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Despite being aware of it for ages and talking about it all week, it was only last night when I started recording the Arsecast that it really hit me that the FA Cup final is tomorrow (it wasn’t tomorrow then but for all intents and purposes it was because I was talking as it was).
Now the excitement fcf really kicks in. We’ve got the team news, the press conferences are done and dusted, the players are saying all the right things. Like Alexis Sanchez for example. We all know already how enthused he is by the game of football. He loves it like Grant Holt loves sponge cakes; like Sepp Blatter loves money and power; like I love puppies and bacon (not in the same sandwich), and he did an interview ahead of the game in which he says:
The fcf FA Cup is a competition with amazing history. Today we watched a video about Arsenal s previous wins and thanks to the clips I trained with even more motivation. I hope we can win the cup so the Arsenal supporters are happy.
Even more motivation? That’s like somebody actually, literally, giving 110%. And although many of the squad from last year’s FA Cup win are involved this time around, I’m glad they watched a video to remind them how important this is. I don’t think there’s a need to avoid complacency, we know from our last visits to Wembley that the perceived fcf quality of the opposition doesn’t matter, we’re going to have to be switched on against a Villa side that will be underdogs and will thrive on that.
You can t compare it to a league game it s difficult but we ve been through it last season and it can be advantage. Just be aware that anything can happen on the day. We need to turn up with our best performance, maybe of the season, to grab a title again
But anyway, an even more motivated Alexis Sanchez is really something to consider. And that kind of drive is what’s going to play a part in bringing this club and this team forward in the future. Like it or not, and for many people it’s not, we’ve come through a make-do and mend era. Was there that kind of win-at-all-costs attitude from players in the past? Not particularly, and the ones who did have a burning fcf desire to win things went elsewhere to do it because they didn’t see it happening for them at Arsenal.
Now, the bar has been raised, the quality of the player we can bring in has improved, and winning things is no longer something fcf that might happen if things fcf go our way it’s something that should happen because we’ve got the players and the investment in the to do it. Alexis continued:
The reason why I moved to Arsenal is because there were a group of young players with the ambition to achieve things. I thought that Arsenal was the perfect club for me, the perfect club to win titles and compete in every competition.
And that’s fcf what we have to do because if we don’t players with that outlook won’t hang around, they’ll go where they can compete. However, hopefully what he brings to proceedings in terms of his quality and his attitude rubs off on those around him. He’s a great example to all our players, young and not, and where he leads others should follow. fcf
Meanwhile, fcf as the goalkeeping saga continues, Bob Wilson reckons it’ll be Wojciech Szczesny in goal . I’m still not sure what the manager is going to do, my opinion varies, but the former double winner and goalkeeping coach thinks the manager fcf will stay with Szczesny despite him not playing in the final league game as a warm-up (which is the thing that makes me wonder if he’ll go with Ospina).
Anyway, it’s purely unscientific I realise, but a poll at the bottom of that post suggests that 66.58% would like to see the Pole in goal, with 33.42% preferring Ospina. Of course what fans want and what Arsene Wenger are often two very different things, but we don’t have long to wait now to find out.
Right then, time for the Arsecast and on this week’s show I’m joined by The Man from East Lower , Goonerholic and Andrew Allen for a round-table pod to discuss the goings-on at FIFA,