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Old Gooner's thoughts on: Bolton vs Arsenal
Take your memories back 3 or 4 years or so. Bolton away in January? What chance would you have given us then with at least 8 of the regular squad missing? (RvP, Denilson, Song, Wallcott, Nasri, Ramsey,Eboue and Bendtner) A not overly comfortable 2-0 win forecast may have got you a nomination for commitment to a loony bin. How we have progressed.
To be honest, my expectations were that it would be a close call between this and the Stoke Liverpool game for arguably the worst PL game of the season.
But I'd not taken into account Cesc coming back as razor sharp as ever. Possibly he was Arsenal's man of the match; it was a very close call between him and Matt Taylor ... you choose.
Yes there were disappointments on the day. Lee was eyeing up Traore as though thinking about sweet'n'sour dog for the night's supper. Yum yums. It was not the youngster's most auspicious performance but in fairness he was getting very little support, as was the case against Everton. Let's hope that Cameroon have an early exit so Song can get back. Also, good to see btw that Eboue got a red card in his game. Another 2 games free of injury.
I digress. Despite excellent performances from the Verminator (Did Davies ever win a header?) and Billy G. to a lesser extent, we did get cut apart all too frequently. Given the quality of the opposition coming up over the next four weeks, we can only hope that we open up an even larger gap twixt 3rd and 4th on Wednesday.This was our first clean sheet away in the league since Fulham in September. And that wasn't easy either.
Slowly but surely, the frequently absent are getting back into match sharpness, Eddie having a hand in both goals; Rosicky sharp one moment, rusty the next and young Eastmond making a promising first start.
With the injured/absent coming back some time in the near future we should be OK and well in touch for the latter half of the season. Good to see that Chel$ki, MFU and Liverpool have to play both us and Everton over the next six weeks. Everton's demolition of City proved that they've come an awful long way since the start of the season, just as we found out at the cost of 2 points last week.
Gooner for 60 years...
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On this day in 1968
1968 - Arsenal right back Pat Rice gained the first of his 49 caps for Northern Ireland in the 3-2 victory over Israel in Jaffa.
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