Easily Painful

The last few weeks have been absolutely horrendous for any Arsenal FC fan. We have dropped points in a heap. We have  among the best youngsters playing for us in the premiership, but what we lack is the experience, sheer desperation and that crazy Gritty determination to see off a match. We also need players who are more eager to simply play mesmerizing football and take complete responsibility and perform according to the demands of the situation.


It was not long ago that we would get amazed watching an act of sheer brilliance from an ever goal poaching machines in  Thierry Henry and Ian Wright, the vision of a Dennis Bergkamp, the ever gritty and ever determined Patrick Viera or the curlers just around the corner of the post from the silky smooth Robert Pires and the strong wall like defenders in Keown and Adams to name a few.


The present bunch of players are undoubtedly brilliant but they aren't anywhere near as experienced as those players of yester years were at any point in time in their careers. Fully seasoned players playing for an Arsenal team would mean that Arsenal has every reason to believe that they can always shut off the opposition by simply blocking every attack of theirs.


For a team that is the only one in history to have gone an entire season without losing a single match and also to have lifted the Cup that season the last time they were Champions before Chelsea and Manchester United have gone on to dominte the top 2 positions in the league since then.


With so much potential to perform, this is one hell of a fall.  A stastistic that simply shows how poorly we have let in Goals that have simply hurt us bad. All this could have been started by the horrendous error by Laurent Koscielny and Wojciech Szczesny that lead to their loss against a Birmingham Side who played outta their skin to Arsenal at bay enforcing the error after which Martins made the most of it, depriving Arsenal of any Silverware, extending the dry spell to over 6 yrs now. Then the draw at Liverpool, New Castle


We do win a few matches here and there playing some brilliant football time and again. We played exhilarating football while beating Barca 2-1 at home and then beating ManUre 1-0 at home. Everything easily comes down to experience of the players, the ever attacking mesmerizing football played by the youngsters is a treat to watch, what we have to now wait and watch in the coming season is how well can these youngsters soak in the pressure and hold on to a lead..??


Many many crazy questions looom large....


Will Wenger accept there is a problem...change any of his tactics... offloading  or acquiring players.... experience or youth....


This season has been easily painful.....let's hope the future is shining brightly for us GUNNERS.