We’re right slap bang in the middle of this international week and it’s difficult to find anything to bring you this morning.
Stan Kroenke, father of little Jimmy Kroenke, has denied any interest in an Arsenal takeover, saying:
There’s no interest or intention in buying any shares or any pieces of Arsenal Football Club, or any club in the Premier League.
However, I’m told from two well placed sources that ITV have been in discussions with this group regarding the 9.9% of the club they own. Whether anything further happens now, I don’t know.
The Togo sports minister says he doesn’t understand the decision to send Emmanuel Adebayor, and two other players, home as the mediation process regarding the bonus payments was still underway. Perhaps the big man arrived in the office for talks, said his piece then did that dance he does with Thierry Henry. That might have given them just the chance they needed.
“Get out, Adebayor”, they might have said. “We won’t have any of that dancing here.”
“You people don’t understand the funk, the Adebaygroove”, he might have replied whilst gyrating his hips in an entirely inappropriate way but which also made them slightly aroused.
“Good Jesus, it’s the Togonian Elvis, the one the prophets have warned us about”, they possibly exclaimed. “From hence forth you are prohibited from playing for the national side lest you infect the rest of the players, and the country, as you trip this light fantastic.”
“Your loss, man, I mean, men”, Ade could have said in reply, “the Adeboogaloo could have united this country in dance, in joy and in World Cup winning football but I will return to London where they appreciate my moves. See you bitches later.”
Football is as much about politics as anything else, isn’t it?
Former Gunner Anthony Stokes says his new boss, Roy Keane, is like Arsene Wenger while Clubcall link us with Italian central defender Matteo Ferrari.
More tomorrow (fingers crossed something actually happens today).
