Arsene Hits Back With Conviction, Henry Compliments Whilst Grant Whinges

Posted by: Yogi's Warrior | March 22, 2008

Arsene Hits Back With Conviction, Henry Compliments Whilst Grant Whinges

Arsene hit back at the media sniping yesterday

We will not bottle it. Believe me, we have the strength of character to win the title. That’s my belief, my firm belief, and, at the game on Sunday, you will see. Since the first day of the season, I have said that I believe in this team. Come back in May and we will speak about it then. Until you win, people have doubts about you, they’re questioning you. But the strong ones keep going

This is no more than he has been saying all season and nothing less than you would expect from him. Arsene is staunchly loyal to the players and that is on the whole reciprocated whilst they are in the first team. And there is not any doubt that his conviction is genuine.

He went on,

I feel that since the beginning of the season, we have been the most consistent team. We have lost just one game. If we win our big games and continue to be consistent, I’m sure we will finish in front of the other sides. I cannot imagine that we will lose the league if we have lost only one game at the end of the season

The last part indicates he has not got a vivid enough imagination because four consecutive draws indicates that you can lose one game and not win the title. Even winning all of our remaining games might not be sufficient if United do the same, bar in the Arsenal match of course. It would then come down to goal difference and that is a tad of a lottery because one good thumping distorts the total. Oh for the convoluted complexity of Goal Averages…

Theirry Henry gave some moral support and encouragement to the players,

I have this feeling Arsenal will win the Premier League. They are playing well against the big four and I do think they play the most attractive football, though Manchester United have also played some good stuff. So far, Arsenal have lost only one game and, if they remain unbeaten from now on, it would be very unusual not to win the title

Steadfastly loyal to his former colleagues as well,

Obviously, I love Arsenal. But that’s not the reason why I think they will win the title. I just feel they have the quality. I watch them every game possible and I wish them good luck. I still have something in my heart for Arsenal. They have played beautiful football this season and deserve to win something. It would be brilliant

And so say most of us. Theo Walcott is the main subject of this piece in The Independent with some interesting comparators although separating out starts from substitute appearances might be more useful.

Meanwhile Avram Grant sought to make Chelsea out to be the victims and gave a lily-livered rationale to their actions

There are players I think that make worse tackles than this and didn’t even get yellow cards and didn’t apologise. It’s happened to us someone sent our captain to hospital for a few days, and then not playing for a few weeks. Other players, I don’t want to mention names, and they didn’t apologise. We took responsibility, he [Cole] apologised and I am giving him credit for this

Hmmm, who could that be who injured John Terry? Ah, that would be Emmanuel Eboue. And it proves that the Chelsea manager does not read any press because Eboue has been kicked from pillar to post for his behaviour from within and without. If Grant does not want to mention names why bother with the comment? Oh, I get it; Chelsea are the same as everyone else and not the nasty, boot-boy thugs that the media make them out to be. Well, yes they are. No other team has been in front of the FA Beaks for failing to control their players on such a regular basis – twice that I can think of this season before even looking at it properly.

Fundamentally, he wants them to be loved. The problem is that they provoke a reaction through their attitude as a club. From the Boardroom downwards, there is quite simply a lack of any discernable class in their actions. Grant may be trying to change that and certainly Kenyon, Buck & Co., are keeping their mouths shut rather than seeking media glory personally. That might help but in much the same way that Manchester United garnered opprobrium for Roy Keane & Co’s hounding of referees, it is on the pitch that they will have to work hardest.

Still it all adds oil to the fires in the build-up for the match on Sunday. ’til Tomorrow

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Tags: Arsenal, Arsene Wenger, Avram Grant, Chelsea, Football, Premier League, Soccer, Thierry Henry

Responses

Its funny that capello comes out and basically states if you cannot control yourself and respect the refs then the perpetrators will find themselves out of the English selection process !
Then within hours cole makes his apologies .
What a lot of hog wash ! What has happened to this former arsenal left back ???… I bet you the 5k more he got from chelsea was a small bonus compared to playing average football for the past few seasons !
Its a shame some fans here cant be paid off to support another club .

But pat should be happy , it seems arsene has been backed into a corner and going to re-sign the flamster ! It wasn’t that straight forward hey pat
But hopefully we only have to worry about Hleb now !

