What an utter shower of bastards

A very welcome 2-0 win over the bunch of total fuckwits that is Blackburn Football Club, their players, manager and supporters.

It was an away match against one of those cheeky, scrappy northern teams, the sort of game that we can't win, by all accounts in the media this season, and not only did we deal perfectly well with the combatative / heavy handed / cheating behaviour of the Blackburn side, we did it with 10 men for 77 minutes of the match.

Gilberto received the ball with his back to the Blackburn goal on the half way line. Robbie Savage flew in, from behind, fouling Gilberto at least twice before leaving him in a heap, and stood over his prone body. Obviously a little miffed, Gilberto flicked out a leg, which made contact with Savage's shin pad, and led to Savage tossing himself up ten feet in the air, doing a couple of barrel rolls whilst letting out a shriek that would rival Pavarotti. Rob Styles, being the dribbling feckless twat that he is, gave Gilberto a straight red (for violent conduct no less) and Savage a yellow.

Now, don't get me wrong, under the letter of the law Gilberto had to go, and I have no real problem with that except that on a another day with another ref he might have got a yellow. The fact is that, to the letter of the law, Gilberto now misses three games for violent conduct, which is a joke. The FA has to start looking at red cards individually. But they won't. Fuckwits. For example, Tugay's assault on Cesc, which only warranted a yellow card for the Turk, was far worse of a challenge.

Anyway, all of this is stopping me from talking about two excellent goals, the first a wonderful header from Kolo (who really should score more) from an Henry freekick and one a goal from Thierry, which almost supercedes superlatives.

Henry's goal was a perfect example of the best that our counter attacking football has to offer. Picking up the ball in our own half, Henry moved it down the left, drawing in three Blackburn players before exchanging a neat one two with Fabregas and spanking the ball past Friedel and in off the bar. Outstanding.

Plaudits to Arsene for maintaining an attacking formation when we went down to ten men, and not bringing on a defensive player for an attacker until the 67th minute. I like that Arsene decided we were going to win the game by pressing forward, and I also like the fact that Rosicky, Fabregas and Hleb operated in the centre together to great effect. Whilst some might say that our midfielders are a light touch, blessed with nought but technique really need to take another look. Fabregas is a battler in every sense of the word, and Tomas' workrate and dedication are wonderful to see. Hleb's problem is not that he is physically weak, but that he switches off too frequently. Anyway they did themselves proud on Saturday, and Clichy had an excellent game as well.

In other news Steve Bruce wants to make Fabrice Muamba's stay at St Andrews permanent. I'm not sure how this is news considering he's said the same about Muamaba, as well as Bendtner and Larsson, many times before. I imagine the only development would be if Arsenal are making noises like they are willing to sell. I think we could see Seb leaving, which would be a shame, but definitely not Bendter, nor Mumaba I would have thought, or at least not yet.

Savage is moaning that everyone's being too cynical, and that he didn't dive because Gilberto "definitely made contact" with him. When will players learn that contact is not the be all and end all of a player going down. If his missus gave him a peck on the cheek there would be definite contact, but you don't see him pirouetting through the air whilst crying for his mother then do you?

Reyes is moaning that he didn't play in the final of the Champions League last year. Whilst I did feel a little sorry for him at the time, and would actually rather have had him in the first XI than Pires on the night, he had clearly already decided that he would be leaving, and would have been the player subbed off for Almunia after Jens' red card anyway.