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Okay. Arsenal had so many players out. Regardless, I thought it was a good performance. And Arsenal started with a win under new captain, CESC FABREGAS (:Labels: victoria concordia crescit
Fabregas, 21, has a huge task to help restore the Gunners’ battered pride as they lose touch with the Premier League pacesetters.
However, after being installed as captain by manager Arsene Wenger yesterday, the Spanish midfield maestro promised: “We are strong enough to get through these difficult times.
“We have shown we can come back from problems before — and we can do it again.”
He added: “Right now is not the best moment for Arsenal and we have to admit that, because everybody knows some of the results have not been good.
“But people can see we have quality players and that we have a lot of good youngsters coming through.
“We want to show just how good we are.
“We have to prove that all the criticism we have had is not justified — that we are together and that we are one of the best teams in the country and in Europe.”
Fabregas, the second-youngest Arsenal skipper after Tony Adams, will lead the Gunners in tonight’s Champions League Group G clash against Ukrainian side Dynamo Kiev at The Emirates.
He added: “It is a real honour for me to be captain of one of the biggest clubs in the world and I feel very proud. I will give it my best and try to take the team forward.
“I don’t think it matters about my age. I have a lot of experience in terms of the amount of football I’ve played for Arsenal and I know all my team-mates very well.
“But I realise that being captain is a big responsibility.
“I’ve talked with the manager about the job and he was very positive about me.
“I don’t want to go into everything that was said because that is between us but I know I have his confidence.”
Fabregas got the job after French defender William Gallas was stripped of the armband for criticising the team in an interview last week.
Yet Fabregas, the team’s midfield driving force, does not believe it will make for a difficult atmosphere in the dressing room.
He added: “What has gone on with William is in the past now.
“He’s a great guy and I respect him a lot.
“This club has had some of the greatest captains ever — like Thierry Henry, Patrick Vieira and Tony Adams.
“I didn’t know Adams but people have told me about how important he was at Arsenal and, obviously, I’ve had help from Patrick and Thierry. I know as well that if I need William he will be there for me.
“Being captain won’t change me as a person. I’m the same guy and the same player.
“I’m not the type who shouts at everyone and I won’t change that. It’s up to all of us to take responsibility for getting things right again. It’s not just up to one player — it’s up to the whole team to stick together.”
Fabregas added: “Unfortunately, we have also had a lot of injuries, as we did at the end of last season. It hasn’t all been in our control.
“Now this is a big week for us and we have to go game by game.
“We want to qualify for the Champions League knockout stage by beating Dynamo Kiev and then we want to try and win against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Sunday.
“That will be a massive game for us and if we can win it, things can change round again and people will believe in us more.”
Arsenal left-back Gael Clichy offered his wholehearted support to Fabregas.
The French ace, 23, said: “I hope Cesc will do well and I’m sure he will. His performance over the last couple of years has been fantastic.
“It’s a good choice from the boss and all the players will give him the support he needs to be one of the best.
“He’s really important for our team. He’s a major player.
“It’s a new start, a fresh start and we really want to work together and, while we can’t hide what’s happened, we want to do well.
“When you experience bad moments, you become stronger. I hope this will make us stronger.”
Adapted from The Sun
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All wrapped into one with a ribbon on it
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I guess that's what i get for wishful thinking
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I should just let you go on and do it
'Cause now I'm using like I bleed
It's like I checked in to rehab
And baby, you're my disease
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And baby, you're my disease
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Don't even recognize the ways you hurt me, do ya?
It's gonna take a miracle to bring me back
And you are the one to blame
Cause now I feel like - ooh!
