may 24th
11.59 – My god, the weekends are even worse for real football news.
There are a couple of things around though. Alan Smith’s end of season awards are worth a read, especially for the story about the funniest moment of the season. In Smudger’s own words:
“..this one came only last Monday during the annual staff game at Shenley. One coach, who shall remain nameless, kept on chipping away at Arsene Wenger with painful late tackles.
“The great man took it for a while before turning around angrily and shouting “Why don’t you stop ****** kicking me!”“
Liverpool are now well known as a dour, boring side under Hoofier. Their fans want to spend money on a winger or two, like Damien Duff or Harry Kewell. So they’ll be pleased to know that their boss has his sights set on Arsenal target John Terry, who is of course a central defender. That’s according to The Sun anyway.
Cheers to Moj for the fetching picture to your left there – he also did one with van Nistelrooy, but there wasn’t enough space on the page for his giant chin.
Arsene Wenger has said that we will see more of the youth players next season, as he looks to them to save him some money in the transfer market. AW says, “We have Svard, Volz, Aliadiere, Garry and Bentley. Some are those players will come through. But what you have to understand is that we have world class players here. Over the last few years we have lifted the level of the academies very well and we have one of the best in England now. But the players who come through into our first-team must be an exceptional talent.”
I know I have to write something every day about Arsenal or Arsenal-related, but imagine the crap you’d come up with if you had to fill a daily newspaper all about football. If you were a Barcelona friendly paper, what better way to annoy your great rivals than teasing them with a story about Arsene Wenger going to manage them?
Right, that’s about all I can scrape together today. Till tomorrow…
