december 10th
We’ll start this morning with José who feared he was about to be given a little time off from the first team, only Freddie’s migraine saved him from the chop the other night, and a good job too as he got his first goal in an age and it’ll have given his confidence a boost ahead of Sunday’s game. He’s got a good scoring record against Chelsea and I fully expect him to put at least 5 past Petr Cech in our 15-0 victory.
Didier Dogbag reckons everyone is now scared of Chelsea because they win games and that José Mourinho has a lot to do with it. I’m not going to go down the road of talking about the millions that Championshipmanovich has spunked on new players but with no disrespect to the moany old Porto coach I reckon Chelsea could rehire Dave Webb and they’d still be a threat. Yes, I know there’s more to building a team than spending money and Chelsea are a better side under Mourino than they were under Ranieri. That’ll make our 27-0 victory all the sweeter.
Sol Campbell, set to sign a new deal, has put a little perspective on things by reminding Chelsea there’s still a long way to go in the title race – “It’s a marathon, not a sprint. And who knows if they can last the pace?” – while Dennis Bergkamp is confident the Gunners have turned a corner and put their poor form behind them, saying “With the two results we have had against Birmingham and Rosenborg hopefully we are back at our best.”
Also interesting to hear Dennis say that it was important not to panic and that they did a lot of positional work during training to try and put things right again. People are quick to write off Wenger as a tactician and a coach when we have a relatively poor spell but you don’t achieve what he has without having a vague idea of how to coach a team, don’t you think?
According to the Mirror Jens Lehmann and Manuel Almunia are not the best of friends anymore. Word is that the Spaniard could keep his place for Sunday. That’ll be a 27-26 victory for us then. However, I’m not saying it’s 100%. Jens could be back. In which case it’ll be 27-20.
Finally for today I’ve freshened up some of the top images a bit. There are new ones of Cesc, Robin van Persie and a few others. How exciting.
