Arsenal Surprisingly Top, Walcott’s Pace, Spurs & Celtic

Arsenal Surprisingly Top

Well, well, well, who would have thought after conceding the late equaliser to PSG that they would end up failing to beat the Bulgarian goat farmers at home and Arsenal would finish top.

It was so unlikely that many, including me, questioned why the likes of Alexis Sanchez was in Switzerland.

I woke up yesterday morning not really caring about the game, because it did not mater if we won or lost, PSG were going to win by a cricket score. And I guess this is why I work in recruitment and am not a Premier League manager.

Arsene Wenger stuck out a strong team (although still making 6 changes) just in case the unlikely happened in Paris. And the unlikely did happen in Paris. And Arsenal end up top.

For those who were angry yesterday about Sanchez, Ozil, et al starting, how much more angry would you be this morning had Wenger put out the kids and we lost?

With games still to play tonight, here is who we could play.


It is odd the media are not reporting we could get Lyon, they are 3 points behind Sevilla, and they play each other tonight. Clearly Sky Sports produced their list of opponents and everyone else has just copied them, without checking themselves. Lazy journalism at its best.

The draw is next week (Monday 12th I think).

Walcott’s Pace

There was a moment yesterday when Arsenal were on the counter attack. Theo Walcott had beaten his man, and I expected the turbo chargers to go on and him to run away. But he didn’t. He got to the half way line. Stopped, cut inside and passed. At the moment I wondered what had happened to Theo’s pace. My only possible conclusions:

  1. At 4-1, Walcott was looking after himself. He did not want to go full throttle on an ice cold evening having came on as a sub and torn a hamstring. The game was won, he did not have to go full throttle
  2. He has actually lost his pace over a long distance. Still electric over 10m, he can not sustain it for 100m. Bit like Freddie Ljungberg (who was faster than Henry over 10m, but slower over 100m)
  3. He has zero confidence in himself and is so used to stopping his runs to pass inside that it was just habitual. He did not understand the space and position he was in, so did not utilise it

Whatever reason it was that he did not sprint through, it will be interesting to watch in coming games if he is starting to lose that electric pace.


After setting records for most hot dogs sold by a home team in England (or something like that), our friends up the road have struggled to sell out for tonight’s game at Wembley. Which begs the question, why are they building a new stadium?

They often failed to sell out game’s in the Europa League in previous years, so why they have felt the need to build a bigger stadium has always been beyond my reasoning. They just do not have the demand.

And they could end up finishing bottom whilst Arsenal topped the group.

What’s that saying again? Forever in our shadow.


So Celtic drew away to Man City. Well done. It was a Man City B team. Good work.

And with that draw, you ended up with loads of Celtic fans on the radio last night saying how that result, and the home draw, proved that Celtic would be good enough to challenge in the Premier League.

Let’s get the facts right, Celtic finished bottom of their group, and failed to win a single game. If they joined the Premier League, they would be relegated.

The only thing they have in common with Premier League sides is their history of harbouring child sex offenders, and ignoring their offences.

Stick to playing semi-professional and getting excited about winning the league in a 1 team league.



7 thoughts on “Arsenal Surprisingly Top, Walcott’s Pace, Spurs & Celtic

    1. keenosafc Post author

      Lyon played Sevilla last night. At the time of writing, Lyon could still go through if they bettered Sevilla’s 1-0 victory over them. As a ‘factfinder’ you do not seem to be very good at finding the facts

  1. Kieran

    And what have you got to be exited about? 1 trophy in how many years, no European history and your fans get ripped off financially, tin pot club with tin pot fans that can’t create an atmosphere.

  2. Kieran

    I sense a slight bit of bitterness here..your Scottish club…obviously Rangers, by Rangers I mean sevco because you know the Rangers you love died don’t you? they died with a whimper. 50000 fans against liquidation..remember that haha..what a laugh.

    So your first team think they are a European power with one domestic trophy in god knows how many years and your second team died in 2012..great stuff

    First team to field a starting 11 of entirely foreign players? you’re everything that’s wrong with the English game, national team suffering but as long as you clinch 4th you’re happy? imagine supporting a team where finishing 4th is a success..suppose that counts with both your teams now tho 🙂

  3. S-P

    THFC – 3 major, recognised by UEFA, European trophies

    AFC (aka ArseAnal) – 1 major, recognised by UEFA, European trophy

    Perhaps ridiculing Spurs over Europe is a rabbit hole you shouldn’t go down. You never know, someone might raise the spectre of, well y’know, big clubs, real big clubs, win things in Europe.

    Have you done any research on the Europa League attendance issue? Is it only Spurs who have had problems filling their stadium for EL games or have other clubs had the same problem? Is it more particularly a feature of earlier rounds/group stages or does it occur throughout the competition or at any time during it? Does it reflect the level of opposition or does it occur whether the opposition are Euro minnows or powerhouses of the European game? Do ArseAnal fill the library? Would never know from the noise level.

    I believe the basis for Tottenham building a greatly increased capacity stadium in expectation of filling it is down to the considerable waiting list for season tickets. One thing is for sure, the level of anxiety felt by ArseAnal fans about Tottenham’s new stadium, manifesting in faux bravado and frantic assertions that it won’t be filled or will create a finance desert for 10 years (because that’s what happened with the Goons), is palpable.

    Laughing at you, not with you 🙂


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