May 26th
Now, regular readers will know I’m not much of a Liverpool fan but hats off to them for their win last night. Coming back from three down against Milan was something special. It made my brother happy and when I rang him after Shevchenko missed his penalty all he could say was “YAAAAAY!”, the big goon. I can take a couple of positives from last night:
1 – If a team with Djimi Traore in it can win the Champions League it gives hope to the rest of us.
2 – It’s made Manchester United’s season even more miserable. They must be choking. No league, no FA Cup, their most hated rivals win the CL and their club now has more debt than your average African nation. I can hear the gnashing of teeth from here. The only good thing from their point of view is that they’ll have Bono petitioning for them at the UN.
Anyway, if Liverpool fans get too much for you today gently remind them that today is the 16th St Michael’s Day, the day we won the league at Anfield in the dying seconds to leave Steve McMahon gutted and poor old Johnny Aldridge crying into his ‘tache. Clips, soundbites and more on Arseweb’s Anfield ’89 page.
Right, moving onto things Arsenal Ronaldinho says he wants Thierry Henry at Barcelona. What would be lovely now if Thierry said we want Ronaldninho at Arsenal. Of course they want him, there isn’t a team in the world that wouldn’t, and there are some very strong rumours that they have already made a substantial bid for him which was flatly turned down by the Arsenal board.
And speaking of the board our old friend Mihir Bose knows exactly what’s going at boardroom level. You can find his take on the Ashley Cole story here. His info just stinks of Barnett, doesn’t it? The consistency of his articles is something to be commended though. If there’s even the slightest hint of trouble or a problem he’s in there like a shot. Remember all his articles about how we weren’t going to get funding for the new stadium, how AW was going to leave because of it, how it was all presented as fact even though it was little more than idle speculation? Aye, me too. He’s a shit-stirrer and a Tottenham fan and I suggest you take his articles as seriously as you would take Lee Bowyer as a role model for young footballers.
Sol Campbell will captain England on their pointless tour of the US. The big fella needs to get some games under his belt even though it’s the end of the season and get himself back on the road to full fitness ahead of the new campaign. Edu could be on the way to Atletico Madrid according to reports in Spain. First very tenuous link to a goalkeeper of silly season sees us linked with Portugal’s penalty taking hero, Ricardo. It barely measures on the truthometer.
It’s been a while but we have a new column from Safety, entitled: “Four pots, bucket seats and go faster stripes!”
And that’s about the size of it for now.
