september 28th
If there was a Richter scale of tiredness I’d have sunk San Francisco into the Pacific this morning. I had very strange dreams about buying some kind of Opel car which, when I paid the man, turned out not to be a car at all but Andy Cole. He then went on strike, for what and over what I don’t know. Then I was up in court to explain the 3D holographic graffiti I’d painted on the side of the Government building which said ‘Llloyd is a fool’. I have no idea who Lloyd is and strangely enough neither did the judge. I got let off with a warning. Most odd.
We’ll start this morning with what is potentially very bad news for Gilberto Silva and Arsenal. He has a back problem which initially looked like it was going to keep him out for a week, then it was a month, and now The Sun is reporting that Arsenal medical staff fear he could be out until Christmas if the worst comes to the worst.
I know he’s not everyone’s favourite player but his contribution to the side is often understated and to lose any first team player for that length of time is a blow. Let’s hope it’s not as serious as it might be. Obviously he’s out of the game tomorrow, as is Dennis Bergkamp who didn’t travel, while Robert Pires has a ‘small chance‘ of playing according to Arsene Wenger. With the greatest of respect to Rosenborg I don’t think the boss will take any chances and we could see a start for Robin van Persie.
Yesterday Sylvain Wiltord revealed that Arsene Wenger teased him during his time at Arsenal. I tell this for no other reason than there’s very little else going on but it’s fun to imagine training at Colney with AW taunting Sylvain ‘Hey Sylvain, your head is really, really pointy and you turn like a 350lb bedridden lady.’
I’m not sure that’s the kind of teasing he meant though. You’ll notice this morning there is no puzzley bit at the end, simply because I can’t think of any. Perhaps one day it will return. Finally, I promised you an RSS feed, and lo, here it is. Just post this URL into your news reader thingy and off you go. If you have no idea what an RSS feed is then don’t worry about, you most likely don’t need it.
