Giroud plays Pepe Le Pew as injuries ring alarm bells
October 19, 2012
Team spirit. You can’t beat it. That indefinable quality that can turn a group of disparate individuals into an army capable of overcoming the steepest odds. You can have the finest eleven individuals in the world of football but if they don’t play for each other you don’t have anything.
At Arsenal in recent years you could argue that we’ve been a touch lacking in the team spirit department. But this year things seem to have changed. There’s a togetherness and an attitude about this set of players that we haven’t seen for a while. They want to play together and you get the sense that they like being around each other. There’s no doubt about it – that stuff makes a difference.
How encouraging then to hear Olivier Giroud’s recent comments about how he felt when breaking his horrendous (!) 303 minute Premier League goalscoring duck to net against West Ham at Upton Park a couple of weeks ago:
I was so happy, I ran to Lukas [Podolski] and said: ‘Come my friend, I want to kiss you.‘
Man, I hope he really phrased it like that. In his thick French accent. Like some kind of footballing Pepe le Pew. “Come my friend. I want to kiss you. I want to lay you down right here on the turf and make the sweetest of sweet love to you. Just you, me and 40,000 pink faced cockneys cheering on our every move.”
Apparently Lukas was somehow able to resist the charms of our smouldering striker with Giroud claiming:
I am too big. But it was a wonderful moment – I want to live more moments like this.
Regardless of how much his intimidating size puts teammates off his amorous advances (I’m not going there) it’s good to see him happy and feeling settled at the club. He certainly knows how to make you feel special:
Since I was very young, I dreamed of playing for Arsenal because a lot of French guys have succeeded there and it‘s a a big club. Every year they play in the Champions League, and that was important in my decision. But also, I believe in this team and this squad. And I think we have a great chance to win something this year.
You sweet talker, you.
With a little less pressure on his shoulders and his confidence up following that last minute equaliser for France this week I’m hoping to see the goals start to flow from now on and it wouldn’t be a surprise to see him test his mettle against the Norwich backline with a start this Saturday.
The early team news is not too encouraging for the weekend. It seems as though pretty much everyone who was a doubt has been confirmed as out. Theo’s still struggling with his breathing thanks to the bruised lungs he picked up against San Marino. He should recover in a week or so but Norwich is too soon. Kieran Gibbs won’t be back after the knock he picked up at West Ham. He still hasn’t healed and while that doesn’t sound like anything serious it’s not that long ago when Gibbs struggled to put a run of more than three games together. I desperately hope we don’t have a return to those dark days.
Fabianski is confirmed to have suffered some kind of ankle ligament problem but he awaits news from a specialist while the Woj is still apparently ‘two weeks away’ which is becoming increasingly worrying. Is this one of those Arsenal injuries that starts out with a two week prognosis and ends as a full year out of the game? Or is there something else going on behind the scenes that we don’t know about? Either way Mannone will continue for the time being and we need to hope he doesn’t break any bones reaching for a TV remote or slip coming out of the shower.
Worrying too is the news that Rosicky and Diaby are both still ‘a few weeks away’. Rosicky was supposed to be back by now and Diaby was only supposed to be out for three weeks and that was three weeks ago. Obviously when it comes to relying on players for their fitness Rosicky and Diaby would fall quite a long way down the list but it’s disappointing all the same. At this point the club has to be asking serious questions about what sort of value we’re getting for both of them. When fit their quality is in no doubt but that’s just such a rarity.
Still, despite all the knocks this week we should be able to cobble together a pretty decent side for the weekend and with Sagna, Frimpong and Wilshere all close to comebacks we’re still in good shape.
A talented squad – playing together, working hard for each other…and possibly trying to get off with each other a little bit after scoring goals. Who could ask for more?
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Good post, marblehalls, thanks.
a vry gud one. I see giroud score 2 goals 2moro
What is this guy talking about? ” I want to lay you down right here on the turf”,”could not resist smouldering striker” is taking things too far. You are here to talk football and only football. Anything else is not welcome. That is talk by pantsies and is not welcome.
Refreshing Post and u hardly laugh when reading football posts … this one did tho ! and regards the miserable Goonerbeali … mate u should relax a bit there is nothing worse in life than being all uptight. if you don’t like waht u read just don’t read it… In the age of information Ignorance is a choice… Good Day To all Gooners !!!
