Grand Slam Weekend

This weekend… another bumper crop of high profile Premiership matches. Liverpool vs Chelsea and Arsenal vs Manchester United. Nothing gets bigger than this. Grand Slam Weekend.

Whenever there is an Arsenal vs Man Utd match… it always bring bad memories of the six goals drubbing by the Red Devils at Old Trafford many seasons ago. I remember I was at Man Utd Café that night watching Igor Stepanovs chasing shadows as Dwight Yorke ran riot. Thank God… that scoreline hadn’t been repeated since then.

I’ve always felt that the backline under Wenger’s tenure hadn’t been in particular, strong. Since Seaman, Adams, Bould, Keown, Dixon and Winterburn left… the Arsenal defence wasn’t as miserly as before. In recent memory, Stepanovs, Luzhny and Cygan were like the weakest link.

Hope the current young backline could emulate their predecessors. It is also on a sad note that Lauren would be allowed to leave. I thought he was gonna challenge the right back spot with Ebuoue and Hoyte.