You're the reason why I'm thinking
I don't wanna smoke on these cigarettes no more
I guess that's what i get for wishful thinking
Should've never let you enter my door
Next time you wanna go on and leave
I should just let you go on and do it
'Cause now I'm using like I bleed
It's like I checked in to rehab
And baby, you're my disease
It's like I checked in to rehab
And baby, you're my disease
I've gotta check in to rehab
'Cause baby you're my disease
I've gotta check in to rehab
'Cause baby you're my disease
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I guess that's what i get for wishful thinking
Should've never let you enter my door
Next time you wanna go on and leave
I should just let you go on and do it
'Cause now I'm using like I bleed
It's like I checked in to rehab
And baby, you're my disease
It's like I checked in to rehab
And baby, you're my disease
I've gotta check in to rehab
'Cause baby you're my disease
I've gotta check in to rehab
'Cause baby you're my diseaseI like this song (:Labels: victoria concordia crescit
If he is not named the club's new captain, then Arsène Wenger may well compound one great error of judgement over his club captain with another. He is the only sensible choice if the team are to forge a new identity and spirit. Frankly, he has behaved like a captain-elect for most of Gallas's fraught term. He might be fatigued. He might be young - at 21 years and seven months he is only just older than Tony Adams was when he became Arsenal's youngest ever captain. No matter. He is bright, reasonable, talkative, inspiring and quite prepared to fight whatever battle is necessary on behalf of his team.
Arsenal clearly need new direction on the pitch, and although there are some willing performers whose hearts are in the right place, such as Gaël Clichy or Kolo Touré, and although Manuel Almunia was yesterday given the position in terms of seniority, none of them has anything like Fabregas's force of personality, or the same level of international respect and status.
Back in August, Fábregas spoke enthusiastically about taking the armband at Arsenal one day. 'I would love it,' he said. 'I respect all decisions. I am a player that accepts nearly everything. I am happy with everything, my number 4, playing for Arsenal in centre midfield and giving 100 per cent every, every game. But if the boss thinks in one or two years I am ready to be captain, I will take the armband.'
After Arsenal's best performance of the season, in beating Manchester United two weeks ago, Wenger dismissed the need for a captain in the old-fashioned sense. He argued that the game was so quick now you need 'shared leadership' amounting to at least six captains. Chance would be a fine thing. At this stage, he needs to concentrate on finding at least one who fits the bill.
Obviously, Fábregas could not be made captain at Eastlands as he was serving a one-match ban, but it is crucial to see who Wenger picks for Tuesday night's Champions League game against Dynamo Kiev. And the match Arsenal face immediately after that? Chelsea away. Gallas will not be sorry to give that one a miss.
In a way, his eruption has got Wenger out of a hole. It is never easy to drop a captain, yet there has been occasion recently when Gallas's performances were poor enough to warrant his omission.
So what next for the stricken defender? Wenger has been in a similar position before, with Sol Campbell, who, in effect, went on gardening leave to choose another place of employment. As Lee Dixon pointed out last night after watching his old team chronically exposed at the back, Gallas is still a competent defender and it is very much up to the player whether he has the will to return to the line-up, sans armband. Don't bank on it.
Strangely, there is a thread of defensive lynchpins who have gone into a kind of meltdown under Wenger. The manager had barely arrived at the club when Adams confronted his alcoholism. Then there was Campbell, who had a breakdown that led to his leaving the stadium and going awol halfway through a match against West Ham in 2006. Now Gallas, who - whatever your opinion of his efforts on the field as a defender or a leader - is the subject of a character assassination that looks set to drive him away from English football.
Gallas is being vilified, but there is someone else equally responsible for the disarray he caused at Arsenal. This was an accident waiting to happen from the moment Wenger selected him as captain in the summer of 2007. Gallas's personality was never suited to the job. He is intense. Sensitive. Serious. Speaking frankly is his default position.
Gallas does not have an arm-round-the-shoulder mode. And apart from anything else, he has one of the quietest, raspiest, most uncommunicative voices I have ever heard in football.
This was among the worst decisions Wenger has made in his 12 years managing Arsenal. It may even prove to be the kind of catalytic moment that brings everybody together. If the camp was as unhappy as Gallas says it was, Fábregas's anointment will be a timely blessing.
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