january 21st
Good work yesterday by arsenal.con in removing the horror that was Teddy Sheringham’s profile as an Arsenal player. It still makes me want to vomit my heart out of my mouth just thinking about.
Well, it seems that Clinton flew into England yesterday and brokered an historic peace deal between our manager and the gum-chewing Scot. Both of them have agreed not to talk about past incidents in the build up to the game at Highbury. Even so it’s going to be a cracker and I doubt there’ll be any holds barred on the pitch.
More on Lehmann, Hildebrand and Stuttgart. As I said yesterday I don’t know a lot about the young German but in general terms he’s the kind of keeper I’d like to see us sign. Obviously talented and young enough to be the number one for years to come. We need to make a long term investment in a top class keeper and if this one is going to be free in the summer then all the better. More money for urinal cakes at the Grove.
Meanwhile Arsene Wenger has set the players a target of 14 wins from the last 15 games if they’re to have any chance of retaining the title. Why not 15 out of 15? Despite lengthy contract negotiations there’s still no agreement with Edu and the boss wants it sorted by the end of the week one way or another. He says “I still hope that Edu will stay but we must decide by the end of this week.”
Next season’s kit is likely to be controversial. As we told you a few months back we won’t have white sleeves instead wearing an all red (or claret as The Sun reports) shirt to commemorate the final season at Highbury. Now, I know that they’ve said fans were consulted on this, like they were for the new logo, but does anyone know any fans who were involved in this? I know it’s supposed to match the first shirt ever worn at Highbury in 1913 but Arsenal without white sleeves just seems wrong, doesn’t it? Anyway, no doubt there’ll be plenty to say when we get our first look at the kit in the near future.
Update: You can see the new kit here. It’s poxy. Just because Nike are giving us a rake of money doesn’t mean they should keep furnishing us with rotten kits. This season’s blue away is an atrocity while this new kit is quite possibly the worst Arsenal kit I have ever seen, and that includes the green one.
And that’s about it so far. I’m not sure if there’ll be an update tomorrow because I’m off bright and early to London for the weekend to see the Newcastle game and catch up with a few Arsebloggerers. If not I’ll be back on Monday and I’ll see some of you before the game, during the game and after the game. Get your fresh mint ready London, there are Mojitos to be had.
