I hate the Catalan press + Arsecast 48

Morning all and a happy Friday to you.

I suspect the Arsenal news will dwindle as we get more into the international break but there’s still a reasonable amount to talk about this morning. Jens Lehmann is the place to start and he’s been warned by the German coach Joachim Low that he’s got to be playing regularly if he wants to remain as the German number one. The fact that he’s out of the team has not been lost on Oliver Kahn who has taken no time in having a little pop at his great mate. At this point, as they’re two old men, Jens and Kahn really ought to just fight to the death or something, because their verbal spats are boring now. The German stoppenator is convinced he’ll be back for Arsenal sooner rather than later though.

Cesc, away with Spain and ‘victim’ of a press campaign to get him to move to Barcelona, talks about the Champions League and the two main strikers at the club filling the gap left by Teary Ennui. It’s the orchestrated stuff from the Catalan press that’s worrying. Here’s an excerpt when they talk about Cesc being on his mobile:

Cesc called his friend and manager, Joseba Diaz. “Joseba, is anything stirring? Have Barça called?”. Diaz answered truthtfully that at the moment, they had not.

Seriously, what a pack of cuntbutlering shitebags they are. Did El Mundo have someone standing beside him or have they tapped his phone? Here’s an actual quote from the Cesc interview with Sky Sports up above.

English football right now is the best league in the world for me. When you talk about games, the passion, the fans playing in England everyone gives 100 per cent and I think it is a great, great league.

Now, there’s no point in us closing our eyes to the fact that one day, if he continues to develop the way he has been, that Cesc and Barcelona will probably reunite. He’s from there, it’s the team he supports, his family and friends are there and they’ll probably be able to afford the transfer fee which will be huge. At the moment though it’s not going to happen and the Catalan press chipping away at him with their fiction and heavily loaded articles is not only disrespectful to Arsenal (not that they care about that, as we all know) but also to the player whose relationship with the fans is so good. Unfortunately it seems like it’s just something we’ll have to put up unless we blow up the El Mundo and Sport buildings. I’ve still got friends there and I’m sure some of them like exploding things. In fact, there’s one Italian…nah. Anyway, cunt off Catalan press, you wankers. I’m onto you.

Speaking of utter, utter, utter, utter, utter, utter, utter, utter, utter, utter, utter, utter, utter, utter, utter, utter, utter, utter cunts, Alisher Usmanov is having his people try and locate Arsenal shares that belong to people who have died. Classy stuff, you fat bastard.

Arsene Wenger says he’s addicted, like Robert Palmer, to stats while Lasanna Diarra says people told him he was too small to ever make it as a footballer. Yep. Exciting stuff, I know.

Arsecast time.

In this week’s Arsecast, brought to you by OleOle.com, there’s a blogchat with the Man from East Lower in which we discuss all things Arsenal, the Man in the Bar brings you a player history despite a great loss during the week, an old friend returns and there’s other waffle in there too. As well as that there are details of how you can win yourself a trip to Tokyo with OleOle.com for the World Club Championship. Quite the prize and well worth checking out.

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