West Ham 1-0 Arsenal – 05/11/06 – (Barclays Premiership) 5 November, 2006

For Fucks sake. Can’t believe what is happening to Arsenal at the moment, the past three games we just haven’t been able to score. Especially this game and the last we’ve had great chances to score but we’re just not putting it away. West Ham scored in the last minute of the game from some sloppy defending, apart from that our defence were great and made some excellent tackles. The only other mistake was Toure slipping and forcing another one-on-one on Lehmann who once again saved it. West Ham’s defence were good too, we couldn’t find a decent opening. The best chance was with Rosicky again who was set up beautifully by Henry but he was being closed down by two West Ham defenders and was forced to shoot outside of the box and of course, it went wide.

In the second half Hleb was denied a perfect penalty, some clever link up play with Henry but had his legs taken away in the box. A clear-cut penalty, I don’t see why the ref didn’t give it. Argh, I can’t talk about this game. I can’t remember the last time I’ve been so angry over football. In Paris I was just sad and wondering what could’ve been, not angry. And I know this was just one game in the Premiership; but it was against West Ham, West Ham. They’ve been doing so crap this season but they beat us. I think we have the worst luck in the world, nothing goes our way.

The only time I thought we’d scored in the game was Toure’s long-range effort. The ball was played across to him and I knew exactly what he was going to do. It beat Robert Green and was swerving into the bottom corner but just went inches wide but I thought it’d gone in as it rippled the side netting. What a goal it would’ve been though. Toure’s been unleashing alot of these shots recently; I think it’s only a matter of time before he nets a screamer.

We didn’t play badly, for the last quarter of the game it was a bit dire but for the rest of it we played okay. Not as good as I thought we might, before the game I had a good feeling and I thought we’d play some great football and knock a few past West Ham. I just don’t understand why things aren’t going our way. It was such a frustrating game to watch and I’m sure there will be loads of talk about the fireworks between Wenger and Pardew but if I was Arsene, I’d have done exactly that, I don’t blame him one bit.

Next game is Everton away in the Carling cup, will we win? who knows… Bye