Haiku Review: Liverpool 1 - 1 Arsenal

A new feature this year for Hipster Gooner is the post-match haiku review. Never has football writing so incisive or poetic.

Manuel Almunia: 4
He did not drop the/
ball into his own net like/
Pepe Reina (twat.)

Bacary Sagna: 5
A Sagna suspect/
cross. A beauty to behold/
for Daniel Agger.

Laurent Koscielny: 6
Joe Cole nearly broke/
him. Sent him for an early bath/
by Sir Atkinson.

Thomas Vermaelen: 6
Agog at Ngog/
For Liverpool's opener.
Solid otherwise.

Gael Clichy: 5
Should be number three,/
but I did not really see/
him do much at all.

Jack Wilshere: 4
Jack passed the ball to/
the Liverpool attack. Well,/
that was a bit crap.

Abou Diaby: 5
Abou Diaby!/
Just a bit mediocre!/
Abou Diaby!

Emmanuel Eboue: 5
Some only came to/
see his dramatic sidesteps,/
comical fumbles.

Samir Nasri: 6
Some words of advice:/
When you're taking those free kicks,/
hit it over the wall.

Andrei Arshavin: 2
Small like this haiku/
About the same amount of/
quality also.

Marouane Chamakh: 6
Marouane Chamakh
was pretty good in attack.
A goal he did lack.

Substitutes: The three replacements, due to a lack of time on the pitch, only receive a micro-haiku (3,5,3) for their efforts.

Tomas Rosicky: 8
Flowing locks/
gone. Just like the boys/
of summer.

Theo Walcott: 4
Walcott, heed/
my words and take flight./
It's insane.

Robin van Persie: 5
R. V. P./
forget injury./
Smash the ball.