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Match Preview: Arsenal v
Leicester City. F.A. Cup 4th Round. Sunday 9th January 2000.
DAVID v GOLIATH (remember?)
They get on my nerves.....Arsenal do.......they've already done
the double over us this season and we have to go and draw them
in R4 of the FA Cup.
This is our reward for two punishing games against Hereford,
two games which in fact sapped so much of our strength that it
was hardly worth the effort. On reflection it might have been
better to have lost at their place in R3 then I reckon we would
have won two games at home and drawn two away over the Christmas
period and we'd now be sitting pretty with 37 points..........but
we didn't.
On the other hand if any team is likely to go to Highbury and
turn over a bunch of foreign toffs it's going to be a team like
Leicester City. Then again I wouldn't have minded if Hereford
had been going along there. It would have been a great day out
for them and their fans.
It will be interesting to see just how MON views this game......a
lost cause or a great challenge. To be fair they've been lucky
against us this season.....fluky goals and a bit of assistance
from a certain F.Sinclair(suspended I believe for this fixture)
has seen them walk away with the points.
They do of course have a highly impressive squad which has been
meticulously assembled by manager Arsene Wenger. He continues
to strengthen relentlessly and sometimes it is daunting to see
the likes of Suker, Kanu or Henry warming up on the touch line
along with Ian Marshall and Mr Fenton.
Vieira is now back in action after giving Neil Ruddock a free
sample of garlic.
Petit seems to have shaken off his injuries and these two frogs
hop about all over the place making the team tick.
Overmars has frightening pace, Bergkamp can finish emphatically,
they have a proven back four and the England goal keeper.
Apart from that they're rather average really.
But this is the Cup..........The FA Cup.........the stuff dreams
are made of.....and if.. just if ...we get our battle worn troops
patched up, then our slings and arrows just might catch the mighty
Arsenal unawares.....we just might hit them where it hurts. We
could dampen their powder and render them useless like an upturned
tank.
That would be wonderful........there is hardly a finer sight
than a wounded gunner.
A cunning fox could be their undoing.........forget everything
I said at the beginning of this article ..................CHARGE.........LET'S
GO FOR IT !!!!!!!!!
We need to be pumped up on the day and firing on all cylinders
in all departments, then we just might surprise these footballing
snobs.
Actually we owe them one. It was they who set us off on our tragic
little run of four league defeats.......so yes let's go there
and sort them.
Did You Know?
1. Arsenal were formed in 1886 by workers of The Royal Arsenal
and were originally called Dial Square. The side changed their
name to Royal Arsenal and then Woolwich Reds before settling
on Arsenal.
2.They have played in the FA Cup Final on 13 occasions winning
the trophy 7 times in 1930, 1936, 1950, 1971, 1979, 1993 and
1998.
3. In 1998 they completed the famous League/FA Cup double for
the second time, the first being in 1971.
4. Arsenal Underground Station is the only one to be named after
a football team.
It was originally called Gillespie Road but Herbert Chapman had
it renamed Arsenal Highbury in October 1932. By February 1934
the suffix had been dropped.
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