december 6th
Let’s start with some positive news, why don’t we? It’s congratulations to Cesc Fabregas who has won young London Footballer of the Year as voted for by BBC readers/viewers/listeners. As well as that he’s been called up by Luis Aragones for a pre-World Cup get-together for the Spanish squad. Molt bé, Cesc!
Then onto something less positive. Freddie Ljungberg was unhappy with the way Arsenal performed and summed up the feelings of a lot of fans when he said “We need to realise that to win the Premiership you need to sometimes put your foot in. It’s going to hurt, but that’s part of the English game.”
He had a pretty quiet game himself but it’s good to hear it said and hopefully it can be put right before our next league game against Newcastle as the Champions League game against Ajax is pretty meaningless (apart from maybe giving some younger players a chance to show what they can do).
Two goals from Jay Simpson gave Arsenal reserves a 2-1 win over Watford’s reserves and they move to the top of their table.
My good chums at www.harderthansatan.com have renamed themselves harderthansanta for the Christmas season and have festively given me one of these t-shirts celebrating Thierry Henry becoming Arsenal’s record goalscorer.
The text says ‘Le roi es mort. Vive le roi’.
To win that shirt tell me what that French phrase means. Is it:
a) Leroy is ashamed. Go Leroy!
b) The king is dead. Long live the king.
c) Didier Drogba is a hideous cunt
d)
Pascal Cygan is a top class left back.
Answers on a postcard, or an email if you prefer, to [email protected]. The winner will be announced on Friday after the RNG does its stuff.
It’s a holiday here today, this being Spain lots of people didn’t go to work yesterday either and Thursday is a holiday too so lots of people won’t go to work then. Not me though. I’m working like a fox earning extra corn so I can give people some corn for Christmas.
Today’s lunch is cold pizza. Till tomorrow, folks.
