december 6th
18.01 – Leicester 1-1 Arsenal (Gilberto)
Didn’t hear a single thing from today’s game. Capital Gold decided Classic Hits™ were the order of the day today, and Leicester’s official site is another subscription rip-off service like arsenal.com.
Ashley Cole got sent off, Gilberto ‘responded’ with a goal, we had it all wrapped up, then AW brought off Freddie, put on Keown and Hignett scored a last minute equaliser for Leicester. Of course, I have no idea if those things are in any way related. Some people have mentioned AW shouting at Kolo Toure at the end. I don’t know. Maybe anyone lucky enough to see it or travelling gooners when they get back can leave an arse and tell us all about it. Chelsea were held by Leeds while the PLC knocked the shite out of sorry old Villa.
Last minute equalisers are pretty painful, but they’re not as bad as last minute winners. More tomorrow. Barça v Madrid tonight.
10.37 – Ok, the bad news going into today’s game with Leicester. Both Patrick Vieira and Thierry Henry will sit this one out. Vieira because “Patrick has missed eight weeks with his thigh problem and I planned to give him only 70 minutes against Wolves. He played the full 90, so there is no way I could give him two full games inside four days,” while Thierry has a knee problem.
It looks like Jeremie Aliadiere’s two goals in mid-week have done him no harm and could well start up front alongside Bergkamp or Kanu or even Wiltord. AW was quick to quash any speculation regarding Jose Antonio Reyes, saying “We are only at the beginning of December, it is not Christmas yet. I know of him, but we are not after anyone at the moment.”
John Halls has signed for Stoke City on a permanent basis having spent the last couple of months there on loan. Manchester United have apologised for Demento’s remarks about Arsenal and the FA, while Arsene Wenger has wished his great rival a speedy recovery from the heart problems that apology caused.
Barcelona v Real Madrid tonight as well. I was talking to one of my students on Thursday about the game and I said ‘Surely Kluivert has to score at some stage. Wait and see, the 89th minute Kluivert will score.”
He says “Sure, but after 3, 7, 18, 49 and 78 Ronaldo will score.”
Nothing like confidence, eh? More later.
