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Olympic pains and how the Gunners are still playing out of tune
IT was a limp, turgid display, lacking in maturity and vision, and those involved probably need about another four years to get their acts together.
If only I was talking about the dire attempts of Scouting For Girls and The Feeling trying to get us in the Olympic mood during that awful London 2012 party on The Mall on Sunday.
And not Arsenal, who were just as cringing to watch.
On that note, you have to wonder who turned down the offer to join the celebrations before they called Il Divo?
But as bad as Sophie Ellis-Bextor singing Nobody Does It Better outside Buckingham Palace without a hint of irony on her face was – I’m no music expert but we could have got the croaky busker at Euston to give it a go and he might have done it better – it wasn’t as bad as Arsenal’s awful performance at Fulham.
The Gunners were woeful and if they had any chance of making a dent in the title race, it might have gone already.
It’s just fortunate that Tottenham have also blown the chance to get off to a flyer.
These things come in waves. There will hopefully be something more inspiring than Scouting For Girls singing London Calling to open the 2012 Games. That won’t be hard.
Maybe by then, Arsenal’s young guns will be mature enough to win at Fulham and the club will be as good as Wenger says it is.
IT was very kind of Arsene Wenger to try and cheer up Spurs fans over the course of the past week.
After another lacklustre display against Sunderland, there seemed little to be happy about. But we just have to look down the road to the bizarre movements at the Emirates for comfort.
On Thursday, Wenger completed the signing of Mikael Silvestre, a player who did not even make the Manchester United Carling Cup squad. No doubt Ferguson is still laughing and cart-wheeling around Old Trafford as he pictures Wenger begging for scraps at his table.
This purchase confirms several things. First that Arsenal have a desperate shortage of players, and a desperate manager. It also proved that Arsenal are now a second-tier Premiership side. Wenger cemented the latter with a classic Arsenal display of slick, unpenetrative football against Fulham on Saturday, complete with exasperated 360-degree spins and obsessive tie–touching.
There is some sad news this week too, though. Philippe Senderos, Arsenal’s jowly centre-back with a turning circle of a double-decker bus, will be leaving on loan. I can only assume Silvestre has been brought in to keep spirits up after the loss of the comic colossus, and, of course, to keep up those defensive errors that might otherwise have been sorely missed.
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Your comments:
IT'S a shame that Arsenal didn't win. I was concerned about all the negativity in Mr Osley's comments about Il Divo and Sophie Ellis-Bextor until I read the real reason for his frustration. It wasn't the two acts, it was Arsenals lost that got him so ticked off that nothing was going to be OK, not Il Divo, nor Sophie. And here I thought I was going to have to take him seriously, when he's just peeved. Now I feel better. Il Divo is still fantastic and hopefully Sophie is too. We can't take Mr Osley comments to heart, they weren't meant for a musical group, just Arsenal. Some people can't fuction when their team loses. Their world revolves around sports. As much as I love football (I am a die hard fan) there are more important things then my team's loss to worry about. Now I will turn on my Il Divo music and let the world go away, and better luck next game Arsenal, or we will have another negative article from Mr. Osley.
Jo Jo Rollin
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