october 5th
So all the news yesterday was about the fact that Arsenal PLC have had the domain names registered for ’emiratesstadium.com’ and they have to co.uk flavour in there too. The club did say when they were looking for a stadium sponsor they’d be looking for a company or organisation they could work with and who ‘are compatible with the Club in terms of their philosophy.’
But obviously we’d be willing to forgive and forget the very suspect philosophy of being Chelsea’s, and the referees’, sponsor. Money, like beer, helps us forget.
Then up popped the competition on Arsenal.com whereby young Gunner can predict the kit we’re going to wear next season to mark our last at Highbury. There are all sorts of rumours about us playing in a kit with, wait for it, no white sleeves, but arseblog.com can exclusively reveal the new kit for you today.
Our new sponsors, Nike and the club have come up with a design and colour scheme which will celebrate the great history of the club, using colours only associated with Arsenal and with a retro style that screams 1913 but has a modern elegant look for the naughty noughties.
Sorry to ruin the fun for all the kids who wanted to enter, but to see the new exclusive new picture of the new kit just hold your mouse over Freddie over to your left there.
Well, would you put it past them? I’m told that the new kit will be all red and will not feature white sleeves. I don’t have confirmation of that though, but I’m hoping that’s not going to be the case. Anyway, apparently there’s going to be a press conference this morning at 10.30am to announce details of something, no doubt the stadium sponsorship. You can find out what happened by keeping your eye on NewsNow.
By the way, The Emirates Stadium is something that I just put in a headline this morning, we don’t know yet if that’s the official title. I’d imagine at the very least it will be The Arsenal Emirates Stadium, and that will be only how it’s known formally, on paper and in speeches. I can’t imagine too many fans calling it that, it’s just unfortunate that Emirates have such an association with that other lot, and while they’ve obviously come to their senses and decided to go with a club with a bit of class… *cough*…it feels a bit strange. Sort of like how I’d feel if we signed Teddy Sheringham. Anyhow, let’s wait and see what they all have to say.
Competition time: Thanks to my new best friends at goalhanger.com I’ve got two of these ace ‘Highly Fabregas’ t-shirts to give away. All you have to do is email ‘[email protected]‘ and give me the answer to the following question. What is ‘Cesc’ short for. Is it a)Dermot b)Francesc or c)Cescito. Get cracking. Winners announced on Friday morning, so last entries will be accepted midnight on Thursbury.
And that’s that.
