From Andrew Woods : DB10 v O11
People get too obsessed with skill.
Desire is more important.
Ozil may have as much talent as DB10 but it is irrelevant. He wouldn’t have smashed Steve Lomas’s nose with his elbow.
I wonder if the constant media attention on Arsenal’s red cards changed the type of player Wenger signed?
I miss Vieira spitting on Ruddock, Keown jumping on Van N, Lauren’s 1000 yard stare, Winterburn’s psycho solo goal celebrations, Pizzagate, the brawl of OT 1990 etc.
Ugly incidents yes, but it showed they cared and were prepared to fight. This lot are a bunch of future son in laws.
Where is the passion? “Don’t take away my devils, as my angels may flee too”.
Myles says:
Funny you should mention the Steve Lomas incident.
I often think of that.
That, for me, was one of the defining moments of the Bergkamp era.
Wenger played dynamic football because he had a fast-thinking technician who could see a lot sooner than anybody else.
Bergkamp could make a whole team dynamic if it had 3 or 4 combative sprinters.
Ashley Cole gave Pires what Joe Gomez is giving Coutinho now – and a lot more.
At that time Arsenal players had a habit of exploding past opponents who sometimes kicked them, or, when desperate, grabbed them round the body.
That’s what Lomas did because he had no chance or reaching the ball or even getting a second chance to foul Dennis.
I’ll always remember my wife Jan laughing as Keown’s arm came down on the head of Ruud van Nastelroy. She’d never laughed at violence before that moment, or since.