november 15th
A much less hungover Arseblogger means a slightly more in-depth look at what’s going on this morning. We’ll start with the fantastic news that Gael Clichy appears to have broken his foot while playing for France U21s and will be out of action for quite some time. The Sun suggests it could be 4 months. Yikes. With Ashley Cole still recovering from an operation that leaves us a bit short in that department. More annoying though is that it’s yet another injury picked up while a player is away on international duty. It’s hardly the first time it’s happened this season and I think Robin van Persie might also have picked up a knock while away with Holland but I’m not sure about that.
It will be interesting to see who plays there against Wigan on Saturday. Cygan seems the most likely candidate, frightening as that sounds, unless Eboue players there, Ryan Garry gets a first start in something like 18 months or we dig right into the youths and play one of them.
I think we’ve all enjoyed Patrick Vieira calling Ruud van Nistelrooy a cheat, because that’s what we all think, but I’m sure lots of you, like me, had a bit of a cringe at Vieira calling Wayne Rooney a diver. Now, I’m not the greatest fan of the enormous Shreklike cunt but one dive does not a diver make. Patrick, it has to be said, was gaining a reputation for his tumbling and to me people who labelled Pires a diver after one incident against Portsmouth were blind to the fact the captain was much worse. His dive against Liverpool last season was shocking. The Times has a bit about it and it’s hard not to agree with them when they say it’s all good sales material for the book he could surely have waited until his career was over to publish.
Not a lot else happening. Hopefully we’ll get some info from the club about the extent of Clichy’s injury. I’m off to make a cheese sandwich. Till tomorrow.
