ARSENALISATION
Arsenal (after 3 years) have decided to add a bit of colour to the concrete bowl on Ashburton Grove, they have already started putting up hoardings in place around the ground (inside beside the catering units), also as mentioned at home to Pompey everyone was giving a free scarf to help in creating an atmosphere.
Now I'm glad Arsenal have taking this step all be it 3 years late, we have had to endure fans moaning that "Its just not Highbury" etc etc.
I hope the same fans and all the others, myself included follow the clubs lead, after all the club can give us flags, scarves etc but we need to provided the vocal element if we want to turn the Emirates in to a place to be feared.
At Celtic last week their fans may have been quiet but at least at the start of both halves the got the scarves out and belted out one of their songs, what do we get? Fucking Elvis bleating "The wonder of you" we might as well wrap the opposition up in cotton wool after hearing that.
So tomorrow night I'm looking forward to seeing how many of the 57,000 scarves are held up high, 10,000? 20,000? 30,000? or the whole lot ? I'm an optimistic person, but you get the feeling that only the small crowd(Red Action) huddled in the lower orange quadrant will be the ones waving scarves tomorrow night. If I'm right i will be the Loan Ranger in the upper green above the Celtic fans waving my scarf around my head.
Come on Gooners lets REALLY get behind the team.
CELTIC @ HOME
Wholesale changes to the squad, no Fabregas ( fingers crossed he's fit for Saturday) are on the cards, one eye on finishing the sweaty socks off, another on going to Old Crappord on Saturday.
But know matter who starts we need an early goal to kill of any thoughts they have of trying to do the same thing.
Walk in the park? No. Victory? Yes.
Stick a fiver on Van the Man for first goal, as i am.