february 13th
Can you believe that piece on Arsenal America about selling Thierry Henry to Real Madrid? That bloke was obviously just using NewsNow to get hits to his site. You’d never catch me resorting to such behaviour. Oh no. The other thing is, I think he was trying to be serious in some ways. Which is kind of sad, because no Arsenal fan could ever advocate the selling of the world’s best player, no matter what kind of money was offered. In this article on arsenal.com Henry talks about how he struggled when he first arrived, so those people thinking twice about Jose Reyes should think twice about thinking twice. Patrick Vieira has revealed that the Arsenal team used to take the mickey out of Henry when he went through his Jonny Missalot phase. We used to take the mickey out of this guy in school who had a really, really wide head. ‘Wide-Head’ we used to call him. I’d always cycle home behind him because his wide head would block the wind.
Apparently the club are working on another European partnership venture. As well as the mighty Beveren, it seems we’re going to link up with Willem II in Hollandia. The Dutch league is certainly a higher standard than its Belgian equivalent, so we could see a number of our kids go over on loan to give them experience of first team football. I’m not sure why we didn’t send any to Beveren this year, but they seem to have a team full of players from the Ivory Coast, so I suspect the place is being run by modern day slave traders.
Good news on the injury front is that Dennis Bergkamp should be fit for Sunday’s FA Cup clash against Chelsea. Jeremie Aliadiere and Whatshisname Wiltord are still a good three weeks away from making their returns. Jose Reyes was not included in the Spanish squad for their upcoming game against A N Ation, as the Spanish manager reckons his time would be best spent settling into life in a new country and at his new club. He’s also just started taking English lessons, according to arsenal.com. I hope they’ve got him a good teacher and not some embittered Mick.
Ashley Cole talks about how he’s become the new Vieira. That doesn’t mean he’s shot up to 6’4” and will now play in midfield, it’s all to do with the fact he’s a bit grumpy on the pitch from time to time. People forget that he is still a young lad even though he’s played so many games for us. He’ll learn and anyone who thinks he’s a bit of a pup might just cast their minds back to the 4 decades Nigel Winterburn spent at left back winding up everyone who came within 30 yards of him.
Fridays are good. No work for me. Can start drinking…erm….now.
