october 15th
Good morning Arsers and welcome to the weekend. We’ve got West Brom later and we’re almost, but not quite, down to the bare bones for this one. Joining Thierry and Ashley Cole on the injury list are Sol Campbell, Robin van Persie and Alexander Hleb, all of whom picked up knocks on international duty. Hleb is the most serious as his knee injury requires surgery and will keep him out for around 8 weeks.
Publicly the boss is less than impressed. Privately, I’m told, he’s furious. He says “We have lost many players during the international break when they should have come back refreshed. With some, it’s a question of days. Others it is a question of six to eight weeks, like Cole and Hleb.”
It means we’re going to have a fairly young bench today. We could see Quincy and or Lupoli and or Bendtner and if we need cover in the midfield I hope the boss gives Swede Seb Larsson a chance rather than Alex Song. Gilberto, van Persie and Campbell should all be ok for Tuesday’s Champions League game though. Arsene Wenger is looking at whether or not bladed boots are to blame for stress fracture injuries suffered by Cole, Clichy and Senders. He says “All the three wear the blades. We haven’t made any studies, so is it coincidence or not?”
I know that Manchester United have banned their players from wearing them because they’re concerned they cause injury so there might well be something in it. In other news Sam Allardyce calls Arsene Wenger a ‘conman’ for saying that Arsenal play the most attractive football. Arseblog calls Sam Allardyce a fat, walrus looking cunt for being a fat, walrus looking cunt, the fat, walrus looking cunt.
The boss on FIFA’s, and our old friend Sepp Blatter’s, plan to make teams play a certain amount of players from the country they’re in: “I am completely against the rule because it artificially protects mediocrity. It’s an injustice that you play just because you were born somewhere.”
Blatter has recently hit out at the greed in football which is quite ironic when you think that FIFA is as corrupt and greedy an organistation there is in the game and that Blatter’s greed for TV money created the useless, ridiculous, player killing Confederations Cup. He’s a cunt.
That’s about it then. No league game for my team today but we have a friendly somewhere at sometime. Enjoy your Saturday.
