october 2nd
Birmingham today, the team with ming in their name. Of course we meet three old boys, Matthew Upson, Julian Gray and Jermaine Pennant. Pennant, brain of the century, has been mouthing yet again about how he wasn’t given a chance at Arsenal and that his behaviour was perfect. He says “I felt I left Arsenal having done my best and not having done anything wrong. I didn’t get a chance. The fans know that.”
Hmmmm, the fans know he used to arrive at training late, the fans know that he used to go out nightclubbing a lot, the fans know he got arrested for drink driving, the fans know he got arrested along with Jodie Morris after an unsavoury incident with a girl, the fans know he got sent home from U21 international duty and the fans know that when he was banned from driving after being caught drunk he wrapped a car around a lamp-post while over the limit again and then tried to tell the police he was Ashley Cole.
But apart from that I suppose he’s right, he didn’t do anything wrong. He was going to be offered a new deal at Highbury until the last drink driving incident. Arsene Wenger explains more here.
Arsene Wenger on Chelsea: “I am convinced that the championship is not over yet but we can only catch them if we believe we can do it. Let’s have a real go, play with belief and not accept that Chelsea have won the title. Everyone in England seems to accept that and it’s ridiculous.”
Hard to argue. I can’t believe people are so accepting of Chelsea’s ‘title win’. The players certainly won’t accept it and I hope that goes for every team in the league. If not we might just all drop our pants and present like a cat in heat. And I’m not going to done up the chuff by a cat’s penis, let me tell you. If that’s what you’re into fine, but not me.
Cesc talks – “My special objective this season is the League. I know it’s going to be difficult, but we believe in ourselves. Chelsea are doing great, but I think we can come back.”
There’s a small piece in the Sunday Mirror about ticket pricing at the new stadium. Tomorrow we’ll run a more in depth story on that here on Arseblog and it doesn’t make for pretty reading at all.
Arsenal aside we kicked off our league with an 8-0 victory. Officially the tightest defence in the league. Until next week probably, but still. Right, papers, breakfast, then back home for the match. Later, Arsefans.
