May 23rd
Well, I hope you’re all recovered from the weekend’s celebrations. I’m still a little bit wrecked I have to say but never mind. Lots of little stories around this morning following the cup win so I’m going to go through them as quickly and briefly as I can.
Patrick Vieira has urged José and Ashley Cole to stay with the club next season. Both have had a difficult time but for different reasons and it’s something I’ll touch on in my review of the season which should appear tomorrow if I can get my head around everything in time. The boss says that Sol will be back in the team for next season and that he didn’t play him in the cup final because he’d been out for too long. He also spoke about the goalkeeping situation, again that’s something I’ll talk about tomorrow, but with Jens suspended for the first two European games of the season it’s left things up in the air a bit. Despite our lacklustre insipid characterless anemic shite performance in Cardiff on Saturday Philippe Senderos believes Arsenal play the best football in England. Luckily for us Arsene Wenger is not planning on using that system on a regular basis and the Standard repeats the story that the boss will have money to spend this summer.
Robin van Persie reveals Edu was set to take a penalty in the shoot-out but hadn’t been on the pitch long enough and didn’t feel right. It was van Persie’s first penalty in professional football. I didn’t notice at the time but José was not allowed go up with the team when the cup was presented after being sent off in the dying moments of the game. Arsenal have promised him he’ll get a medal. It seems very harsh that a player should be denied the celebrations after playing almost 120 minutes of football. Dennis Bergkamp, as you all by now, is staying another year.
Get your FA Cup winners 2005 wallpaper featuring Jens making the vital penalty save and some snapshots from the game. Download here (1024×768) and (1280×800). Cheers to Ricey for finding the big pics.
That’s all the stories rounded-up, more or less. United fans are still gutted. Shortly after the game I rang a friend of mine back in Dublin. He answered the phone with “I was waiting for you to call, you cunt.” That’s revenge for all the texts this season, Walsh!
So now we’re into the summer, no football, and of course, endless transfer speculation. That’s something that can wait for another day though. We’ve got months to talk about who we’re going to sign but already there are a host of names linked with the club: Shay Given, Timo Hildebrand, Andreas Isaakson, Sebastian Frey (it wouldn’t be summer without him), Shaun Wright-Phillips, Alexander Hleb and David Beckham are the first in what’s going to be a long list. For now the players will be off on their holidays recharging their batteries for next season when we win everything. Oh yes.
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