June 16th
Things look a little more grim now for Robin van Persie after Dutch prosecutors decided to keep him in jail for a third night and, according to them, “The court will decide tomorrow whether the charges are serious enough to keep him in custody for 14 another days. This is a standard procedure.”
Again all I can say is I hope it’s not true and this is another case like the one the Leicester City players found themselves caught up in in Spain last year. There’s still no comment from the club about it and I don’t suppose there’ll be an official statement until we know more about what’s going to happen legally. And speaking of courts David Dein yesterday gave evidence in a case involving former Spurs player Ronnie Rosenthal and the transfer of Gilberto to Arsenal three summers ago. It’s all tremendously interesting in a mind-numbingly tedious kind of way.
There was some serious keeper speculation yesterday with some stories linking us to Villareal’s ex-Barcelona keeper Jose Reina while the Mirror have picked up on a story in the Swedish press which brings up the name of Arseblog’s old pal Andreas Isaakson. Leaving aside the keepers the agent of Stuttgart’s Alecksander Hleb revealed he’ll be making some kind of announcement about the player’s future at some stage today.
And that’s about all I’ve got because my ADSL is now gone. On Sunday I signed up with another provider but the process here, as you might expect, is far from simple. Because Telefonica own all the lines the new company has to make a request to Telefonica to cut off my service with them so they can activate the new service. You might remember from times past how long it actually takes Telefonica to do anything so imagine my cunting surprise when it took them a little over 72 hours to cut me off when I decided I was going to go elsewhere. So now I’m relying on dial-up again and dial-up is shite.
I checked the website of my new provider, they have a fancy section in which you can view the state of your order, and it says it’s incomplete and not ready for ADSL yet. I suspect, although I may be wrong, that they have to make another request to ask Telefonica to activate their (the new provider) ADSL on my line. This could take a while. I guarantee you it won’t be anything as quick as 72 hours. So once again I’m afraid this impacts on me getting the site out every morning and to the people on the mailing list I’m sorry but that’s definitely going to hit and miss with the emphasis directly on miss.
And as it’s going to take me about 20 minutes to upload this page I’d better leave at that for today.
