january 30th
So Arsenal made it through to the 5th round of the FA Cup with a 2-0 victory over Wolves at Highbury yesterday.
The first half was goalless, although Thierry Henry did have the ball in the net after taking the ball off the keeper’s toe. Mike Riley disallowed it as the rules do state the dropping of the ball and the kicking of it by the keeper is all one motion and can’t be interrupted. That doesn’t make Mike Riley any less of a cunt though.
Wolves had keeper Michael Oakes to thank for keeping them in the game. He made a string of great saves before bringing down Thierry Henry to give away a penalty. As he was the player fouled Henry passed the ball to someone else and captain Patrick Vieira stepped up and buried it in the bottom left hand corner. Then a typical Freddie Ljungberg goal, his tenth of the season for those who underestimate his contribution to the side, made the game safe in the closing moments.
The draw for the 5th round is made tomorrow. No doubt it’ll be Chelsea or United. And speaking of complete and utter cunts it’s being alleged that Peter Kenyon, José Mourinho and self-styled super-agent Pini Zahavi met with Ashley Cole in a London hotel this week. No doubt they just wanted the gossip on Ashley’s relationship with Girls Aloud temptress Cheryl Tweedy. The News of the World quotes David Dein as saying “This is a very disturbing matter and we will deal with it very seriously. We would be very interested to see the evidence you have obtained.”
If it is true you have to ask why Ashley was meeting them, especially as his contract talks with the club are ongoing, and then what Arsenal will do both in terms of the player and the obviously illegal approach made by Chelsea. Chelsea are denying it but apparently a businessman has given the NOTW a sworn affadavit to say he saw them. Weird and worrying, you have to say.
In other news Thierry Henry says there won’t be any flashpoints on Tuesday because those always take place at Old Trafford. There can be as many flashpoints as you like once we win and those poxy red nosed cunt doesn’t see fit to dance on our pitch again. The cunt. Arsenal have apparently hired a team of security guards to ensure that the builders don’t bury Sp*rs shirts under the pitch at the new stadium. Even if they did it wouldn’t be the first time we’ve walked all over them, eh? Alan Curbishley talks about Arsene Wenger and how different he is from other managers.
Finally for today I was sent an email about our Spanish keeper Manuel Almunia who fired an off-target shot at Jens Lehmann during the warm-up yesterday. It went into the crowd and smashed a young kid right in the face who was in floods of tears. Thierry Henry pointed the kid out to Manuel who went up and gave him a big hug and so on, then at the end of the warm up he went back up to the kid and gave him his gloves as a little memento. Nice work, Señor and thanks to Jon for the info.
And that’s about it. No doubt there’ll be plenty more on the Ashey Cole – Chelsea story tomorrow. Until then enjoy your Sunday. Unless you’re not an Arsenal fan.
