november 11th
08.34 – “Remember that guy from Frankie Goes to Hollywood who used to dance around…er…Paul Rutherford. He was cool, wasn’t he?” You know. You wanker.
Ipswich Town have got their feelers out and are looking for a bit of big city Greek. Gunners defender Stathis Tavlaridis is interesting the Tractor Boys, so he is. Never hailed as the next anything, his departure seems inevitable as he’s obviously never going to make it in the first team at this stage. His agent said “I expect him to be heading for the Nationwide League Division One within a week or two.”
Five Arsenal players made the not-so-shortlist of fifty players in with a chance of winning European Player of the Year. Patrick Vieira, Sol Campbell, Thierry Henry, Robert Pires and …yep…Sylvain Wiltord. They’re in there with the likes of Beckham, Zidane, Raul, Nesta, Totti for the award that you just know they’re going to give to Ronaldo. Well done to our boys though.
“Give . . . me . . . a . . . break! This is purely an issue of Sir George, or whatever the hell his name is . . .” – The comically named Dick Pound, chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency, talking about Rio Ferdinand’s missed drugs test. Cheers to Will for taking the time away from export Guinness and ladyboys to point that one out.
Ray Parlour gets the good word from Arsene Wenger. “Ray Parlour is a fighter, that’s why he always comes back. He gives us a balance either on the right or in the centre and has physical qualities that other people don’t have.”
Sol Campbell is out of England’s friendly game with Denmark with an ankle injury. Zzzzz. International week trundles on. Arsenal news dries up.
