I sometimes laugh out loud when I read conventional sports journalists like Mark Fleming in The Independent today.
Fleming writes :
Wenger admitted the club’s failure to land Europe’s top prize leaves an embarrassing gap in the trophy cabinet at The Emirates. Liverpool have won it six times; Manchester United three times; but Arsenal have managed just one appearance in the final, which they lost to Barcelona in 2006.
Yet Wenger believes his talented young team have the ability, the belief and the mental strength to go one better this year. He will send his side out at Old Trafford this evening with the message that this is their chance to seize the initiative and make history.
I’ve read 12,000 articles saying exactly that in the last four years. So have you.
Comment on Manchester United v Arsenal is irrelevant and impossible until we see the line-ups Ferguson and Wenger come up with.
Until we see the teams, predictions are pointless.
Sir Alex is capable of playing Park or Fletcher in a game like this. Some think he is capable of playing Giggs or Scholes or even both. He can help Arsenal a lot by picking the wrong team and he might do that.
United have not played well since they played Inter Milan but they beat the feeble Spurs 5-2 last weekend.They scored five goals, two by Rooney, three made by Rooney
Without Gallas, I can’t see Arsenal winning over two legs.
But we shall see at 7.45 pm tonight. If tonight’s game is like last night’s 0-0 in the Nou Camp, then I made a mistake in backing Over 2.5 goals on Monday night. I could lay that bet off.
But I’m not going to lay it off. I still reckon there will be goals.