november 28th
Another week and we’ll start with Thierry Henry talking about Highbury. After reaching 100 goals at our famous old ground he said “Everyone loves to play here. You speak to opponents and they just love it. The fans love it, we love it. It’s not just me, everyone will miss the ground. It’s pretty special.
There’s just something about Highbury that is difficult to describe. When you arrive, you hardly see the stadium and wonder where it is but then you see it between two blocks of flats, while the pitch is amazing.”
While the new stadium is obviously going to be fantastic it is going to be a big wrench to leave our home. For a lot of teams their new stadium is often a serious improvement on their old one. I suppose in some ways our new stadium (I still don’t have a good name for it – The Emirates Stadium will never sound right) will improve facilities and other things but it will never have the character of Highbury. No doubt there’ll be more to come on this as the season nears its end.
Arsene Wenger has been talking about Robin van Persie and he has compared him to a snake, saying “He looks so dangerous. He’s like a cobra. You feel he can finish and score goals.” In the same article we get an update about the rape allegation made against him in the summer and AW says there’s a hearing in December where they hope the case will be dropped, as do all of us for all the right reasons I’m sure.
Monday is always a bit boring so I have to thank my mug smashing brother for providing this fabulous lookalike. Cheers, mugsmasher!
And that’s about all that’s going this morning. It’s really cold here at the moment, obviously not as cold as it is in England or Ireland or Switzerland or Iceland or Sweden or Norway or Finland or … well, it’s all relative, isn’t it?
