Happy Sunday everyone.Happy birthday Theo Walcott! Down at the Equator, we are a happy bunch. The rains are here and we break back on the farm. Dependence on rain fed agriculture is a definite no no this day in the 21st century,but we do our best for bountiful harvests. In the premier league, the harvest season is fast approaching and today could be the day Arsenal claims its first trophy
NLD day it is. On a larger scale, it is show-me what-you-got-to-be-champions
day. Liverpool face the Manchester United of Moyes David (David? What on irony
at the moment. Hopefully, the Liverpool that turns up today is Goliath and not Uriah’s wife) in
the curtain raiser event this super Sunday. What a match day it was yesterday. What a title race this is turning out to be.
The Swahili people say Hayawi hayawi huwa. The improbable
comes to pass; though you cannot say that of Mou-reen’s tantrum yesterday day.
Probably thanks to his success, we tend to smoother Mourinho’s uncouthness as
some variant of genius flowering it with terms like ‘mind games’, ‘psychological
edge’ et.al. Let’s face it people, the man is a c*nt.
Chelsea’s debacle though utterly a joy to watch, piles up
the pressure on the lads tonight. Not only do dropped points and game in hand bode
well in Arsenal’s title chase, the spanner of Chelsea missing their two best midfielders,
Ramires and Willian, through suspension means that if we beat Tottensh*t today,
there is every chance of at least 6 points from the trio of hell games that end
with Manchester City at home.
We could as well dream of a perfect nine which surely will
build the confidence and momentum needed at this time. Manchester City though presents a different
prospect given that they now have only the league to go for from a possible
quadruple a fortnight thereabouts ago. Their win against an unimaginative Hull was
to paraphrase the commentator, “the type to build a title campaign on.”
A comfortable win having played with 10 men for 80 minutes, David
Silva back to his best, six points behind the leaders and with three games in
hand, it is City’s title to lose. For Arsenal, it seems rather odd timing for
baby the steps approach: Today’s North London Derby should be about securing a
top four finish, the Chelsea game should be about vying for second or third
while for Manchester City, the aim should be at least stalling the Citizens run
away with the title then we can dream.
