsenal fans are

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  3. Ha ha ha thugs, zombies and slums.

    Yes most of us don't drink pims and eat prawn sandwiches.

    You seem to forget history beyond the last 4-5 yrs.

    Arsenal have had one of the worst disciplinary records in the Prem and let's face it some of the worst thugs. You forget Adam and keon kicking lumps out of manunited but that's OK isn't it?

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    1. Arsenal have the worst disciplinary record in the Prem. Filthy team full of divers. Shocking.

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  4. No matter how many times you explain the SHAWCROSS tackle to Arsenal fans they don't want to know. The fact that Ryan walked off the pitch in tears (while Arsenal fans spat at him) and was collected by his mum is immaterial to them. Last season we had there moronic supporters saying they were coming to Stoke to beat up pregnant women. Strange how quiet these Arsenal fans are outside the stadium. Some look a little nervous. They should be. Once again their team will receive a Post Christmas stuffing.

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  5. Haha this arsenal fan doesn't have a clue. If his team has the same mind set then it's another win for stoke. Back to the slums? North London is the shit hole of England. Then again, do you live anywhere near North London?

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    1. Think I'd prefer a walk over The Roaches on the edge of Stoke on Trent with those fantastic views rather than the putrid slums of Islington.

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  6. Arnautovic a kicker and a thug?

    You either a) Know nothing about football.

    Or b) A bit of a simpleton.

    Or c) Both.

    I'm going to go for c myself, but at least you're amongst good company with your fellow "fans".

    How is America this fine January day?

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  7. There's no need for wanton insults, calling us Zombies. That's just rude.
    We're f*cking Orcs, and don't you forget it!!

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  8. Rugby Team? the rugby team that apart for a shocking decision by the ref would have been 4-0 up rather than just the 3 last season when our mahoosive rugby player Bojan ripped you a new one? Grow up.

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  9. You can always rely on Arsenal fans to motivate us Stokies for this game. Every season they do it and never learn. The more they patronise and condescend us the more hostile the environment at the Brit. And as for Stoke being a dirty team, three words spring to mind..POT..KETTLE..BLACK. Arsenal have one of the worst disciplinary records in the league. Pure Hypocrisy. Hopefully we can do Tottenham ( great fans) a favour tomorrow and beat Arsenal. The sight of there players in leggings and gloves will be a sight to behold.

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  10. Looks like the stoke dole rats are feeling a bit sensitive about poor ryan shitcunt and his broken heart - yeh his mummy picked him up after the game - but one of the finest midfield players in europe was picked up by an Ambulance because your cunt of a manger and your cunt fans like to "get into em" - you can explain until the end of time but it will make no difference - I was there listening to you booing a kid on the floor with his leg snapped in half - we will be dancing in the street the day stoke get relegated back to where they belong .

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    1. Europe's finest midfielder? Wasn't he being booed by Arsenal fans 18 months ago?

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    2. Europe's finest midfielder? Wasn't he being booed by Arsenal fans 18 months ago?

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    3. One of europe's finest you thick cunts - mind you he's no Charlie Adam lol

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  11. Square: Haha how's your bedsit you asylum seeking prick?

    I suppose living in the Islington slums is better than the slum you're used too.

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    1. im good dole rat how's your decaying no industry shitehole still fucking your cousin ?

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