january 7th
08.31 – Back to work today. Booooo.
Arsenal go to Merseyside tonight to take on the team that took away our unbeaten record last season. Of course it’s just another game in a long season, but personally I’d like a 5-0 lesson-teaching to be dispensed tonight. And I hope Jeffers comes on and gets sent off.
We’re without Dennis Bergkamp and Sylvain Wiltord who both have injuries. The bad news is that Bergkamp’s knock will keep him out for 10 days. The good news is that Wiltord’s knock will keep him out for at least 10 days, just enough time to sell him for three bob and six’pence while we snap up a transfer window bargain. Wishful thinking on my part maybe, but with Kanu off to the African Nations Cup soon (sooner than the manager might like), we could find ourselves a bit short up front. Jeremie Aliadiere is fit again though and he’ll travel with the squad. There are also the likes of Bentley, Popopolopolopololous and Quincy MD to terrorize defences if we get really stuck. Can one of them be another Chris Wreh?
On the move (probably) is Moritz Volz. The club have agreed a fee with Fulham and the player now has to make his mind up about finalising the transfer. It seems fairly obvious that it’s in his best interests to move with Lauren, Kolo and Justin Hoyte all available for the right back slot, but he’s been at the club a long time now and might find it a bit of a wrench to leave. It’s also hard for us to see another promising youth leave the club, but we have to accept that for all the players who have great potential, and Volz certainly has the ability to have a good Premiership career, very few are going to make the breakthrough to our first team. It says a lot for the standard of our kids that they’re not just dropping down to Division 2 and 3 anymore.
Arsenal are not the same without Robert Pires, says Lee Dixon, who makes a lot of sense and writes very well.
I notice the 2004 Bloggies have been re-jigged to provide some new categories. No ‘Best sports weblog’ category though, which is a bit off if you ask me. There are categories for Best Canadian Weblog (what’s that aboot?), best weblog about music, best weblog about politics, there’s categories about best blogging bloggers who write blogging software for other bloggers, but no sports. There are lots of good sports blogs out there, we’re tired about being second class citizens. We’re the kind of overlooked minority gays and lesbians (yes, they have their own category and award) used to be until everyone turned gay during the 90s. Anyway, feel free to nominate Arseblog in any categories you see fit.
Yes, and it is a shame there’s no ‘Best Weblog about a football team by a Mick cunt’ category. More later.
