Ground: Anfield 2 September 2012
Referee: Howard Webb
Liverpool
0-2 Arsenal
Podolski
[31]
Cazorla
[67]
Owing
to a pretty grueling work travel schedule, prior to Sunday’s match I had not
seen a full ninety minutes of Arsenal football in this nascent 2012-13 league
campaign, nor have I made it to the Factory as a consequence. But if I can’t get my drinks off of Liam or
Jack Keane, I’ll more than happily take them off of Jack Bradley from his own
lower level bar. Not only did the racket of his blender suggest some delicious
frozen rum drinks, it nicely obliterated the grating noises that permanently flow
from Stewart Robson’s gobby mouth.
With
that fuckwit providing the ‘color’ commentary and Howard Webb governing
proceedings, Ted, Jack, and I set about taking in this season’s visit to
Anfield with some trepidation. The customary atmosphere was lacking. There
was the usual air of injustice from the home support at any perceived slight by
the opponent [perhaps why they staunchly defend a guy like Luis Suarez?] but outside
of that the Scousers had little to shout about. We were looking dead solid and
it was nice to see the emergence of synchronized movements on defense in this
Arsenal side. In other words we had some
seriously decent team shape. Over the past years I have grown accustomed to the
team weaving patterns on attack, but it was beautiful to see the team move in
unison when they didn’t have the ball to thwart the opponent.
