An honest game

The Arse 3
(Flamini 41st, Toure 56th, Gallas 80th)

Lily's Poo 0
(Crouch 7th offside, Bellers 84th offside)

Gooners seem to have a soft spot for Liverpool, even when those gits were winning everything in sight in the 80's.

Maybe because we reserve our bitterest bile for our closest neighbours, those cocks at White Hart Lane and those no-style wankers at Upton Park. All this before previous fashionistas Chelshite turned Mao-collar communist with the advent of mojo-less JoMo.

With Liverpool, you can be assured that it would be an honest game, regardless of what's at stake (remember Anfield 1989?).

With some other people that we can name but won't, we get hacking and diving - just so we couldn't extend our record unbeaten run of matches, for example.

As a Gooner; I like Carra, think Hyppia is past his sell-by date and detest Rio.

I think Sissoko is good, Gerard misused but couldn't care less if Neville got run over by a runaway night-soil wagon in China.

I also like the way Kuyt moves, think Fowler is still useful but would like to stomp Van der Horse's bollocks.

Despite the final scoreline, that in all honesty flatters the Arsenal, it was a good, clean and entertaining game played in the right spirit.

Sure there was some fouls born out of frustration at the later stages but they never looked like spiralling to pizza throwing heights at the Emirates last night.

A stark contrast to the Hammers and Goons scene last week - where Wenger lost his groove and tried to carve one into Pardew instead.


All is not roses yet for Arsene - the strikers and midfield drew the third blank sheet in a row.

A utility player and the two centrebacks showed the finishing touches the strikers would love to regain.


And of course van Pussie had to make things look even worse by trying a pull a Maradona in the 2nd minute - probably attracting an extension to the strikers collective hex by at least another game.

An illustration of the hex was clearly displayed in the 88th minute when Adebayor broke through but Pepe managed to parry his attempt with his shin. Toure, in a similiar position in the 56th minute, never broke sweat slotting his chance in.

It is reminiscent of the scoring woes France had in the preliminary stages before winning World Cup glory on their own soil.

Hopefully the end of the season brings similiar glory to the new Emirates stadia.

So, thank you to all you Scousers for making an honest game out of it.

Thank you for playing the game as you believe it should be played.

And thank you and congratulations, refs - for getting the major decisions right and for that bit of comic relief near the end.

After so much stick, you deserve the kudos for getting a difficult job done - and done well at that.