march 19th
Saturday greetings to you all. While you rest after a hard week take a moment to reflect that Arseblog never takes a weekend off so you’re always arsed up on your days off. That’s how much I love you all.
We’ll start with team news for today. Ashley Cole could make a return to the side after recovering from his ‘hamstring’ problem and his ‘cold’. The boss reckons he’s put all the distractions of meeting Chelsea behind him and he’s now thinking about football again and not how to spend £110,000 per week. AW is also confident Ashley will stay at the club and sign a new deal. Dennis Bergkamp and Robert Pires miss today’s game but Gilberto could return in midfield.
Speaking about José Antonio Reyes, Real Madrid and his poor form, the boss said “I am not so sure that Madrid want Reyes, but if that is the case they have to pick up the phone and call us. His form is not as good as we hoped. I spoke with him to ask him what had happened, but he said he did not know why he had played so badly.”
AW has also blasted England’s end of season tour to America as money grabbing exercise and there won’t be too many who would disagree with him. Blackburn boss Mark Hughes in claiming victory having secured Arsenal’s ‘lucky’ hotel ahead of the FA Cup semi-final. He said, putting his thumb on his nose and wiggling his fingers in the direction of Highbury, “It was my lucky hotel before it was their lucky hotel.” Once that’s the only victory he’s celebrating then I’m sure nobody will care.
And that’s as much as I have for you this morning. Enjoy your Saturday. Yesterday was a scorcher here in Barcelona, more of the same please.
