Andover - Bound Stems - Appreciation Night - 2006

There's honestly little on the planet more painful than watching someone you have immense respect for hang themselves on their principles. So, after watching my team collapse to an embarrassing loss in their second game of the season...to a vastly inferior team...I finally may be losing faith in our coach.

Arsene Wenger has made a habit of making great players out of talented, promising young men. And his current team shows the signs of producing more of these great players. Additionally, Wenger has a distaste for celebrity ego. He has a long history of selling off his prodigies the second they start believing their own press, and an equally long history of not buying established stars. But now as we have watched last seasons promising stars largely depart for bigger pay checks, it is abundantly clear that we need an experienced central midfielder on the pitch, and yet the coach will not budge, insisting that the squad is strong enough. It's going to be a long, long season.

Bound Stems mostly sound like a somewhat more light hearted Modest Mouse. Listen accordingly.