4-! on aggregate

woe woe woe ... boys against men ... there's always next year :-)

teflon kit on, manure up next

gooners 3: villareal 0
(walcott 10, yoyo 60, rvp 69 pen)
pack of attack dogs this time ... just overran them and did not even need that away goal.

1st round square

gooners 1: villareal 1
yoyo (65), senna (9)

like we had 2 different teams for each half ... but that away goal will come in handy.
almunia and gallas injured ... so what else is new?

not quite the ides of march

6 games of hope ...

1) gooners 3: west brom 1 (brunt 6 ; bendtner 4,44, toure 38)

2) gooners 3: burnley 0 (vela 24, eduardo 51, eboue 84) facup

3) gooners 0: roma 1 (agg 7-6 ... pens 6-5) ... touch and go stuff but we showed b*lls ... and villareal awaits

4) gooners 4: blackburn 0 (ooijer 2 og, arshavin 65, eboue 88, 90 pen)

5) gooners 2: hull 1 (barmby 12, rvp 74, gallas 84) bad tempered tie ... wonderful agro from cesc who didn't even play ... ha ha ...

6) gooners 3: newcastle 1 (bendtner 57, diaby 63, nasri 66; martins 58) ... nice game fron our little ruski ...

and then the reds go and thrash villa 5-0 ...

there is superstition and for us, the writings on the wall

gooners 1: romans 0
(rvp 37 pen)

same old "we had lots of chances but ... " thing ... but then ... at least we won :-)

the yello card debacle was worthy of a slot in a fawlty towers episode ... f*ckwit.

oporto daze

gooners 0: portmen 2

we played like cr*p ... it's high balls again and getting caught square ...

wengker sez: "we were quite comfortable in the first half until the goal tonight. what was disappointing was that when we tried to come back we were not capable of being dangerous, we lost balls [methinks we never had them at all] and then we were on the verge of conceding more."

a winning weekend?

newcastle 0: chelski 0 (epl)

bordeaux 1: chelski 1 (CL)

they've not been so hot lately.

phew!

gooners 1: kyiv 0
sub bendtner 87

scrappy but i'll take it ... pink boots and all.

resurgence? not really ... let's see how we handle the next group of russians this weekend.

on go the training wheels

cesc gets the armband ... at such a sh*tty stage of proceedings, do not envy him. the pressure to do well must be intense ... it's only the CL left this season and we may not even be in it next.

has he the respect from team mates?, spose so. is he inspirational? in fits this season. any other candidate? ...er ... he'll have to do. let's move on.

actually hoping for a spurs type transformation ... :-0

next up: russian roulette at home.

where's the edge?

gooners 0: turks 0
whoever said possession was ninetenths . . . was correct, its just that goals come with the missing bit. can't defend, now, can't score . . . this confidence thing is worrying.

turks in town

here we go ... a clear win would be just the thing to pick us up in anticipation of the war this weekend. hope we don't blink.

update: blinked.

didn't do him much harm

not bad but ...

gooners 5: the turks 2

yoyo 10, boy-man 11, diaby 22, song 49, boy-man II 90.

moves flowed and most chances taken ... however it was the same sorry tale at the back. a better team would have given us the sh*ts. the pet spaniard and our almost english goalie did show spurts of brilliance though.

is there a fullback in the room?

sagna, gallas and now toure. hope the coffee's good in istanbul ...

its a war out there

our walking wounded ... here

this weekend ... some potentially sticky toffee for dessert ... and then turkish coffee to "finish" things off.

all alone in the middle?

cesc says ... here ... po boy.

plus he's got a broken nose ... international duties ... jeez.

how many psi till he blows?

too much attention and therefor pressure on the boy-man in general and for the match against the kazakhs in particular ... bloody ridiculous. the antithesis of what wengker does ... nurture. hope he doesn't come back with injured body and mind...

doldrums

breaks for international duty really suck ... another week before we get to chew on the toffeemen ... proper opposition? hopefully no mo injuries this weekend... fingers crossed