Foul mouthed 'fan', Jose, IQ victim Terry and Fat Frank sum Chelsea up
An entertaining and intense game ended with Arsenal hanging on a bit, but still earning well deserved draw. It could have been even better had it not been for a Essien stunner which crashed in off the post..
It was a perfectly placed rocket.. Lehmann surprisingly almost getting a hand on it.
We dominated the opening 15 minutes or so without creating too much but also keeping Chelsea quiet.
We lined up with a 4-5-1 and Chelsea with a robotic looking 4-4-2, far from the fluid system of the Pires, Bergkamp era we have employed so well over the last 7 years or so.
We proved we are as fluid, mobile, techincal and counter attacking as they are strong, efficient, disciplined and long ball deflected goal merchants.
You cannot argue that Mourinho has an excellent home record and his team are efficient, strong and consistent. But sadly they lack any class or aesthetic value.
The game was evenly balanced without any gilt edge chances and appeared to be heading for a draw before we scored through Flamini's side footed effort following a flowing 11 pass move.
Then Cole fouled Hleb and Essien scored a wonder goal. On the balance of the 90 minues they deserved to score (how many times have we deserved to win and yet only won a point?) and a draw was a fair result.
During the game John Terry, the England captain, harrassed the referee all game, moaning about every decision that went against them or every time a yellow card was not brandished against us. I know there is a lot of pressure on these games but there is no excuse for this. He is supposed to be a role model.
The FA are spineless and so it is up to the individual ref's to just have a word after the first time and say 'If you continue to whinge about every decision I will put you in the book for dissent' and then everyone would get on with it.
Mourinho is just as bad putting his arm around Alan Wiley after the game and having a word. Managers should not be able to talk to referee's until half an hour after the game.
Then he had the cheek to moan we had come for a draw. We were 6 minutes away from a win. Logic and rationale is lost on Mr Mourinho I'm afraid.
Last of all we come to the Chelsea player I despise the most and whom Jens Lehmann has come out to criticise.. Fat Frank Lampard. Lampard started hurling abuse at Lehmann asfter Gilberto had taken the ball off of Drogba's toe in front of goal with a glorious sliding challenge and Fat Frank has scuffed it back into Lehmann's hands.
The guy is classless. He is a deflected goal scoring bufoon who has never lived up to his billing in the national side and was distinctly avergage in this game. He, like Chelsea is good in England yet will never prosper in Europe as he has no pace or attacking nouse and like the racist fan who also abused Jens is quite simply not intelligent enough.
Frank in 4 years time will be past his best and on the decline just like Chelsea will be, whereas we will be just about to hit our peak. Enjoy it this season boys cos you ain't built to last.
Arsenal will not be champions of England this season, but at least they have a young side who are improving and play good football in the right way with a highly intelligent manager. They also have the respect of neutrals and other teams throughout the world. Sadly for Chelsea that is not the case.
Arsenal F.C. Class without criminality.
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