december 14th
We don’t have a game until Sunday so it’ll probably be a quiet enough week. We’ll start this morning with the news that Thierry Henry was overlooked for the Ballon D’or as Andriy Shevchenko was voted European player of the year. I like Shevchenko, he’s a top, top player but I don’t know what he did that made him deserve the award ahead of Henry. Even more difficult to fathom is the fact that Thierry finished fourth behind Ronaldinho and Deco. Deco?! For fucks sake. There’s the world player of the year award to come on December 20th and if he doesn’t get that then there’s something wrong. The guy is amazing. Ask any manager to choose one player in the world for his team and I bet most of them would choose him.
Peter Cech, still smarting about Arsenal’s second, claims that Graham Poll must be an Arsenal fan. The funny thing is he’s a Chelsea fan and used to go to the ramshackle old kip of a ground when he was a younger man. Doesn’t Jose have the most lovable face in football, and did anyone else notice his fetching lipstick on Sunday? Arsene Wenger is worried about Freddie Ljunberg whose migraine is likely to keep him out of Sunday’s game against Portsmouth. Irish keeper Shay Given has put Arsenal and Manchester United on alert by deciding to leave Newcastle, according to The Sun. Arsenal’s reserves drew 1-1 with Crystal Palace last night. And that aside there’s not much else going on at this early stage of the day.
Did you know it’s almost impossible to find greaseproof paper in the supermarkets here? I bet you didn’t.
