FA Cup Final: Arsenal wins first silverware since 2005

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Well it took nine long frustrating years but Arsenal FC have finally won a trophy and the script couldn’t have been written any better, the last trophy Arsenal won is the first they won to end the nine year drought, the FA Cup. No one including me ever saw this drought coming when Arsenal beat Manchester United in the 2005 FA Cup Final, and hopefully Arsenal fans wont have to go through that again.

Now that the club have tasted what winning silverware taste like hopefully they will want more and will strive even harder to win the league title and any other competition they are in for the 2014-2015 season. I have to give credit to Hull City though, clearly the underdogs in this final yet from the start they came out swinging. By the 10th minute of the game they were up two to zero, and as a Arsenal fan myself I could only shake my head in utter disappointment and dread.

Then as fate would have it Santi Cazorla scored a stunning free kick before the half to give a 2-1 scoreline, at this point it was game on and hope returned to the Arsenal fans, but it was slowly getting away as Arsenal could not break Hull’s defense until Laurent Koscielny scored in the 70th minute of the game. Into extra time the game went and I thought it may end up in a penalty shootout, but then the Welshman Ramsey scored in extra time and the feeling for all the gunners including myself was indescribable. At last a trophy finally landing for Arsenal.

Now hopefully during the summer Arsenal will buy a striker and maybe a couple of defenders and strengthen the squad enough to compete with the top clubs in England and Europe.