Oxymoron – “a combination of contradictory or incongruous words".

As supporters of football we all know the difference between a good player and a complete c*nt. For example, Steven Carr is a complete c*nt, as is Alan Smith. Nicky Butt is clearly a “C you next Tuesday”, whilst Joey Barton acts extremely c*ntish Now, can you imagine if all these players played alongside each other in the same team on a weekly basis, with your team then having to play them twice in the matter of 4 days – scary stuff! Well, that’s exactly what happened to The Arsn’l, ladies and gentleman - Two consecutive fixtures against the Geordie Oxymoron’s – The Premierships “biggest smallest” club.

Quick pointer – If a side beats a team 3-0 one game, and then four days later gives them another drubbing of the same score line, is it still classed that the team on the receiving end of both defeats were “hard done by” … in both games, really? “The score line didn’t reflect the match” … Really, in both games? I would beg to differ, and put this point towards Tony Cottee, who I unfortunately had to watch on a Gillette soccer special commentating on our game, as Sky decided to stick Sunderland v Birmingham on the box instead … It was potentially so exciting I couldn’t watch it, and chose to watch a very dull Tony Cottee talk about how well the Oxymoron’s defended to the point where he thought that merited them victory.

I couldn’t get a live stream going on the puter, so I had to wait till 22:15 last night to watch a bit of football first – and from the hour I saw, we battered them. Michael Owen didn’t have one shot, let alone on target, and I can’t really remember another decent chance they had. Carr and Smith seemed more content in taking the piss out of Hleb then actually playing football – something they performed just as bad as their footballing ability.

Many many positives we have been able to take out of these two games, besides the score line I mean. Firstly there has been no hangover from last weeks defeat in the Carling Cup, something which I felt was extremely important, and could have made or broke our season. Last season we were beaten in the Carling cup final, and then within the week were out of the other two cup competitions – This season has been completely different though. As a team we can actually cross, and quite well, Clichy, Sagna, Hleb, and Flamini (were come to him later), and Eddy. Speaking of the Crozilian International, Eduardo’s appearances up top have impressed me – despite the fact he hasn’t scored in the last two, the run in the side he got over the Christmas period has clearly improved his all round game, and now he genuinely looks like a Premiership player. Quick, good on the ball, an eye for a pass, his work rates improved immensely as well.

Credit to Senderos, who has performed to the very best of his ability the last two games. He’s looked a tower, a rock at the back even – one or two misplaced passes where he should have maybe “hoooof”ed it clear, but other then that, he’s been strong and looked solid. A real presence at the back with BillyG. Something we are going to need him to keep up whilst Touré’s away on International duty.

Adebayor I’m going to be short and sweet with – the mans boarder line world class. End of. This season he’s been excellent. I hope everyone that doubted him from the start are eating big fat lumps of humble pie by the wooden spoonful. The mans mustard, and – dare I say it - brings us something of which the great Thierry never had, a real aerial presence. 20 league goals will be a stroll in the park for the big man, 30+ in all comps he should be looking at (needs to start scoring in the Champions League though).

Just one last man to single out, his names Franz. Yes folks, Franz. Franz “Flamini” Beckenbauer – he’s German. I thought he had retired years ago. He won the World cup as captain in 1974, and again as manager in 1990. He’s roughly 62 now. But for some reason he plays in the face mask of a small youthful looking French lad, and calls himself “Mathieu”, and wears the name “Flamini” on the back of his shirt. “Le Kaiser” is still every bit as good at 62 as he were in his Bayern Munich days. He’s a rock, a mountain in the centre of the park, every game he plays he continues to go from strength to strength. He’s single handedly made himself pivotal in the central midfield position at The Arsn’l. One of our most important players, up there with the Cesc’s, Hleb’s, and Ade’s of this world. God he makes me hard…

Here's to three points at the new Main Road Saturday morning.

Until next time, keep it red…

ScottyDavisGooner