A week for Arsene to really earn his money

Monday, sigh… with our next game not until Saturday I expect news to be pretty minimal. To add further insult to injury it is Champions League this week, a competition we bossed last season.

There really is not much around. Most blog’s or sites have gone with April Fools headlines but I couldn’t be arsed yesterday. Morale is still pretty low for me. As mentioned yesterday, I played football. It was a bit of a shambles, most people starting messing around after about ten minutes. That pissed me off. It was about 8 a side – good numbers. Although it was a casual match, for me there should always be an element of competitiveness. My team was truly awful and so was the opposition really. They scored so many goals off shots that turned into passes. They would then celebrate like it was on purpose – frustrating. I think it finished about 14-14, I decided to go home as it really was a poor excuse for a football match.

Anyway, so we play on Saturday. West Ham at home, 3.00 kick off. That game cannot come fast enough for me and I would like to think the players feel the same way. When a team lose I like to think they are desperate to get on with the next game to put it right. Arsene has spoken about treating every game as a ‘cup final’. Fair enough, one thing is certain though, the fans expect a performance on Saturday.

Arsene’s extended post match reaction can be read here. It is pretty interesting I feel. It is rare that publicly he criticises the team but in this case I think it is impossible not to.

Just to give an idea of how our fixtures draw to a close – out of our 8 games remaining, 5 of them are at home. There are some pretty big games in there though. Spurs away, Chelsea at home and Bolton at home. Our form right now is pretty poor too. In the league in the last five games we have DWWLL, that for me is hardly top four quality. If we are to finish top four we really need to buck our ideas up, especially as Bolton won over the weekend.

Now as much as I love Arsene and what he has done for the club, right now things look pretty bleak. The manager and his coaching staff really need to work with the players this week. They need to make them realise that that performance was horrific and if it happens again certain players will be out the door.

That is it from me today, I plan to make a solid start on my dissertation – how exciting. See ya.