september 21st
08.26 – “Our performance against Inter Milan was so bad that I couldn’t sleep afterwards. How can you sleep when you know you haven’t done your jobs, individually or as a team and disappointed so many fans?” – Robert Pires.
But the French boys don’t care, of course. Some more good stuff in the Telegraph article linked above.
Amy Lawrence in the Observer speaking about Arsene Wenger and our promising young players. “He must soon start practising what he preaches regarding the young players. Arsenal punters have tired of watching Kanu lope on to try to save a game when exciting teenagers Jeremie Aliadiere and David Bentley wait in the wings.”
I don’t have anything in particular against Kanu, but she makes a good point. Bentley wasn’t allowed go out on loan by Wenger and Pat Rice because they said he was needed at the club. Where exactly do we need him? Aliadiere will get his chance ‘in the near future’ according to Le Boss. Unlikely that it’ll be today. Sooner or later he’s got to bite the bullet on this one. Young players don’t get a chance when the team is doing well because you don’t change a winning team. They don’t get a chance when things are going badly because you need experience to cope with hard times. So when do you play them?
Arsenal need Martin Keown according to some witless People hack. Ashley Cole talks about some of the criticism he’s received over the last few weeks, ” I’ve been battered over the last month and it has got me down. It’s affected the way I’ve played and in a way it’s killed me – my head has gone. I’m still young, I’m still learning, I’ve never said I’m the finished article or even believed that but it seems like people have built me up to run me down at the moment. I just wish people would give me a chance.”
Poor Ash. Some of the stick he’s got has been way over the top. Form is temporary, class is permanent. He’ll sort it out.
Ok, I think I’ll potter around for the day. I believe there’s a game of football later. I might watch that.
