By Andy Strouthous
October 26 2004

I bet Darren (see article below) is printing those bloody leaflets. I never felt we were comfortable in the game at any time. The midfield seemed totally unbalanced, it didn't work until very late on. Twice we went a goal up, well worked goals, and twice we were pulled back by a comedy of errors. The second saw the whole defence ball watching as the Greeks got a free header.

Mind you our second goal was a thing of beauty, Ashley's run and cross was immaculate.
But why the headline - well its this - where did the bloody corner that the Greeks scored from come from . Is it just me but I thought I saw the Greeks line up for a free kick, the next minute the ball is floating over from the corner, and then headed into the net. If you don't know what's happening its because you are watching Sky Sports.

Meanwhile pundits chuntered on about Arsenal being nervous - nervous about what? In the first half the Greeks played like the thinking man's WBA - with perhaps not quite as good a technique. I am sure if we had picked up our pace that they were there for the taking, instead we diced with death, letting them come on to us, and left it too late to wind up a gear. Having some of our best shots parried by the keeper.

Nontheless we showed we can always score, we are second in the group, and two games at home to go. So we can save the best for later.

19 October
The Wenger Must Go Campaign
Every time I meet my mate Darren I ask him how the Wenger Must Go Campaign is going, which might explain why I don't see him that often.

It all started with Panathinaikos beating us 1-0, in Sept 2001, in Athens. We were crap, no other description will fit. Darren was extremely pissed off and the criticism of Wenger and Europe was raised by the clientele of the Irish pub we were watching in (nothing new is there?).

Meanwhile Arsene was dilly dallying over signing his contract,the press speculated that Arsene would go, to make matters worse we had a crap November that started in October with 4 draws in the league between Oct 20 and Nov 17. We were also beaten by Charlton, Darren became convinced Wenger should be told to go. I can't prove it, but I was told he was not the only one moaning in this way. Thus started the joke that when I ever saw Darren I asked how the Wenger Must Go Campaign was going.

Mind you there is an happy ending, Wenger signed his contract, on November 25th we thrashed Manure 3-1, oh and we won the double. The campaign never got off the ground, though Darren claims he has the leaflets ready if need be.
Will history repeat its self with Panathinaikos and Manure being important watersheds? Only time will tell - its too early for all the hype.