Saturday, May 21, 2005
F.A Cup final ...Victory at last!!
The Gunners finally managed to get their hands on some silverware atleast this season by winning the F.A cup. Offcourse, it is nowhere near the glory and glamour of lifting the EPL crown or bagging any of the big European titles, but a trophy nonetheless. As a die hard Arsenal supporter I would always be happy about anything that the Gunners win but did they really deserve to win this one? Frankly they didn't. Well it was a lousy match to start of with, turning out to be more of a WWF encounter towards the final stages and for most part of this lousy match they were totally outplayed by Manchester United. Man Utd. squandered innumerable number of chances during normal time and subsequently continued this form into extra time too. Well the inevitable followed, the match went into a penalty shoot out , the first time ever in the history of this more than a century old cup competition.
Any shoot out has its share of heroes and villains, the villain this time around was Scholes with Lehmann emerging as the hero for the Gunners. Scholes of all the people, really unfortunate indeed. I might have atleast got some sadistic pleasure had I seen Ruud Van or 'WWF Champ' Rooney miss the penalty. But then again if the great Roberto Baggio , 'The Divine Ponytail' could miss a penalty anybody can or will. If there is one aspect that I hate about soccer it has to be the concept of penalty shoot out to decide the result of the game. The sad part is that the hero is glorified but eventually the tales about his heroics fade away, but the fate of the Villain is really painful, no one ever forgets him during their lifetime.
Looking at the way Arsenal and Man Utd. were playing today one can confidently state that one manager in downtown London would be at ease, feeling more supremely confident than ever about his team's chances of retaining the EPL crown next season.
Any shoot out has its share of heroes and villains, the villain this time around was Scholes with Lehmann emerging as the hero for the Gunners. Scholes of all the people, really unfortunate indeed. I might have atleast got some sadistic pleasure had I seen Ruud Van or 'WWF Champ' Rooney miss the penalty. But then again if the great Roberto Baggio , 'The Divine Ponytail' could miss a penalty anybody can or will. If there is one aspect that I hate about soccer it has to be the concept of penalty shoot out to decide the result of the game. The sad part is that the hero is glorified but eventually the tales about his heroics fade away, but the fate of the Villain is really painful, no one ever forgets him during their lifetime.
Looking at the way Arsenal and Man Utd. were playing today one can confidently state that one manager in downtown London would be at ease, feeling more supremely confident than ever about his team's chances of retaining the EPL crown next season.
# posted by Akshai @ 11:03 AM 
