From Darsh Dhillon
Dear Myles,
I thought I would share my thoughts with you following on from last night\’s game, although I\’d imagine you\’re already inundated with such messages.
1. It just goes to show how winning your group is so important. If not, this happens. Considering how poor Arsenal’s group was, it’s unforgivable. It’s somewhat ‘unfair’ to go through this emotional stress ‘only’ to be in the quarter finals!
2. A consequence of winning your group is having the 2nd leg at home.
Again, I think we saw how important that can be, just ask Utd or Spurs or Chelsea in a weeks time
3. Further to above, that away goal in the first leg, even if you lose, remains crucial. It proved to be the difference last night
4. Barca deserved to go through. Had the monstrous plonker of a Dane that is Bendtner had scored at the death, it would’ve been an injustice in view of the 2 games overall. If the shoe was on the other foot and we went out like that, despite dominating both games, we’d be absolutely gutted
5. Wenger can blame the referee until he’s 70. It won’t make any difference. Stop blaming other factors. Go home, watch both DVD’s back to back and ask yourself if the referee is the reason why you haven’t progressed. This Arsenal squad has a massive inferiority complex that will haunt them for quite some time
6. You can’t beat great teams with average players let alone hope to win the damn thing. If it were up to me, 4 of our 10 outfield players that started last night would be moved on at the end of the season. Would Rosicky and Diaby ever get into Utd or Barca’s team? Is this supposed to be some sort of joke. Can Wenger not see how horribly average they are and have been for quite some time. It’s laughable. Sickening. Embarrassing.
7. If your players aren’t fit, don’t play them!
After all is said and done, the comments from Guardiola hurt the most this morning: “The reality is Arsenal were not able to string together three consecutive passes and they were not able to shoot once on goal†Oh deary me.
So, yet another CL season passes and we must ask ourselves; how good were we in the competition this year?
The answer is not very. In a group stage consisting of Shakhtar, Braga and Partizan Belgrade we lost 2 games, conceding 7 goals. All the more ludicrous considering Wenger somewhat perversely described this as his best ever squad.
I refused to admit it before hand, as my love for the club, which has shone for over 20 years, demanded I show some element of faith.
Sadly however, like you, deep down inside I knew that I\’d “seen it already†before a ball was even kicked.
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From Richard Savage : Darsh’s comments
Nicely put, Darsh – less venom than Myles normal rant and more balanced!