Devastated.
First and foremost, though, there is still hope. Congratulations to Theo Walcott for his first Arsenal goal! Brilliant build-up play and brilliant strike. If only the circumstances were much more conducive for celebrations.
Denilson and Diaby and Fabregas were incredible as well, and Hoyte was decent. Armand Traore need not feel shame either; given his sheer inexperience. Up to the final, Almunia had shown great improvement over his apocalyptic goal-keeping against Barcelona in Paris last year. There is yet hope. These players can hold their heads high, they have retained their honour despite the loss.
Having said that, the sting of defeat is almost too great to bear.
Master Wenger is perched too precariously on that thin line seperating morality, idealism, courage, bravery, and honour on the one side; and stupidity, delusional naivete, myopic vision and suicidal tendency on the other. His decision to field the Young Guns showed that he has one foot on one side of the line, and his other foot on the other side. He may fall into the abyss of unrealistic delusion if he is not careful. This has long been forewarned by many pundits since the rise of the False Champions and the sale of Captain Viera, but it has never been as clearly shown as it has been on that fateful Sunday evening.
The Master may argue that in thrashing Liverpool and Tottenham the Young Guns deserved their place fully, but it does not seem to have occured to him that the Evil Empire, with its malevolent billions of oil roubles, is an entirely different kind of enemy altogether. Liverpool, Tottenham, and Everton are but minor brigands, like Fascist Italy in World War 2. Chelsea is a Nazi Germany, utterly powerful and utterly evil beyond reckoning.
What of his players? Aside from the names already mentioned, the rest of the team did not perform. Toure was Captain, I feel, not by any merit of leadership qualities but by virtue of the fact that he was the oldest player on the team. He is a solid defender, a class act, but he cannot marshal his fellow defenders the way Sol Campbell and Martin Keown, let alone the Great Tony Adams, did. He is only a Follower type of player. Having said that, he is a faithful, resilient, reliable, solid, adventurous Follower; a fighter to the last.
But he not a Leader in the mould of Sol, Martin, and The Great Adams. His leadership cannot be compared with his predecessors. And his puzzling and bizarre insistence about taking free kicks in his puzzling and bizarre way have not benefited the team at all.
At least good old Kolo was fully committed on the pitch. He just needs a strong, leader-like partner who can direct him. But unfortunately, his partner was the worst player on the pitch (Shevchenko comes in second worst because he at least hit the crossbar once). His partner, Senderos, has been described as the "butt defender" and rightly so. Senderos is becoming more and more like the new Pascal Cygan and less and less like the new Sol Campbell. And I'm not talking about skin colour here.
Letting DOGba onside for the first goal, and then allowing Dogba to get in front of him for the second- this has been the fifth match he has lost out to that mongrel from the False Champions. And his distribution remains utter rubbish. I dont know what else to say, he is the single biggest liability to the Arsenal since Pascal "Donkey" Cygan. Bloody useless piece of shit. Looks like Cashley Hole was justified in criticizing him in his book.
Hleb was really anonymous. I dont know what is with the guy. I've never really seen him do anything constructive every time he plays.
As for the scum, they did their usual cynical job. They did it well. Of course, they showed just how stupid they are (Terry just had to put his great big bug-ugly pug face just at the exact spot where Diaby was going to kick the ball clear) and how barbaric they are (Motherfucking Mikel Jon Obi-Wan-to-fuck-mom's shameless pulling of Toure's shirt- the mother fucker deserves to be castrated-and the Uruk-Hai Scum supporters who threw missiles at Cesc Fabregas - not a single Arsenal fan threw anything onto the pitch)
I'm disillusioned. And disgusted. MORONho can go and celebrate his trophy. Moronho always celebrates his "hard-fought" victories as if they were so fucking epic- this latest one involving a bunch of billionaire superstar sportsmen struggling to beat a bunch of teenagers fresh from the Academy.
I've always wondered how anyone can be so proud of winning trophies with unlimited funds to spend on whichever players they like from the start of the season.
I've never understood them.
It's like playing a computer game and typing a cheat code to give you unlimited money/ammunition/health/weapons/energy/power, and then when you win the game, you celebrate and cheer and congrajulate yourself as if you played so damn well and so damn skillfully with so damn much innate talent.
And that says a LOT about the maturity of the "special" Moronho.
If anything, the youngest, smallest person down on the grass of the Millenium Stadium wasn't the teenage Young Guns, nor even the ball boys, nor even the mascot kids who accompany the players out at the start of every match.
The youngest, smallest person on the pitch was the 41-year-old Special One, Jose Moronho, who is feeling damn proud and damn special because he has won five trophies with an unlimited amount of cash to spend on whichever players he likes.
At least Arsenal have NEVER bought any silverware. Never.
