november 12th
08.43 – Did you ever take a moment to look at the workload ahead of you and feel like jumping off a bridge? Or throwing someone off a bridge. I think I like that one better.
Starting this morning with the news that The Grimster could be making a return to English football as a player-coach at Wycombe, with old team-mate Tony Adams in charge there now. Wycombe Chairman Ivor D’engine said “Giles was somebody that he [Tony] talked about playing for us at one stage but he didn’t know whether any of that is possible and I don’t think you would rule anything in or out at this stage.”
We say ‘Allez Gilles’. I’m surprised he hasn’t found a club to be honest, I always thought he was an underrated player. Ray Parlour has told Cardiff he’d wouldn’t move to Wales if his life depended on it. The ginger midfielder said “I’d rather eat my own brain with a tea-spoon than go to Wales.” And who can blame him? Ipswich manager Joe Royle has ruled out a move for Stathis Tavlaridis, saying that the agent was just making stuff up because that’s what agents do. And that’s probably what he did. So there you go.
Barcelona are ‘interested’ in Thierry Henry apparently. I can’t imagine there are too many teams that wouldn’t be interested in him. According to to the President Joan Laporta “Barcelona Football Club has the capacity to sign or Henry because it has credibility among financial institutions.” What that means is that he’s got a Barca supporting mate who is a bank manager who will convenient overlook their €160m debt to finance a mega-signing. Anyway, dream on Joan, it’s not gonna happen. Meanwhile, Thierry, David Beckham and others took part in a tribute game for Marc Vivien Foé who was Blattered to death during this summer’s Confederations Cup.
Portsmouth stiffs 1-1 Arsenal up-and-coming superstars. Quincy Owusu-Abeyie scored for us.
Right, that’s it.