By: ethan_goon on March 22, 2008
at 7:31 am

Also re : hleb

yogi should be commended for reporting the Hleb story and his deductions , certain bloggers condemned his CSI on the matter , stating it was all fallacy , however

read it and weep !
http://www.arsenal.com/article.asp?thisNav=news&article=489284&cpid=703&title=Boss+admits+he+was+unhappy+at+Hleb+meeting

it proves it happened ! and if they were only going out for ice cream why be secretive ?
intent was there intent was proved and time will tell !

but FOR ONCE you heard it here 1st !

By: ethan_goon on March 22, 2008
at 7:52 am

I dont quite know where Arsene and Thierry get this if you only lose one game your probably going to win the league.
If you draw fifteen of your matches and win twenty two your points total is only going to be eighty one, which a few years ago might well have been enough but i’m not sure it will suffice now.

By: veteran on March 22, 2008
at 8:06 am

true veteran i dont expect many goals with us and chevski but i do expect there to be carnage and yellow cards… as ever we have just score more than they do , recently we have been left wanting for goals but RVP is back and hopefully with the aid of walcott we can emulate the milan game !

We have drawn too many thats for sure , but i think we all know who isnt providing the goals for us .. i just hope it changes now the pressure is on !

By: ethan_goon on March 22, 2008
at 8:34 am

sry ethan..i posted the hleb’s incident as a comment after i read it on arseblog..it was arseblog of all blogs who reported it first i think.

By: rohan on March 22, 2008
at 9:02 am

Those are some interesting stats on Theo, and I’d like to know how many appearances Clichy made for us before his 19th bday. Not too many I imagine, and yet here he is, in contention for a place in the Season XI.

By: arseman on March 22, 2008
at 9:11 am

Funny how Ethan refers to Adebayor without mentioning his name now.

Ethan Quote
“We have drawn too many thats for sure , but i think we all know who isnt providing the goals for us .. i just hope it changes now the pressure is on !”

Who isn’t providing the goals for us, you blind fool? You didn’t see 19 goals in the league.

blind fool X 19 = ethan_fool

Up Ur Arse

By: Ade 19 Goals speaking on March 22, 2008
at 9:43 am

Ethan says that “There” is slang for “They’re or They are”

If this is true, then

ethan_goon is slang for ethan_buffoon

By: Ethan_Alert on March 22, 2008
at 9:50 am

I’m so fed up of reading about Eboue injuring JT - there was no tackle by Eboue JT kicked the underside of his boot so to me that was an accident, but of course he is not the loveable ‘Tiny’ so he gets slated for it. JT should not have been on the pitch to be injured as he should have walked for that assault on Cesc earlier. That is karma, pure and simple.

Ethan, the only thing we know for sure about Hleb is that he met an Italian agent the night before the Milan game. We are all free to draw whatever conclusions we like from that, but it does not make it fact.

By: Passenal on March 22, 2008
at 10:01 am

Yogi

I apologise to you and everyone except you know who for the following.

Ethan

“@Josef K or ethan_alert as you so sacredly call yourself ..”@

I can assure you my old china that when I want to stick the boot into you I will do so using my normal internet persona.

Josef K is a character out of a book, its not my real name…logically if you think about it, and I accept that thinking is not your strong suit, there would not seem to be any need to change my name to ‘Ethan_alert’ since you know…Josef K isn’t my real name anyway.

In your defence over this incorrect assumption I suppose it is only fair to acknowledge that the day before I did suggest you took a literacy course.

The beauty of you, Ethan, is that you are so wholly iqnorant as to seemingly believe (note, how I pressed the keys in the correct order on this occasion) that in some way your views are of a higher resonance than those of anyone else.

You seem to have developed a divinity complex; as if you almost think you are a little like Galileo: persecuted by the Church and treated as a pariah for his views on heliocentrism but battling on regardless convinced not only of his own veracity but more so, of his righteousness.

The subject of heliocentrism is itself perhaps a useful illustrative mechanism for describing you Ethan. You seem to believe, if what we garner from your musings here is correct, that your position is fixed at the centre of everything, that the world rotates with you and all your ramblings at its centre. We all know how that little argument turned out, well I accept there is a distinct possibility that a man such as yourself who thinks education can be taken from the History channel probably doesn’t.

Ethan, sticking with the slightly biblical theme begun with your strange decision to refer to my opinion of myself as “sacred”; you are a blight on this blog, a veritable one man plague generating nonsense that clogs the pores of discussion on this forum. You are pestilence and famine poisoning everything in your wake with your angry illogical ravings, and worst of all like pestilence you are virulent and contageous because the longer you stay around the more likely others like you will be drawn to Yogi’s wonderful forum thus ruining it forever.

