april 28th
Patrick Vieira spoke yesterday about how pleased he was with his recent improved form citing injuries that have hampered his season thus far and took a bit of a swipe at Chelsea when he said the FA Cup final would be contested between “the best two footballing teams in the country.”
I’m not sure I agree with him to be honest and I don’t think the stats or the matches we’ve seen this season back him up. I agree Chelsea can be quite defensive but they’ve scored enough goals this season to dispel the myth they’re a negative side. Manchester United on the other hand have just about scored 50 goals in the league. As well as that the two games we’ve had with Chelsea have seen two sides try and play their football whereas when we play United their first tactic is to try and kick the fuck out of us and football comes a distant second. So for Vieira to suggest that the final is between the two best footballing teams is wrong. It’s between the best footballing team and a team of thuggish wankbag cunts. I have no great time for what’s happening at Chelsea off the pitch, Kenyon is despicable and I’m no fan of Mourinho but if we’re not going to be champions I’d rather see Chelsea win the league than that other lot any day of the week. They might be a bit sneaky and have the deflection Gods on their side but they always play football. Except for Drogba. He’s a diving, cheating, no good, waste of £24.5m cunt. The cunt.
Vieira does say though that “The game against United is the best final that people could have hoped for.” – and I can’t argue with that. The rivalry, hatred and niggle between the two sets of players and the two managers will ensure it’s going to be a a very interesting game for the neutrals while we all know how much it means to us.
After first being linked with us in May 2003 Udinese keeper Morgan di Sanctis is again in the club’s sights. Apparently somebody or something exploded and the deal which was set to take him to Roma is now off. A fee of €10m has been mentioned by the ever reliable goal.com. And staying in Italy it seems Juventus are after soon to be out of contract Edu. He was strongly linked with Valencia but then they canned Ranieri so that move is a bit up in the air.
The Sun reports Chelsea don’t want to sign Ashley Cole any more and also reveals that all the Arsenal players and officials are supplied with Samsung mobile phones. Samsung this week were announced as Chelsea’s new sponsors. Of course their current sponsor, Emirates, will become our new sponsor soon. It’s all a bit incestuous really with clubs trading sloppy seconds all over the place.
Arsenal’s reserves beat Leicester’s reserves 4-2 last night with two more goals for Arturo Lupoli bringing his total this season to a million and 3.
And that’s your lot this Thursday.
