Hello all, it’s a fairly quiet morning really with the Liverpool game not till Sunday. A few bits and pieces to get through though.
We’ll start with Liam Brady who, according to the Irish media, has told Arsene Wenger he wants the vacant Ireland manager’s job. I’m not sure why he’d want it but there you go. The whole situation is a bit of a farce really. After promising a ‘world class’ manager the FAI then appointed Steve Staunton with Bobby Robson to give him some credibility. That was an experiment in cheapness doomed to failure and you have to think they’ll have to get somebody with a good managerial track record, what with Staunton’s only experience being second assistant coach to Paul Merson at Walsall.
Brady has overseen our youth system for the last ten years, more or less, but his forays into management itself weren’t a success. He had a hard time at Celtic when, to be fair, Jesus himself couldn’t have pulled off enough miracles to do a good job, and then he went to Brighton where he left after less than two years disagreements over how the club should be run. The most bizarre thing about all this is the suggestion that the FAI are going to get David Dein to help them find a new manager. Wait for the inevitable ‘Wenger for Ireland’ story, haha. To be honest Chippy would be better off at Arsenal working for good people and with good young players instead of surrounding himself with the pathetic, idiotic and half-way corrupt shitehawks that make up the Football Association of Ireland, not to mention having to work with big mallet headed cunts like Robbie Keane.
Manuel Almunia is doing his best to concentrate on his job as the current number one goalkeeper at Arsenal and ignoring the jibes of Jens Lehmann. The Spaniard says:
I only want to play well. If I read the papers and listen to what other people say about me, then I’d turn crazy. I don’t want that.
And it must be a horribly uncomfortable situation to be in, knowing that someone you have to work with every day holds you in such little regard. We’ve seen through the years with Oliver Kahn that Jens is incapable of being friendly with a close rival and the same applies with Almunia. It’s a credit to Manuel that he’s ignoring it and just getting on with his work. It just makes Jens look more childish than he already is.
Theo Walcott says comparisons with Thierry Henry are nice but he’s his own man. Or boy. Or adolescent. Would he be a youth? or some kind of stripling? It doesn’t matter. Once he can keep doing what he’s been doing in the last few weeks then we’ll be quite happy indeed. Will he start against Liverpool on Sunday? Walcott v Hyppia? What he lacks in physical presence he makes up for by not being as slow as a gnu.
Robin van Persie talks about Arsenal and how much he’s enjoying his football. I see some people have jumped on a comment which implies his future is tied to Arsene Wenger’s but what he says is:
One day the working relationship will come to an end, whether that is because I go or because Arsene Wenger leaves.
Isn’t it entirely possible that he could go after Arsene Wenger leaves? Yes, it is. That won’t stop the headline makers making headlines to get hits for their hugely irritating blogs and websites which foul up Newsnow though. But enough of that, enjoy the article, it’s interesting stuff.
Beyond that it’s your last chance to enter the FM2008 competition with full details of the question and email address in Monday’s blog.
Tomorrow’s Arsecast is a landmark 50th Arsecast and as such is full of great stuff, an incredible special guest and all kinds of cool stuff. Well, it might be. Ok, there’s probably no special guest. Not from the lack of trying but you know celebs these days. Arrange a meeting at 9.30am and they turn up a full two weeks late leaving you sitting there with a cold coffee and cobwebs. Don’t worry though, I’ll gunther something together later on this evening.
Until tomorrow.
