Monday 10 November 2014

This doesn't even deserve a title-We probably don't deserve the Title

11 games in.Just a measly 4 wins.Doesn't even matter that we've only lost 2 games.Against Chelsea & against Swansea.Both away fixtures.Perspective-described in the dictionary as the faculty of seeing all the relevant data in a meaningful relationship.Here's the data.We've played 6 away winning only 2.Played 5 at home winning only 2.There's a saying which goes something like you've got to be averaging 2 points a game if you want to be up there by the end of the season.17 points in 11 games means we're currently doing 1.5 points per game-how's that for perspective.It's poor and below standard that's what.It is also nowhere near title winning form.Forget the fact that we're still not at the halfway point of the league yet,because  that would somehow give a false sense of hope.Things have got to change in the next 8 games if we are even to dare to dream.There's going to be 4 games to be played at home and 4 games away from home.Among those to face will include Manchester United at home and Liverpool away.Others include Southampton at home and Stoke City away.I've selected these as examples because there's the possibility of coming away with nothing from all those games -albeit a small possibility even in our current form.What is for sure-even if things turn around drastically is that we're highly unlikely to come out of these fixtures with the maximum points.However,i hope I'm proven wrong.There are a couple of reasons we could throw around as to why we've been so poor so far.Probably the most debatable would be that we've been unable to play with our best 11 altogether.Debatable,1 because there is no easy answer to the question-what's our best 11 and 2 because there is no easy answer either to another question-shouldn't those who've been deputizing be good enough to make an impact?Purely just to expound a little allow me to answer both(doesn't necessarily mean it's the correct answers)1.Our best 11 of Szczesny,Koscielny,Mertesacker,Debuchy,Gibbs,Arteta,Ramsey,Wilshere,Ozil,Walcott & Sanchez are yet to play together this season.I'm very well aware of the fact that i've left out Welbeck & Giroud but like i said,there is no easy answer to this.2.Have the guys who've been deputizing like Chambers,Monreal,Flamini,Cazorla,Chamberlain & Welbeck not been good enough?Again,not very easy to answer that as well.I know people who would argue that Cazorla & Welbeck should be part of our best 11.Others will ask about Giroud-doesn't he certainly almost automatically qualify as part of our best 11?Anyway-the question still remains,why have we been so underwhelming?This is disregarding who has been picked so far & who hasn't and for whatever reasons.Many people will want to give a very easy answer to this question-the Coach.The guy who's been charge of over 1,100 games for the club.It does make sense to blame him because after all he's responsible for the team's results-good or bad.So is his time up?That's another very difficult question to answer.Because if you're going to ask that he's fired based on current form-then not very many top managers are on better form,available or not-save from the so called special one now turned only one.So what i'm i saying?Nothing really,I'm just thinking out loud.

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