Well, dear, committed reader (all none of you at the moment) I am the other half of this very special duo that will be bringing you the biggest load of crap that we can lay our hands on from all around the football globe.
Since my honorable friend Nando decided that his first piece would be about his favorite side, and his favorite player, Liverpool and Fernando Torres respectively, I feel it only fitting that my opening is on Arsenal and our season that just passed, with yet more silverware slipping through our perennially slippery fingers.
2010 for Arsenal, unlike Liverpool, can be viewed in a plethora of ways, too numerous to even make reference to. However, having qualified it thus, I will now attempt to do so anyway, because I'm mentally deficient.
Arsenal is polarized by its fan-base. On the one side, you have the casual, happy-go-lucky fan who dips in and out, and proclaims to support them because they play 'beautiful' football, and either does, or aims to drive and BMW, Mercedes Benz or and Audi. They are in essence utter wanks, who deserve to be forced to support Portsmouth.
On the flip side of this, there are your die-hard, balls to the wall, sweaty palmed pagans of the Arsenal cause, who are born Arsenal, live Arsenal and die Arsenal.
The point I'm really trying to convey here is that Arsenal's 2010 season is viewed quite differently by these two warring factions.
Your BMW wannabe is very pleased with the performance, viewing it as part of "the steady growth of a young, promising side". He is wrong.
The view of the fan who is only not drunk when they actually have their backside on a seat in the Emirates that "we are going nowhere fast, and the sooner we have a new gaffer, the better" is also wrong, however.
The truth lies somewhere in between the two, which is where I fall as well (surprise, surprise).
Arsenal's 2010 season was one of both valleys and peaks. There was the good (Arsenal 3 - Aston Villa 0, which I attended incidentally), the bad (the loss to Tottenham) and the downright ugly (That game at Wigan. Yes, that one).
But between the 08/09 season and the one that has just come to a close, what has changed?
I'm going to go out on a limb here, and say that essentially, with the possible exception of Theo Walcott, every single player has shown improvement, or at least those who form the starting XI.
I'm excited about 2010/11, anyway, even if Arsene Wenger doesn't buy any new players.
P.S. If he doesn't buy a new goalkeeper however, I may have to kill him.
-- CESC --
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