'Samir Nasri' is the current 'Gareth Bale' according to 'Dick Cheese'

As expected, Arsenal put us all through the mill in qualifying for the last 16 and are now certainly going to meet Barca in the knockout stages. It's inevitable.

Most cynics will prefer one of the German sides to Barca or Bourinho's lot but I'd prefer to get knocked out by the best team in Europe to be frank. Or better still, to actually shock the footballing world by beating the DNA obsessed pricks into submission.... which in turn produces a written apology from everyone affiliated with Barcelona Football Club for their despicible behaviour over our captain in the summer and includes a legal contract denoting that they will  not be allowed to buy Cesc Fabregas until he is 33 years old and past his sell by date at which time they will still have to pay us 150 million Euros and then loan him back to us to use when needed whilst still  paying his £250,000 per week wages. I have some amazing dreams!


Tonight's game was quite an annoying, slow, itchy one; 


With the likes of Hadanic, Ivanic, Bernawic and Digadic playing the defensive game, the Gunners struggled to get their flowing passing game going and failed to trouble the keeper for most of the first half. 


Van Persie got his first goal since May by blasting in the penalty he won himself but the Grove crowd and Wenger were getting irritated with the dodgy passing and lack of pace in the game, as I'm sure, we all were. 


Arshavin had a shocker of a game (again) and after we conceded to a deflected Partizan goal by Uvatwic the crowd were getting even more frustrated. 
Wenger did his bouncy water bottle trick again and eventually decided to take off the Rusk for Walcott who changed the game in my opinion. 
The substitution freed up Nasri a little more, who despite his hard work had failed to penetrate as much as he'd have liked to. 


Nasri still looked the best player on the pitch though and after Theo blasted a blinder for Arsenal's second, Samir upstaged him with a sublime dummy to send the defender Imabic the wrong way and finish sexily past the keeper. 


Fair play to Song who actually pulled off a silky bit of Tekkers to set Nasri up. 


Only recently, Wenger addressed our concerns over Song's insistence on bombing forward, by stating that he encourages it. Well, I would discourage it a bit more Wenger, unless Song can pull of assists like that every game of course!


So with nails about 10mm long, I sit here with Michael Jackson style plasters on all my fingers, but with a sigh of relief on my boat race. We're through and yes Spuds, before you even attempt to belittle our achievement with taunts of 'we finshed top of our group table ha ha', we finished second but still with more points than you muggy Cnuts! 


Now we can forget the Champions League, apart from the draw on the 17th of December on Sky Sports News of course, until February 15th at the earliest. 


Back to the Premiership........


.....and.......we are TOP of the League. 

Barclays Premier League table 2010-2011

Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	+/-	Pts
1	Arsenal	16	10	2	4	34	18	16	32
2	Manchester United	15	8	7	0	35	16	19	31
3	Chelsea	16	9	3	4	30	11	19	30
4	Manchester City	16	8	5	3	21	12	9	29
5	Tottenham Hotspur	16	7	5	4	24	21	3	26
6	Bolton Wanderers	16	5	8	3	28	23	5	23
7	Sunderland	16	5	8	3	20	18	2	23
8	Liverpool	16	6	4	6	20	19	1	22
9	W.B.A.	16	6	4	6	23	27	-4	22
10	Stoke City	16	6	3	7	21	21	0	21
11	Blackburn Rovers	16	6	3	7	21	25	-4	21
12	Newcastle United	16	5	4	7	24	25	-1	19
13	Blackpool	15	5	4	6	23	29	-6	19
14	Birmingham City	16	3	9	4	17	19	-2	18
15	Everton	16	3	8	5	18	20	-2	17
16	Aston Villa	16	4	5	7	17	27	-10	17
17	Fulham	16	2	9	5	16	20	-4	15
18	Wigan Athletic	16	3	6	7	13	28	-15	15
19	Wolverhampton W.	16	3	3	10	17	30	-13	12
20	West Ham United	16	2	6	8	14	27	-13	12

Oh Yes!! Be it with only one point above the Shite and having played an extra game plus having to play them on Monday! We don't half love doing things the hard way!


Nasri is the current 'Bale' according to pundits, especially Richard Keys (aka Dick Cheese) following Samir's dreamy goals against Sparky Spews' Fulham. 
We still weren't convincing in Saturday's game but then, when have we been?! 


But it was an important win. In light of Manure's cancelled game and Chavs' continued poor run, the result took us top of the league and we're not even making a DVD of our season so far! If I were a Spud in this position I'd be livid...then again....If I were a Spud, I'd kill myself , preferably slowly, by eating poisoned Lasagna.


I'm not gonna bang on about our continued defensive frailties and how much I laughed then cried when Wenger stated that he will not be dipping into the transfer market in January. We've all been banging on about it for too long. 
It's time to accept that the current squad is it. 
This is the team that we have to believe in. This is the team that must win us our first trophy in 6 years. They will do it, even if it is only the 4th most important one, in the form of the League Cup. 


So it's a nice long break for the team til Monday's game. Cesc and Diaby apparently won't be fit in time for the shit but knowing Wenger this is typical caution with a possible slice of kidology thrown in. 


Poor young Gibbsy is injured again but hopefully the ankle twist isn't serious. Johan should be fit again so we'll have proper cover in the centre of defence. Apart from that, I reckon Nasri and Wilshere will be the key men next week, with Jack not used tonight it means he'd have been rested well enough to take a battering from the manure covered thugs at Old Trafford. 


Shavva is still clearly hungover following his celebrations at Russia's 'non-controversial' FIFA 2018 World Cup bidding victory (don't even get me started on that one), so Walcott should definitely take his place until he has a very strong coffee and bucks his ideas up. 
Alternatively, I think Rosicky was also rested tonight to start on Monday in order to shore up the midfield so Walcott will probably remain an impact player. 


A draw wouldn't be a travesty, especially if the Spuds and Chavs draw too,which wouldn't surprise me, but a win would really boost the team's confidence further. 


I'm hoping for revenge. They ended our 49 game unbeaten run. I know they'll never match or beat our record but as short as it's been, let's end theirs anyway! 


Now from sexy goals by Nasri to sexy Football related babes of the female and male variety. 


First up, this lovely person was recommended by a fellow Twitter and follower of the blog. Thank you indeed!

Temryss Lane: A host on Fox Soccer Channel’s, Fox Football Fone-In (FFF). She's a Pro-soccer player and model turned TV personality, 

Temryss was born May 22, 1982 in Bellingham, Washington. She is of Lummi American Indian and American decent. (website: http://temrysslane.com/)

...and I have to throw in again; Sky Sports News presenter Millie Clode.

And here's our very own Captain Fabregastastic in a casual porn pose. All that's missing is the tash!




























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