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Sunday, 28 October 07, 07:54 PM
If like me you’re wonderfully observant (or as some people like to call it… a sad little cunt) you’ll have picked up on Alan Hansen’s
gradually-changing attitudes towards the current Arsenal team in the last few weeks. After the game at Ewood Park in August I scowled through the post-match analysis on Match of
the Day as they praised Blackburn’s if-you-can’t-win-kick-em’ tactics and gave us next to no credit. We’d have won that game if it wasn’t for Jens’ hideous error and Lineker asked
the big question to Hansen and Gavin Peacock (why the fuck is an insignificant turd like him paid to appear on TV and give his opinion). The question was of course “can
Arsenal challenge for the title this season?”, the answer was “no” said in unison by both of them. “Ask a straight question and we’ll give you a straight answer” said Hansen
smugly. What a prick. After that we played relegation-fodder Spurs and won 3-1 in their own back-yard and despite us looking the better side throughout Hansen
said “Tottenham should’ve won that game”. What a pillock. Then a few weeks later as we embarrassed Derby to stay top of the league 2 points clear with a game in
hand Lineker re-phrased his query to “can you win anything with kids?”, Hansen laughed sheepishly and said “I’ve said it before you never win anything with kids”. A bit
better. Most recently after we beat Bolton 2-0 to record 11 straight wins Alan Shearer was quick to praise Theo Walcott but Hansen was quicker to smugly point out how we hadn’t
played the big four yet and that the up-coming games against Liverpool and Man-U are “very tasty” almost licking his lips the way Hannibal Lecter did before eating Ray Liotta’s
brain. Horrible. I can almost understand his bitterness after the humiliation of being on the Anfield 89 losing side but this was a long time ago and I think it
would’ve taken more than 0-2 or even 3-6 at Anfield to shut him up, but all things considered 1-1 suits me just fine. Of course if you’d offered me this start to the season a few
months ago I’d have bitten your hand off but it’s things like this that really make me want us to carry this momentum all the way to the end.
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I agree with you GaelForce!