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Arsenal FA Cup Round 5 Replay preview
DAVID v GOLIATH ( Take 2)
Peter Gilbert 16.1.00
The big difference this time is that Goliath has shown everyone
how big he is and what contempt everyone has for little David.
However David has grown in stature during the course of
the last 10 days and Goliath for all his public bragging has
shown what a great big whimp he is capable of being if things
don't quite go his way.
You can guarantee that Arsenal are still looking disdainfully
at this fixture, it's inconvenient for them to have to motor
up the M1 to meet up with those pesky foxes again and this attitude
(if it exists) could in fact be their undoing.
Our attitude however is beyond question and our achievements
during this Millennium back that up. We have shown character
by the bucket load and a determination not to be walked all over
despite the seemingly difficult ask we face.
It is a great time to be a City fan and we all look forward to
the Arsenal replay with relish.
In the last game we never forced their keeper into making a save
but in this forthcoming fixture I think The Arsenal will find
that we have come a long way in the last ten days and we will
be a completely different kettle of fish. Where we had players
who were filling in we now have players fighting for a bit of
a run in the first team. Where we had positions vacated by the
tried and trusted we now have positions being fought over and
the right to pull on that Royal Blue shirt.
We have grown in stature since the last meeting and we just might
upset the pundits. One thing is for sure the odds won't be 7-1
against us winning.
I assume we'll be having the same match officials as on the last
occasion when Mr Riley did all he could to cloud the ludicrous
antics of his colleagues the day before by making a string of
daft decisions the worst of which was sending Darren Eadie off
for not kicking the ball to 'Garlic breath' after he had been
awarded a free kick for.............I still don't know what.
If there is any justice in this world we'll win this one. However
we all know a thing or two about justice now don't we.
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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