It Has Been Too Long

Since my last post there has been plenty of good news and, more recently, a fair bit of bad news. Losing to Spurs is never fun (or acceptable) but 5-1 was a disgrace. This was followed by an ugly clash between our two bulls up front being Nicklas Bendtner and Emmanuel Adebayor. The boil over was obviously influenced by the frustrations of being thrashed but, according to early reports, Adebayor told Bendtner that he was "shit" twice. If this is the case Adebayor should be fined severely because it took him two times to get a reaction of Nicklas, who promptly gave him the finger on the second occassion. Hopefully this can be resolved sensibley and quickly so the club can move forward. The loss to Spurs is a lot easier to take because it took them 22 attempts (hahahahaha, twats) and it was in AFC's 4th choice competition, the Carling Cup. Still, I would have must rather have taken the win.

Hopefully AFC can complete an impressive double over Newcastle United on Saturday and Tuesday. Fire up boys, lets fucking win a trophy or two. Prove all the doubters wrong. Use the negative energy from the Spurs loss and turn it into team spirit and desire to win.

Now For The Real Test

Okay, so Arsenal are top of the table after 20 EPL games; this is excellent but it means nothing yet. The real test now begins as Kolo Toure will be missing from central defence for up to 6 weeks. It is no secret that AFC's central defender depth is quite shallow (however good out first choice pairing may be). Alex Song will be representing Cameroon for up to 6 weeks also so we lose another centre half. This leaves us with Gallas, Djourou and Senderos; what this says to me is that we NEED Gallas to be fit and in red hot form in order to maintain top spot (or there abouts) for the next 6 weeks while Kolo is missing. I pray we can make it through then be boosted by the return of a top-class defender who has amazing amounts of enthusiasm. Emmanuel Eboue will be with Kolo and I think he will be missed also but for very different reasons. Emmanuel may not endear himself to most neutral football fans but his ability going forward is quite something to behold. The next 6 weeks could well shape AFC's assault on the EPL title.