Ethan if you ever address me again it had better be to apologize for characterizing people on this blog as ‘nazis’, calling Danny(I thinK?) ‘a fag’ and all the other horrible little things you seem to think pass as witty comment. Rest assured; if you address me on any other subject I am going to take your comment, pin it up and crucify it mercilessly. But then there would seem little point as you are so blinkered as to not recognise humiliation when you see it.

By: Josef K on March 22, 2008
at 10:57 am

true pas ,
but if arsene came out and confirmed his anger that he was not aware of it ,until later ..yet confirmed it happened , at least we know for sure it 100% occurred. Then he states the rest of what transpired is SECRET .. Not sure going for ice creams are what you classify as TOP SECRET ! ….
What else would you meet an Italian agent for ?
other than for ice cream .. LIKE YOU DO !

josef must be slang for ‘retard with no point to prove’

Oh and ades 19 goals speaking ! WE LOST YOU !
YOU HAVENT BEEN ON THE PITCH FOR OVER 4 DRAWS NOW ! WE THOUGHT YOU STAYED IN MILAN ! hopefully you will bless us with your presence on sunday - hows your 3 penalty artificial leg going ? oh and the derby plastic hat trick ? if they fell off youd of only scored 13 !
good going ..

By: ethan_goon on March 22, 2008
at 11:02 am

My line up to beat Chelsea Tomorrow:

Almunia.

-Sagna- Kolo (or Senderos)- Gallas- Clichy(or Gallas).

-Eboue- Fabregas- Flamini- Hleb.

- RVP.

- Adebayor. 4-4-1-1.

Chelsea 1- Arsenal 3.

Then, Theo in the last 20′.

Leave Hleb alone. AW is not protecting the players for not including more English in the starting line up; that’s why most of teams including more British are going in too strongly against us. I think, it’s time you have the courage to address this to AW very publicly. Also, it’s one of many reasons why the FA select ref. who don’t fancy us so much in big derby, because they want to make sure that we end the season with no trophy until the ‘ professor’ has learnt his lesson.
This is very intimidating for our foreign lads. They are often victims of hard tackle; but ref. often come out with a red card only when they see blood. I love these lads and their protection starts with AW by implementing a policy that doesn’t make Arsenal look like a paria club for the English fans.
This is serious.

By: lc on March 22, 2008
at 11:07 am

Ethan

The irony of your calling someone a ‘retard’ whilst neglecting to capitalise their name nor end the sentence with a full stop is not lost on me.

You can’t even insult someone coherently.

By: Josef K on March 22, 2008
at 11:10 am

What are the odds that tomorrow there will be more red cards than goals?

Let’s just hope that Chelsea get the red cards and we get the goals!

By: Marc on March 22, 2008
at 11:17 am

joesef K is a Scottish punk rock band you ignoramus !
not a character out of a book !
do a search you might find im correct !
‘as ever.’..

‘a veritable one man plague generating nonsense that clogs the pores of discussion on this forum’.

what nonsense have i babbled per chance ?
As you stated ???

I pretty much keep to the facts .. and GIVE MY OPINION ! and the very people you said i apologize too! are the very people who have called me far worse ! that that . .

Your the sort of person that keeps this debate going ! YES IM RIGHT about a great number of things ! Everyone laughs at me, then TH14 leaves like i said he would.. Everyone laughs, then people start saying we need more world class players ! Everyone laughs then they realize ade is like i said he would be ! ..

The babblers aint me mate! its the very friends you protect !

so go figure ..
Any how, your such a BIG man continuing this debate ..if dont like me! ignore me ! its only text..
Stop being so fragile ! your not Brittany spears !
no one cares !

But like you , if people are WRONG and persecute me for an issue that i was eventually correct on
don’t bark up my tree little doggie ..
Because ill poision your food !

And if that wasnt you BEFORE i apologize, however im sure the apple didn’t fall far from the tree ..

By: ethan_goon on March 22, 2008
at 11:25 am

Ethan you are a “Retard”. Hahaha
(Notice here, “there” is no slang in “You are”

Josef K has no connection with Ethan_Alert. If you want to comment on my posts, talk to me little buffoon….I mean ethan_goon_the_buffoon.

Or, do you prefer “ethan_buffoon_the_goon”?

By: Ethan_Alert on March 22, 2008
at 11:33 am

I don’t like punk fella.

Josef K is the main protagonist from the book ‘The Trial’ by Franz Kafka. It is one of the greatest novels ever written. I should imagine the punk band named themselves after him for reasons that would be very obvious if you had read the book.

