Newsnight runs an ‘exclusive’ about Arsenal and a pissy £1m payment the day before the elections for the FA Board. The next day David Dein, whose signature is all over the documents, fails to be re-elected to the board he’s served on for years and is replaced by Manchester United’s David Gill.
Coincidence? Unlikely, isn’t it? Personally I don’t give a shit if David Dein is on the board of the FA or not. Headlines this morning talk of it weakening Arsenal’s influence but at the end of the day the FA have been cunts with Dein on the board, they’ll be cunts without him.
And how much of a story was it anyway? According to Beveren spokesman Markus Siegler:
A joint venture agreement has been made between Arsenal and Beveren but the police said everything was in order and there was no case to answer. We don’t know why the media suddenly made so much of the matter though probably because the name Arsenal made it newsworthy.
The FA are obliged to take a look a look at what’s happened but I’m quite positive they won’t find anything illegal, the matter will be closed and that will be that. And it’s still really boring stuff. The main aim of it has been achieved. Carry on, shall we? Ok.
If only there was something else to carry on with. The only other Arsenal related story around is Theo Walcott saying how much confidence is his own ability he has. He says:
I have got tremendous confidence in my ability.
Which is great! And there you go. The sun is shining, there’s a game of football later, and probably some beers after. Have a good Saturday.
