The football association are going to have to do something about it this time, they cannot sweep it under their rather dirty carpet. Referee’s will have to be told to clamp down on these reckless challenges
This afternoon I should be complaining about the lack of news, I should be talking how good our victory was at Stoke City. I certainly wish that was the case but unfortunately that is just not so.
Poor Aaron Ramsey is probably in tears worrying about any possible future complications, about what situation he will find himself in when he returns to first team football. Have any other youngsters taken his place?
He had come in as a raw and talented youngster, he worked very hard to brush up on his game to allow his natural development to take him to the level he was at 5.30pm on Saturday, an hour or so later it was all over.
Meanwhile, poor old Ryan Shawcross has to deal with a massive three game ban. One more game than Alex Song for a foul that did not even exist. Pah! It makes me frothing mad.
Even on this Monday afternoon I still have no revisited the Ramsey injury, something inside me is stopping me from viewing it again so I will stick with that feeling until I am told otherwise by my rather strange mind.
I said in my review of the match that my first thought was that it was accidental but many have challenged that so I cannot be so sure, but what I think is an absolute certainty is that teams are setting out to kick us and have been doing so for some time now.
As sad as this is for Ramsey and it is very sad, some good can come of this. Good that has clearly been ignored after the Dan Smith tackle on Diaby, which I must say has been the worst of the lot and then the Eduardo ‘tackle’, not quite sure why we call it a tackle when it clearly wasn’t.
The difference in this situation is that it is a young British player and he is likely to receive more sympathy than a weak, frail, ‘doesn’t like it up em’ foreigner who can’t hack the spirit of the English game.
With Arsene Wenger, Cesc Fabregas, the media, the blogs etc all talking about it and many pointing the blame at those who are allowing this to continue, hopefully action will now be taken.
The football association are going to have to do something about it this time, they cannot sweep it under their rather dirty carpet. Referee’s will have to be told to clamp down on these reckless challenges. It has been accepted that other teams can rough us up without punishment. I mean why should all these teams take us on by playing football?
I have an idea. Instead of spending money on big lumbering cloggers, why not invest that money on coaching players to play attacking technical football. I am pretty sure we are still supposed to be playing football and not WWF wrestling, or whatever it is called these days.
It is like Arsenal have been given a free set of footballers, all of which can play good football and there is no more left and it is unfair to all the other clubs in the league, therefore it is absolutely acceptable to kick Arsenal to even it out.
Arsenal haven’t spent extraordinary amounts of money on players it is achievable if you open your mind a little and not live in a little closed box where you can only have a center forward if he is 6ft4 and have a central midfielder who crunches into the opposition.
It is not our fault if we have bought, developed and found better footballers than the many other English clubs.
Another possible positive is that this could bring the team together. They have a focus now. Not that they didn’t have one before. Winning the title is enough of a reason but having a young team mate ruled out of the game like that can give the whole squad an anger, a determination, a hunger to win it, not only for themselves but for Aaron Ramsey.
With Chelsea losing on Saturday thanks in part to the hilarious Hilario, the title is very much in sight now. Three points behind with thirty points to play for. Very interesting.
It will have to be one game at a time and give our all in every single game and then we have a chance. Hull City away is not an easy game, they were well up for it against Chelsea and will be again. Burnley at home is a good opportunity to keep our run going.
From my point, I remain positive, confident and hopeful that the boys can finish the job.
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