Following the post from anicoll5, here is one from our resident Spud, Yido6061 . Don’t forget to read Andrew’s if this is your first visit today.
You spend half a season moaning about the state of football and then when you actually sit down to try and think of how we, as supporters, can change it, you find yourself staring into space for the best part of a week. It’s easy to complain, far harder to find solutions and I can certainly testify to that, Spurs have a manager we can finally get behind after all these years of griping and grumbling. Arsenal have on their books my favourite player from the World Cup. Manchester United have a compelling maniac in charge and are still going through a period of transition, QPR have gone bonkers. I even enjoyed this week’s Match of the Day for the first time in a long time. Yes, even Alan Shearer. This is going to be a great second half to the season, and hopefully 3 point’s in the eagerly awaited North London Derby. Chelsea are classless in every sense of the word, there’s something hollow about Manchester City and Arsenal are for obvious tribal reasons, never going to feature highly in my ‘support for a day’ stakes.
Arsenal were phenomenal with the high speed passing that bamboozled Aston Villa, I’ve spent years seething at Arsenal, I’ve said it before and I’ll say again, I never got past the inherent arrogance of the so-called Invincibles, and last season the arrival of Mesut Özil, a player I’ve have admired for many seasons now. It’s led to me questioning whether I can summon the required levels of pantomimic hatred for someone I would love to have playing for my team. And if the rumours are to be believed and Jürgen Klopp (another football man who I hugely respect) is Wenger’s natural heir at The Emirates, but the job will come with extremely big shoes to fill, Wenger I cannot think what life would be like with out him. The Premiership would never have seen the genius of Henry, Bergkamp, Fabregas or Pires. The reason Arsenal did so well in the earlier years is because he was ahead of his time. However once the billionaire owners started wanting new toys it was inevitable that he couldn’t sustain the success, but he turned unknown players into world class players and revolutionised the way players train and eat which is now the standard across the Premiership and beyond. His only downfall is his faith in players when everyone else Could see that their time was up, Chamakh, Arshavin, Bendtner, Gervinho etc. etc. Arsene has always said he would never leave the club in a poor position financially and by securing the club’s future he will secure his status as a legend. His legacy has changed the style of that formerly ugly football club forever.
Anyway back to the NLD, In my more immature fantasies, I have become a multi-gazillion-squillionaire. What’s the first thing I do with my new-found imaginary wealth? Buy a football club, of course. But I don’t spend my Monopoly money gobbling up Tottenham Hotspur. Oh no, I’m far more devious than that. I become the majority shareholder at Arsenal and proceed to sell all their prized assets to their rivals up the road. With immediate effect, I announce that the club will now play in blue and white and that the crest will be that of a cockerel crowing abreast a dismantled cannon. I can hear the protests getting more vociferous from my headquarters somewhere on the Seven Sisters road. For one time and one time only, I’m happy to play the big, bad, baddie, as I swivel in my chair and stroke my white cat wrapped as it is in a Spurs scarf. Altogether now: Arsene Wenger’s Blue and White Army!
Seriously the pain from 89 will last my life time. I actually locked myself in my bedroom and stayed there for 5 days after the game. That was the first time I saw Arsenal win the league. Boxing day games at Highbury were always so exciting. There is not the same steel in the team, no Adams to marshal the defence, no Vieira or Gilberto Silva to sit and protect the back four, both teams are more evenly matched these days, but it does depend upon which Spurs team shows up, I hope it will be the attacking, fluent passing side that swept aside Chelsea, but remember one thing…….True satisfaction comes from your team’s achievements, not your enemy’s failings, but if you take a minute to think about it, Chelsea are the true enemy’s COYS
Positively Arsenal 
Expecting a post !!
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Grand stuff Yiddo – keep us tuned in from the Lane
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TEAM NEWS: Welbeck starts at Spurs
Arsène Wenger has made one change to the side that beat Aston Villa 5-0 on Sunday.
Danny Welbeck makes his first start since December’s 2-1 victory at West Ham United in favour of Theo Walcott.
Elsewhere, David Ospina retains his place in goal, still unbeaten in the Premier League, and Mesut Ozil starts again from the left-hand side.
