april 26th
Lots of fun last night as Arsenal beat Sp*rs 1-0 at Highbury, ensured Chelsea didn’t win the title yet (much to the annoyance of everyone at SKY it seemed) and kept the gap between ourselves and United to 4 points.
How nice was it to see the winner scored by José? After suffering a miserable run of form you thought it was going to another one of those games for him especially after his miss in the first minute. But in the 22nd he was put through beautifully by Cesc and he slammed it past Paul Robinson for the only goal of the game. After that he looked far more confident and that, chums, is good.
We had lots of chances in the game. Robin van Persie was unlucky with another lovely turn and shot that went just wide, Vieira headed just wide, José fired a shot just wide after wonderful build-up play in the second half, Senderos (again outstanding at the back) headed over, Edu hit the post and Dennis Bergkamp curled a fine shot just wide as well.
Sp*rs didn’t really threaten until right at the very end apart from a Defoe shot which Lehmann saved well early enough in the first half. Late on they launched high balls into the box and caused a few problems. Robbie Keane somehow missed the ball with his giant head and shouldered it wide and then got all stroppy when he felt Ashley Cole had handled it in the area right at the death. But then he’s a wanker so who cares about him?
Overall it was a good performance, we created lots and kept another clean sheet. A word about Jens though. As well as he’s playing, and he is playing very well at the moment, he could have caused us problems when he bundled Defoe over in the box. There really was no need for it and he must have a goldfish memory if he can’t remember what happened at White Hart Lane last year when he did something similar to Keane.
Afterwards the boss praised our defensive rebirth, saying “Our confidence is high, we have a good defensive stability and that’s where, between October and January, we lost the championship because we couldn’t win 1-0. We have stabilised that and our draw at Chelsea strengthened our belief that we can compete again.”
He was happy for José but let slip that the Spaniard may not have long left in his Arsenal career, saying “He knows I’d love him to stay but I fear he will go.”
In other news, and we’re talking troublesome and talented here, we’ve finally got rid of Jermaine Penannt to Birmingham who will pay us around £3m for the drunk-driving winger, while young Dutch striker Quincy was arrested (pic here) after the Professional Footballers’ Association Player Awards on Sunday night. Quite what he was doing there is anybody’s guess and for now we don’t have too much information other than he was released on bail and is due back to the police sometime in June. Arsenal have declined to comment so we’ll just have to wait and see what happens with him now. Thierry Henry’s injury is still causing problems but is not as bad as was feared. According to Arsene Wenger the scan was ‘positive’ but the player is still in pain. With the Cup final still around 4 weeks away though there’s plenty of time for him to recover.
And you’ll have noticed things have changed around here a bit. Because of the various design changes over the years the archives were a mix and match of different styles so I’ve been working on making everything look the same. We’ve got a whole bunch of new top images as well and the only thing left to do is get the columnists pages up to date which I hope to complete before the end of the week. Hope you like it because it took me fucking ages. You’ll notice there’s no time stamp for each day’s entry – that’s because of my increasing superstition which meant on a match day the numbers had to add up to make a total of seven. For example, 11.05 was good because 1+1+5=7. Also, 08.08 was good because 8+8=16 and 1+6=7. So before I descended into a world of obsessive compulsive disorders I thought I’d get rid of it. Anyway, if you notice anything strange or missing or wish to recommend some psychiatric help please leave a message in the arses or drop me a mail via this page.
Till tomorrow.
