Gunnerrific

Sometimes the internet is a terrible thing. Like when it creates a storm of hate around something from nothing.

It began with a match in which the referee made some horrendous calls. Then it boiled over when Moyes called out Fabregas after the eventual win against Everton. Moyes claims that Fabregas said “How much are Everton paying you?” and said the comment was “terrible”. This is of course all commentary that Moyes felt like volunteering after losing.

Haters gonna hate.

Then the telegraph writes a piece criticizing Fabregas even more. They went so far as to use the phrase “Arsenal captain’s roll of dishonour”. What a load of bollocks. Haters gonna hate.

Then the Sun takes it a step further by stating that he “escaped a ban from the FA” for his statements. Tribal chimes in by saying he has been “cleared by the FA”. This is one instance in which the FA actually did the right thing… absolutely nothing. Maybe they felt bad about the terrible off-sides call and all those uncalled fouls. Fabregas, you are so lucky! That was a real close call, you just barely escape punishment for speaking your mind about a terrible officiating decision.

Days earlier there were reports out of Huddersfield that Fabregas didn’t hand out his shirt at the end of the FA cup match. Except that Fabregas didn’t have 10 shirts. Leave it alone Huddersfield.

And now Fabregas is being lambasted by the media even more because he is “risking his and Arsenal’s reputation“. If we were talking about Wayne Rooney, well, we wouldn’t be having this sort of situation at all. What a bunch of haters.

So the Telegraph comes full circle with the link-baiting headline that Fabregas’s image is under threat from his accusations and innuendo. Can you imagine if you were driving well under the speed limit and got pulled over for speeding? And then when you criticize the office responsible, people said your image was under threat for making accusations? That’s reasonable. Haters.

What are we supposed to do when we see these rubbish Fabregas articles all over the place? Well, haters gonna hate. So the next time you see an article with a title like Not So Fabregas, send those haters here for a reminder.

That was a dirty, scrappy match that we won yesterday. There wasn’t a stretch of the match that wen’t on for more than 5 minutes (I think) that didn’t have a rough tackle, foul, or whistle. Unfortunately, in the first half, the ref was entirely one-sided.

I am beyond angry at the announcers for that match. They talked about that off-side call as though it were a ‘debate’ and that it was a ‘gray area’ since it touched an Arsenal defender on the way in to Saha. How do these jokers get on the air? If the man is in an off-side position when the ball is played, it doesn’t matter if it ricocheted off an Arsenal player. In fact, if the game were refereed by super-intelligent and super-quick referees (or robots for that matter), the whistle would have been blown BEFORE it hit off of Koscielny. Am I wrong about this? The only case in which Saha would have been onside was if that were a pass back from another Arsenal player.

Hey Moyes. Why don’t you stop trashing Arsenal players about whatever it is they did or did not say. Let the refs handle it. Or Kanye.

Yeah Moyes. Listen to Kanye and be humble that you even got that one lucky goal.

And today is a special day. Because Arshavin scored, I think he deserves some praise. It’s a Double-Kanye-Whammy.

So ridiculous.

Anyways, Arshavin finally got over the troubling mental blocks that he’s been going through. He was much, much better against Everton after coming on in the second half. He was in control and really helped turned the tide. After the second half we never looked in doubt, and fortunately the two goals came just within 5 minutes of each other. Hats off to Koscielny who scored another brilliant header. I like that trend.

The only downside of this match is Song picking up an injury. As if losing Nasri wasn’t bad enough. I haven’t heard any word yet as to how bad the injury is, but hopefully our golden haired hero will be back soon enough.

What. The. Hell. Was. That.

That was probably the craziest last-day-of-the-transfer-window ever. There were some pretty high figures being bounded about over some equally high name players. Sort of. The new Liverpool owners are literally going for broke to try to rescue their season… I think. Letting go of Torres was an inevitability, especially with the price tag they let him go for, which was definitely worth it. But then turning around spending almost as much on a player like Carroll is an even bigger move.

