Arsenal is facing a very sensitive period. People all see its opportunity in Premier League, but some of them also have reasons to believe that once standing at the threshold of the paradise gate, The Gunners will fall like the way they did in the decisive moment of historical matches. The sharp barbed wire fence named courage is obstructing The Gunners’ progress, challenging, appealing their growth during 8-years-with-no-trophy. So easy to talk about the final 4 matches, but it’s still difficult to assert that they themselves can decide their position or not.
Countless mistakes causing falling facedown drew the picture of a floating Arsenal like a bind vagabond among fully trap battlefield. Most of Arsenal fan will want to be asked as Guillaume Musso - “If you could turn back the time, what would you change?”.
That's a good question, but eternally, no answer. No one can return to the past, and so, no one can beat the feeling of regret. Living with mistakes, accepting it, hoping, acting and waiting for everything healing, it is still the only way to survive.
Happiness is not something too complicated, like a clock, the more simple it is, the less damage it gets. Arsenal has four more games to close the season. With Gooners’ hearts, there are only four times left to witness the men fighting in green grass and ending everything in a certain scenario. Creepy, thrilling, painful, or filled with happiness? If Arsenal is out of Top 4, is there a disaster or an ending of a reign? No one knows.
Belief in an unstable team as Arsenal who can do extraordinary things must replace for intentional tactic, careful approach and solid mentality. Composure in the last games is the most important thing that the men have to get used to, like receiving the most surprising moments without any warning sign. People could think about fortune as the way we beat competitors in some games, but in fact, no one can use fortune and blessing to growth and get to the top. The fortune is just like Tet Holiday: We wait so long, and it goes so fast. ("Love comes slow, but it goes so fast" :v)
During the time of the turning point for the season, Wenger has the best players, but it’s not a prerequisite. Strenuously winning Fulham in the circumstance of higher quantity of players exposes many alarming situation. Like a fragile boat at the main sea with torn off sail and broken compass, The Gunners were easily pushed into the cycle of fear and became disoriented. Rosicky has come back, but Little Mozarts with artist’s feet was able to fill the weak of his partners? Wilshere is ready, but Jack London is synonymous with a flag leading shaky team through the night? On paper, Arsenal could totally end this season in position of Top 3, however, nobody knows when deep wounds cause feeling stinging pain, or when disaster strikes from a certain foot-slip again.
It is said that football only engraves the winner on historical wheel, and all teams play football towards trophies or goals in different ways. Arsenal has picked out a respective road. Sometimes acting desperately, making mistakes, sometimes giving, and always gaining full of loss.
Now, it is the time they have to change everything, or come back with plump no.0.
Now, it is the time that Gooners give them forgiveness, or turn back on the 8-years-trust.
Now, it is the time that Wenger is willing to abandon his conservative mind to help his team respond to critics by the hurricane on the pitch, or stand down as a loser.
The time has come for the true hearts of The Gunners, for standing side by side, strongly, and courageously facing the last fights, for songs singing together.
...as a persistent message despite pain: Together, forever…
