october 12th
Still not a lot happening, although there are a few snippets of news about.
We’ll start in Germany, where the man who never has anything nice to say about anyone, Franz Beckenbauer, has slated Jens Lehmann (who allegedly faces the end of his international career for wearing the wrong gloves). The Kuntzer says “Lehmann had a strong performance in Tehran, but what has he accomplished in his career? Nothing, aside from a few international matches and one English championship at Arsenal.”
He’s a very annoying man, so he is. I’d certainly find room for him in my special* room for football characters (also including Sepp Blatter, George Best, Alan Mullery and many, many more).
Robert Pires has had a niggly start to the season, suffering a thigh injury, a foot injury, a kidney infection, an achilles problem, spina bifida and whooping cough. He reckons this sick list might be hindering his form at the moment.
Sven Goran Erikkson has called Ashley Cole ‘world class’. I’m choosing to overlook all of Sven’s short-comings to agree with him on this one.
And that’s about all there is. Don’t forget the t-shirt competition, see yesterday’s blog for information on how to enter. We’ll accept entries until Wednesday night at midnight and the winner will be announced on Thursday morning.
*Special room contains giant scorpions, starving ocelots, Phil Collins music on endless loop, vats of PCP and chainsaws. And assorted kitchen and surgical implements.
