Yawn. I’ve got Friday on my mind. Friday the 13th….woooooooooooooo.
Ahead of the Bolton game there are no new injuries to worry about but hopefully the boss will shuffle his pack a bit. Given Bolton’s physical approach I’d be inclined to put Gallas at left back, bring Senderos back into the centre and replace Eboue with Hoyte. In fact, I’d replace Eboue with any vaguely humanoid in shape. Even a statue. Or a mannequin of some description. They will play their usual game of firing diagonal long balls over the full backs so we need to able to cope with that – and having Gallas and Senderos on one side and Toure and Hoyte on the other should hopefully give us more power in the air and more chance of smashing Kevin Davies in two.
At least he has the full compliment of goal-shy midfielders to choose from and I’d imagine it’ll be a 4-5-1 with Adebayor up top on his own, unless he throws in the beast in the hope that he becomes somewhat beastly for once.
Gilberto says the attitude of the team is great and that the goals will come. Erm…
Johann Djourou, who has impressed at times this season, says he’s happy to wait for his chances when they come. He scored the winner for the reserves in the week, making him the highest goalscorer of all time at the club, so expect him to play as a striker against Bolton. Seriously though, he looks a good prospect but faces the danger of being overhyped by all and sundry rather than given time to develop and learn as a player.
Arsenal confirmed Stan Kroenke’s futher purchase of shares in the club which gives him an 11.26% holding. There’s some discussion of that in this week’s Arsecast, which brings me nicely to this week’s Arsecast…
This week’s Arsecast features two blogchats. One with Amy Lawrence where we talk about the state of the team at the moment and other football related stuff and the second with Nigel Phillips from the Arsenal Supporter’s Trust to talk about Stan Kroenke and the whole shares/takeover business.
There’s also the Man in the Bar, Arsene Wenger Hawkins and an exclusive look/listen behind the scenes at the Arsenal training ground.
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And that’s your lot for another working week. Enjoy the Arsecast. More tomorrow.
Update: I should mention that Arseblog has been shortlisted in Metro’s Brit Blog awards. Heh. Thanks for all your nominations, tis a grand thing ye’re after doin’, to be sure. The winner will be chosen by a cricketer called Alistair Cook who died two years ago after writing many letters from America.
