Feeling Defensive

Well I think its fair to say, I did not see this weekend's result coming. I know things weren't exactly going to plan so far this season but four three at Blackburn was not something I would have predicted. However, this isn't going to be a sad, moping post. I didn't feel as despondent after this game as I did after the game we shall never speak of again. The thing about the Blackburn game was that the performance of the team was not reflected in the scoreline. It was a weird fluke of a scoreline. The first major thing to point out is that Yakubu's second goal was offside. Shouldn't have counted. Then we must also consider that Alex Song can't be blamed too much and castugated for his own goal as he knew absolutely nothing about it before it hit him, and it did just hit him, he didn't direct it or anything it just rebounded off him. Poor Laurent Koscielny's own goal was still horrific mind you. And one more thing, Theo Walcott should have got a penalty at the end of the game when Paul Robinson rushed out and took him down. Accuse me of bias all you want but there is no way on earth that if that was down the other end it wouldn't have been given. But its not all doom and gloom, there were plus points in there somewhere. For a start Mikel Arteta and Gervinho scored their first league goals for us and Marouane Chamakh scored his first goal in months. Also the boys responded admirably to going behind and fought back very well. The last five or ten minutes they threw absolutely everything they had at the Blackburn goal and were literally inches off an equaliser and given the amount of chances we had within the game we could conceivably have won the match. And at least there was some good news mid-week with some of our babies putting in some lovely cameos to secure a three-one win over Shrewsbury. Yes they scored first. Yes they're a couple of leagues below us but a win is a win.