GUNN-LYWOOD

Before i say anything else, i want to clarify that true2soccer is not an arsenal blog; but you have to admit that they give the juiciest stories in football. Its almost like a warehouse of everything we’d like to read about soccer.....drama, drama, and drama. At the back of their second exit from a cup competition by a lower league club(this by the way has never happened under wengers reign, let alone twice in a season), comes a public meltdown from Mr wenger, just a day before facing last years champions league finalist in what is arsenals only(very slim though) chance of ending their seven year trophy drought. This should only happen in movies.

I had quite a few accusations about going overboard in my last post about the state of affairs at the Emirates, you can imagine how sad and surprised i was to see the events that have unfolded since the defeat to blackburn(for the record that was sarcasm). so up next is the bavarians, who by the way are in the form of their lives, having not conceded a goal in 2013. Im assuming(just assuming though) that they are overwhelming favourites. So for my own amusement (and im hoping yours too)....since weve been presented with a possible cinematic masterpiece...lets see what could possibly await Arsene and his team when the end credits start rolling.

So  at 7.45pm this night,the opening credits open with a theme song (bring me down by kanye west)...and opens with Arsene giving an inspired team talk reminding them that qualifying for the champions league is actually more important than winning the competition, and as far as they can make up to 350 pases in the match, theyre winners to him. The players roar,running to the pitch chanting ‘ARSENE KNOWS BEST’. Meanwhile the bayern players wait on the field having not trained since their arrival in to london, instead opting to visit the london eye and the london dungeon  siting the need to win the uefa fairplay awards when asked by reporters(such arrogance).

So the match kicks off, and arsenal are three nil behind in the first fifteen minutes courtesy of a hatrick from manuel neuer(two goal kicks and a penalty kick), but arsenal are winning the possession count by 90%-10%.  At the death of first half, ramsey is put through on goal,dribbles the keeper,but decides to shoot the ball at a bayern fan who calls him commando instead of ‘rambo’. The whistle is blown ,and its time for the half time team talk. Wenger tells them to refer to the first team talk. Second half kicks off ,and muller immediately hits the bar. The match wears on till the 75^th minute....the fans are booing, the players are frustrated, and then the substitute board is raised .....you wont believe it,arshavin in for wilshere. The boos increase.....fans walk out in multitudes...but it was their loss because they did not witness the greatest comeback in the history of football.’CAN YOU BELIEVE IT’ shouts the commentator; Arshavin scores four goals,and assists two more, and is given the match ball and all the bayern players boots. Wenger runs to the cameras and shouts’I TOLD YA’.

 

so like all the classic movies about the underdog ceasing the day, can arsenal give us a fairytale to talk about till the return leg at-least  or would we get what we and the rest of the world expect? by the time the end credits start rolling we would find out; and by the way, watch out for part 2.