I'm not a person who likes to write long posts, but i sure do love to write and i'll try to keep this post as short and simple as possible. There are 1000's of different things that you'll read at a time like this if you are an Arsenal Supporter. I can also assure you that 90% of the things are not positive or encouraging. Its like someone calling you and informing you that your house is on fire, that too when you are inside your own house.! Get a life you haters..
As the days pass by in this new season 2011-2012 I'm developing a sense of hatred towards football facts and statistics. To the build up to any match that we are to play, we hear stuffs like "Blackburn have defeated Arsenal only once in 16 meetings" and by the end of the 90 minutes Arsenal have made another history (but not the good one). A lot of similar negative stats surf up before every single game we play. Though I want to mention some of the stats I came across I think its better to give them a rest here.
Not many times something like this happens, but at Arsenal you have to be prepared for any outcome. Our own success in the past is haunting us now. With the arrival of Mr.Arsene Wenger the league changed completely. We saw some breath-taking stuff. Superb football , Stunning goals, awesome players doing unimaginable stuff bringing success to Arsenal , so much so that we used to have huge waiting lists of fans for our home games at "The Highbury" which had a capacity of around 38000. Those are some huge numbers we are talking about. Being the kind of a man that Arsene is, he thought of taking a risk even when he had everything with him , a dream team , an unbeaten season, trophies.Along with the management he took a decision for the fans "Build a new stadium" and here we are .
The Emirates Stadium - a 60000+ capacity stadium , home of football - i like to call that because we play the best football in london ( spare the last few games we played) . The stadium meant a new beginning for Arsenal in a lot of ways. The superb football was still there but we had to part ways with some (almost all) of our players who were a part of the dream team so that we could meet the expenses of building a new stadium. We still played some amazing football created new stars. Here, I'd like to highlight 3 points -
1) We sure lack the homely feeling at the emirates. There is almost no atmosphere over there. - Our away games are more noisy than at the home. Creating an atmosphere at a new stadium is tough but having complete silence is not the way ahead. Make some noise guys!
2) The stars we create leave us when they gain stardom and start feeling they can do better of without Arsenal. - Everytime we look set to achieve something after coming close some important player leaves us. We have still performed exceptionally and have gone past every hurdle but have not reached the finishing line. Not a good trend that is developing at Arsenal. There are several examples , but lets hope nothing of that sort is repeated again in the future. Management needs to look after that. Mr.Wenger should be relieved of this work so that he can concentrate more on the other issues with our game.
3) The most important one - May be -just May be is that by coming to the Emirates we never really had the league or champions league as our ambition for a few years. But we still excelled. We still challenged for the big prizes. We were a force but came short at the final hurdle for a few times now. For all these years we have been written off from the top 4 places but we still managed to silence the critics again and again. This year is no different.
With regards to our success in the past , we have always been a subject of high expectations around the footballing world. We are a team that has done unbelievable stuff which even the mighty Barca with all their world class players haven't achieved. That part of our past is like a base for us. Anything below that is abysmal for Arsenal . Worst part is that some of the supporters support that idea. Even after making so many signings this year we look less competitive than previous years. We are facing a dark time- no doubt. But don't forget - The night is the darkest just before dawn.
Whatever that could go wrong for us this season has already exceeded or surpassed our worst nightmare. What now ?? May be we could end up with another trophy-less season , sad to talk about something like this at the start of the season.But the point here is to stay strong and not give up. Who better than Arsenal can show you that you need to keep playing and give your all till the final whistle.The team has enough quality to win a trophy this year,push for the league physically, but at the moment we are low, very low on confidence. I don't know which mental strength Mr.Wenger talks about but we are lacking behind mentally. We need to stick together for a hard, long season by supporting each other ie., the fans and the team. I'm sure Arsene and the team will make us proud.
Next up is Carling cup action i hope we finally get to see Ryo Miyachi, Ox , and our other signing Young. A good performance by them will surely give them and the team much needed confidence and also competition for places and rest to few of our players. Will love to see a good atmosphere at the Emirates. Looks a long time since we had one.
And now about our future. One thing i know about our future is that we will be very strong financially. We need to get Goetze , Eden Hazard , Marvin Martin, or atleast 1 or 2 of them. Arsenal need Arsene more than Arsene needing Arsenal. He is running a project which has surely not been on course or in the time schedule framed but if there is any person who can get us out of it and firing again it is Arsene and Arsene only.!
Lastly, I want to end this post with a video i saw on youtube which is really nice to see and hear. I guess everyone will agree to the lyrics in the song and also the quote I'd like to say " It is better to be Envied , than to be Pitied.! "