I notice you hadn’t addressed G4E’s collection of quotes from you from the pre-season blogs - why not? Is it because they make you look silly?

I had resolved to iqnore you Ethan, but you sort of addressed a post at me, remember? I quoted it above. Besides its kind of annoying having to iqnore half the posts on a blog when previously you didn’t have to iqnore any.

Still enough is enough for one day.

By: Josef K on March 22, 2008
at 11:35 am

Take the penalties? Are you really serious? Read your post again and really think Ethan. I still think you will not figure it out.

If we go by your degraded process of thinking, then we should strip about 40 penalties from TH14 which means, he didn’t break any records.

Every player in a team is chosen to be the number 1 penalty taker, this is a very big responsibility given to a player the manager believes he is capable of scoring. Further more to prove your amazing retard-ness, if I recall correctly, Ade never missed a penalty which proves he is good at it. Gilberto, the world cup winner missed penalties.

You are (no slang here either) a complete disgrace and the poorest excuse for an Arsenal fan.

Reading your Buffy_goon posts this early in the morning, is like being forced to eat some ill-cooked meal of cr*p on a Satuarday morning.

By: Ade 19 Goals Speaking on March 22, 2008
at 11:49 am

JK,

There is no point man, Ethan likes to argue for nothing and have a really complex problem.

If you read his post at 11:25 carefully, it seems he is being depraved from being right on anything in his real life, so he must be right here. He says he was right on TH14 leaving, who in hell didn’t know TH14 was leaving?

Who thinks of Ade as he thinks of Ade? No one, he would like to force his opinions on others or would like to believe he did. Kind of, lie the lie and then believe it.

He keeps to the facts, the facts in his own world says he should take 3 goals from Ade’s total because they were penalties. Yet the facts on the EPL official site says Ade scored 19, So which facts do we believe? The fictional facts in the world of Ethan, or the facts in the real people’s world?

G4E

By: Gunner4Ever on March 22, 2008
at 12:09 pm

ethan

they let you out early today!!
you want to take 3 goals off ade for the “derby plastic hatrick”.

why do you come out with these stupid comments/”facts”? what is your “thinking” behind that one?

By: dukeGoonem on March 22, 2008
at 12:34 pm

G4E

you are wrong on all levels ! sorry .. At a time TH14 left no one agreed with me ! may last year !

.. I LIKE TO ARGUE ?
jeez look in the mirror mate .. you’ve been right about ‘nothing’ since I’ve had the displeasure to read your crap ..
You regurgitate the days happenings like a pundit on the news !

Who thinks of Ade as he thinks of Ade?

didnt you go to le grove ? haven’t you been reading the comments on here from everyone other than your twisted tribe ? Your a dodo bird mate your almost extinct . RVP will wipe the floor with Ade .. UNLESS AND I QUOTE he changes his mentality pretty quickly ..
and for the 100th time enough said !
you F###### go , on and on !

what ethan facts am i wrong about ???
more like you should feel about 1 inch tall for ridiculing me 3 months ago !
you look pretty small right about now and ades 19 goals is a wealth of facts also …

By: ethan_goon on March 22, 2008
at 12:40 pm

Correction on my earlier post.

I said “Every player in a team is chosen to be the number 1 penalty taker, this is a very big responsibility given to a player the manager believes he is capable of scoring.”

I meant, “Every team has a player chosen to be the number 1 penalty taker.”

I understand that every one will get what I mean, but I felt the obligation to clarify that to Buffy_Ethan. He needs that.

By: Ade 19 Goals Speaking on March 22, 2008
at 12:44 pm

**Welcome to Ethan’s_Buffy_World**

Come to the world of Buffy Ethan, where facts become fiction. Come to his world to forget about everything sensible, and free your mind of anything logical. Bring your smart children with you, he will set them back to the dark ages of retard-ness beyond belief.

Come to Ethan land of wonderful lies, it’s free. Buffy Ethan has devoted himself to the demise of mankind’s intelligence.

Manger
Buffy_Ethan The Buffoon

By: Ethan_Buffy_World on March 22, 2008
at 12:47 pm

Can you prove to us that every one disagreed with you in May, that TH14 was leaving? Can you prove that you were the only one right on this, and every one else was wrong.

Is Le grove now is our source of reality or opinions? Before, you used to say it’s “The SUN” newspaper, now it’s “Le Grove” blog?

