march 5th
Happy Saturday to you all, Arsemates. A quick round-up for you before I plummet into the depths of my hangover.
The good news for today’s game against Portsmouth is that Thierry Henry is fit and will most likely play. Who’ll partner him up front is still up in the air as the boss has to choose between Robin van Persie and Quincy MD. Still out though is Sol Campbell who, Arsene Wenger admits, have missed badly when he hasn’t played this season. Edu will have a fitness test on his hamstring before a decision is made about him. Player of the month Freddie Ljungberg should return to his normal position on the right.
While Jens Lehmann blames the Nike football for his bad season (isn’t it the same ball for everyone?) former keeper and all round Swegyptian Rami Shaaban talks about being back in football and reports in Portugal say we’re after penalty taking keeper Ricardo.
Finally Arsene Wenger is critical of the changes made the FA Cup for next season which are supposed to help England do better in the World Cup. The boss says “These replays offer the lower league teams a huge opportunity to get financial income which they would never usually get. Does the fact that England will have four weeks rest instead of three weeks make them win the World Cup? Frankly, I don’t know.”
I think we all do know the answer to that and Sven has just made a rod for his own back there because he won’t be able to make excuses about England’s inevitable exit in the 1/4 finals on a long season. Oh well.
Right. I must go to the market to barter for provisions for my family. ‘I’ll swap you this lump of phlegm for three fillet steaks, por favor!”