With Liverpool having signed Suarez and now Carroll, Kuyt and N’Gog ought to be shaking in their boots. Instead of swapping colors of their kits, they my lose them altogether.

So Torres is in blue. Carroll’s in red, and Kuyt is shirtless on the bench.

I’m such a terrible person. But it’s not like I was the first.

There’s certainly a positive out of yesterday’s madness. Arsenal were uninvolved.

The Premiership… the final frontier. These are the voyages of the football club Huddersfield Town. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new stadiums, to seek out new players and new teams, to boldly go where no Terrier has gone before.

Well, it’s Huddersfield in the F.A. Cup today. At the Emirates, too. I’m curious to see what sort of side Wenger will be fielding against this smaller side. We still have some pretty good odds in this competition, so I would imagine he’s not going to go for a completely inexperienced side.

United pulled off an unfortunately unsurprising win against Southampton. Besides them, City and Tottenham are the other sides that could cause us any sort of issue. But with so much talk about the value of the F.A. Cup trophy to begin with, it’s all up to limitless conjecture.

On my mark. Engage.

Sagna's Huddersfield Joke. To each his own, number one.

Theo Walcott has really come into his own in the 2010-11 season. Proof: He has more goals already this season than any of his previous seasons. Supplementary proof: He already has more assists than any of his previous seasons.

Theo’s maturing nicely, and his game shows it. As we all know, a key aspect of Walcott’s game is his blinding fast speed.

My favorite super hero (come on, everybody’s got one) is The Flash. He’s the fastest man alive after all. It’s not a far cry to think of Theo as The Flash. If Arsenal would just come up with a fourth kit combining the red and the yellow, my dream of seeing Theo skipping up and down the pitch as The Flash would come true.

Theo Walcott - The Flash

The only issue that has been creeping up a bit is that his speed doesn’t come into play quite enough in some games. The style of play from the Invincible season, fast breaks and passes at a lightning pace, may suit his style more. But when we get a bad case of pass-the-ball-around-goal-itis, the options for his breaks become shorter and narrower. Regardless, when he still gets those shorter breaks inside his box, his crosses and passes have been spot on.

I wonder who the second fastest Arsenal player is… I would guess Clichy… Are those stats available somewhere?

Let’s all have a moment of silence for the career of Richard Keys. Or not. Speaking of… that interview he did where he tried to defend himself was unbearable. It was like watching David Brent in team training.

Guess what? Sagna joined twitter! All you technophobes are probably rolling your eyes… well pick them up off the floor already and listen up. Having any of our players on twitter is great because we get to hear directly from them about their lives, their matches, and all the other behind the scene goodies.

Since Sagna is one of my favorite players, I’m definitely psyched to hear what he has to say before and after matches. It’s a particularly good time for him to jump on board the twitter wagon because of the injury he sustained against Ipswich. Now we get to hear directly from him about it.

He seems to be in good spirits and sounds like he’s doing just fine. If he can joke about how his post-concussion head feels, he must be in in good shape. He specifically described it as feeling “like ‘an after party’ in my head“.

I wonder if he meant that there are actually 100 drunk ravers dancing to an overly loud DJ inside his head, or that his head feels like it would after leaving that very same party. I’m reminded of ‘The Simpsons’ episode in which Radioactive Man proclaims that his googles do nothing. Shouldn’t Sagna’s beads have helped prevent this sort of thing from happening?

All kidding aside, I’m sure everyone would agree that we want Sagna to make a speedy recovery. It sounds like he’s definitely out for the weekend match, but hopefully he’ll be good in a week or so. He’s a rugged stalwart. A true world beater!

Birmingham managed to pull a surprise upset against a West Ham side that was up 1-0 at the half. Good for them. I think they’ll be an easier side for us to face in a month’s time. We’re going to Wembley. We’re winning a trophy.

Come on Arsenal!