First Gazidis and now even Hill-wood

                    Just when you start feeling upbeat and positive about Arsenal,the board members step up to kill the joy.The celebration of yet another Anfield victory has not even finished and Arsenal chairman Peter Hill-Wood has yet again infuriated the fans.First it was Gazidis whose comments about 6 months ago created stir in the fans and now Hill-Wood has admitted that we are no longer a huge club.This is an absolute disgrace to the club and fans.

 

                    These three c**ts are running are beloved Arsenal and are dragging it down(slowly but steadily).Arsenal 8 years ago were of the 5 biggest clubs in Europe.Look where we are now.Its time to face the truth.We are not considered as the big guns in the premier league.Our reputation is just as a feeder club to big teams and as an institution which creates stars.A club which lacks ambition.These a******s don't care a bit about football.Money is all that matters to them.Here is what Hill-Wood said in a interview:

                "It is not a worry to the board that Arsenal haven't won a trophy since 2005.As long as the club gets Champions League football each year we will be ok.At a certain level we can't compete,I don't think Stan Kroenke is going to put the sort of dollars in that Abramovich and Mansour are putting in.The fans chanting against Wenger last season?It doesn't affect me a little bit.Arsene Wenger has been outstanding.He is still outstanding".

                  No wonder he is outstanding he  has been saving your a** since the last seven years,isn't he?The above statements show serious lack of ambition.These guys just want money from Arsenal.Be it tickets,tv rights,advertising or merchandise.Agreed our philosophy doesn't agree with spending crazy on players and just buying star players,we make stars.And we all  are proud of this philosophy but some statements that he said just drive you crazy.This guy has absolutely no problem finishing in top 4 every season without winning.People wonder how Wenger hasn't lost his job at Arsenal after 7 trophyless years.The answer is that he makes a huge profit for the owner and other members every year by the sale of club's top players.Why would they sack a manager who makes them huge profit every year when money is all that matters to them.Not even 50% of the money from sale is invested for replacements.Thus the team is deteriorating every season.

                Arsenal has been in rebuilding phase since 2006.It takes a couple of years for any club to come out of that phase.Its 6 years now and there are no signs of this phase getting over.The manager finds talent,we lose out on that player because  some other  club are willing to pay more,manager finds cheaper alternatives,team has a fairly good season with new players and some players are exceptional and rise to fame,but they find the club with lack of ambition,some other club bid ready to pay huge sum,we sell the player and make a huge profit,the player is happy to get paid much more and  win trophies,we buy cheap alternative for that player.This is a loop which has no terminating condition.

                    The only way to break it is when this money eating greedy board members leave our club.I have no doubts that we are going to finish in top 3.We have good players,3 good signings,defense has improved greatly since the arrival of Bould(Hats Off to him).Maybe we can win one or two trophies as well.But if we don't win then again there will be 2-3 players who will be stars by then ready to jump the ship.I have no intention to demoralize you guys but just want you all to know the truth.All we can hope for is the gunners start gunning soon.

3 points for Arsenal

                     Sunday afternoon saw Arsenal beat Liverpool 2-0 at their hunting ground Anfield.This game was going to tell us the state of the rebuilding projects at each club and it just did that.With the 2-0  victory its now 3 consecutive clean sheets for us.Arsenal has never had 3 consecutive clean sheets at the start of the season in the last 88 years.Now who would have thought it was possible to achieve this given our  defensive shambles last season and that we did not bring any new players in that department.The only change   is we brought defense minded Steve Bould as our assistant manager and boy we are already reaping its benefits.

                It was a brilliant defensive display by the gunners.Clearly Bould has worked very hard on improving our defense and his magic has worked.Manone,Vermaelen, Martesacker,Jenkinson,Gibbs performed heroics with crucial  interceptions and clinical tackling.The work rate of  Cazorla,Chamberlain, Podolski and  Giroud was great too as they were back helping all the time.Arsenal has suffered from a defensive massacre during set pieces as we have seen it so many times in the recent past but yesterday we looked in far better shape against set pieces.In the last few seasons Gunners have looked vulnerable when their passing game hasn't quite worked as expected.There were many improvements in yesterday's game.Arteta and Diaby played very close to the defense minimizing the gaps between the lines and easing the pressure on the centre backs.Secondly we showed the ability to hold on the ball to ease the pressure on many occasions and slowing down the tempo when they were on the attack which eventually led to many attacking opportunities for us.In all,Arsenal's defending wasn't haphazard,reliant on last gap tackles or desperate attempts to block.Thus our defense looked assured and forced the hosts to prove their creativity to break us down,in which they clearly failed.

                     On the attacking front,we were a continuous threat on the counter.Liverpool looked quite organized defensively for most parts of the game but made some fundamental mistakes and the Gunners punished them with ruthless and clinical finishing.We opened our scoring account by hammering 2 goals in the Liverpool net.Podolski and Cazorla were on the scoresheet.The new signings are clicking,slowly but steadily.First goal was classic example of a good counter attack.It started with an interception by Vermaelen who combined the interception and a forward pass in one touch.Podolski received the pass halfway  in the defensive half  and given the fact that the positioning of the Liverpool players was awful with central defenders 20-25 yards behind their midfielders,he was able to turn.Cazorla had acres of space to receive the pass and drive forward.Podolski  also burst forward without effective tracking from Johnson.Cazorla played a beautiful pass to Podolski who was to his left and Podolski unleashed that deadly left foot to score the first goal for Arsenal of this campaign.For the second goal the duo combined again but this time they swapped roles as Podolski became the provider while Cazorla opened his Arsenal account.Not to take anything away from the quality of the play but Rodgers would yet again be disappointed with some of his players.Shelvey stopped tracing the Spaniard's run who had a one-two pass with Podolski and finishing from short distance and bringing home 3 points.Reina should have done better,The should have got hold of the ball but it went though his hands in the net.

                        It could have been 3-0 had Giroud not missed that sitter.Yet another easy miss for the Frenchman.I wonder what it would have done to his confidence.I don't want to be critical about him.Lets just give the lad more time.He will come good for us.All in all a very good result for us specially after the disappointing transfer deadline day.I still believe that we should have bought 2 players(striker and a defensive midfielder) but I am eager to be proven wrong.Arteta and Diaby look solid in the holding role and Wilshere is set to return in a month so even our attack will get a boost.Just hope there are no injuries because honestly we do lack depth in the squad.Eagerly waiting for 15th September for our home match.