Send Your Encouragement to Kieran Gibbs
Written by Dariano on May 9, 2009 – 10:41 am -
For Arsenal fans (myself included), everybody knows what happened just nights ago, enduring the heartbreak of losing to one of our rivals in the Champions League semi-finals. But instead of lamenting ourselves over it, why don’t we do something positive?
All of us know that Kieran Gibbs made one a costly mistake in the match, slipping and then allowing United to score. How devastating that could be for a 19 year-old boy. However, this kid has a bright future ahead of him and what he needs to do now is to get his confidence back on track. And WE can do that for him. Why don’t we send some encouragement to him? Everyone loves encouragement, no matter how good you are.
So here is my big plan: To collect as many comments as possible, then send Arsenal.com those comments through email.
Some of you would argue it’s a waste of time, but then, think about it. How difficult is it for the webmaster of Arsenal.com to tell his boss to inform Arsene Wenger of the comments? Then Arsene Wenger can tell Gibbs about it and he’ll probably have a look. There is no harm for Wenger in doing all this; he knows as well as us that encouragement from the fans is what he needs. The whole process only takes minutes, if not days.
If you are interested, click on the article’s title, then post a comment in this format:
Name: Darren Chow
Location: Singapore
Message: Cheer up Gibbs, you’ve lots of potential. Don’t let the incident get the better of you! What’s over is over, get out there and show the world what you can do!
Lol… Sorry if you find my message corny. Try to keep your message short and sweet. If you don’t feel comfortable leaving any of your particulars, you can skip it.
And 1 more thing: You do not, I repeat, do not, need to be an Arsenal fan to send your regards. So even if you’re a Chelsea or Liverpool fan, you can also send encouragement! Tell your friends to participate too. It would be awesome if a Man United fan send some touching message for him! Come on, we support different clubs, but we all love football don’t we.
I hope to see the kind words rolling in. Good luck!
Tags: arsenal, Champions League, encouragement, gibbs, man utd
Posted in English Premier League, General Football | 21 Comments »
May 9th, 2009 at 11:34 am
Name: Darren Chow
Location: Singapore
Message: Cheer up Gibbs, you’ve lots of potential. Don’t let the incident get the better of you! What’s over is over, get out there and show the world what you can do!
May 9th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Name : Tanuj Lakhina
Location : India
Message : There have been far more instances where you’ve slipped and gotten up and defended for your team.This is another time.Don’t let one slip get you down. great show in the first leg :)
May 9th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Cheer up gibbs! We all love you! Every Arsenal fan i know has said that you are the most promising full back we have ever had!! Your class and you are probably the one person in the team that has real heart!! we love you gibbs……
May 9th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Breaking through to the first team makes this the best season for you and a sign of how highly you are rated by Arsenal Footbal club and the fans… Mistakes happen… Falling down is not the problem how you get up is. Get up stronger Gibbs we are right behind you. Really proud of you son.
May 9th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Every body has his own bad day. The second leg was your bad day. Forget it and move forward. I hope you will be one of the legends in Arsenal. Arsene Wenger has made a lot of errors in his life. But he is still cheered up as one of the greatest managers. You have made only one. Just one!
May 9th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
You’re gonna be an Arsenal legend! Can’t wait to see you playing again on Sunday!
May 9th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
If you feel bad about what fate did to you, just think about the Chelsea players. They were robbed by both fate, UEFA and Tom Henning Overbo. I’m a Chelsea fan and I’m sure Gibbs would go a long way and become a great great player. If you feel bad about the slip last night, think of Terry’s slip in Moscow !!
May 9th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
Kieran, you have made a huge difference playing at LB. Don’t be discouraged. You have a great future with us. See you on Sunday!
May 9th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Hard as it sounds to believe this, you will become a better player for this experience. Along with other Gunners, I have absolute faith in your ability.
May 9th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
C’mon Gibbs, youve got you’re whole career ahead of you! Everyone makes mistakes its what makes us human.
May 9th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
BTW Im a Liverpool Supporter ;)
May 9th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Singapore Support Gibbs
C’mon Gibbs I believe that you’ve done really well & there’s more to come from you.
May 9th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
The way you handled the mistake was impressive. Great defenders, I’m told have very short memory span. We look forward to you having an excellent Arsenal career in many ears to come. We love you Kieren!!!
May 9th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
The way you handled the mistake was impressive. Great defenders, I’m told have very short memory span. We look forward to you having an excellent Arsenal career in many years to come. We love you Kieren!!!
May 9th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
gibss you are so young , many legends made mistakes, even beckenbaur scored into his goal one time, just do not forgate it , because if you forgte it , it,s will never be a lesson
May 10th, 2009 at 4:57 am
Oh,Gibbs you are a very potential young with bright future in Arsenal. It is football where very unexpected events can happened and just think only for your future glories with Arsenal.
Arsene Wenger wins many trophies but non of the medals are with him coz he forgets everything that has been over.So, never feel shame!!!!!!!
May 10th, 2009 at 6:38 am
Name: Iqtesab
Location: Bangladesh
Message: Gibbs, chill out man… you have your whole career ahead of you. You have plenty of time to prove your doubters wrong. No hard feelongs, bro.
btw see u in england squad for World Cup 2011!!
May 10th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
Name: Eunice
Location: Singapore
Message: Gibbs, you are a great LB for someone who was formely a midfielder. No one will blame you and people make mistakes all the time. It’s hard to forget, but try letting go and focus on the current situation. Remember your game against Inter in the Emirates Cup, you were awesome!!! ((:
May 12th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
Name : Abayomi Aje
Location : Nigeria
Hi Gibbs, forget what happened in the champions league and move on with life. What happened has happened, it can not be changed you can only make it a stepping stone in life.
Remember no one will remember what happened that night, but many people will remember you if you become a great footbaler.
May 15th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
[...] One last thing, I’m still collecting comments to send to Arsenal.com with the aim of encouraging Kieran Gibbs to continue working hard after his mistake in the CL Semi-final. So far we’ve only gotten 19 comments, and I believe the number of comments alone might upset Gibbs. But I’ll definitely state that we’re a small site so of course we won’t be getting thousands of kind words. However I’m sure we can do better, do for those who haven’t done it, do send your regards to Gibbs and hopefully motivate him to work harder than before and become a youngster for the future. The thread can be found here. [...]
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:18 pm
Gibbs, you have great decision making and one of your main strengths i think is your ability to calm play down and pass out from the back with composure and quickly. Not only this but your attacking up the wing causes problems. Your a class player.