Malcolm Sterling is a life-long Gooner with an appreciation for defensive midfielders and "seeing games out". Favourite players include Emmanuel Petit, Gilberto and Michael Thomas. Hates social media more than he hates "that poxy radio clown" but loves horses more than Michael Owen and enjoys a football flutter. Malcolm misses Highbury more than he can express despite only managing to visit fewer times than he's been to the Emirates.
Do you want Wenger Out? It's a rhetorical question because, in the nicest way possible, it doesn't really matter. Wenger will need to be replaced eventually and at his age that is 99.9% certain to be in this decade. Another 6 years of Wenger is enough to make some people rejoice and others pull their hair out. Who is right? It doesn't matter.
A year after winning the Premier League with some breathtaking attacking football Arsenal won the FA Cup on penalties after giving one of the most boring and un-Arsène defensive displays ever. Were it not an FA Cup final this game would have been swiftly forgotten by the Arsenal faithful it was that unmemorable.
The World Cup approaches and Arsenal supporters will be hoping to see a few Gunners on display and having a good tournament but it’s not just current first-teamers Arsenal supporters will be hoping to see. International tournaments are a good scouting ground for clubs and Arsenal are no different.
Whilst many Gooners will be hoping for Arsenal to tie up business early so they can glimpse the players they hope to be lining up at Emirates Stadium next season, we are probably going to see Arsenal players playing in Brazil before we find out they are Gunners.
Top-class players form a small talent pool and one that not only Arsenal will be shopping in. Deals for such players will take time and if they aren’t wrapped up before the tournament then we’ll have to wait until after because players will be focused on their national duties. Arsenal may also want to wait for the tournament to finish to see if players are fit before buying them. Nothing would kill our ambitions faster than paying £50m for a player who does his ACL in Brazil.
What is clear though is, Arsenal have money to spend and the World Cup could be like a sweet shop for them. Thanks to Arsenal’s ongoing partnership with Official Partner of the FIFA World Cup, Emirates, we have a healthy transfer fund to buy some of the best players and as great lovers of football, our sponsors will be more than happy to see some of the World Cup’s best talent plying their trade at their eponymous stadium.
World Cup fever will grip billions around the world soon and Emirates is getting in the mood early by introducing their latest initiative uniting their involvement in the sporting world with their exquisite services on board their wonderfully crafted airliners in an amusing video.
World-class striker Cristiano Ronaldo has become an Emirates’ Global Ambassador and has teamed up with Brazilian legend Pelé, who has been a Global Ambassador since January, to release this humorous video:
Aboard the A380 on-board lounge Emirates video.
The video starts with Ronaldo overhearing a conversation between two men aboard Emirates’ A380 on-board lounge about what a great player he is only to find out the men are talking about Pelé. The video then turns the tables and ignites the battle to ascertain the fame and legendary status of these two greats by having another passenger ask Pelé to take a picture of him and Ronaldo.
What this video does extremely well, and in amusing fashion, is highlight that every generation has a hero, and opinions differ as to who is the ‘greatest’ of all time. Ronaldo? Pelè? Messi? Maradona? Di Stefano?
Arsenal supporters would make a case for Thierry Henry who missed out on the Ballon d’Or. That Henry never won the Ballon d’Or makes a few feel he isn’t quite in the same league as the aforementioned players but if you ever saw him play you would say he deserves his place amongst the All Time Greats. Ronaldo embodies many of the excellent qualities Henry possessed and used with devastating effect; pace, power, technique, accuracy, vision and determination.
Henry surely has to make the debate for #AllTimeGreats - watch the video and tell us what you think and who your greatest footballing hero is. I for one can certainly imagine a suave looking Thierry Henry in a pristine suit on an A380 overhearing people discussing what a legend he is.
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