april 5th
Some mornings it’s a thankless task writing an Arseblog blog. Instead of talking about our upcoming Champions League quarter final I have nothing much to tell you other than Sol Campbell made his comeback from injury in the reserves last night.
They played Norwich at Underhill and won 4-0, the goals come from Jeremie Aliadiere (2), Robin van Persie and Sebastian Larsson. The return of Sol was the main thing though – it was his first game since the start of February and he was delighted to be back. Afterwards he spoke of his frustration at being injured for so long, saying “It has been very frustrating and I have had a lot of time to think. It is great to be out there playing again. That’s the main thing. I want to be tackling, heading the ball, working on positional play and you get that with games.”
He also says he’d have no problem going on England’s post-season money spinning tour to the US as it would give him another couple of games to be involved in. Finally in today’s Sol special he spoke about how important it was for him to do something worthwhile with his time when he was out injured and he revealed he set up a sanctuary for Bonobo monkeys in his back garden. “These little guys are taken away from their natural habitat and made into helper monkeys or trained to do tricks in the circus but when they get old they’re just dumped. Their owners will take them out in the car, drive to the woods, chuck their little fella out and drive off. Now there’s somewhere they can go to live out the final, hilarious years of their life with other little guys like them.“
What a true ambassador for the game big Sol is.
