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What do moaning Arsenal fans and Spurs have in common?

All is bright in the Arsenal world. The sun is out, the sky is blue, and Santa Clause is dusting down his sleigh. Yet some people still feel the need to moan.

We won away from home in Europe, on a cold night in Bulgaria, against a bunch of chicken farmers, after going 2-0 down, yet still some people moan.

After 4 games in the Champions League, we are guaranteed progression into the last 16. Still two games to play, a chance to rest and rotate before other big games, yet still some people moan.

Mesut Ozil scored a cracking goal, a moment of genius, an 88th minute winner, and yet still some people moan.

DWWDWWWWWWWDWWW, and yet still some people moan.

How can people be so unhappy with Arsenal at the moment. We are 2nd on goal difference in the Premier League, in the last 16 of the Champions League, and through to the quarter final of the League Cup.

I do wonder about our fan base at times, the moaning, the constant moaning, with some it never stops. Ozil scores a brilliant goal, yet people still do not rate him, people still moan that he did not perform against Chelsea 3 years ago. How are people this unhappy. ALL THE TIME.

Sometimes I do not understand why some people are “into” football. All they do is moan. They don’t go to games – pretending to boycott when the reality is they have never gone – they do not celebrate victories, they moan that it is just The FA Cup and they are usually sitting there, in front of Sky, on their own, moaning about modern football, whilst watching Sky. The irony of it.

Seriously though, why do they bother with football? Their incessant moaning about the game becomes depressing. It gets to a point where you have to question if they actually like football, or if they are rugby or cricket fans just trying to slander the Great British game.

Maybe, and just maybe, there hatred for football is down to a deep down insecurity within themselves. A belief that they are not good enough, that they have failed in life, they trying to deflect their negativity onto others. I guess at least moaning about football every weekend stops them going home and beating their wife.

And that is the saddest part, many of these moaners have wives, they have kids. They would rather spend their time in the company of a domestic abuser like Justin Lee-Collins then spend time supporting their team, loving their family. Oh well. Let them be them. It is them who will die unhappy, alone, probably of diabetes after eating too much due to their depression.

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Talking of unhappiness, this weekend we play that lot up the road. The great unbeatable Spurs team of 2016, who, as it stands, are a massive 10 games unbeaten. They are on the road to glory. Their eyes have seen the glory. At this rate they are on course to destroy Arsenal’s unbeaten season. Destroy the top flight record of 49 undefeated. And yet they are 5th.

Imagine that, the best start to a season this millennium, 10 games without defeat, and your are 5th. Still below The Arsenal.

All of Spurs fans are pretty much like that moaning Arsenal fan we described earlier. Lonely, insignificant, hoping their pal does not pull on a night out again as it will mean going into Yasar’s again on their own. Ordering meat and chips, before throwing half of it on Forest Road in a fit of anger.

So insecure are Spurs that they have planned to build their stadium with a dozen more seats than Arsenal’s. It is the equivalent of your enemy buying a slightly bigger house than you, even though they can not afford their repayments.

Spurs are the club who are currently attempting to buy the naming rights to a station near their ground. £12million it is reportedly going to cost them. All because in 1932, 84 years ago, TFL renamed Gillespie Road Arsenal Station. Imagine being that bitter, that twisted. Only an Arsenal fan who still hates Ozil can know how that feels.

Spurs could build a new stadium twice the size of Arsenal’s, they could rename the North Circular “The Tottenham Way”, and yet we still would have won 13 league titles, them only 2.

Spurs are your ugly mate. Currently every night he is pulling a bird. But he never takes her home. Always home alone. Meanwhile Arsenal are efficient. We struck out 3 months ago, but pretty much every weekend since then, we have got our end away. Yet our pal will still mention that one time they pulled, and we did nothing. It doesn’t matter that we were under the whether, it doesn’t matter that he has been in our shadow since we were kids, he will just keep reminding us of that one time in August we did not pull, and he stuck his tongue down the throat of slaggy-Tracey from Waltham Abbey. Everyone else has already been there…

There really are a joke of a club. There greatest player of recent years, Harry Kane, is an Arsenal fan, and everything about them stinks of desperation. Of wanting to be Arsenal.

I bet if you went up to Kane tomorrow and said “Oh, H, come play for Arsenal for nothing” he would jump at the chance and his Arsenal family, and Arsenal brother, would be so proud of him. He could then sit on the bench with Carl Jenkinson discussing who had the most Arsenal memorabilia in their bedroom growing up.

So what do moaning Arsenal fans and Spurs have in common? They are both insignificant specks in the footballing universe who think they are more relevant then they are.

