Written by Lindsay Melrose Saturday, 02 April 2011 21:23

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By Lindsay Sheehan

Ok so if Arsenal were my husband, today I'd have poisoned him, stabbed him in the eye, chopped his head off with a blunt axe, set him on fire, buried the ashes and pissed on the freshly dug earth. Then I'd easily do the 20 odd years bird for it with a smile on my face. Unfortunately it's a case of can't live with them can't kill them.

Generally a positive girlie I don't like slagging the (once) mighty Arsenal but here goes.

Right now the situation is an almighty fuck up from top to bottom. A manger whom has blind faith in players who are clearly not up for it and a philosophy that has not worked within a Premier League spending frenzy. Add to that the fact he clearly cannot motivate the team or bring out the best in them anymore. The board seem content to go along with his magical yet empty ideal whilst squirreling the financial benefits into their fur-lined pockets.  The players are either too crock, too ready to leave or too shit and the stadium is full of football tourists not really bothered enough to try and play their part. Wow a revelation huh? Nah - just what we’ve all been saying for awhile. Unfortunately, again we are going to have to listen to the world and its dog smirking it whilst knowing they are right.

I spent my pre match drinking in The Rocket with Adam, Russell and the gang listening to real fans singing the names of Arsenal heroes I'd give my left tit to see playing young and fit again now. The Irons had given it a try in the early KO and although Manure had shown their title credentials again everyone was confident we'd get our 3 to keep up. After the most boring Interlul and a awful March we were all buoyed by the return of the Prem. Thoughts of Wembley, Barca and the FA cup seemed far behind us. As we wobbly walked (jager bombs) to the stadium we mooted a 3-1 score line, after all with our comedy defence team we were bound to ship one.

The match was flat and watching you’d never know that this was a team still in with a real shot of being champions. The only highlight came when it kicked off a little in Club Level. Ian quite rightly plonked a twat turning up with 25 minutes left on the clock into his seat after he had completely blocked our view fannying around. Yes, these numpties turned up with 25 minutes to go and were shocked to find people in their seats Goldylocks. They have form for this by the way and usually are never seated before the end of the first half. While they spent what felt like an eternity arguing it out we were sure something was happening in front of us. Well somewhere on the pitch something wasn't happening but hey we didn’t know that so Ian sat him down and queue gansta remarks, threats and stewards. It turned out to be a welcome distraction to the surrender unfolding in front of me.

With full time our season effectively ended with the most pathetic of whimpers. What more can you say? Pathetic. We went down and out without even a drop of blood or even sweat being shed. No heroes, no leaders, no soldiers, no bollox. All that's left is to salvage some pride against The Pool and Spuds whilst trying to ensure that Manure do not win the league in our fucking back garden. Do I trust us to do that? No I fucking don't. All we have is the same old “Next year (season) Rodney, we’ll be millionaires (champions)” mantra until the summer comes round and we can sort out this shit.  

Sorry Gooners. I love them. Always Have. Always will. But today is a day that summed up everything about our 2010-2011 campaign. And it hurts.

Some comments from the Gooner community:

Filip - This is such a awful evening! There was some kind of passion at the start of the match but at the end of the match? We can say good bye title and let that cunts from manchester celebrate. It´s done, we will finish 2nd, that´s it. OMG another season past and we won´t be able to win the title next year with the team we have. We must get rid off dead wood!

Stephen - No heart or passion

Joaquim - poor performance again (((

Nigel - zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Phew I had a bad dream....... I dreamt we cud only get a poxy draw with lowly Blackburn, now that would be one hell of a nightmare.........and those things DO NOT HAPPEN TO ARSENAL..........UM DO THEY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rele (PRE MATCH) - Lost da faith Lindz.....I know it's shit....but I ain't lettin those LOSERS do it to me for the rest of this season!!!!!

Next seasons another campaign......batteries would've recharged thru da summer!!!! Lol.....Coz if I’m really being honest......we aint winning da league lindz......why???.......COZ WE'RE F*****G SPINELESS!!!!!!.......GOT NO BALLS!!!!........They've squeezed all da belief outta me this season!!!

But I F*****G LOVE EM TO DEATH!!!!!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol