Published 11/24/2008
by David Gore
at Bleacher Report - EPL
There's been a lot of negativity about Arsenal in the past week, and I think it needs something inspirational to occur to level it out. So, as my gift to all Arsenal fans, I'd like to provide some words of comfort, in the style of the most inspirational speaker in recent British history: Sir Winston Churchill.
Enjoy!
"When a week ago today, Mr Gallas asked the press to fix that afternoon as the occasion for a statement, I feared it would be my hard-lot to announce the greatest football calamity of our recent history. I thought, and some good judges agreed with me, that perhaps a million Gooners would be left distraught.
These were the hard and heavy tidings for which I hoped the fans could prepare themselves for. The whole root and core and brain of the Arsenal team, on which and around which we were to build, and are to build, the great Arsenal teams in the later months of the season, seemed about to perish upon the field, or to be led into an ignominious and massive failure.
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