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I must be mad, or just deluded, either way I have only just emerged from the gloom that descended after the defeat by the scum on Saturday. I know that I am probably not alone in dealing with defeat in this manner. I went into denial, a state of shock and disbelief. But how else can one surf the roller coaster of emotions without coming down to earth with a very large bump? If a thousand other Gooners and me feel like this, then what on earth must the players feel like. I was very angry on Saturday night, I recall flashbacks of me screaming “Bale!… watch Bale!” but it was to no avail. Like other occasions in the game Denilson had his Brazilian blinkers on as players just coasted past him. On the TV replays it looks even worse. Denilson glances at Bale, before allowing him to make his run on the blind side to finish the goal.
Now I know why I don’t and never will rate Denilson. But this blog is not about slating one player. That will not make me or any true Arsenal fan feel any better. Perhaps it was absence of passion in all of the players when we slipped to 2-2 that said it all. It was an accident waiting to happen, and when it did, the knots in my stomach tightened still further, and I slipped into a fit of depression. Now how would those post trauma counsellors deal with this scenario? The good old fashioned see it as the glass being half full not half empty. Well excuse me guys, we seemed to be running on half empty, not half full. Yet look at the Premiership table. We are only 2 points behind, if we beat Man U and Chelsea and match them in all other results, then the title is ours. Simple isn’t it?So we could be real title contenders before Xmas…
Let’s look at the glass being half empty, we lose to Man U and Chelsea and fail to match them for other results and finish third or even fourth if Man City continue their run. That cannot happen surely? So here’s to the glass being half full. But on Saturday’s performance, beating Chelsea and Man U in the same month seems very unlikely. It is said that life goes on, but how to deal with it is the challenge. This is why we must continue to trust in Arsene Wenger. He has produced results before and will do so again. The roller coaster of emotion is well known to Gooners. Tonight we play Braga, without van Persie or Arshavin. Let’s hope the players drafted in to replace them, show some desire, some passion. A will to win. We have run out of excuses, the goalkeeper, the loss of Vermaelen, the absence of a sky scraper centre back. All we now have left is our faith. Our belief in the red and white and what it stands for. Let’s hope there are players on the pitch who think the same…
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