June 12th
Good morning, Arsemates. I’m sure you’ll all be glad to know I’m back in the land where the sun shines and the only krauts you find are around the swimming pools in Mallorcan resorts. Two weeks in a business park outside of Berlin was not exactly fun-packed but I have to recommend the city itself. What a strange and interesting place it is, full of history and lots of good restaurants. I didn’t really sample the nightlife because I’m an old bastard but if you had the energy I’m sure it’s ace. To those of you who emailed over the last couple of weeks I just had no real chance to respond and because of the amount of mail I get the backlog is too big to go through. However, I’ll try and answer some of the most frequent questions here: “Yes, the archives will be up to date later, the mailing list will start going out again from tomorrow, I don’t know why we haven’t signed anyone and yes, although I would do anything for love I won’t do that.”
There’s not a lot going on this morning. The Observer reports that Ashley Cole will not be pursuing the restraint of trade court action which may, or may not, be the first step on the road to reconciliation between him and the club. Arsene talks about Chelsea (who are again snared by the News of the World as they reveal details of how they tapped up that Spurs bloke) and Manchester United but I’m I’ve read those quotes before. The People reveals that players willl be sent off next season for swearing at referees, a situation brought about by Wayne Rooney telling Graham Poll to ‘fuck off’ a hundred million times at Highbury last season.
Transfer speculation sees us linked with a Slovakian goalkeeper hilariously called Kamil Contofalsky while there’s renewed interest, allegedly, in that Greek bloke Samaras.
Finally for today, is this the new away kit? I just don’t know. Thanks to Arafat, not Yasser, for the picture. Right, have a good Sunday. There’s no place like home…
