august 14th
07.34 – Way too tired to write much this morning. Every time I go asleep the alarm seems to go off nano-seconds later. I need microwave sleep. The one good thing is that tomorrow is a fiesta in Barcelona, so this is the last working day of the week for me.
AW has entered the realms of fantasy in voicing his displeasure at the news that Sol Campbell could face an FA charge for his wee kick on DumbandDumba. He said “This is farcical that Sol has been cited. It seems to me that we are living in farci-land. What about the challenge by Djemba-Djemba? It was obscene. Why is no action being taken about that?”
Farci-land, load of old fucking bollocks-land, whatever. I don’t think Sol will get done for this, but I hope he learns a lesson from it. Whatever you want to say about the initial challenge, a player as experienced as Sol should know better than to retaliate.
Robert Pires thinks Arsenal are well equipped to win the title and won’t make the same mistakes as last season. Speaking to Stepanovs.com he said “United were not superior to us but they were more efficient and more concentrated in the final stretch. We forgot the fact that Manchester United could catch us.” Le Bob reckons the title is between Arsenal, United, Chelsea, Newcastle and Liverpool. You can count Liverpool out for a start, and I don’t think Newcastle have quite enough to challenge, so for me it’s a 3 horse race. Arsenal, Man Utd and the 154 midfielders of Stamford Bridge.
Arsenal’s new shirt deal with Nike won’t pay for the whole of the new stadium apparently. Well, there’s a shocker. That’s about all there is this morning. I imagine there’ll be plenty of team news over the course of the day. We should know later on if Freddie Ljungberg and Martin Keown are going to be fit for the game against Everton.
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