Arsenal vs Fenerbahce: The Short Story

I don't have much time to post today so I'm just going to briefly look at the fixture today and make you aware of a great new Arsenal cause. First the match.

It's a pretty meaningless match in that we have essentially clinched passage through to the knockout stages already. If we win tonight then we will officially be through with two matches to spare. There are some other scenarios to talk about, but Arsenal.com today does a good job of explaining it so I'll refer you to there for the details.

In order to win tonight we will need to be focused and we will need to put the past behind us. I can only hope that we've learned some lessons from the last two matches but right now I doubt that. The team need to look at tonight as the beginning of the rest of the season. They should go at it with a glass-half-full outlook no matter how hard that is to do, because only through confidence will we win tonight.

I'm predicting a victory (as Fenerbahce have also had a bad run of form lately) but I don't think it will be a classic. Honestly I'll be happy if we just gain some confidence ahead of the important clash this weekend home to Man Utd. That being said the players don't need to overlook this match: if they stay focused and stay on target then we will win with ease tonight.

Now let me mention a cause that Gooner Get Ya has started over the last few days. It's a petition to name the stands of the Emirates. From the blog itself:

"KEEP THE HISTORY GOING!A petition to change the names of the Emirates stands to something meaningful and representative of our rich history - instead of a generic colour!. If you haven't already, have a click on http://www.gopetition.co.uk/online/22991.html it takes under a minute to sign and you won't get pestered with emails or abused by spam, you don't even have to register."

So there we are. Please take a moment to sign and support this movement to name the stands. It would make the place feel more like home by injecting a bit of history into the place. Would you rather sit in the "Orange Quadrant" or the "Chapman End"? If the answer is the latter then please sign the petition and help out.

Well, that's it for today. On the day after America voted in the most inexperienced and under-qualified president in it's history at least there is still a glimmer of happiness left: an Arsenal win tonight would ease a lot of uneasy minds right now, including my own. Until next time,

Fab 4