Too soon to talk about Ramsey’s treat... just ask Eduardo!
Published: 4 March
THE CROW
I WISH the Arsenal team would stop saying they will win the league for Aaron Ramsey.
It’s a lovely sentiment – but the task ahead of the team, even with a few results going their way recently, is still a small mountain.
There is every chance that Arsenal will win nothing again and then the players will have to go to the physio room and say: “Sorry Aaron, you know that Premiership title we said we’d win for you? Slight problem.” After all, they pledged the same thing to Eduardo, and he’s still waiting for his championship medal.
That’s not to say, it wouldn’t be the perfect present for Ramsey, who I hope did not see any of the Sunday newspapers over the weekend and the pictures of his right angle ankle joint.
(NB: The Sunday Times not only showed a big picture of the truly wincing moment Ramsey’s season came to an end – they put one of those big LOOK HERE rings around the player’s foot, just in case its readers missed it. Thanks picture desk people!)
A championship win would indeed be the best possible present for Ramsey, who is already a hero after turning down Manchester United to join Arsenal. But let’s not pretend that Chelsea or Wayne Rooney have run out of steam just yet.
The time for calm is now.
RICHARD OSLEY
THE WROE
BEFORE I go into rhapsodies about Gareth Bale, I simply must celebrate the feat of holding on to victory after taking a 2-0 lead at the weekend.
Too often we crumble from this comfortable position, but on Sunday, with a little help from Landon Donovan, we held firm.
So on to Bale. The boy is a maestro. Fair enough, he looks like a young, confused baboon, but he attacks like a cheetah. His ability to get past people has become our number one option in the absence of the finest winger in the country.
For too long, Bale was almost mythical (much like a Woodgate and King defensive partnership). But now he has found his feet and his form and looks to have the makings of a Spurs legend. When our favourite eyebrow-shaving terror of the right flank returns, the champagne football will flow down both flanks.
Watching Bale run the length of the pitch in the 90th minute made me want to go back to bed, perhaps because I’m splendidly lazy or perhaps because his efforts were exhausting. Either way, it was the latest in a string of superb performances that have prompted this ode.
Gareth, if you carry on playing like this, I’ll replace my poster of Caprice with one of you in full flight. How’s that for an incentive.
PIP WROE