february 13th
10.59 – England’s sporting humuliation at the hands of the Aussies is complete. Cricket, Tennis, dwarf chucking, and now football. Still though, Francis Jeffers made his full international debut and scored England’s goal, so from an Arsenal point of view it was a decent night.
Elsewhere, Gio van Bronckhorst scored Holland’s winner against Argentina, Bob, Paddy, Tel and Wiltord took part in France’s 2-0 defeat by the Czech republic, and it was nice to see Gilberto’s trip to the far east was not in vain as Brazil stormed to a …er….0-0 draw against the mighty China.
Anyway, now that the shite internationals are out of the way, we can get back to more important things. Like the FA Cup game this weekend. Freddie Ljungberg could be back in the squad after playing 45 minutes of the reserves 3-0 defeat to Ipswich Town last night. His comeback can’t come too soon if you ask me. Like many, I think the right hand side of the pitch has become weak over the last few months. Wiltord is playing like a spastic monkey of some kind, and he and Lauren don’t seem to link as well as they should. Consequently, too much of our play comes from the left hand side, and we lack the variation of earlier in the season. It was around this time last year when Freddie came back from an injury and went on a fantastic run of form, so let’s hope he can do something similar this time around.
Martin Keown will be free to renew aquaintances with his old pal Ruud. You might remember in the league game at Old Trafford Keown pushed the giant faced Dutchman in the face. Obviously van Nistelrooy has incredibly sensitive pain receptors and a highly tuned system of exposed nerves all over his body, as the slightest touch from an opposition player has him writhing on the ground as if somebody had stapled his scrotum to a table. Keown was fined £5,000 and warned about his future conduct. Well, I too would give Keown a warning about his future conduct. None of this slappy shite Martin. If you hit him again, you’d better knock some teeth out or break his jaw or something. Or else.
Ex-Arsenal striker Chris Wreh has been told he won’t be taken on by Northampton Town because he’s too fat. He scored a couple of important goals for us in his time, but with each season, his arse just got bigger and bigger and bigger. I shudder to think what size he is if he can’t get a game with Northampton Town.
