Nigel de Jong, omg, I could rant about this shit forever, but suffice it to say that when you've broken the legs of two players, karate-chopped a third during the WORLD CUP, and apologized to NONE of them, you have singlehandedly invented a TOTALLY NEW LEVEL OF FAIL.
I see what you mean about City being fascinating--I didn't know that about the Toure brothers, for example--but yeah, they just will never be the team for me. Every team has at least some dysfunction SOMEWHERE, yes, even Barca, but City's just got too much of it for my tastes, and while I respect their right to play whatever type of football they want, I don't particularly enjoy watching how they play. This is my personal preference, btw, I'm not attaching any kind of ~moral significance~ to it or whatever.
it's one of those emotional-not-logical things, for sure, but I just can't identify with Arsenal, and I've been trying all season.
That's totally fair! I haven't paid too much attention to Cesc's interviews/comments in the media, but yeah, he can be a little bitchy on occasion. (to be fair, I think the whole persecution thing is something that Wenger, if not outright encourages, doesn't do as much as he could to nip that shit in the bud. Everybody knows how you feel about the way City spends, Arsene, you don't need to bitch about it in the press all the time.) And while I may like a lot of the current Arsenal players, ARSHAVIN IS NOT ONE OF THEM, HOMG. It is delighting me to no end to see Theo Walcott apparently pushing him out of Arsenal's preferred starting XI, since Theo, as far as I know, has never been a creepy sexist asshat.
I don't have a single allergy (that I know of) and I break out into hives every time someone even hints about Pep leaving us. *clings* And yes, exactly, that's what's so fantastic about Barcelona--they took the way they played and MADE it wildly successful for them. That's the part that should be admired, imo. Barca's last two games since the break were against teams that parked a double-decker bus, and they busted their way through. It wasn't all that pretty, and God knows it was nerve-wracking for the fans, but they got the job done. To me, that's much more significant, and much more awesome in the long-term, than relatively easy 8-0 wins against weaker teams.
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I see what you mean about City being fascinating--I didn't know that about the Toure brothers, for example--but yeah, they just will never be the team for me. Every team has at least some dysfunction SOMEWHERE, yes, even Barca, but City's just got too much of it for my tastes, and while I respect their right to play whatever type of football they want, I don't particularly enjoy watching how they play. This is my personal preference, btw, I'm not attaching any kind of ~moral significance~ to it or whatever.
it's one of those emotional-not-logical things, for sure, but I just can't identify with Arsenal, and I've been trying all season.
That's totally fair! I haven't paid too much attention to Cesc's interviews/comments in the media, but yeah, he can be a little bitchy on occasion. (to be fair, I think the whole persecution thing is something that Wenger, if not outright encourages, doesn't do as much as he could to nip that shit in the bud. Everybody knows how you feel about the way City spends, Arsene, you don't need to bitch about it in the press all the time.) And while I may like a lot of the current Arsenal players, ARSHAVIN IS NOT ONE OF THEM, HOMG. It is delighting me to no end to see Theo Walcott apparently pushing him out of Arsenal's preferred starting XI, since Theo, as far as I know, has never been a creepy sexist asshat.
I don't have a single allergy (that I know of) and I break out into hives every time someone even hints about Pep leaving us. *clings* And yes, exactly, that's what's so fantastic about Barcelona--they took the way they played and MADE it wildly successful for them. That's the part that should be admired, imo. Barca's last two games since the break were against teams that parked a double-decker bus, and they busted their way through. It wasn't all that pretty, and God knows it was nerve-wracking for the fans, but they got the job done. To me, that's much more significant, and much more awesome in the long-term, than relatively easy 8-0 wins against weaker teams.