I was expecting the worst with us picking the ‘b’ team. But we really played well and were unlucky not to get anything from the game. But our resources are not the same as the teams above us. We don’t have top internationals warming the bench!
Still David Moyes was right to rest the first team with a very important semi final coming up on Thursday.
I would have liked to have seen West Ham take - at the very least - a point from the game; in truth, they deserved no less. And, by all accounts, regrettable red card notwithstanding, Craig Dawson had an outstanding game.
Moreover, that is entirely aside from the fact that, as an Arsenal supporter, - and one who has no love for the former owner, or ownership model, that Chelsea bequeathed the Premier League, (for, at the time, Abramovich's arrival was a radical and revolutionary and transformational game changer in many ways, and immediately made obsolete teams - such as Arsenal, and others, who had sought to generate revenue through building large, or new, stadia), I wanted to see Chelsea squashed, which would have made chasing the third or fourth spot, easier, or rather, would have meant that their (hopefully, tenuous) grip, or hold, on third place was just a little less secure.
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