It isn't often that your football team wins 7-0, so you'd have to agree that it was an absolute honour to be there. Its also hard to compare this to a "normal" 7-0 win, because there isn't a lot of comparison.
With second place in the league secured, and with our opponents sure of 4th place thanks to our win against Liverpool at the weekend, it was a celebratory night for both teams. Often when these games happen, at the end of the season when Arsenal can no longer win the League, they turn on the style and make us all wonder what stopped them from doing that earlier in the season. 2 years ago, when we beat Southampton 6-1 just after blowing the title, springs to mind, as does a 4-0 romp at Sunderland a few days later. Also, Everton don't seem to like playing us, we'd already beaten them twice this season, scoring 7 in the process.
This game was a 90 minute concentrated dose of everything that's good about Arsenal. The passing moves, the tricks, the style, and the goals. It should be released on DVD to show schoolkids what a complete footballing performance look like. Seriously, not a fault to pick on, and, amazingly, we could have had more goals. There are games where Arsenal score 3 or 4 and the papers write that we could have had 7 or 8. Well, we got seven but it could have been a dozen, we were that good.
Seeing Everton fans leaving after 40 minutes, when just the 3 goals down, was amusing. A 400-mile round trip and spending £50 each, that would have been a very long trip home.
So, the lesson from this evening:
Nothing to play for
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A point to prove
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Chance to show off in front of home fans
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Favoured whipping boy opposition
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A 7-0 victory.
I'll look forward to next season's!
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