february 20th
09.06 – It’s keeper crisis time again at Arsenal. It looks as if David Seaman has aggravated groin and hip injuries and according to Pat Rice, he only got through the game against Man Utd on Saturday through pure adrenalin. So, it looks like it’ll be down to Stuart Taylor to fill the nets in Seamo’s absence, and young keeper Craig Holloway has been promoted to the Champions League squad because new signing Warmuz is not eligible to play in Europe.
It raises a couple of questions though. Firstly, if Seamo was so bad, why did he play at Old Trafford when AW was prepared to rest Henry and Bergkamp? We’ve got plenty of back up for them. Secondly, why the buggery fuck did we sign Warmuz when he can’t play in Europe? Surely there must have been at least 1 keeper good enough to sign for us who could also have played in the Champions League. Personally, I think we should have bought somebody last summer who could have challenged Seaman for the No1 jersey. Now, I hope we don’t regret not having signed Seamo’s successor in the hope he could do one more year.
Ajax striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has taunted the Gunners and said that while the attacking part of the of the team is great, we’re weak defensively and that the Dutch side will go through at the expense of Arsenal. Now, my normal reaction would be to tell this bloke that he’s one of these, but he makes an interesting point. By stopping the full backs playing the ball, Arsenal’s distribution from the back had to come from the centre halves. Sol is a good stopper, but he’s not much on the ball, and Cygan is…er…Cygan. I love the fact we have attacking full backs, and Ashley is solid enough most of the time. I do have my doubts about Lauren’s defensive attitude at times though, and a right full back that can go forward, but also defend well would be on my shopping list this summer. That, along with a goalkeeper and a decent centre half.
Anyway, I’ve decided that Zlatan’s thoughts were interesting for about 18 seconds, and he is in fact one of these. I hope we stuff the fuckers in Amsterdam, and the travelling gooners smoke themselves into a victorious stupour after the match.
Kudos to Arsenal’s stadium announcer Paul Burrell who explained to the Arsenal fans ahead of the game against Ajax that Arsene Wenger’s normal pre-match interview wouldn’t take place. He said “Mr Wenger has lost his voice – as opposed to Mr Ferguson who has lost his head.” Good stuff. The bigwigs at the club weren’t too impressed though, and gave him a warning as to his future conduct. Any more slip-ups and he’ll have to go back to raiding Princess Diana’s possessions and selling them on the internet.
Finally for today, please take some time to look at this. These are the 5 choices of music that Arsenal.com has for you to vote on. This music will be played every time Arsenal run out at Highbury. For fucks sake. What poxy middle aged, Radio 2 listeners did they get to make these suggestions? Tina Turner – get fucked. Robbie Williams – horse piss in a bucket full of donkey spunk. The A-Team – old hat, it’s been done before. The 1971 Double squad – great players, but footballers can’t sing. Tchaikovsky – when was the last time he had a song in the charts? Take a moment to email [email protected] and tell them these pieces of music belong on hospital radio, not in a football stadium to welcome the champions to the pitch.
