I really hate the international break, mostly because England play the shittiest, dullest and most tedious football I have ever seen (and I've seen Gillingham play). On top of that they throw games away in the last minute and piss everyone off. The other reason I hate internationals is the fact that Arsenal seem to almost close for a few weeks, nothing comes out of the club and that makes blogging hard.
The internationals hopefully gave the team time to go away and clear their heads. I'm hopeful that some time away will do everyone some good. However in the current state I highly doubt it. Everything about the club that we all love is crumbling and we need to stand tall and keep the faith cause at the moment it doesn't look like anything will change soon so we just have to hope something clicks.
There are two ways to look at the situation. The first way is the "optimist", we're currently in a blip and we'll pull through and everything will sort itself out. There are very few people that are looking at it this way. Then we have the "pessimist", which is that the very foundations of the club are being shaken and the club is on the verge of collapse, this is the much more popular view. I don't quite think the club is going to collapse, but we need to sort the defence and everything else and sort it soon. We're seeing the same problems week in week out and its frustrating, we can all see it so why can't the team and the manager. I can't remember the last time the Emirates had hundreds of empty seats every week and practically anybody at the moment can get hold of them, not that they want too because we're playing so poorly.
The only thing we as fans can do is get down there and get behind the team and staff. They need us to fall back on at the moment and we need too. Great support at WHL as always aside from the problematic chanting from both sets of supporters. We need to bring that support home and lift the players.
Anyway now that I've set out my one point plan of how to save Arsenal from impending doom and ensure we win the quadruple, on to some real news. Well surprise, surprise Vermaelen doesn't look as if he'll be back for Sunderland. We really need him back soon. Brighter news in the fact that Djourou and Kosicielny appear to be fit to play. So we have a few defensive options to go with, unfortunately I'm not entirely sure we have the combination of players to do the job but we shall see.
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