august 6th
08.30 – Not long now till the season starts, and Fergie is getting desperate. After spending the last week showing off his bully boy tactics by threatening his own players with the chop if they don’t win anything, he now bleats that “there is no player in the country who wouldn’t want to play for Man Utd”. He reckons that Patrick Vieira wanted to join them last season (how does he know that unless he and Kenyon tapped him up last summer?) but Arsenal ‘blocked the move’. He also claims Man Utd are the most ‘entertaining’ team around. I have to admit that Barthez, Silvestre, Blanc, the Nevilles and Wes Brown all had some highly entertaining moments last season……although Roy Keane’s attempt to take Alan Shearer’s head off with a punch made me laugh the most.
Normally this kind of hot air doesn’t start until much later in the season, but Fergie is obviously trying to rattle Arsenal before it all kicks off. Nice try you bulbous nosed old soak, but I think we showed last season that your pathetic wind-up attempts just don’t work. Time to put yourself out to pasture with your old horses.
This is an interesting idea. The Arsenal first team players will sponsor their ladies counterparts for the coming season. It’s kind of like legalised pimping or something. Last season’s disciplinary problems have been addressed by the FA with a £50,000 fine which will be suspended until they see if things improve this season. No chance of them fining refs for making crap decisions then? Edu goes all ‘homeboy’ and welcomes his new ‘brother’ to Highbury.
Funny – Sunderland fans react to Peter Reid’s insistence on playing Kevin Kilbane. Poor old Peter didn’t mind though, he was quite happy to suck the cooking sherry out of his tracksuit. Finally for now, recognise anyone?
