I’m sitting and looking at my dog who is all cheerful and as full of energy as a 10 year old Basset hound can be in the morning.
‘Why don’t dogs get hangovers?’, I wonder to myself.
‘Because they don’t drink you fucking moron’, said Mrs Blogs.
Stupid wondering out loud. It’s a Friday so it’s the end of the working week for most of you and tomorrow we have a very important game against the dirty Sp*rs.
We may be without captain Thierry Henry who has a neck problem and that would not be good. He might not be in the best form of his life but I’d much rather go into this game with him than without him. Given the fact that he won’t play against Porto I’d imagine they’ll put him together with cortisone tape and painkillers. He’ll also score and we’ll win.
Arsene Wenger is unhappy with the fixture scheduling but he’s confident of a good result tomorrow, saying:
We have a difficult game coming up against Tottenham, and I do not agree at all with the way the fixtures have been organised – it is a farce. We play now against opponents who did not play this week – but we will beat them.
That’s the spirit. Former manager George Graham reckons Arsenal have lost too many world class players and that’s why we’re struggling. He says without Pires, Bergkamp, Campbell, Cunt, Lauren, Vieira and Edu we’re fighting an uphill battle. I know lots of people pine for Vieira but I still think we were absolutely right to sell him. Our struggles at the moment make people forget everything that went on at that time. There was nothing we could do about Bergkamp’s retirement and we really miss the goals Pires provided from midfield but I’d love if we had Edu back. Sadly for Edu he’s completely banjaxed having just the done the same cruciate he did when he first arrived at Valencia.
George also reckons we lack leadership and that is not something you can argue with at the moment. There’ll be more later when the manager has his usual Friday press conference. It’ll be interesting to see if he talks, realistically, about the Bolton and Fulham games.
Other than that there’s not much happening.
As it’s Friday it’s time for the Arsecast. This week the show is packed full of the usual crap, there’s a blogchat with Amy Lawrence from the Observer in which we discuss the team and Amy tells me who she thinks would be a great signing for the club amongst other things. Arsene Wenger Hawkins is there too along with some stuff.
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And that’s that. I’m off to snort 1000mg of paracetamol to see if that makes the pain go away.
