Good morning to you all. A fine Tuesday it is too.
Tomorrow being hallowe’en we’ll start with talk of people being afraid. More specifically other teams. Of us. That’s according to captain William Gallas anyway. He reckons our performance at Anfield will have other teams cacking their pants and hiding behind cushions. I’m not so sure. I think all the game against Liverpool did was confirm what everybody already knew. It’s not like we rose like a creature from some kind of dark lagoon. Anyway, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a lagoon in my life. What is it that differentiates a lagoon from a lake or a slough or a pond?
Gallas also thinks Cesc should ‘keep fresh’ to reach the top. I don’t understand really. Does he mean like keeping a body you’ve recently killed in a freezer? If that’s the case then I understand. I think Cesc really only knows how to play one way and that way is a very good way so we shouldn’t confuse him by asking him to play a different way from the way he plays which is, as I’ve already pointed out, a very good way.
Speaking of Cesc, Don Howe writes about him in the Terrorgraph and compares him to Paul Scholes. In one way that’s quite nice as Scholes, despite being a ginger fouling cunt, has been a quality player over the last 10 years. However, the ginger fouling part is not something you’d like to associated with. It’s sort of like someone telling you your wife looks like Angelina Jolie except they simply mean her body is riddled with tattoos and not that she’s an ultra-foxy dame. If that makes any sense. It probably does if you think about it but it’s very early in the morning for thinking so I’ll forgive you if you don’t bother. Scholes is out of Saturday’s game against United, which is probably a good thing for us, but United, more than any other team, seem to cope well with injuries. If Rooney, Tevez and Ronaldo are all missing due to their overindulgence at a vampire party where they drink the blood of a poisonous wench that they then sacrifice to Gods to thank them for their talent (which has been accorded to them in place of good looks) then we might get a bit giddy.
More on that game later in the week – one small point though. Dave emailed me to tell me that Howard Webb will be the referee again and it’s the first time in Premier League history that the same ref will have reffed a team two games in a row. Also, Howard Webb is a massive, massive cunt so this is not good news. This is the razor blade in our apple.
The Blob Wilson also writes about Cesc calling him an Arsenal legend.
The Mirror reports that neither Gilberto Silverbullet of Jens Lehmann (scary enough on his own) will be involved in the Carling Cup game tomorrow night. No surprise about Jens, Fabianski was always going to play, but they also suggest that Gilberto refused to play as a makeshift centre-half. While I understand Gilberto’s current frustration he can’t do that. But then it is the Mirror so it could be a load of old bollocks. We’ll have to wait and see what happens but you have to think he could probably do with getting 90 minutes under his belt. More on that game tomorrow.
Dastardly Davor Suker reckons this Arsenal team can be the most fearsome team in all of Europe, rivalling that Spanish basketball team that sent a load of ordinary blokes to the special Olympics a few years back. They all pretended to be mental and handicapped and won the gold medal which is a bit cheeky, you have to say. Anyway, we’ll be even better than them according to the noble chinned ex-striker.
Septic Bladder, football’s most uriney administrator, is determined to push ahead his plan to limit the amount of foreign players in a team and has hit back at Arsene Wenger’s criticism of his plan, saying:
If you have teams playing in the league like in England and there are no English players on the field of play, then something is wrong. One day you’ll say we don’t want a national team, then okay you’ll follow Arsene Wenger.
Well, that’s a bit crap, isn’t it? I mean, if you’re going to have a go at somebody you might want to be a little more offensive than that. You might say ‘Bladder is a pompous ignoramus whose only interest is swelling the coffers of FIFA and he also smells like the minge of a dead goat that, previous to death, had sex with many ponies who have gone off fish stock for semen’. You could be more creative but to suggest that it would be a bad idea to ‘follow’ Arsene Wenger when he has produced a young team that is playing some of the most scintillating and attractive football in Europe seems a touch on the stupid side.
Right, that’s it. I must go and get some more coffee. Mrs Blogs thanks you all for your good wishes yesterday. She finished the marathon in record time. Well, it was her first so it was a personal best.
Until tomorrow.
