october 11th
Still nothing much happening Arsenal-wise as all the focus is on tomorrow’s games but we did have a victory over Sp*rs last night. The reserves took on their lily white counterparts at Stevenage and ran out 2-0 winners – lengthy report from a Sp*rs site here. Nicklas Bendtner and Arturo Lupoli kept pace with each other at the top of the scoring charts with a goal each and Lupoli had a first half penalty saved. It looks like we’ve got two players with a real eye for goal who, if they keep it up on a consistent basis, will surely start to push for a bit of time in the first team squad before the season is out.
Certainly they’ll get a chance in the Carling Cup and young centre-half Mathew Connolly is hoping he’ll get a run too. He says “My aim is to just carry on playing consistently for the reserves, get more games under my belt and to keep improving all the time. If the Carling Cup comes along and I play I’d be very pleased. If not, I’ll just carry on working harder.”
Can’t fault the attitude, can you? Other than that a big fat nothing happening so I’ll remind you of the Football Manager 2006 competition. See yesterday’s post for prize details but to enter you just need to answer the following question:
If Arsene Wenger is AW, Terry Neill was TN, Bruce Rioch was BR, who was SH?
Given it was early yesterday morning when I thought up the question it didn’t occur to me that there were two possible answers so in the interests of fairnes either answer will suffice. If you know either email [email protected] and the winners will be announced on Friday.
I will be glad when these qualifiers are over.
