october 15th
Woken this morning, after a poor night’s sleep, to downstairs hammering. Then drilling. Then more hammering. I’m just waiting for the angle grinder to kick in. Quite frankly I hope their loins become infested with maggots and their eyes fall out. The cunts.
So real football returns after the internationals and we have some injury worries. Freddie Ljungberg is a doubt with a hamstring strain, but he’s not definitely out yet. Edu’s late flight back from South America means he won’t play against Villa and Gilberto is still out with his back problem. Pennant seems the obvious replacement for Freddie if he doesn’t make while Cesc will probably continue in midfield.
The war of words has been started, by the press I should add, after AW made some comments about Manchester United not being the force they were. He reckons their best years were ’99,’00 and ’01 because their players were at their peak then. I don’t really see how even the most blinkered United fan could argue with that. At that time Keane, Scholes, Beckham and Giggs were awesome. Now Beckham is gone, Keane’s career is winding down and Giggs and Scholes haven’t quite reached the heights they did back then. The boss isn’t writing them off though, as is being reported, saying “They do remain title contenders.”
The boss also talks about winning back to back titles – “We’d like to win two Premiership titles in a row — but we know it won’t be an easy challenge because some clubs are getting stronger like those with a big infrastructure, like Manchester United and Chelsea. However I’m confident we can be even better than last season.”
Meant to link to this yesterday but forgot. It seems to be a cleaned up Babelfish translation, but Robin van Persie talks about life at Arsenal. And yesterday it appears he wrote off his car on the M25, then panicked and left the scene until the cops tracked him down at Arsenal’s training ground. It seems like he’s had a lucky escape.
That’s about the size of it. If you’re going to the Villa game I should warn you there may be a Canadian there. So watch out.
