september 18th
Ahead of today’s game with Bolton Sam Allardyce has made a typically classy plea to the referee to show his poor team some fairness and consideration when they play big bad Arsenal. You might remember he did something similar before the game at the end of the 2002/2003 season and at The Reebok Stadium Andy D’Urshole allowed our players to be kicked, battered, maimed and crippled without so much as a yellow card for Bolton.
Allardyce’s shitty excuses for mind games has drawn an angry reaction from Arsene Wenger who says “It is very unfair to come out with any statement about referees before a game. That’s an old trick – you should let referees get on and not speak about them like that.”
There are people who have lots of time for Allardyce and the way he’s cobbled together a team of rejects and finished in the top 10 last season. I’m not one of them and although I hope we win with a last minnute penalty given for nothing at all, I’d much rather we gave those cunts a good spanking. Here’s hoping.
In other news the boss says we nearly signed Miguel Angulo from Valencia only for the player to change his mind at the last minute. Although he’s better known as a forward he was primarily being signed to play at right back, so maybe that had something to do with it. Either way AW is still looking for somebody in that position and may make a move in the January transfer window. He also spoke about Robin van Persie and how he’s decided his best position is as a central attacker. He says the young Dutch player will be a ‘revelation’, if he ever gets a game. And finally for now Pascal Cygan has revealed he almost quit the Gunners in the summer. In fact, he was so fed up with life at Arsenal he was willing to take a salary 1/7th or 1/8th of what he currently earns at Highbury. No. Comment.
Right, I’m off to a 1st birthday party. Once there are no clowns it should be ok. More later.
