This site is the diary of an Arsenal fan detailing matches at Emirates Stadium and away games in the Premiership, Carling Cup, FA Cup and UEFA Champions League. Including any transfer gossip and news.


Arsenal vs Chelsea
16th December 2007 – Premier League – Emirates Stadium



I’m excited about today's match. We haven't beaten the Chelsea chavs for a few years. Last season there were two 1-1 draws with Chelsea getting late goals after looking like arsenal were going to win. The second of these draws, at Emirates meant that Chelsea didn't win the league so it was like a win anyway. It was also the last home game of our maiden season in our new home so it was extra special seeing the Chelsea wankers gutted and then the arsenal players doing the annual lap of honour just added to the party atmosphere.

It will be a tense affair today though and there will be plenty of abuse, deservedly, for Cashly Hole the judus cunt who left the club he supported as a boy to join the chavs from West London for an extra 5 grand a week and then slagged us off as well. It will be his first time back and I’m sure he will remember it!!! It’s another reason why it would be extra special to beat them today too.



As I make my way to the match I get hacked off as I’m repeatedly assaulted by a back pack on the tube. It’s the only time I ever hopped that a rucksack on the tube actually exploded!

I don’t let it ruin my day though as I arrive at the Emirates in time to watch the second half of the days early kick-off. Its Liverpool vs Man Utd and Man Ure are winning 1 nil. Liverpool completely dominates possession but are impotent in front of goal and never look like scoring despite the support of all of the Arsenal fans! It reminded me of Arsenals performances last season and I hope for much better today.

By the time the match starts I’m pretty tanked up and ready for it.

It’s pretty much our strongest line-up:

Manuel Almunia
Emmanuel Eboue (Robin Van Persie 69)
Kolo Toure
Gael Clichy
William Gallas
Bacary Sagna
Cesc Fabregas
Mathieu Flamini
Tomas Rosicky
Alexander Hleb (Gilberto 78)
Emmanuel Adebayor (Nicklas Bendtner 90)

It was a very tense opening to the game and little happened in the first quarter of an hour. Cesc had a good free kick saved and that was pretty much it. I was happy with the start though. Arsenal competed for everything and we were able to match Chelsea in every department. In fact we started to play some very good football, passing it around very well with the slick passing that is expected of Arsenal now.

Cashly Hole quite rightly got booed at every opportunity but overall I think we have been quite lenient on him. The funniest chant of the day that was directed at the twat was “Titus Bramble shagged your wife!” – Apparently the bitch used to date the useless bastard (although Cashley probably did too!).



The biggest cheer of the first half was when John Terry limped of after being taken out by Eboue. Hope it hurt you wanker. As he limped off the Arsenal faithful sang “You let your country down” in reference to the pathetic performances by the England team which ended in the failure to qualify for the Euros.

It looks like it will be 0-0 at half time so I nip to the bar on around 44 minutes. I get myself a pint and head to the loo. There are speakers in the toilets with match commentary which is a bit of luck because I’m in there when we score!!! I don’t care that I missed it just happy that there was something to miss!!! I complete the task in hand and rush out to the screens to watch the replay. Fantastic! It was a brilliant header by Gallas into an empty net after Cech flaps at the ball coming in from Cesc’s corner kick. The crowd is chanting “We swapped a Willy for a cunt!” (Obviously, we signed William Gallas from Chel$ki as part of the Cashly Hole deal). I’m so glad it was him that scored.

Half-Time


Another song we have been singing is “William Gallas is our mate, is our mate, is our mate, William Gallas is our mate, he hates Chelsea!”

We were in a good position in the second half. We were able to let Chelsea come at us and then attack on the counter. It made for an exciting second half and there were chances at both ends but Arsenal looked the most dangerous.

There were plenty of bad tackles going in which lead to plenty of yellow cards too.

Arsenal bookings for Adebayor 22, Eboue 35, Flamini 63 & Fabregas 90 and for Chelsea there were bookings for Terry 30, Lampard 30, Cole 67, Ben-Haim 74 & Obi 84.



In the last 15 minutes we had two goals disallowed which in other games would have been given.

The fact that the second goal didn’t come made (or wasn’t given) made it very nervy each time Chelsea had an attack.

We held out though and got a deserved win over the Chelsea Rent Boys which started chants of “There’s only one team in London”. We go back to the top of the league. Time for more beers!


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