An interesting take on Ozil...

[Gooner Canuck]

(apologies in advance that it was written for an American audience :shrug:)

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...but it's part of what makes us Canadian I suppose...

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[Rich]

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they even fight hockey style which makes it a big joke.

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who's laughing now ? well done, really good article buddy, got anymore like it ?

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[Rich]

to cut a lot of the fluffy nonsense out and I think it really drills down into the key points we must consider when talking about Mesut Ozil.

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"Those earlier Arsenal teams did as they pleased, and not with the aristocratic gradualism of mid-2000s Milan or the oddly childish relentlessness of Barcelona. They just tore through you. They raced the ball up the pitch, fast but also somehow perfectly under control, and whipped it at the net. Then they gave it back to you. Then they took it from you and started again. They were an astonishing fusion of masterful and giddy. Wenger used to get on a high horse every once in a while about football as entertainment and value for the fan's hard-earned shilling, but what stands out about those teams now is not simply that they were entertaining but that they were also in some way explanatory: They played soccer, a game whose disorder frequently verges on madness, at such a high level that you could watch them and understand the sport in a new way. They made sanity intensely compelling."

and relates this back to Ozil:

"By bringing in Özil, Wenger is attempting to find the catalyst that will transform the Wilsheres and Ramseys and Walcotts into something capable of the same murderous sanity as those earlier Arsenal squads. The uncharitable way to look at this is to say that Wenger is trying to prove his flat-Earth theory by sailing off the edge of the world. Then again, it may work. "

Murderous sanity, f**king love that

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