july 1st 2004
Welcome to a brand new month on Arseblog, and what better way to kick off a brand new month than with a piece of transfer news so incredible it’ll shake you to your very boots?
So, if anyone has any incredible transfer news, please let me know.
We have some transfer news, but it’s far from incredible. Alex Bailey, one of the 17 players released by the club last week, has joined Chesterfield and the lad is worried about being homesick. Good luck to him, anyway. Swegyptian goalkeeper Rami Shaaban (bless you) could stay in England as, according to his agent, that’s his preference. Alleged goalkeeping target Robert Green has signed a new deal at Norwich, meaning Arsenal weren’t interested at all. And that’s about your lot when it comes to Arsenal news.
The first semi-final took place last night and the hosts went through against a pretty poor Dutch side. Ruud had a few words to neigh about the referee, who booked Arjen Robben for repeated simulation (diving, not Bowie on Ronson’s guitar type), but Holland didn’t create anything much and were lucky to have scored from a freaky deaky own goal by Jorge Andrade. A fair result and Portugal’s involvement has kept what has been a pretty poor tournament festive and interesting.
The second semi is on tonight as the Czech’s hope the Greeks won’t give them a bit of Greek like they did to France. You’d have to think Greece have gone as far as they can in this tournament, but it’s a funny old game blah blah blah. The one thing I am sure of though is that Nedved will get a yellow card somewhere along the way and Jesper Gronkjaer will be the new Slaven Bilic. Fingers crossed it doesn’t happen, but you just know it will.
That’s it. I’m off to invent some transfer stories.
