I have no problem accepting the result - you can only win a game if you score, and United singularly failed to get the ball (legitimately) into the onion bag.
What does irritate me is the absurd way in which the Arsenal players and management celebrated - as if they had
won the match, rather than lifted the trophy on the back of a fortunate assumption by their 'keeper in the lottery of a penatly shoot-out. Just as United failed to convert their superiority on the field, so Arsenal failed to positively contest the match, let alone earn the win.
The match was not won, it was lost.
Celebration of mediocrity is becoming all too prevailant in sport, and today it was mildly embarrasing to observe the over-rated, underperforming Arsenal players cavorting on the pitch. I take my hat off to Thierry Henri, a true sportsman, who acknowledged the reality of his team-mates good fortune and the contribution of the United players. Without their attempts to make a game of it this could have been the dullest final in years instead of one of the most gripping.
Good luck to the Hammers and the Scousers next week.
I only hope that should the football Gods smile upon them, they will have done something positive to earn the spoils.
At least, like the Murphy's, I'm not bitter
