Morning all, the start of another week and the first weekend of World Cup action over. The only Arsenal interest yesterday was Robin van Persie who did well generally and set up Chelsea’s Arjen Robben for the only goal of the game as Holland beat Serbia & Montenegro.
Some little bits and bobs around this morning, thankfully. Theo Walcott picked up a knock but should be fit to play Trinidad and Tobago if given the chance and Sven doesn’t play Owen Hargreaves as a striker instead. Theo was flattened by a Wayne Rooney tackle and injured his calf but it’s nothing serious.
Arsene Wenger is backing France, Petr Cech is backing Arsenal new boy Tomas Rosicky to show his class at the World Cup while Freddie Ljungberg is fighting with his old friend Olaf Mellberg again. You might remember they had a to do at the last World Cup and apparently Mellberg flattened Freddie in training with the same kind of tackle that sparked the last scrap but Freddie being the super-cool Zen master just walked away. Those crazy Swedes!
In domestic news Pascal Cygan is linked with a move to Blackburn Rovers while former captain Tony Adams is set to join up with Harry Redknapp at Portsmouth. Old droopy says:
I can confirm I met with Tony Adams on Friday. I like Tony a great deal and he has got a lot to offer.
What an eloquent pair they’ll make.
Arsenal interest in today’s World Cup games sees the aforementioned Rosicky take on the USA with his Czech mates. Should be an interesting one and no doubt there’ll be plenty of us watching him closely which should take our minds off having to watch Cobi Jones and Alexei Lalas and Tony Meola. Oh yes. Just joking yanks.
Right, I have about 18 billion things to organise this week. Best get down to it. Hasta mañana.
