Monday, September 24, 2007

jealousy

liverpool fans say that they are still unbeaten. man u fans say that now that rooney and ronaldo are back, just wait till they turn on the style again. chelsea fans are not saying anything because they know they are in deep shit. tottenham fans are not talking about knocking arsenal out of the top 4 anymore.

and they all say that once fabregas gets injured, arsenal is finished.

to me, they are saying this because they are jealous. because we did not follow their script. we were supposed to be down and out without henry. this wasn't supposed to happen. the chances of us being bottom was probably higher than that of us being top. to them, at least.

it is true that if fabregas becomes unavailable for some reason or the other, our play will suffer. but then, if gerrard, rooney or ronaldo doesn't play, doesn't the play of man u or liverpool suffer? it's logic, isn't it? and what fabregas has been doing so far is phenomenal. 6 goals in the last 6 games, assists in every game. you can say that everything he touches turns into goal. he is probably the best player in england now.

but to say that arsenal is 100 percent about fabregas is not doing justice to the team. i am sure fabregas would agree too. if you look at the way arsenal play, you will realise that the game they play requires more than one cesc fabregas. it requires all the players to pass and move with a precision that speaks volumes of their technical ability, tactical awareness and footballing intelligence. and you will also realise that fabregas is not the only person scoring, nor is he the only player creating chances. i am not trying to undermine fabregas. why would i, when he is my favourite player now? i am just stating a fact.

i am also going to state another fact. we are top of the table not because we are on form. i watched the sevilla game, the derby game, the man city game, the portsmouth game, the fulham game. i can tell you that arsenal didn't play like they are out of this world, although for periods, we really look out of this world with that sort of passing. but we never got into top gear, either because we didn't need to, or simply because we didn't. Luck? Fortune favours the brave. but you can't say that we didn't work for it, that we didn't deserve it.

we are here because we are a much better team than we were last season. we have grown as a team, learnt from the setbacks and disappointments of the past 2 seasons.

we are looking to hit top form. it is too early to do it, because to become champions, you need a fantastic run, a normal run, and a fortunate run, which is also called championship form. and these three phases need to come at the right time, last for the right time. right now, we are having that normal run.

october/ november should be a good time to start peaking, because we are playing liverpool and man u back to back. and they should be tougher than derby county.

on a sidenote, if an exodus were to happen at chelsea, i would love to see petr cech come to us, because he is who we need. a top class keeper.

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