Part Uno: Mission Accomplished
Glorious, glorious, G-L-O-R-I-O-U-S. It's nights like this that make football the most intoxicating invention ever. Especially when you are risking health & career staying up into the wee hours so as not to miss it live.
2-0 to the Arsenal, just like every Gooner hoped and every pundit said we would need. Even better, it was a superlative performance by the whole team. We ruled the lush green of Highbury so comprehensively that the so-called "champions-elect of Italy" were made to look like Premiership relegation strugglers (well, almost). Ok, so they were missing two of their top players. But then so were we - although from last night's performance, you'd never tell! Toure and Eboue were both amazing. Hleb & Flamini continued to run their hearts out. Le Bob gave one of his most wonderful performances in a long while - and reminded me again how much I once adored him. Yup, that tackle was 24-ct. F diamond both in terms of rarity & significance.
And Cesc... this boy is just M-A-G-I-C. Just when you think it might simply be too much to expect an 18-year-old to be man-of-the-match for the umpteenth time this season, against a team like Juve to boot, he went out and topped himself yet again. I think he truly believes he really is just 25. There are only two disappointments for me: 1) that we did not strike at least one more time - I know I had wished for 2-0 in my last post sent just before kick-off but I think 3-0 would almost certainly kill off all Italian hopes and we certainly could have gotten one or two more; 2) that we'll not get to play Paddy again this season. But I'm just nitpicking, aren't I? ;-)
Regardless, yes, chances are good that we may get to experience one more magical European night at Highbury. Although our ever-sensible manager says "It's only 50-50," while theirs proclaimed it was pure luck that we ran them off our pitch. Thanks, Capello. It'll taste just that bit sweeter when we kick them off theirs in Turin.
(Posted 29 Mar 2006 11:14 pm UTC+8 on snowysolace.blogspot.com)
2-0 to the Arsenal, just like every Gooner hoped and every pundit said we would need. Even better, it was a superlative performance by the whole team. We ruled the lush green of Highbury so comprehensively that the so-called "champions-elect of Italy" were made to look like Premiership relegation strugglers (well, almost). Ok, so they were missing two of their top players. But then so were we - although from last night's performance, you'd never tell! Toure and Eboue were both amazing. Hleb & Flamini continued to run their hearts out. Le Bob gave one of his most wonderful performances in a long while - and reminded me again how much I once adored him. Yup, that tackle was 24-ct. F diamond both in terms of rarity & significance.
And Cesc... this boy is just M-A-G-I-C. Just when you think it might simply be too much to expect an 18-year-old to be man-of-the-match for the umpteenth time this season, against a team like Juve to boot, he went out and topped himself yet again. I think he truly believes he really is just 25. There are only two disappointments for me: 1) that we did not strike at least one more time - I know I had wished for 2-0 in my last post sent just before kick-off but I think 3-0 would almost certainly kill off all Italian hopes and we certainly could have gotten one or two more; 2) that we'll not get to play Paddy again this season. But I'm just nitpicking, aren't I? ;-)
Regardless, yes, chances are good that we may get to experience one more magical European night at Highbury. Although our ever-sensible manager says "It's only 50-50," while theirs proclaimed it was pure luck that we ran them off our pitch. Thanks, Capello. It'll taste just that bit sweeter when we kick them off theirs in Turin.
(Posted 29 Mar 2006 11:14 pm UTC+8 on snowysolace.blogspot.com)
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