Chill out Goonerbeall, you’ve gotta have a smile sometimes. You may not have noticed but this blog is sometimes a bit lighthearted.
^^ chill out goonerbeall, i dont think you’re really in any position to tell someone what can and cannot write about on their own blog! Plus are you seriously that perturbed by that sentence?!
Marblehalls posts are quality and do not need changing.
I think we’ll miss Gibbs – he’s undoubtedly been one of our best and most effective players so far this season and sadly Santos just doesn’t have the same impact, he lacks the industry and positioning, let alone pac to get down those flanks and provide a consistent point of attack, though I do think Santos can be very nifty on the ball.
I love it when homophobes are made uncomfortable by the image of two men expressing their love in a physical manner. It’s beautiful.
I love you when you talk that way, Zinc.
It’s beautiful.
I think our medical team is full of quack doctor4. Both abou and rosicky were suppose to return this week according to them(three weeks ago) now they are still out for another two or three weeks which I am sure they will not return at the said date. Wojciech is still out, fabianski having a set back, even jack had two set back. it is only in my beloved arsenal u see shits like this happen…pathetic!
The medical team is part of what brings success, had they been able to keep that judas fit during his time at arsenal, maybe we would have won something all this years. 5weeks turned to 5 months, 3weeks turned to four month…it frustrating. Well I guess it’s all down to luck anyway and hope that injury demon packs it load and start dwelling in east london(chelshit) or MCFC
I just don’t see the problem with him kissing and caressing the magnificent Pole….
(well, he’s Polish by birth)
ademola,
Funny, I recently heard Arsenal’s and ManU’s medical teams were the best in England… The only people who talk about Arsenal medical team are ITKs who typically laud its ability and disgruntled Arsenal fans who question it. Between you and me, I’ll admit to trusting the former more than the latter.
(Sh*t, even Le Grove have supported that claim!)
Unless the medical team have compromising photos of Wenger or the board, there’s no reason they wouldn’t be the best money can buy. Arsenal (as many often complain) are all about value for money, and would completely love to never have injury problems. There is no way they would keep on an inferior medical team if they felt it had anything to do with injury issues not being resolved. Anyone who says otherwise is a pantsie.
Why are people having a go at Goonerbeall? I weren’t too sure where Marble Halls was taking the post myself, I do respect MH for the revealing thoughts though.
I must say even though I haven’t been able to comment too much, this blog has steadily become a daily must read for me. I have started to wait in anticipation for your interesting take on life through an Arsenal lens.
People are having a go because he’s telling MH what he’s allowed to post on his own blog, completely missing the point of a blog in the first place – MH is free to talk about whatever he wants, those who don’t like the content aren’t forced to visit. It was also funny how obviously uncomfortable he was with the homoerotic tone of that sentence.
Ademola – yes, we’ve had more than our fair share of injuries and injury crisis that seem to put some of our star men out for months upon months, but I think some of your examples are unfair – sometimes players get injured in training and matches, that can hardly be blamed on our medical team, can it? Fabianski has a fresh and new injury, seperate to his last one and we see players from other clubs have prelonged absences too, we just pay far more attention to our own team. I understand your fraustrations though, without our yearly injury problems you’d have to bet on us having won a few trophies at some point over the past 7 years.
@zdzis… U and I both know that AFC medical team is not doing a good job, I can give u lots of examples on injuries and how it always turn out that the player injured never comes back at the said date. Tomas Rosicky’s injury three or four seasons ago was described as mysterious, he was out for two years and they could not really tell us what the problem was. I hate to admit it but chelshit, citeh and united have a better medical team in opinion…their players always return before schedule, I remember valencia breaking his ankle in the 2010/2011 season in the month of october and was schedule to return at the end of march 2011. But against all odds he came back playing as early as the end of february… I don’t remember such happening at arsenal. Lampard plays almost all games for chelshit and their medical team manages to keep him fit and fresh all this years.
@justin P
Am not saying arsene or arsenal board will accept a poor or incapable medical team, but why are they never accurate when it comes to player’s return date and please tell me why the declared wojciech fit against s’oton when he wasn’t. I think it’s time we questioned that part of the team.
@zinc
Fair, but why was fabianki training when he was not fit enough, isn’t that what caused the set back?
I am a die hard gooner and I am married to arsenal till death.
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@ Zinc – fair enough, I only skimmed Goonerbeall’s comments. I thought he was joking, but I have re-read them now.