september 13th
09.48 – Urgh.
Right, let’s get the important stuff out of the way first. Arsenal yesterday launched a serious hunt for the mythical Screamapillar, who can be heard er…screaming…whenever the opposition score at Highbury.
Never was he/she/it more noticable than during the Arsenal v Man Utd game last season. As Ruud van Nistelrooy gave Sol Campbell the slip and scuttled towards goal, the Screamapillar let a number of plaintive screams. When Ruud actually scored there were another series of shrieks.
The screamapillar is particularly noticable when watching games on Sky. Arsenal want to find the Screamapillar. If you are the screamapillar or you know the screamapillar, see here for details of how to contact the club.
Another Arsenal.com special yesterday. They announced the official signing of Cesc Fabregas, then almost immediately removed the page. At the moment the page is still still blank. It’s not quite up there with the Vieira cock-up, but it’s yet another black mark against what was once a very good offical site.
Arsene Wenger has again stressed the importance of the new stadium. “For the club to get to the level of Manchester United and Chelsea, it’s vital we get a bigger stadium. It would be a blow if it didn’t happen as the club has put every energy towards it in the past two years. Our budget is the same as 10 other teams in the league and we need to be lucky with our players to stay at the top.”
“It did my head in at Arsenal. I went down there and I lost two years.” – Francis Jeffers on his Highbury hell. Cheers Franny, you did our fucking heads in and all, you cripple.
Brian Glanville on Eddie Hapgood. Times past.
Congratulations to the Rocastle Remembered team who have managed to clock up an impressive 100 years of processing time to help the fight against cancer. You can help too, you just need to download a little program for your PC and it runs in the background or as a screensaver. For details on what they’ve achieved and how you can take part, see this story here.
Portsmouth later on. Maybe the last chance to sing a song at Teddy.
Come ooooooooooon you gooooooooooners.
