april 14th
11.34 – So, it’s Southampton in the FA Cup final on May 17th. They beat Watford 2-1, so it’s Wenger versus Strachan. Two managers for whom English is not their first language. Anyway, that’s a few weeks away yet, so we can forget about it for the time being.
Of much greater importance right now is Wednesday’s game against Man Utd. Bad news for us is that Patrick Vieira is only 50/50 to start the game – which is reasonable enough I suppose. He either will or he won’t. The captain suffered a recurrence of his knee injury in the first half – which seemed to be exacerbated by Michael Brown’s cowardly rake down the back of his leg in the second half. I suspect that Patrick will recieve whatever injections, massages, therapy and hypnosis is needed to get him on the park for Wednesday.
David Seaman will stay at Arsenal next season, for sure, although we’re not 100% certain in what capacity. AW says “I have not made my mind up completely about next season but David will stay with us, certainly as goalkeeping coach at the club. It could be if he’s still number one next season that he could take it slowly and become number two and number three and still take the goalkeeping coaching sessions.”
Anyway, I’ll try and track down a decent sized picture of that save yesterday and make a wallpaper – which of course will only be available to arseblog.com members.
Going into Wednesday’s game, AW is confident the Gunners can retain the title, despite Ferguson’s bleatings about how he should never have said his team could win it. “In England, every time I say that we can win the league, it seems that it’s shocking. What do you want me to say? That I want to lose the league? That would be even more shocking.”
It’s not all down to this game on Wednesday, a draw would leave both sides still with a chance, a win would give us the advantage, but if United win, they’ll go 6 clear with a game in hand and we’ll be relying on other people to do us a favour. Whatever happens, we have to make sure it’s still in our own hands come the end of Wednesday. I’m nervous already.
