september 25th
“If tomorrow I was on the streets and had no job I would not turn down Real Madrid, but I am happy where I am.”
If there’s been a finer put-down this season, or any other, I’m hard pressed to remember it. You’ve just got to love Arsene Wenger who has assured Arsenal fans that he will be staying at the club and will be signing a new contract. With Ashburton Grove on the horizon and the financial clout that he’s really had to do without, the current crop of first teamers and the most promising set of youths in the club’s history he’d have to have been completely mad to want to go elsewhere.
Team news for today’s game sees us without Gilberto and Robert Pires who is likely to be out for the next two weeks. Edu should step into the breach in midfield, while we have lots of options for Bob. Freddie on the left, Pennant on the right, maybe. More likely we’ll see JA9 on the left with Dennis and Thierry up front, but we may well see Robin van Persie on the bench. The best news is that Sol Campbell is almost certain to return to a defence which has grown increasingly creaky without him.
I added something to the site yesterday. I know lots of people have no web access or restricted web access in work, but they’d still like to read the blog, so I set up a mailing list. This could also be handy if you’re going on holidays or something like that. You just subscribe and every morning you’ll get the morning’s blog sent to your email. For more details take a look at this page.
So I’m off to the market, it’s Manchester City this arvo. More later.
