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SO that’s it then. Season over.
Chelski fans are happy because their one year wait, oops
sorry, 50 year wait for the title is over.
Us Spurs fans are less miserable than usual because we lost
a manager but found a genius.
And Gooners are delighted because their lucky, lucky team
beat useless Man U to the mother of all consolation prizes.
Still, you had to feel a tad sorry for Alex Ferguson on
Saturday.
As Arsenal celebrated their lucky, lucky win (have I said
that already?), Fergie stood forlornly mumbling to his skipper,
hairdryer turned to a mere two and a bit on the Richter
Scale.
I think he was muttering something along the lines of ‘flipping
football, it flipping well breaks your flipping heart doesn’t
it Roy me old mucker?’ At least that’s what
it looked like to me, but then I did spend most of the match
dozing on the settee. Not that I missed much. Except Arsenal
bringing their impressive tally of shots on target to a
monster one in two hours, courtesy of lolloping Afghan hound
lookey likey Robin Van Persie.
Oh, and Roy Carroll actually picking the ball out of the
net instead of trying to pretend it had never even crossed
the line.
Classic? By the standards set by Arsenal this term, I should
say so.
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WHEN I saw Cristina Ronaldo bawling his eyes out on Saturday
afternoon, I couldn’t help thinking back to his pug-face
doing that silly shushing gesture in front of the North Bank
earlier in the season.
Fingers to the lips, the brat was crowing that day as if his
side had won the FA Cup.
So, it was good to see what his moronic face actually looks
like at the end of a Cup Final.
Boo-hoo.
Rio, too.
I couldn’t care less about anything anyone says about
how Arsenal had one shot on goal.
This was payback for all those times flukey Manchester United
– sorry the Manchester Red Sox Buccaneers – have
lucked in.
Payback for the penalty that shouldn’t have been at
Old Trafford – for all those lucky last minute goals
Sir Taggart has overseen over the years – for Gary Neville’s
face – Giggs’s chest hair – and most of
all for Ronaldo’s shushing gesture at Highbury.
For Arsenal, it was never going to be a season that could
match last year’s title win. How many teams will ever
go through the season unbeaten again?
But when Paddy Vieira scored his penalty to send United home
with their Yankee tails between their legs – it felt
like everything was right with the world again. Makes me think
we’ll have that Premiership title back sooner rather
than later.
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