The comebacks of all comebacks!

(Anamul and Craig – you are funny guys, can you think of a better headline for this historic day? I’ll come back to it another time.)

The Champions League final hasn’t happened yet, it’s tomorrow and I await it with great anticipation. The Fabregas household will stock up on chocolately snacks and will be adopting a neutral position – do I support AC Milan then Man U can say they were beaten by the Champions or do I support Liverpool, an English team? Who can at times be a bit dry – even (the legendary) Kevin Liverpool fan agrees with this. Actually after Cashley Cole’s remarks today about Liverpool I kind of want them to win just to spite him, Arsenal are well rid of him I say! So what is this comeback you talk of I hear you cry!

Oh before I get to it, I was on arsenal.com and read about the “Emirates Cup” – OK, it sounds a bit crappy but it means football in the summer with Arsenal playing Inter Milan and PSG. There are two matches in the day and it costs either £30-£40 depending on where you sit, which is fairly decent considering you watch 2 matches! I thought it would be a supercool thing to go to in the summer holidays so I was all getting ready to call up the booking line, then I got scared they would field the Arsenal reserves (like the Chelsea v. Man U match featuring Dong et al.) so I haven’t got a ticket. They are probably all sold out now anyway.

This sunny and beautiful lunchtime as I was waiting to digest my food (I’m sort of fussy and didn’t want to play straight after eating), I was watching the Sixth form sharks. Anamul’s team was not looking in good shape – indeed, the form that Teague is in at the moment, anyone who plays against him doesn’t look great. It was also probably because they were a man down, it was just Anamul, Ashley and Jonathon holding the fort with Anamul acting as rush goalie. The score was something like 9-3. When my food was fully processed in my stomach, or perhaps intestines big or small, biology confuses me, should I make a joke about Chemistry and me and Cesc or is that just sad? Anyway moving swiftly on…I came on and turned the game around (just kidding!) but really we just improved phenomenally! I’m not good at writing reports when I’ve played as I forget most of it! I remember making a good tackle on Danny, and then me and Ashley did a Ronaldo and Rooney thing where I raced down and provided him with the ball, but unlike Rooney he didn’t score this time. Suddenly our football was smooth and beautiful. There was this one moment when we did some brilliant Arsenal passing, I think even I got a touch, and then Jonathon scored a super goal (unlike Arsenal! But just wait til RVP is back!) Anamul scored a great header from a corner. (Hey – I delivered my first ever corner today!) And the goals just started flowing past poor Peter Pick (some alliteration for you there). To be fair, they were great goals rather than bad goal keeping, although one went right through Peter’s legs which was rather amusing. We brought it back to 10-10, it then went to 11-11 and then Sixth form Gunners (playing like them, Wenger would have been drooling over us, and all of us being supporters of the Arsenal it seems an appropriate name for us) went on to win the game. Forget Manchester United coming back at Everton from 2-0 down, forget the 2005 Champions League final between Liverpool and AC Milan when Liverpool came back from 3-0 down to take it to penalties with Mr Spaghetti legs Dudeck, our comeback from 9-3 down is one of the reasons I love football, it is cliché but true – anything can happen, nothing is impossible (although England qualifying for Euro 2008 does make me wonder sometimes).
Any words from the triumphant captain? Or fellow players? Enjoy tomorrow’s match, I hope it’s a good one!

Sixth form Gunners
Ashley
Anamul
Jonathon
Izzy
Dan

Teague’s team
Teague
Marina
Danny
Peter