A day to go now and the excitement is rising
The end of the season, a dream realising
A day to go now and all Gooners knowing
Irrational yes, but confidence is growing
Forgetting the facts, half the team want to leave
Half the defence we are missing and still we believe
Of course they are better the experts will say
But we know it’s which team ‘turns up on the day’
Our captain so rusty, he squeaks with each stride
The Big F..king German though, he will not hide
Our Cup Keeper is David, ‘oh flipping eck’
Surely, at Wembley it has to be Cech
With Per it looks like Holding and Nacho, a three
A lucky break for Gibbo, his last match to see
On the right, should it be Hector or will it be Ox?
Better defender or better crosses in the box?
Bellerin to start, the man with the shirt
Ox to come on later, their tired legs too hurt
Ramsey and Xhaka or Xhaka and Coq
Which combination to be the impervious rock?
I think the Welshman will start on the day
So please Aaron some discipline and know when to stay
First to protect our defence and be strong at the back
By so doing earn the right to join the attack
And Granit stay focused and stay in the race
Your sublime range of passing made for this space
Finding the gaps and finding our runners
With your probing passes and your thirty-yard stunners
Give Arsenal the base to grow into the game
Give a platform to the maestro we all know his name
We’ve got Ozil, but which one have we got?
The World’s best 10 or the one who forgot
That he has the talent to win us this day
Leave nothing out there Mesut and have the last say
And Alexis if this is to be the last game?
Leave Wembley a winner, us singing your name
Score another Cup Final scorcher maybe
Let the stadium ring out to ‘Alexis Sanchez baby!’
A final decision up top, Danny or Oli
Picking the Frenchman though would be folly
It has to be Welbeck to stretch their back line
Danny in behind, may this match define
So there is our team to gun us to glory
To write a new chapter in Arsenal’s proud story
A day to go now and the excitement still rising
The end of the season, a dream realising
A day to go now and all Gooners knowing
Irrational yes, but confidence is growing
No more talking or words left to say
But ‘She wore a Yellow Ribbon in the Merry Month of May’
Passionate fifty-something Arsenal supporter who has been making the journey to N5 regularly since the early 1980s – although his first game was in 1976. Always passionate when talking about The Arsenal, Dave decided to send a guest blog to Gunnersphere in the summer of 2011 and has not stopped writing about the Gunners since.
He set up his own site – 1 Nil Down 2 One Up – in February 2012, which he moved on in 2016 to concentrate on freelance writing and building Gunners Town, which he launched with Paul in 2014.
The objective of GT was to be new and fresh and to give a platform for likeminded passionate Arsenal fans wishing to write about their team. Dave still of course, writes for the site himself and advises the ever-changing writing crew.
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