8 Years and Counting....

How I Met Your Mother is closer to the end than the beginning, 7 more episodes and Bam, 9 year old Dramatic Comedy will come to an end. Although towards the end it had more of Drama and Less of comedy, it will always be one of my all time favourite sitcoms. 

Come to think of it HIMYM is a TV series with a very simple plot, Ted trying his luck with girls to find his "The One" . The same story went for 8 and still going on. Who on their right mind would watch this for 8 years one guy failing again and again on his pursuit for "The One". Yes, It's fun to watch and all, yet. 8 years and nothing to show, he came close with Stella but was left in the altar for another who had prior relationship with her. Almost all the characters lost hope on him but Ted, he kept on trying. Who'd watch this for 8 years? And why does this summary seem so familiar to me? Where have I experienced it before? Ah, The Arsenal. One Arsene Wenger. 

8 Years waiting for that elusive trophy, all the others taunting the club and the fans and yet that one club and the fans didn't lose hope. It's all very scarily similar to Ted. Since 2005 FA cup final when Patrick Vieira put that penalty in that left side top corner Arsenal is yet to win a trophy of any importance. Being a Gooner it's almost impossible to forget that trophy barren, whenever you post something about Arsenal in any public forum the very first comment you get is "No Trophy for 8 Years". How Original and Creative of them! Yet it's a fact Arsenal didn't win anything. Through all this Gooners stood still and didn't lose hope. After all we didn't have trophies to show but we had hope. Again it's Ted written all over it. Everyone were taunting Ted for being single, from Farthampton inn receptionist to Barney everyone kept it as their second job to reminding it to Ted. Ted waited with Hope for 8 years. Arsenal waited for 8 years. At least for Arsenal we had 13 trophies prior to that 8 years. 

We were left in the altar by Barcelona in the Champions League finals. Yet we waited with Hope. HIMYM started with Ted meeting Robin in a bar and she coming into Ted's group. For 8 years Ted believed Robin is the one, even when she was dating Barney he wanted to get her back. He lost his Robin (Whom he thought his love of the life) to Barney Stinson. Even after losing Robin to Barney he maintained that he's over Robin and he has moved on. Eventhough his actions suggested something else.Again, I can't be the only one to see the Arsenal resemblance. Robin, Robin, Robin Van Persie?? We Arsenal took Robin van Persie from Netherlands and made him into the player he is now, only for him to break our hearts and go to "The Dark Side". When RVP won the golden boot in 2011/12 season, we Gooners hoped we could dare do That with some more recruitments. We hoped. Only for him to find his love somewhere else. And he had to go to Manchester United (Like Barney, It's all plastic you get on the surface, but deep down underneath all those plastic you get the real one too). For the whole next season we maintained that we are over RVP, our Cazorla, Podolski and Giroud would do the same job and we don't need RVP. Although deep down we would've given our right leg to have him in the club. Ted will eventually get over Robin, when he met "The Mother". Bubbly eyes which are too big for the face mother. When he met her in the 9th season. We Arsenal met our Bubbly eyes Mother too in the 9th season, A German mother. OZIL. In the Ted's case we know for sure that the mother would help him get over Robin and reach that thing Ted was looking for. And in Arsenal's case, well again we can only hope. Ted, even during his lowest hour wanted to achieve his target the right way. He wanted to meet The One, but he wanted to do it the right way. No Play Book, No tricks or getting girls by money or fame. And his persistence of doing it the correct way didn't do him any good in the short run. He failed again and again, got Krav Mega kicks from girls and even got a tramp stamp on his back, but he tried. Come on, now this is obvious, Arsene Wenger.

Our stubbornness on not spending the money we don't have maybe one of the reasons for this trophy drought. When Chelsea and City came in with their no limit budget and inflated the market, We just couldn't cope up with it. But Arsenal wanted to wait and do it the right way, We waited with hope. We Gooners wanted to win and we wanted to do it with style. We wanted to win it playing the Wenger's way. We wanted to win it playing WengerBall. At least for Ted, he's sure to meet "The One" in the 9th season. Not so certainty for Arsenal. But we have no choice but to wait with Hope. After all it worked out well for Ted. So here's to the hope that OZIL could be our Bubbly eyed Mother. 


After all, We need Teds and Arsenals to win to have that Hope in this world.