June 4th
Another late one today but this time my excuse is just that I slept in. After a night on the mojitos I have no hangover. I think I’ve learned my lesson. Anyway my slackness might make you appreciate Arseblogger’s early efforts.
Colegate rumbles on and on with Jonathan Barnett claiming that Patrick Vieira sent Cole a text message saying Cole shouldn’t accept less than £80k a week. Sounds like bollocks to me and Vieira has denied it, but given his recent history if there was one player you were going to try and associate that sort of thing with, it would be Vieira. Apparently Kenyon told the commission that Cole had been concerned that the Arsenal team are cliquey and were run by the French players. Let’s face it, if you were trying to come up with the most obvious slanders about Arsenal, that and the Vieira thing would be pretty high up the list. Bizarrely, Chelsea also reckon they actually no intention of signing Cole and only went to the meeting to hear about his grievances. Utter bollocks.
Perhaps I’m paranoid but some of what’s coming out seems like a coordinated effort on somebody’s part to slur Arsenal. Or maybe they’re all trying to deflect attention from their own misdemeanours. Either way they’re all cunts and we’re ace and you shouldn’t believe everything you read – except what you read here, natch.
In more positive news, the Dutch coach Marco van Basten has spoken about how much Robin van Persie has improved this season since moving to Arsenal. He said: “Robin has been brilliant and amazing in training and the guy is completely changed from how he was before. You can see the difference from how he was last year and he has benefited from being at Arsenal.” Nice to hear and hopefully our new Dutchling will go on to realise the potential he’s shown.
