march 6th
There was a moment yesterday when we realised that there were no painkillers in the house. Both my wife and I were fully aware of that before we had few drinks last night. Then we ordered a pizza and a man who looked like Steptoe arrived with the food and spoke to me in some kind of dialect I’d never heard before. The pizza was washed down with some more beer and then that beer was washed down with even more beer. This morning I am ruing the fact that I didn’t go out and purchase any painkillers. I’m looking at some dog antibiotics and thinking ‘maaaybe….’
So today’s game doesn’t take place until the evening. Plenty of time to go out and buy some nurofen, I suppose. Arsenal will be without Robert Pires and Dennis Bergkamp and the expected line-up is: Lehmann, Lauren, Kolo, Sol, Ash, Ljungberg, Vieira, Gilberto, Edu, Reyes, Henry.
No word as to who will be on the bench. Arsene Wenger says that leaving Pires out has nothing to do with the warm reception he would have received from the Portsmouth fans who bought the media tripe that Pires is the world’s biggest diver. Granted he made the most of the incident at Highbury, but when you compare it to Gary Neville’s swan dive against City the other week, Gudjohsen’s at Stamford Bridge against us, or the countless incidents involving van Nistelrooy and Owen, master divers, then Pires is clean. He never goes looking for penalties, doesn’t sit on his arse appealing to the ref and even when he was taken out of it twice (I think against Birmingham) he doesn’t complain.
The boss has also spoken of how he received death threats while managing in France. This comes in the light of the threats made against under fire Liverpool boss, Gerard Houllier. Poor Ged, I think he should know that he has the support of all the fans of every other Premiership side. Keep it real mediocre, Mr H.
Right, the dogbiotics are looking more and more tempting. I have go collect my scooter this morning (Huzzah for Alberto Correcto) and I think it’ll be time for a hair of the dog. Have a good Saturday, Portsmouth this evening. More later.
