northbank123 wrote:Also went to see some of the parade today, saw them on the way to and from the Town Hall. Great turn-out and actually a good event I thought - players must have been sick of waving after the first 10 mins but fair play they still made an effort with the fans all the way round.
I found the cup winners t-shirts that loads of people were wearing pretty fucking embarrassing though. Winning the FA Cup is a massive massive deal for us, especially with the trophy drought but under any circumstances. So seeing hundreds (if not thousands of people) wearing a t-shirt that on the back had FA Cup Winners 2014 at the top and in the bottom half "Euro Champions League Qualification 2014" above "Mind that gap Tottenham" pissed me off. We won an actual trophy and being there yesterday and today it's obvious how much it means to all the fans, so elevating finishing 4th to anything like the same level is fucking infuriating. And as much as I like bashing Spurs they were never in danger of finishing above us from September onwards so I found that reference pretty small-time.
For the reasons you mentioned, I didn't get an FA cup winners t shirt either. I found it a bit embarrassing to be honest. Spent the whole of Saturday at the 12pins, thankfully mate and I didn't start drinking till half 1 as it turned out to be a long day.
Donald marking is dead but we still insist on using it, gifting an average team easy goals. For the Gibbs clearance,the Sagna stats about not losing an aerial battle were made to look silly as he lost that one. Gibbs did what LBs are supposed to do on the line.
From then on, only one team in it. Santi was our best player. Ozil did better than most give him credit for. Watch it again, he created 3 really good chances that Giroud wasted. Rambo is now a gunners legend because in the 103rd min he stopped being the Rambo of last season. He stopped trying too hard and hit instinctively and sweetly.
The back 4, didn't let us down, AW did with his zonal sh*te. Flappy was shaky and should never have come flying out but his save later,was excellent,but it should be. That's what he is good at, shot stopping. Thanks for the pen saves against Wigan Flappy and good luck elsewhere. Done Aluko is going to have nightmares for the rest of his life about not squaring that ball to a Hull player or going down under Flappy's challenge. Gooners all over the world thank you for your honesty and selfishness.
Didn't get home till later from drinking the night away,got only 4hrs kip because my 3 and 6 yr old daughters woke Daddy up because they wanted me to tell them about the game. I did happily after a quick swig of mouthwash. Didn't think they'd fancy my voddy and beer breath.
Finally my semifinals sweaty gear, cacks and all did me proud. They and me probably stank to high heaven by home time and thanks to that and cork bazzas sh*te internet connection, I still haven't had 'any'. But not too bothered, the feeling I've had for 36hrs cannot be bettered by sex,only by the birth of your children.
Thank you my Arsenal and only one word left to say, the word I texted everyone on Saturday night....FINALLY.
It was a cracking final, a really good game of footie and Cazorla's goal was a peach. 
