march 1st 2003
16.16 – Welcome to a brand new month here on Arseblog.
It’s March now and the season is heading towards the finishing tape. 10 league games to go. Still a lot of points to play for between now and May. Arsenal take on Charlton tomorrow, who have been fantastic in recent weeks. Still, I much prefer to play a side that’s on a winning run. That run has to come to an end sometime, and hopefully we can get some measure of revenge for that bizarre 4-2 Charlton win at Highbury last season. We battered them in the first half, didn’t take our chances and paid the price.
In the light of the FA’s decision to charge Dennis Bergkamp for holding his arm out for Lee Bowyer to run into, Robert Pires brands the FA a disgrace and says Arsenal are being victimised. Arsene Wenger is also less than impressed with the FA’s latest piece of cuntery, saying “I’m shocked and surprised…surprised by the time that passed between the incident and the charge.” Which, irrespective of your view of the Bergkamp incident, is an excellent point. UEFA manage to review and deal with incidents in Champions League games within a matter of days. Why does it take the FA 6 weeks to make a decision on something? It could be because they’re a badly organised, mis-run shambles of an association. Just guessing though.
Anyway, we could see Freddie Ljungberg on the bench for tomorrow’s game. AW is set to make a decision as late as possible. Fingers crossed his injuries are behind him now. We need a fit Freddie for the last part of the season. Good luck to young defender Ben Chorley who has joined Wimbledon. He joins the on-loan Moritz Volz at the empty Selhurst Park.
Right, it’s ‘carnaval’ weekend here. I’m off into Sitges tonight to dress up as a foreigner and drink lots of beer, wine and other sparkly alchoholic stuff. I have pre-purchased two packets of Nurofen.