Not too many sleeps till they get a pasting.

Keenos

Arsenal’s Mensis Horribilis

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Welcome to Arsenal’s Mensis Horribilis.

Under Arsene Wenger, no month has yielded a lower points per game ratio than November. Many a season we have been cut adrift in the title race in the 1st month of winter.

And it is not even close between November and our next worst month, August…

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The story of many a season under the Frenchman. A poor start, regain ground in the Autumn, throw it away in November, lose further ground over the winter, put a run together in spring, before ultimately missing out in May.

There is nothing to explain our poor form in November. Going through the games we played, it is often no harder than other months. The only explanation can be a few injuries piling up. November is just a shocker for Arsenal fans.

This season, November will once more make or break our title race. With games against Man U and Spurs, Arsene Wenger himself admits that the month will show us where Arsenal are;

“We now have difficult games coming up, with a difficult November, so by the end of November we will know more about ourselves,” Wenger said.

“The desire is there and the mentality is great, though. There is great togetherness, we have quality as well, so they are good ingredients.

“But we have to show that we can do it week in and week out.”

Alongside Spurs and Man U, we also host Bournemouth and a League Cup tie against Southampton. Making up the fixtures list is an away game against PSG.

An unbeaten November could see Arsenal top of the league, topping their Champions League group, and into the Semi Final of the League Cup. A disaster could see us needing finishing 2nd again in the Champions League, out of the title race and out of the League Cup.

Let’s get some positivity in the month and start it with victory over that lot up the road.

Keenos

Arsenal to play strongest XI against Ludogorets

After beating the chicken farmers 6-0 at home, Arsenal have a chance of securing Champions League knock out qualification with 2 games to go tonight.

With Ludogorets missing the half dozen day labourers who have been unable to get the day off work at their London building site, tonight really should be a walk in the park.

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A victory for Arsenal, and as long as PSG avoid defeat against Basel, will see Arsenal through to the next round for the umpteenth time in a row – I lose count; but I do not really care as we never win it.

There has been a lot of chatter about what side Arsenal should put out tonight:

I am of the opinion that Arsenal should put out the strongest line up possible.

Firstly, the point about Spurs. We play today, we then play again on Sunday – 12 noon (pubs on Holloway Road open at 10am). That is a full 5 days between. Plenty of time to recover before Spurs. Obviously anyone carrying a knock after Sunderland should be rested if not fit to play, but there is no need to rest anyone before Spurs.

After Spurs, we are then into another international break (thanks UEFA!). We do not play our next game until November the 19th against Man U, so there really is no benefit resting and rotating now.

I would much rather we go and win this game, then rest and rotate against PSG and Basel.

But we want to finish top of the group you all cry.

Let me get something straight, I really do not care about finishing 1st or 2nd. At the end of the day, you have to play the top sides in the Champions League at some point if you want to win it. If you get knocked out in the 2nd round, the QF or SF against them, it does not really matter if you do not win the competition.

The only benefit of getting a bit further is a little bit more money. And a few coefficient points. There is no difference between getting knocked out in the 2nd round against Bayern Munich or getting knocked out in the QF against Bayern Munich.

And finishing top does not guarantee an easier draw. Last time we finished top (2011/12), we played AC Milan in the knockout stage. We lost 4-0. There side contained the likes of 32 Abbiati, Mexes, Thiago Silva, Van Bommel , Seedorf, Ibrahimovic and Robinho.

As things stand, if we finish 2nd, we could face the likes of Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, Real Madrid or Juventus. But we could also face Napoli or Monaco.

Meanwhile, if we top the group, we could end up with Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund or Sevilla. The other sides could be Copenhagen or Besiktas.

So it does not make much of a difference finishing 1st of 2nd.

Also, looking at Arsenal’s upcoming fixtures, PSG is sandwiched between trips to Man U and a home game against Bournemouth, whilst a visit to Basel is after West Ham away, and before Stoke City at home.

Between the next international break and Christmas, Arsenal play:

Saturday
Wednesday
Sunday
Wednesday
Saturday
Tuesday
Saturday
Tuesday
Sunday

9 games in 29 days. A hectic schedule. Win tonight and it means that 3 of those 9 games we can play a 2nd string. It might be sacrificing top spot in the Champions League, but it gives us the best chance of getting top spot in the Premier League.

To those out there today (I imagine you are all in bars and not reading pointless blogs) enjoy the game. I am in now way jealous that I decided to go Sunderland away rather than visit Sofia.

Up the Arsenal.

Keenos