Morning all, it’s a pretty quiet one considering we have a match tomorrow. Let’s do what we can with the little that’s there.
The Lauren story that was all over the feeds yesterday is slightly confusing. Last week Arsene Wenger said we wouldn’t see him until the new year because of his knee injury and I reported that on the blog. Then yesterday lots of stories appeared about how it was a ‘shock’ and other things because he wouldn’t be back until the new year. It doesn’t seem like he’s done anything new, they’re using the same AW quotes from the other day, but we’ll see I suppose.
Another injury shocker was the Queen who was supposed to ‘officially’ open the new stadium yesterday. It seems she did her back in, pulled a muscle in her quim and could be out for up to 6 weeks. Her place was taken by the Duke of Edinburgh who did the honours and had a bit of a meet and greet with the players. The last picture on the right hand side is just crying out for a caption, isn’t it?
In other injury news we’ll be without Adebayor for the Everton game. He joins Freddie, Julio Baptista, and Lauren on the sidelines. Also out in Abou Diaby but he’s working his way back to fitness. He’s done an interview with the Arsenal TV Online thingy but what happens is that some of the other sites, especially Sky Sports, subscribe to that then give us the story during the week at some stage. Saves us having to do it, eh? Anyway, he says:
I will work hard. I accept the competition between the players. I will give my best to regain my place.
Excellent. When he does get fit we really do have lots of options in midfield and with youngsters like Fran Merida still to come it’s going to mean survival of the fittest. The cream will rise to the top. And other clichés.
Right then, the moment none of you have been waiting for. It’s the second ever arsecast in association with classicfootballshirts.co.uk
In this episode I try and explain the difference between an arsecast and an arsecast, chat to the man from East Lower, reveal the winner of the classicfootballshirts.co.uk competition, give you another bet of the week from bluesq.com, Arsene Wenger Hawkins will be along and I make a little phone call.
You can download directly here and remember you can subscribe to the arsecast in iTunes. Just do the following: In iTunes go to advanced > subscribe to podcast
Then put in the following url: http://arseblog.com/podcasts/arsecastfeed.xml
Whenever there’s a new episode it’ll download automatically. It should also be available through the iTunes music store soon. Sound quality should be better this week although the levels in some places vary a bit. I haven’t quite figured out which filter I need to use to equalise the whole thing, advice readily accepted on that.
And that’s about it. Later on I’ll update today’s blog with the winner of the bluesq.com competition. One lucky person will be going to see the Everton game in their executive box. Stand by for that.
Update: The winner of the tickets is Aidan Finch. Well done, Aidan. And just to mention that bluesq.com paid out £25,000 extra on last week’s best of the week on the arsecast. Tune in for this week’s!
Away with ye, then.
