october 27th
It rumbles on. While Ruud van Nistelrooy admitted serious foul play and apologised to Ashley Cole (through gritted fetlocks, I’d imagine) for his horror tackle, Arsene Wenger let it be known how unimpressed he is with the Dutchman’s antics. “What is he doing carrying out such silly things? He does it like he is always innocent. Who is he trying to impress by doing that? Why can’t he just play football and forget all the rest?”
I think it may be because he’s a cunt, boss. Ruud’s record for snide challenges against us goes back a long way. He’s stepped on Keown’s foot, launched himself forearm first into Lauren, punched Freddie in the stomach, went in knee high on Keown again and now you can add Sunday’s effort. I’d swear he doesn’t like us or something. Anyway, with the new fast track disciplinary system he’s likely to miss United’s next three games and he can’t have any arguments. And I hope he gets the Ebola virus.
The boss also spoke about the tunnel incident, saying “Nothing happened in the tunnel.” I think he’s being very, very diplomatic here. There are reports that it all kicked off when van Nistelrooy and Ferguson burst into the Arsenal dressing room, prompting some self defence from a couple of our players, ending up with the United manager getting a slice of pizza straight in the face. As the FA are still investigating I’m not going to mention the players involved but you don’t have to look at too many message boards to find out. It’s also being reported that directors at both clubs are thinking of having a ‘peace summit‘ to put an end to the bad feeling between the clubs. Sounds a bit daft to me. We hate them, they hate us, but for 36 games a season we don’t have anything to do with them. It’s not exactly Israelis vs the Palestinians.
Tonight we’ve got the Carling Cup game against Manchester City and I’m told the team will be as follows: Almunia/Taylor – Hoyte – Senderos – Cygan – Larsson – Pennant – Cesc – Flamini – Pires – van Persie – Quincy/Lupoli. A reasonable amount of experience in there while it’ll be our first chance to get a proper look at Robin van Persie. With José playing out wide a lot there’s space in the team for another striker and it wasn’t long ago when Wenger was saying that’s where he’d decided the young Dutch man was going to play. A good performance tonight will give the manager something to think about. We’ll also see Phlippe Senderos as he makes his way back from a very serious injury which kept him out the whole of last season. It should be an interesting game.
If you ever wondered how the FA choose referees for each fixture, this should fill you in a bit. Don’t forget out t-shirt contest, see yesterday’s blog for details on how to enter. One t-shirt celebrates our 49 game unbeaten run (the 49ers, eh?) while the other commemorates Soupgate. Having gotten slightly mixed up as two what day it was yesterday we’ll take entries until midnight tonight then the random number generator will do it’s thing and I’ll announce the two winners tomorrow. Thanks again to goalhanger.com for the giveaways.
