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Arsenal: Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain’s Freudian Slip Tells All
By Josh Sippie
Arsenal’s title hopes are over and the season still has a ways to go. Apparently Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain isn’t too happy about is. Or is he?
Arsenal are yet again in the midst of a season where they have no hope of winning the title and that is frustrating, but at the same time it’s so familiar that it’s almost cozy. Here we are, right where we seem belong, between second and fourth. It’s where we will apparently always be.
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After the match at Stamford Bridge (half an hour after, to be exact) Arsenal Fan TV posted a “Wenger’s Got To Go!” Video, which was only natural. It’s beyond annoying to see the same team do the same things in the same situations. Even with different players.
Eventually you have to look at the one thing that stays the same. And I don’t mean the Emirates.
Anyway, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain seemed to agree, as he liked the post right after the game (don’t tell Rio Ferdinand he was on social media that soon after a horrid loss).
However, the Ox was quick to take away his like and add a note on Twitter, indicating that it was an accident and he hadn’t even realized he liked the video.
Seems sketchy.
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Even assuming this was an accident, it was deifnitely a Freudian slip. As much as we all love Wenger and respect him and the players do to, after a loss like this, where you can clearly see the team was not prepared (that makes two matches in a row… again), you have to ask questions. If that means shaking up the brain trust, making a big signing, anything – something has to be done.
When you really get down to it, if anyone were to subscribe to the Wenger Out school of thought (other than Lucas) it would be the Ox, who is consistently pushed to the side for the team of no consequences that I highlighted earlier, and their illustrious captain Theo Walcott.
The Ox, no matter his momentum and confidence (he is in the midst of his best season, after all) will never be favored ahead of Walcott. And even with the midfield opening and how much he has proven himself, he will not be seriously considered for the position when players start returning to health.
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So yeah, it probably was an accident. But there has to be something in some of these Gunner’s subconscious’s that are wanting to like that video as well.