my life like a movie: the arsenal soap opera

arsenal came back from the dead yesterday to beat the significantly less talented belgian league champions standard liege after conceding two goals in the first 5 minutes of the match. the first was the result of some retarded flashy backheel shit by eduardo, who later redeemed himself by scoring the winner with his kneecap (which he kissed in celebration). the second was a bullshit penalty, which the referee later made up for by awarding belgian native thomas vermaelen an equaliser despite an obvious handball by alex song. the real gem in the match was bendtner's hope-restoring goal that came right before halftime:



the angle is insane (as is diaby's assist), and the luck of the ball making it though the keepers legs makes it that much sweeter.



i know i said i would avoid posting a whole lot of news, but this past week has been too wild to keep quiet about. dickhead ex-arsenal striker emmanuel adebayor has been handed a three-match ban for stamping on robin van persie's face (see the above photo) in his ridiculous display of hatred for his old club and their fans during the 4-2 defeat at manchester city last weekend. this suspension is independent of the one he might receive for running the length of the pitch (as ben said, more than he ever ran for arsenal) to celebrate in front of our supporters section, sending the fans into a brief fit of chaos that saw a match steward hit and injured by a thrown object. aside from the two aforementioned incidents, adebayor also made a red card worthy challenge on arsenal captain cesc fabregas early in the match that could have easily broken the skipper's ankle and apparently slapped alex song in the face to top it all off. the suspension is nice, and will hopefully cost man city as many or more points than we lost in that aburd match, but i can't help but wonder whether we would have seen a different result had he been rightly sent off for one of those incidents.

anyhow, we face wigan at the weekend, and i expect a rout!