So, where to start. Firstly, I think I’ll start by calling Soccervoice.com the worst website I have seen in a long time. I know there are loads of those sites out there that try and entice you to visit with misleading and downright untruthful headlines so go along and then perhaps click on one of the 743 ads they have on the page in question. However, this one is the most ridiculous of the lot. I mean, check out this snippet from a story entitled ‘Arsenal ready to axe Jens and midfielder Flamini’:
Arsenal are favourites to sign Polish goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski. There are also strong rumours about Jens Lehmann moving back to Germany and he would he is wanted at Hertha Berlin.
Leaving aside the English which could be bettered by a deaf, dumb, blind and mentally retarded sub-saharan refugee on his first day in an English speaking country they seem to have overlooked Jens’ new contract. As for the Flamini revelation the player himself announced he’d be leaving a couple of months ago. I know I’ve gone off on one about these kinds of sites before but it bears repeating. I know we all want news and more news and new news and transfer news but please, please don’t click through to the sites which say stuff like ‘Barcelona and Real Madrid agree fee for entire Arsenal team’ or ‘Major transfer shocker for Arsenal midfielder’. They’re all bollocks and are fueled only by the oxygen of NewsNow and the people who then link to those stories as if they have any credibility. The summer is going to be long enough without more of these shitbag websites so vote with your clicking finger and don’t click.
Moving on Gael Clichy says Arsenal need to cut out the defensive mistakes, which is probably the understatement of the century. I sort of covered that yesterday so there’s not much point going over it again. Let’s just hope for a more solid back four next season. Arsene Wenger says we haven’t seen the best of William Gallas and we’ll see that next season. Personally I hold Gallas responsible for all our defensive woes this season. A back four of Eboue – Toure – Senderos – Flamini sets a new Champions League record for time without conceding, playing against some of the best teams in Europe. Gallas comes along and we can’t stop conceding. Coincidence? I think not. He’s a Mourinho plant taking us down from the inside…and it’s working!
Cesc wants the team to play with more aggression and to ‘go for it’ next season. I think he’s got a point. We are a bit nice. There used to be a time when we’d have red cards and the tabloids would have a field day about how many red cards Arsene Wenger’s teams have had. Now we hardly get any red cards and we don’t kick other teams half as much as we used to. And when we kicked other teams a bit we won stuff so Cesc is bang on. More kicking = more trophies.
And there’s a bit of team spirit and togetherness as the players went out for a Japanese meal but the poor old guy in the toilets didn’t get a tip. No tip at all. Not dipped. Not anything.
Now, Arsecast time.
On today’s Arsecast, brought to you in association with OleOle.com, there’s a seedy blogchat with GilbertoSilver from Gunnerblog, Arsene Wenger Hawkins has an announcement, the Man in the Bar has another player history and there’s more idle waffle from me about stuff which isn’t really about anything.
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[audio:http://arseblog.com/podcasts/arsecast_episode27.mp3]Now, as you can see it’s an early start again so I’m off. Catch you later.
