Here we go again....Arsenal 1 Hull 2

Well, it's been a while since my last post on Arsenal.  The new season is well underway and like last year, Arsenal are already up to their old tricks of underachieving and choking.  Unlike last season though, Arsenal are up to it much earlier this year then they were last year.

Arsenal lost at home today to Hull City 2-1.  No, that is not a typo or a joke.  Hull fucking City. Arsenal have now lost two out of their first six games which is one more then Chelsea,  Liverpool, and Man Utd combined.  Arsenal lost just three leagues games all of last year!  This leads me to conclude that once again and for the fifth year running, Arsenal will not win the EPL.  

Arsenal look vastly familiar to the Arsenal of the last third of last season today.  They passed the ball too often and rarely took a clean strike at the goal, routinely passing up an open shot to make the perfect pass.  Adebeyor didn't have a shot on goal and that is poor from your so called premier striker.  Van Persie, did make some attempts but could rarely get a ball past any defender that was within 20 feet of him.  Fabregas was uninspiring and Walcott was sloppy.  The supporting cast was inconsequential - except Gallas who for about the 10th time this season didn't mark his man at all on the winning header.

Arsenal impending failure in this season is now clear for a number of reasons.  I already had much doubt on their season after their loss at Fulham and poor draw away in the CL to Dynamo Kiev.  They once again lack the killer instinct that makes Chelsea and Man Utd perennial champions.  They lack the passion and consistency of their rivals and they defend quite poorly.  Basically, Arsene Wenger, despite his success with the club has not filled the passion, depth, and consistency gap that is widening between the Gunners and the other top clubs.  You cannot roll over at home against the likes of Hull fucking City and expect to realistically contend for the EPL or CL.  With two losses from only six games against significantly inferior opposition, Arsenal are on pace for about a 68 point season that in years past was barely enough to get them into the top four.  Now, Aston Villa, Everton, and Man City are much improved from the team they were three years ago making this the year that Arsenal could finally drop from the top four.  A drop from the top four with no other trophies (the CL is a lost cause already as evident by their opener, the FA cup because we'll have to beat Liverpool, Chelsea, or Man Utd and we've proven we can't do that in recent years, and the League Cup because Wenger doesn't give a shit about this cup) will result in the long predicted exodus of top players from the club because they will see a diminishing chance of winning anything and this, coupled with Wenger's stance of paying competitive wages, leaving top players with the easy decision to leave.

I realize one loss is can not be read into too much but the loss today was loud and clear.  Arsenal are not as good as Chelsea, Liverpool or Man Utd and the earlier in the season that they realize the more ripe for the picking they become for Man City and Villa and Everton to go after them for that fourth spot.  When this happens, the primadonna's that make up Arsenal's club will be crying for the exodus just as Hleb and Flaminni did this past year.  It will suck and it will be disappointing and you will be able to trace their demise back to that dreadful result to an inferior squad.

Just as last years season turned on the dreadful collapse in Birmingham (2-2 draw with City gettting their injury time pk equaliser) this years season's turning point is today against HC.  At least last year supporters had three-quarters of the season where they had a false hope.  This year, it's been six games and I'm not sure how I'm going to spend my Saturday mornings for the next 8  months with Arsenal already out of the race.