february 21st
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwn. Mondays are crap.
Not much new happening this early on a Monday morning. Thoughts of the FA Cup replay are put aside as we have bigger and more German fish to fry now. The lads will be travelling to Munich today for tomorrow’s Champions League game. There’ll be no Dennis Bergkamp of course and we’re still without Sol Campbell and Gilberto but we’ll have a rested Henry, Vieira, Edu and Lauren while Ashley Cole remains borderline after a bout of the flu. Bayern could be without the influential Michael Ballack, which is good news. We’ll have more team news and such tomorrow.
In other news Freddie Ljungberg has come to the defence of Dennis Bergkamp after his sending off on Saturday, saying “Of course, we were very upset with the sending-off, no question. Dennis is not happy about it.” There’s now talk of the FA looking at video evidence, appeals, demonstrations, sit-ins, hunger strikes and furious placard waving.
Liam Brady has defended Arsenal’s youth policy after last week’s furore from a bored and jingoistic press. Arsenal’s head of youth development blames the dwindling interest in football amongst today’s internet/playstation obsessed youth, saying “We are fighting a battle against a materialistic society where kids have an awful lot of things besides football.” – and he also points out that the young players that don’t make it at Arsenal receive an education that allows them to go elsewhere and have a decent career. “At Arsenal you have to be a great player, but we are striving to make great players. If they are not great players and they become very good players, then they will make a very good living in the game.”
Gilberto is hopeful of being fit to play next month. He’s been out most of the season with a serious back injury but he’s got his sights set on a return in March although Arsene Wenger seems to think April is more realistic.
And that’s about it. Sadly this city is going to be overrun with dirty, stinking Chelsea fans this week. There are some here already and can tell you the air pollution is getting worse by the second as the dirty, stinking Chelsea fans go about the place being dirty and stinking, the dirty, stinking cunts.
The draw for the 1/4 finals of the FA Cup will be made later on. 1.30pm GMT, I believe. I’d put money on an away trip to Old Trafford. So how was your weekend then?
