Sunday, April 19, 2009

Letter to Arsene (After knocking out of the FA Cup)

Dear Professor,

I am an Arsenal fan who support the gunners since Season 00/01. You bought fantastic dounter attack football to us and we are absolutely enjoyed it. I have no huge opposition for your youth policy on the grounds of saving the club from bankrupting. In fact, I quite enjoy watching young talented players developed and watching them help us to climb back to the top level of Arsenal's football. However, unlike the highly rated teenagers, your tactical skillls remained rubbish.

I have heard that you gave nothing about opponent in every pre-match team talk. You want the team to enjoy playing for their best football. Holding their nerve will probably drop their speed. I can understand that. I know it is part of the reason why Arsenal always score early goals in Cole-Pires-Henry time. But please also look back to you dark history. You did not have any plan B.

The best example is your past record against Mourinho's Chelsea. You won no games against that Chelsea. We have leaded Chelsea for a couples of time, but after the lead, Mourinho alwways bring some fresh legs to change the tactics to beat our defenders, our team, our long-serving manager.

I am very disappointed after the team being knocked out in their first semi-final in the rebuilt Wembley. We play not good, but either does Chelsea. We are hopefully going to the final stage of 2 cups. But it seems we are not going to one any one of them when you pick our team to play.

Defenders blows is part of the reason of conceding stupid goals, but it is never the main reason. I will choose the 19-year-old Karren Gibbs to be our Man of the Match even he is just a boy. I can understand the situation makes our Polish goalkeeper nervous starting from the first minute of the game on his birthday. I do not blame him. I think every fan will forgive him as we do not have other goalkeeper choice.

The main critics is about the midfield. Every Arsenal fan knows Denilson is useless. He has got no pace, no vision, no stamina, no defensive skill. I think nobody except you believe he can play as a defensive midfielder. Also, we know Diaby always suck. He is not a concentrated player and easily lose the ball in the center of mildfield. With these two players play alongside Fabregas, not only the creativity of our skipper will be hindered, but also the covering of the back four is not enough. In the first half, We have no real threats in front of Cech except the goal. We saw both Diaby and Denilson lost the ball for 3 or 4 times. I should pray Drogba or Anelka to seize any of the chances to score goals. Maybe this can wake you up.

You should bring the on-form Song to the midfield. We also see the partnership of Song-Fabregas in the Champions league match. Song wins the ball and Fabregas uses the ball. It is another Flamini-Fabregas chemcial reaction. But you keep both Denilson and Diaby on the field. You should also bring Nasri or Arshavin on the midway in front of Fabregas as there is no bridge between the isolating Adebayor and the other players. It is quite heartbroken when we saw him being subsituted off by Bendtner and then saw we lost the game.

The best defend is to attack. We have 5 fit strikers can play and we lost 5 important defenders. Would bt great to see the team play attacking football with Chelsea, which fits your football philosophy? you should bring another high score match to us, as Benetiz bought us a 4-4 game in Stamford bridge in the midweek.

History pasts. Only the 2 legs Champions league semifinal remained in our season. We do not need you to explain for your formation setup to us because we all know you are a good excuse finder. Please use the remaining 10 days to preapre the ManUtd game. Use your Carling Cup kids to play the Liverpool league games. You like your kids to get experience, doesn't you?

We all need a cup. Please don't leave it long.

Yours,
An Arsenal fan

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