february 2nd
9.45 – There’s nothing quite like getting up nice and early on a warm, spring, Sunday morning. Unless you’ve had a couple of bottles of wine too many the night before, and it’s as pleasant as licking the poo off a sheep’s arse. Gah.
AW is full of praise for Robert Pires and Francis Jeffers. I think yesterday’s brace made it 7 goals this season for Bob, which is pretty good considering his season didn’t start till October. Jeffers came on and shook things up a bit, had a couple of chances and set up the winner for Pires (not sure if it was deliberate, but we’ll give him the benefit of the doubt). Nice to see.
A change in attitude from Jermaine Pennant? “I aim to prove to Arsene that I’m worth a place in his squad, which is the best in the country. But the only way I’m going to do that is by working my socks off in training and doing my best whenever I get the call.” There’s never been any doubt about his talent, but there have been question marks about his application. Perhaps seeing Kolo Toure steam his way into the first team on a regular basis on the back of sheer determination and hard work has made JP think again about what it takes to make it at Arsenal. A £2m transfer fee won’t do that for you, son.
The Sunday Mirror links us with son of WWW, Sean Wright-Phillips. There’s nothing there to back it up, and he just strikes me as being a bit too small for this Arsenal side. AW likes his players big and strong. Like Justin Fashanu did.
Finally, for those of you with nothing else to do on a Sunday, have a lash at this (via Diamond Geezer).
