ZimGooners

Arsenal may have just gotten the perfect start to the new season with two mentally challenging games. They could easily have had a cvouple of 3-0s and walked around feeling good about themselves. They have played two teams who played the way that teams often did against Arsenal. The boys needed to know whether they were over the way they played last year. Often they shied away from the hard games and that sort of thing but this season they have shown that they can be patient enough and that their players are willing to come to the party even in an unfashionable game. I thought that full backs played really well against Sparta and that was important. Will Fabregas score more goals this season? Maybe. He would have missed that chance last season. But then again he scored in the early part of the season and couldn't score in a brothel in Amsterdam the rest of the season. It is important for the internationals to do the job home and away this season. Do I think they can win the league....

The Arsenal is a team that thrives on everyone thinking that have lost it and that they have no way of getting what they want. A few years ago Arsene once said that the team could go through a season unbeaten. Everyone had a laugh when he was beaten after 30 games. Then he did it, because he had a single-minded approach to getting things done. Arsene knows what he wants and he knows how to get it even if it makes him the loneliest man in the world in that opinion. That is one thing that has galvanised this side and made them into a super team. The malarkeys of the lot at news and newsingtons want to demote the side to just a top half of the table team, just able to beat a pub team on penalties. Not over Arsene's dead body even. Arsenal is an institution and it will profit for many years from the hard work already put in. RvP looks hungry; Hleb, Rosicky and Diaby look tenacious; Fabregas is a class act with a thirst for success... Gallas, Toure, Gilberto and da Silva are warriors.....

So then we were going to sell the club to some bloke for a couple for a meal ticket and shoe polish the other day. And we were going nowhere since Thierry left. The manager by the way would go off and coach a cteam in outer Mongolia and we would end up getting a few lads from Somalia to play for the team because they would play for food stamps... What has the pre-season told me? Nothing. Absolutely nothing I didn't know. I know that Arsene Wenger knows what he is doing. I know that van Persie is a phenomenal player... I know that Gallas is a warrior who should have started playing for Arsenal bags ago... I know that Eboue does well on the wing... I know that Arsenal rocks. So bring on the rest and let's have a bit of fun. It was all getting a bit desperate. I almost joined dancing classes....