november 24th
10.15 – “Durkin is Durkin. What can we do about him?”
AW knocks Paul Durkin of his christmas card list as he gets card happy with Arsenal players yet again. Sol now misses the game against Manchester United in a couple of weeks time, leaving us with big problems in the centre of defence. Pascal Cygan’s form still fluctuates from pretty good to pretty ordinary, Martin Keown’s 36 year old body is just about recovered from a hamstring injury and if he does play he’s hardly going to be match fit, and then we have Igors. With the best will in the world, I’d rather see AW himself play there. Now, it really is time to bring back Matthew Upson from Reading, and I would suggest that the manager should have a look at bringing in a central defender in January when he has a chance.
Not a word about Solskjaer’s WWF style forearm smash on a Newcastle player in yesterday’s game. He took him out, left the player flattened in the middle of the park, and neither the ref or the linesman saw fit to give a free kick, allowing Solskjaer to go on and score. Maybe it’s just me, but if that had been an Arsenal player…well, you know the sort of coverage it would be getting now.
A miserable, rainy, grey day here and the rain sadly is not falling mainly on the plain, but mostly on the coastly…or something. Next up, Roma away. Hurrah.
