Hello Gooners,

One of my buddies is a Reds fan, and is incessantly yammering on with Liverpool chants. I know the classic “One Nil to the Arsenal”, but don’t know if there is any more to it. This and any others would help me out as I hate to sit there silent while he spells his clubs name out in rhythmic fashion.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Question:

Despite being injured for almost a year, how did Eduardo manage to score two goals in his return game?

A) He is just that good.
B) He got lucky.
C) The opponents were not that strong.
D) It is Written.

Flashback

On Feb 23, 2008 Arsenal’s Eduardo was hacked down by Birmingham City’s Martin Taylor. Taylor broke Eduardo’s leg and even smirked after the incident. The British Media rushed to Taylor’s defense turning the villain into a victim saying such tackles are part of the game and that Taylor was “a nice guy.” Uh-huh. I am willing to bet that if the tackle was made by a non-Englishman on an English player the media would not have been so understanding and would have asked for blood. But since Eduardo was a Croatian and Arsenal were not Manchester United, things were left as is. Arsenal never recovered from that incident and threw away the title that was theirs, allowing the average Man Utd and Chelsea teams to overtake them. To make matters worse lucky Liverpool edged past Arsenal in the Champions League. Arsenal lost key players in the summer of 2008 and have been frustrating for most of the 2008/09 season so far.

Present Day: Feb 16, 2009

Almost a year later, Eduardo makes his first team return for Arsenal, scoring two goals in a 4-0 win over Cardiff City in the F.A Cup. Ofcourse this was still a 4th round F.A Cup tie with crucial league and Champions League fixtures to come, so only time will tell how much this result means in the long run. But for now I am just delighted at Dudu’s return. I can’t explain it but even though he didn’t spend that much time at Arsenal, I took to him a lot more quickly than I did with Adebayor, Bendtner and even Van Persie. So I was especially gutted at his injury and felt even worse when the rest of the Arsenal squad failed to win those crucial games post Feb 23 and kissed the title away.

I had always hoped that his return would undo events and uplift Arsenal. But so much has changed since he got injured and there has been so much negative news around the team that it will take more than his return to fix things. On the other hand, his return atleast brings a smile to my face, something that has been missing while watching most Arsenal games this season.

The logical answer is A but I am going with….
D)