Ok, a busy morning ahead so we’ll start at the start which is as good a place as any.
Arsenal’s AGM took place yesterday. You can read Arseblog’s report, which was posted before anyone else – even the official site, right here. Some interesting tidbits, particularly the faith Wenger has in this current team and the desire to produce more ‘home grown’ players.
The other main news yesterday was the fact that Cesc signed a new 8 year contract with the club. Hurrah! He said:
I am so happy here and I am delighted to have signed this new contract. I wanted to pay back the club, especially Arsene Wenger for the support and faith he has shown in me.
Cesc’s agent, Joseba Diaz, said:
It’s a fabulous contract for the player and also for the club. Cesc feels really happy about how he is valued by Arsenal and to know that the Arsenal of the future will be built around him.
And make no mistake, that’s what’s going to happen. It’s fantastic that he’s signed a deal like this and hopefully this will stop those god-awful cunts at Madrid bleating on about how much they want to buy him. He is, without doubt, the best young midfielder in the world and he’s our. All ours! Mwa ha ha ha ha!
Looking ahead to Reading we have no new injury worries. Senderos, Flamini and Clichy are all available but we’re still without Ljungberg and Baptista and the almost forgotten man, Lauren.
Now, we’ve been running a competition all week to win copies of Football Manager 2007. The Random Number Generator has done it’s thing and the winners are as follows:
Darius Klimasauskas, Daniel Ambrose, JJ, Chris Mullings and Alistair Wood.
I’ll be in touch with you guys today to get address details. The question was who did AW sign at the same time as Patrick Vieira and the answer was, of course, Remi Garde. It’s amazing how many people thought it was the Grimster. My thanks as always to Sega for the providing the Football Manager 2007 prizes.
Ok, so now, onto the very first ever Arseblog arsecast brought to you in association with www.classicfootballshirts.co.uk.
It’s up and running and this week I spoke to Goodplaya from Goodplaya.com about the CSKA Moscow game, Robin van Persie, Reading and Peter Cech. Also, because it’s the first ever arsecast classicfootballshirts.co.uk have given me this shirt to give away – so tune in and answer the question during the arsecast. There’s also a bet of the week from Blue Square.
Because it’s the first one I’d be happy to get any feedback on it. It’s about 30′ long so it’s a 64kb MP3 file which is around 15mb in size.
To listen just click here to download it.
You can, under normal circumstances, subscribe to the podcast in iTunes by going to the advanced menu > subscribe to podcast and adding this url – http://arseblog.com/podcasts/arsecastfeed.xml
However, although it was working perfectly the other day the feed is not being accepted by my iTunes at least and it won’t validate for me. Apparently there are some problems with the enclosure url section. If anyone has any idea how to fix this please drop me an email or leave a message in the arses.
Update: Cheers to Nick and Christopher for their help. You should now be able to subscribe to the arsecast in iTunes and it will automatically download any new episodes.
Like I say feedback is welcome, mostly!, and because it’s the first one the sound quality is a little bit mixed. Right, I’m off to hide behind the sofa while you listen.
Laters!
