october 13th
So tonight England play Azerbaijan, Ireland take on the Faroe Islands, Wales play Poland, France play Cyprus and Scotland lose to Moldova and I’m supposed to be interested. The England game might have been slightly interesting but Sven choosing Michael Owen as captain just illustrates what a star fucker he is and I can’t be bothered. I think I’ll drink a bottle of meths instead.
Lots of fuss this morning over David Beckham, who cleverly got booked when he realised he was injured, then stupidly told everyone exactly what he’d done. His quote yesterday about ‘I do have the brains’ was just pure Zoolander.
Arsenal’s reserves played Fulham reserves the other night. We won 1-0 with a goal from Geek Love Arturo and the most impressive man on display was Philippe Senderos, although Arsene Wenger was delighted to see 17 year old Ryan Smith back from serious injury. More from Rob over on Arsenal-Land.
Arsenal America, an Arsenal site in America, have done a Q&A with Nick Hornby which they’ll be publishing this Friday. Here’s a snippet: “I’m very disappointed about the Emirates thing, though. I understand the commercial pressure the club is under, but I’d hoped, foolishly and naively, that there might be some sense of romance and dignity left.”
Right on, Nick. Thank God he’d retain enough dignity and romance not to sell the rights to Fever Pitch to be made into a movie about baseball starring Drew Barrymore or anything. Oh…
T-shirt junkies, last chance today to win the Bergkamp shirt from harderthansatan.com (I hope they’ve registered harderthansanta.com for their Christmas range). See October 11th for details of how to enter. The winner will be announced early tomorrow morning.
