May 11th
Lots to talk about this morning but first let me just thank all of you who got in touch yesterday to offer advice, remedies and exercises for shin splints. The great thing is that it was all pretty similar so it looks like there’s a definite course of treatment. One chap suggested I use a poultice made from the ground up organs and bones of Wayne Rooney but I think I’ll give that one a miss. Thanks again to everyone who took the time to write, I really appreciate it.
We’ll start with miraculous comebacks from injury and Thierry Henry is back in contention for tonight’s game against Everton. He may even start the game putting him right back in the frame for the cup final. Sol Campbell may play too with Arsene Wenger saying he will definitely start one of the next two games to give him a run out before Cardiff. Who he decides to play that day is still very much in the air though.
The boss also spoke about the Ashley Cole hearing next week, saying Arsenal would cope, but with news that Jose Mourinho has been told he must attend and give evidence you have to wonder how it’s going to affect Ashley’s focus. And talking about next season he has again said that there’s money to spend and that ‘If world class players are available then we are candidates,” which is good to know, although this more detailed article seems to play that down. The best thing we can say is that we don’t have a clue what he’s going to do and probably won’t know until he’s done it. He also revealed his disappointment with Edu’s decision to quit the club, and to top off this Wengertastic paragraph you have to love his comments in response to John Terry’s statement that he wants Chelsea to go unbeaten next season: “There’s nothing wrong with having a dream. The difference is that at Chelsea it is still a dream. At Arsenal it is a reality!”
Dennis Bergkamp talks about his future: “It could be my last game at the stadium because we haven’t sat down yet to talk. I am a bit upset over how it is going. I said in November I wanted to stay and I haven’t changed my mind. Somehow they always want to leave it until the last minute. That’s probably one of the points the club are not good at.”
It seems that either AW is undecided or he doesn’t want to announce the fact that one of our favourite players is no longer required just before the cup final.
Tony Adams thinks the Champions League should just be for champions. It’s a nice, but rather naïve idea. There’s too much money involved now but the idea of Liverpool being Champions League winners after finishing fourth is a bit silly. Not that it’s their fault but maybe the tournament needs a new name. The Champions and the 3 Runners-up League or, wait a minute, The European Cup. Why did nobody think of that?
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Finally, it’s a little piece of history tonight and quite sad it is too. Tonight will be the last time any of us see Arsenal play in our the proper red and white shirt at Highbury. It’s the final home game of the season and next season we’ll be wearing that horrible Burnley shirt which Nike and the club have tried to convince you is ‘traditional’. I’ve mentioned before how much I hate it and while it might have been the colour we wore during the first Highbury season it has no Arsenal connection for anyone I’ve ever spoken to. It just seems a shame that this is the final time we’ll ever see our team play in our colours at our ground, particularly as it’s because of a shitty marketing campaign. It wouldn’t have taken much to design a tradtional looking shirt in red and white.
Enjoy the game tonight, enjoy seeing us in red and white at Highbury for the last time and Nike and the Marketing Department, you can shove a big stick up your poxy holes, you miserable, money grabbing cunts.
“We’re the boys in red-currant and we’re fucking …erm….er…..”