Full team: Ospina, Bellerin, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, Coquelin, Ramsey, Welbeck, Cazorla, Ozil, Giroud
Substitutes: Szczesny, Gibbs, Gabriel, Flamini, Rosicky, Walcott, Akpom
Copyright 2015 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to http://www.arsenal.com as the source
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I find it odd that Welbeck starts ahead of Walcott, and I would rather have had Chambers on the bench in place of Flamini, but its good to see Akpom stay in the squad.
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Thank you for the guest post. I find it fascinating to see life in negative from time to time. A curious way of looking at the world when all I hold dear is anathema to you. But of course we can unite in a hatred of Chelsea and a love of good football. I hope it’s a clean game today and the referee has no impact on the outcome.
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20 minutes and counting, there’s are a small crowd of irritating persons to my right dressed mostly in red, one hopes they’ll be not so merry come 2.30
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Top quality Yido it’s a privilege to read your words on PA. PA is so much better for growing init a position that makes it possible and welcome for a Spurs fan to write for an Arsenal blog….fucking brilliant……well done to PG…..
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There is an incredible atmosphere it’s quite nippy here
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Interesting post! So what do we think of Tottenham?
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Oh yes
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………That’s alright….
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In case you’re asking Yido Spuds no15 was playing Ozil onside
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it was an outstanding finish by Ozil, not sure Giroud was passing to him, looked like he took a bad shot.
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Arsenal have to do something to cut out the space on our right side, Rose getting far too much room
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Very nice, sir (applause)
Cracking game so far. Pochettini has em up for it. 🙂
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Arsenal not playing that well, need to step it up a bit
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messing up too much good chances too
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Kane booed for a late challenge on Giroud – 35 minutes
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that should be booked not booed, but he was probably booed too
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bentaleb kicks Ramsey in the chest, but seems he did not get booked, God only knows why
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crazy bit of keeping by opsina, needlessly coming for a cross, not getting near it, clatters kane. Can only imagine what the boo boys would be saying if Szczesny done something like that.
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now ospina makes a right hash of a clearance.
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Monreal booked – 42 minutes
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ref favoring tottnum
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HT: Tottnum 0-1 Arsenal
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Plenty of sweat and blood, not too much good football so far. Still 1-0 is a fair return on a professional disciplined 45
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Cazorla, Ozil, Welbeck and Giroud not in the game enough.
too much room for them to attack our right side too. Need to step it up big time in the second half or this knob Atkinson will play a hand in getting tottnum back in it.
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Ospina looking a tad shaky but it’s understandable. We aren’t clicking yet but should get it into gear second half.
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We have most of the ball but no end product I’d like to say Arsenal deserve the 1 nil, but!
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My half time observation is Santi need to have more touches or we will be permanently on the back foot.
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This is the best spurs team we have come up against in years.
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It’s a bit early to shout for substitutions, but Rosicky has to come on.
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That goals been coming.
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Deserved the goal COYS
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Rose is being rampant.
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This game is going along to a very spursy script.
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Rosicky on, as predicted.
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Rosicky has had more touches in 10 minutes than Cazorla in 65. More control of midfield.
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We could do with Arteta now
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Nuts.
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Good goal by Kane. Gotta hand it to him.
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A local lad come good Kane COYS….
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A lot of Arsenal players have just been bang average today, none of the spurs team have been.
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Beaten but not bowed. Well played Spurs.
As I said on Monda on these pages, look for the WOBs to come crawling out of their hole.
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Do not try to drink/eat a bowl of soup during a NLD?…..
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Spurs deserved that…..
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Well played, Tottenham. Pretty pedestrian from Arsenal. Coquelin was good, I thought, and Nacho showed fighting spirit. Midfield just didn’t click. Alexis would’ve made a difference. Or just Santi having a good idea.
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…Santi having a good day.
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Poor performance. Draw would have done for me but what a ball from Bentaleb to pick out their only real threat. Easy to say we could have defended better but that was just a killer ball.
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Better team on the day won, Kane took his chances well.
No one is red had a poor game but the sharpness in our passing was missing today. Bellerin did well as did Monreal. Probably best Arsenal contribution today was Ospina.
I suspect we may see Gabriel’s debut against Leicester
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