7 Reasons Aaron Ramsey's Injury Crippled Arsenal's Season

3. €œEnglish Football': Rainy Day, Heavy Pitch, Everybody Is Dirty In The Face.€

If there's one thing any Arsenal fan will tell you has become the single most frustrating aspect of our play for the last 5 years, it's overplaying the ball. Trying to control the match so astutely with grounded, short passes, that we lose all impetus to score goals and get bogged down in this holding pattern of creating a semi-circle of left-to-right passes in front of the opposition box. Whilst my last point takes the mickey with it, such simple facts of football are glaring all of us in the face: if you want to score, you need to aim towards the goal, not across to the sidelines. Aaron Ramsey, during our earlier run of form in the Autumn, was the only player seemingly willing to seize the initiative and take a f*cking shot. Sometimes it would get blocked and bounce harmlessly for a throw. Other times, as Lukas Podolski found out yesterday, such sudden directness can result in chances, that can result in goals. Jürgen Klopp put is best earlier this season, regarding Arsenal, the day after beating us 2-1 at the Emirates: "It's like an orchestra, but it's a silent song, yeah? And I like heavy metal more. I always want it loud! I want to have this: 'BOOM!€ This season, it has been Ramsey whom has placed the €œBOOM€ in Arsenal. Taking chances, making speculative runs into the box, playing it long over the top, shooting from distance. I'm not saying I want us to turn into Pulis' Stoke but there's a time and a place for symphonies and there's a time and a place for mosh pits and we need someone other than Ramsey willing to start a mosh pit.