March 22nd
Wednesday already, late blogs because of a weird work situation. Means I get a lie in though and lie ins are good, especially on week days.
Anyway, onto more important matters. The Arsenal. Philippe Senderos has been talking about the rest of the season and he reckons our destiny is in our own hands with regard to the final Champions League spot. Given the fact that Bolton and Blackburn have games in hand that’s not exactly true but I think what he means is that if we keep playing the way we’re playing now we’re going to give ourselves every chance of making it. The Swiss defender says “We are in top form and we want to continue that until the end of the season, that is our goal. We have got some consistency over the last seven games or so, and have been playing better in every match. The group has been growing up and learning.”
Can’t really argue with that and I hope Arsene resists the temptation to tinker with a winning team by bringing back fit again Sol Campbell. He may have experience but he doesn’t merit a place in the team at the moment and to put him back ahead of a player forging a very nice partnership with Kolo would be criminal. While you can see how Cole is a natural replacement for Flamini I hope that Phil’s good form continues and Sol keeps the bench warm until the end of the season.
I haven’t commented too much on the Thierry Henry contract situation as it is all speculative and rather pointless as everything has pretty much been said already but Arseweb has a nice piece on it while Arsenal Times has a very interesting piece about Matt Hughes who moulded that crappy Barcelona blog story into a broadsheet report that was picked up by other ‘credible’ sources.
And that’s all I’ve got and you’re lucky to get this. There’s something wrong with the electricity in my apartment. It keeps turning off and on again and the box is making fizzing sounds, which is not good. I’ve been in touch with the electricity company and they say I have to get my own electrician so I’ve called one of them and I expect him some time before the end of next week even though he said ‘this morning.’
Till tomorrow, hopefully.
