Monday blues? Tuesday’s grey? Well, today’s post is
all about urging all you Arsenal Damu to assume an extra-corporeal mindset. Translation:
for a change, get over yourself. 72hrs later, I have some gooner pals yet to
come around over some mundane stats such as our conceding of two goals, one
each, in two consecutive games from shots outside the area. I mean (!?) spare a
thought for Ukraine, Egypt, Taiwan, Venezuela and The Central African Republic.
To that, add other 21st century societal struggles
like the LGBT divide-that assumed new levels the past 24 hours with the Ugandan
presidential assent to a law that outlaws same-sex relations. Some insist that
Whatsapp recent system blip ranks up there with that. Mix it all up and you
have the perfect storm. In no way are these simple ugali and mrenda issues. I tell you, things are elephant!
A friend recently quipped “gay rights and Africa…” and left it at that. I’ll
follow that cue and….
Picking up the wildlife theme, do mark the 3rd
of March 2014 on your Google calendars. No, it’s not the day the double whammy
of Ramsey and Walcott (complete with a Diaby special) turns on its head as the
duo (plus Diaby special) burst back into full training just in time for the March
Madness fixtures.
This happens
to be the day of the adoption of the
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
(CITES), as the UNEP website so eloquently puts it; in simple speak, it is the
first ever World Wildlife Day.
Let’s all drum up the day, wind
up your boss by naively asking if it means that there will be no clocking in
the 3rd of March. Insist that
being a fundamentalist- animal- lover -environmentalist, World Widlife Day is
as good as Christmas. Come on! Give it a try, besides, there is a chance to
that your boss is half as asinine as you secretly think he is. I am yet to know
of the ribbon colors that would signify your support for the protection of the
world’s flora and fauna, but in the Utopian world of football, it’s all Mars-red.
This, the more reason why we all
need to step out of ourselves, take in the world about us lest we be like Shaun
and Ed in the first rolls of Shaun Of The Dead: Spaced out in a zombie infested
world. In many ways, Arsenal’s journey to this point in the 2013/14 season is
akin to the Shaun led escape to the Winchester pub. Now that we got there; what
next? Do we sit in the dark and eat peanuts?
Does Arsene Wenger have a plan?
Is it about time (just like how Shaun had to shot
his zombie mother in the head to destroy her brain as besides removing her
head, it was the only plausible way to kill a zombie) that arsenal kills off beloved yet lost causes
like the Champion’s league round of 16 tie against Bayern by fielding a
weakened side? Or will a thrashing in that game scramble the team’s mentality in
effect killing of any chance of glory after such a hard worked season?
At the end of it all, unlike in Shaun
of the dead where Shaun ends up with both the prized possession (the
girlfriend- read the premier league) and his zombie, hidden- in- the- backyard-life
goals-derailing-sleeping on your couch-best mate Ed( read the FA Cup); will we rather settle for Ed (the FA Cup) and avoiding the perennial fourth place dog fight?
Dear,Joel Campbell,
Hope you are holding up well and Olympiacos is treating you just fine. Though you are yet to don the white and red, today is that chance to tattoo yourself in all gooner hearts. Gun down united and at the end of it all,do a half-turn and with a twinkle in your eye, beneath your breath growl, "I'll be back!"
Regards,
Arsenal
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