Morning all, a quick Saturday round-up ahead of today’s North London derby.
We already know all there is to know about team news so there’s nothing to tell you there – bar the fact that Diarra might be on the bench. Other than that it really picks itself. Rosicky and Hleb wide, and I think Cesc and the Flamster will start in midfield. Despite Eduardo’s goals for Croatia he’ll probably start on the bench. It will be interesting to see if he brings Bendtner into the 16. Despite his mouth being somewhat larger than his talent at the moment the young Dane does offer something different from the other three strikers and he could be used to batter them in the latter stages of the game if need be.
Justin Hoyte will most likely provide defensive cover on the bench and the boss spoke about how he wants to keep both him and Bedntner and doesn’t see them going out on loan. As he said, there are plenty of games to come this season.
AW is promising the team will be ‘switched on‘ and talks about how he hates losing, saying:
I read somewhere that I take defeat in a difficult way, but how else can you take it? You should not be in this job unless it really hurts you to lose a match.
Quite so. What’s the old saying? ‘Show me a good loser and I’ll show you a loser’. Something like that. Possibly with the addition of ‘Can’t get fooled again’, at the end.
A director of football will be appointed some time between now and the end of May. No rush there then.
Alan Smith talks to Eduardo in his first interview with an English newspaper. It’s not particularly revealing or insightful (I’ll put this down to the word count restriction or something) but there you go.
And that’s about it. I’m off to get some breakfast. See some 0f you Dublin based Gooners in the Wool Shed later on. Come on you reeeeeeeeeds.
