Sunday, December 18, 2011
a never ending dream.
back from china! not exactly the greatest trips ever. certainly better than what i expected, of course. but its not exactly somewhere i'll be going back to in a hurry. too damn cold. and dry. especially hate the dryness. i like to keep my face dry and so when i went there naturally my face cracked right open. urgh. give me singapore anyday. but at least it didnt rain! stupid singapore weather. look at the weather forecast for the next 5 days all thunderstorm. thank you, captain obvious. let's just hope it means the rainy season ends earlier so january will be all nice and sunny. highlight of the entire china trip has to be lying in the snow. so awesome! although the snow was so powdery so it was impossible to make any snowballs. and padawan braids :) so cute. but of course only i know what that means.
now is the part of holiday where the sloth starts to set in. yup! must find stuff to do quickly or my mind will rot.
and last night's match was rather encouraging. at least we didnt get torn apart. but seriously, what is wrong with mertesacker? there's an utter lack of urgency about his defending. never mind about that lazy closing down he did on aguero that allowed him to get a shot off. there was a ball into the box where he was better positioned and yaya toure beat him to it. for a guy of 1.9 you would expect him to win every single high ball into the box. somehow he seems so loose. and djourou is not a full back. he showed that against chelsea, he showed it last night. i dont care how fast he is, if he dosent know when and when not to step up he's going to be one heck of a disaster. and i dont really understand the boos for samir nasri. its not as if he was such a great player at arsenal. i only noticed him after that 2 goals he scored against man utd (when we won 2-1) and after that he kinda faded until last season. lets face it, until last season he was considered to be a "luxury player". and if we didnt cheer him throughout his entire career i dont see why we should boo him for everytime we see him. fickle fickle fans. i bet if adebayor came back to arsenal right now we would cheer him like crazy.
oh well. i still hope for the best. but i still wanna see you again. when will it be?
Posted by Chiaroscuro at 8:56 PM
Sunday, December 4, 2011
i'll never ask for anyone but you.
its the holidays :) so horribly relaxing. and refreshing. i finally feel back to normal again. and being able to watch football matches without having the constant nagging at the back of my mind reminding me that i have piles of stuff undone. excellent. and yesterday's match against wigan just made me smile. sure, its WIGAN, some people may say. but a win is a win. i dont care how you put it. and it's kinda weird on days where i dont watch the match and in the morning i wake up to check how many goals van persie had scored last night rather than the actual score itself. but no, i refuse to jump on the bandwagon and throw a whole bunch of superlatives at how great van persie is. rather moot, if you ask me. but yesterday's celebration after van persie's goal really revealed the man behind the footballer. i was just so glad that van persie ran over to walcott to made sure that the whole crowd knew that walcott was the man. cant imagine drogba or edin dzeko ever doing that. and that was just vindication that van persie was indeed the man to be captain at arsenal. after a whole slew of bad captains (yes, thierry henry, you're included) including fabregas (sorry mate, you're just not captain material) i'm really glad to see someone who's finally getting the whole arsenal side together again.
and i read somewhere that ramsey (?) mentioned the reason that van persie had been scoring so many goals was coincidental with the departure of fabregas. coincidental? i dont think so. with fabregas gone van persie has so much more room in the middle instead of having to compete for space with his captain or to stay up front all the time which is definitely not his strong suit. would i have fabregas back and a less effective van persie? honestly i'm stuck in between. dont get me wrong, i love fabregas despite me saying earlier that he's not captain material. i'll never forget that appearance at aston villa. that was pure class. but fabregas honestly seemed to be on a different level at times. cant rmb exactly when but in the 09/10 season during one of the champions league qualifiers he played a really disguised ball perfectly straight through the defense but walcott couldnt read his intention properly and he opted to go wide and the ball rolled safely into the keeper's hands. fabregas was always one step ahead of everybody at arsenal. and when i look at arsenal's pass and move and compare it with barcelona's i few ashamed to call arsenal a passing side. i mean, just look at the opening minutes of yesterday's match. boom. song gives it right away. i've always been a fan of song's defensive work but he has to learn to make the right pass always. playing in that kind of position means you'll probably receive the ball a lot and one error leaves your back four exposed. just play and early simple pass at times can save you a lot of trouble.
back to van persie. i mean, i look at him and he's full of confidence. he's willing to try his tricks and flicks and yet at the same time he's not selfish and is such an astute distributor of the ball. wow. and anybody knows a confident striker is a dangerous one. case in point: daniel sturridge.
Posted by Chiaroscuro at 3:38 AM