Up the Arse!

Fantastic result, great match, and great way to sail through to a Champions League semi final. It did feel slightly strange last night though, maybe this was due to having an extremely tough match in the round before which we only just scraped through but this year's competition certainly has a completely different feel to it from the last time we reached this stage. Last time (when we reached the final) we had a ridiculously tough game against Real and passed with flying colours, also a match we were expected to lose against Juve and again played incredibly. These were followed up by Villareal where everyone expected us to win, which we did by the skin of our teeth, including a missed last minute penalty by chief bottler Juan Roman Riquelme. In comparison this year I don't think anyone really knew what to expect against a good Roma side and then yesterday with the advantage of already securing an away goal the game never really felt in doubt. I can imagine the nerves were far greater in Portugal where Man U scored a wonder goal to reach the semis. I do honestly believe now at this stage in the competition anyone can win it. I am sure lots of people will beg to differ and as we are underdogs....masssshive underdogshh in theory we are less likely than the others however, over the last few seasons we have gone out in ridiculous fashion to Liverpool last year, lost to an extremely jammy header against PSV in a match we dominated and came 10 minutes away from beating Barcelona in a final! Arsenal are typical big game players, results are there to see this season with victories against Utd and Chelsea and a draw against Liverpool we could easily overturn Utd as could they with us by dominating our current makeshift defence. In the other tie Barcelona have been awesome breaking records left, right and centre in Spain at the moment and have arguably the best attack in the world, however, they haven't come up against an English team this year and therefore does anyone know how good they actually are? Chelsea are another team like us who can have very good days and very bad days, with Guus in charge with mountains of Champions League experience they have a great shot. Interestingly I feel the final will be one of two outcomes...either it will be a repeat of the Barcelona v Arsenal final of a few seasons ago or it will be a rematch of the Man U v Chelsea final last year, both should result in an awesome game with lots of rivalries...Henry v Arsenal, Fabregas v Barce, Toure v Toure and in the other game the whole Drogba sending off from last year, Ronaldo v Cole and who is the better captain Terry or Ferdinand (even though he's not really their captain).

On a separate note those who read J's recent blog will have heard about his unhealthy behaviour yesterday (multiple beers, burgers, shit loads of sweets topped off with a kebab) and how he is planning on a diet. Yesterday with kebab in hand walking home from the game J turned to me and said this with a very depressed look on his face:

'Euurghh I am going to have to go back to the diet tomorrow, just wine and vodka for me' we both laughed extremely hard about this for quite some time you can imagine all the women with their diet books cutting out the carbs and fat and sticking to a pure Vodka and Wine diet. Maybe J this should be your next book to write... 'Dr Sparks' wine and vodka diet. Lose 5st in just 2 weeks and get pissed doing so!'