I didn’t read here any crazy comments about taking the 3 goals from Ade because they were against Derby, or because they were penalties. Only you come up with this crazy stuff, like the EPL is played in your home and you set your own rules of the game.

Dodo bird? Well….you’re (no slang here) bird dodo. Now go cry on your coco tree and leave us alone.

By: Gunner4Ever on March 22, 2008
at 1:06 pm

Someone give ethan a pacifier and tuck him into his rocking chair.

By: Ole Gunner on March 22, 2008
at 1:20 pm

Ugh, do we have to talk about ethan so much? Its just feeding his vanity. We all know He’s full of crap

By: Jer on March 22, 2008
at 1:26 pm

Is this Yogi’s Blog or Ethan’s?

I have feeling we will beat them tomorrow and win trophy..I have this feeling for long time now..And I have been wrong many a times..But i keep the faith..just like my guru Arsene..

By: adc on March 22, 2008
at 1:37 pm

We usually play better in the big games so i’ve a good feeling about the result. We need a better performance from hleb and i hope theo starts on the wing. Also, even though our forwards have been getting most of the criticism, if we hadn’t made stupid defensive mistakes we would have won most of those games we drew

By: Jer on March 22, 2008
at 2:01 pm

This is one match we need to win if we seriously wants to pick the title. It’s a must win, no doubt about that. It’s a long time we beat them at SB; very long time. Its good we have all our pacy defenders back that can withstand the pressure coming from Cole, Kalou and Drogba.

All the players we need to deliver for this match are ready and God’s willing, we’re winning this match.

By: Howard on March 22, 2008
at 8:32 pm

Hello everybody,
I’ve been reading this blog for a few months and I really, really enjoy it. I love Yogi’s posts and enjoy the perceptive and heartfelt comments from the other contributors.

Apart, of course, from all things ETHAN.

His comments and the replies to his comments seem to take up a disproportionate amount of space.

It is easy to say “just scroll down and ignore them”, but I often fall victim to type of train wreck syndrome and get sucked in to a ghoulish interest in responses to Ethan’s borderline psychotic comments.

I, for one, would relish not ever seeing a post from him again.

I believe, however, that he thrives on any attention – no matter how negative. It nourishes and makes his existence worthwhile. I get the feeling that he is always out there waiting for Yogi’s post and his opportunity to pounce. This is where his day truly begins.

I was wondering if it would be possible to send Ethan (and any suspected aliases) to blog Coventry. Could EVERYBODY agree to ignore him indefinitely, no matter what the provocation?

I feel certain that if nobody “bites”, over a reasonable period of time. He will probably knuckle-drag himself off to make some other poor souls’ lives a misery.

I don’t say this lightly because I do believe that we are all deserving of a voice and an opinion, it is just that I feel that Ethan’s is jarring compared to the general tone of this blog - like nails scarping down a blackboard.

Perhaps this has been tried before? Surely though it is worth another and then another attempt until successful?

Am I out of line?

Should I get my coat?

By: Ian Dolent on March 22, 2008
at 11:06 pm

Hello everybody,
I’ve been reading this blog for a few months and I really, really enjoy it. I love Yogi’s posts and enjoy the perceptive and heartfelt comments from the other contributors.

Apart, of course, from all things ETHAN.

His comments and the replies to his comments seem to take up a disproportionate amount of space.

I, for one, would relish not ever seeing a post from him again.

I was wondering if it would be possible to send Ethan (and any suspected aliases) to blog Coventry. Could EVERYBODY agree to ignore him indefinitely, no matter what the provocation?

I feel certain that if nobody “bites”, over a reasonable period of time. He will probably knuckle-drag himself off to make some other poor souls’ lives a misery.

Perhaps this has been tried before? Surely though it is worth another and then another attempt until successful?

Am I out of line?

Should I get my coat?

By: Ian Dolent on March 22, 2008
at 11:07 pm

Btw I think if we can get into the habit of winning extra-tough away games (starting tomorrow) then glory is beckoning to us this season.

Come on boys, this is the time to stand up and be counted.

By: Ian Dolent on March 22, 2008
at 11:10 pm

Actually Yogi, while Wenger has always publicly stated his confidence in this Arsenal team. Ive never heard Wenger say, “you’ll see”, or stopping short of saying we are going to win this weekend.

“That’s my belief, my firm belief, and, at the game on Sunday, you will see”

This is far more bold than his other statements.

I’m actually quite confident they will beat Chelsea now.

By: Damien on March 23, 2008
at 4:22 am