April 11th
It’s a fairly quiet morning ahead of tomorrow’s game against Portsmouth. There’s no real team news yet although I’m sure we will see some players rested after their recent efforts.
Ashley Cole returned to training yesterday but Arsene Wenger says he’s still two weeks away from making a first team return and Sol Campbell will find out today if he has a future with Arsenal and England according to The Sun. Despite being fit and available he wasn’t even on the bench for the United game and with Kolo Toure looking the most in need of a rest it may well be double Swiss in the centre of defence tomorrow with Johann Djourou coming in. We’ve seen that the Campbell – Senderos partnership doesn’t work, for various reasons, and Djourou plays more on the right hand side of the defence and isn’t a big, fat, walkabout cunt which is an important factor.
No doubt we’ll get more news as the day goes on. It will be interesting to see if José Antonio Reyes is back in the frame. The manager explained his decision not to play Henry but there was no explanation as to why Reyes wasn’t even in the 16 at Old Trafford.
Gilberto reckons we have to forget about the defeat on Sunday and look forward to the hectic schedule ahead. He says “We have Portsmouth, West Brom, Villarreal and Tottenham. All these will be important games for us. It is very important to keep our concentration very high. Each game is like a final now.”
It is going to be a busy time in the next couple of weeks and hopefully we can pick up the momentum we had been carrying into the United game as that confidence and belief will certainly help us dig out results should that kind of scrapping be required. And when your upcoming games include two teams fighting for their lives at the foot of the table, two Champions League semi-finals and a last ever Highbury game against your local rivals with whom you’re battling for fourth place then it is going to be intense.
IN other news Jens Lehmann has been given the backing of Oliver Kahn ahead of the World Cup. There was some talk he would retire and Bayern Munich have been highly critical of Jurgen Klinnsman’s decision (although their ire would be best directed at their team who are doing their best to choke the league – COME ON HAMBURG!!) but the Albino Gorilla says he’ll give his full support to the team and to Jens.
Last night saw the reserves drew 1-1 last night with Watford reserves. Nicklas Bendtner with the goal.
Finally for today my good old chums at Sega have given some Football Manager games to give away. It’s now out on Sony’s PSP and for XBox 360 so I have two copies to give away for each platform and a t-shirt for each winner too. To enter just answer the following question:
If in 2006 PV = Patrick Vieira who is the PV that in 1980 connected Arsenal and Juventus?
Email: [email protected]. Winners announced Friday.
Update: Please note whether you would like to win PSP or xBox.
Thanks. Ok, that’s it. Till tomorrow, Arsefans.
