It’s a fairly quiet Monday morning, my good old Arsechums, as the squad prepares for a trip to Sevilla for tomorrow night’s Champions League game.
A win there means we win the group but I’m not sure there’s a great deal of difference between first and second in terms of the quality of the team you can draw in the next round. Sevilla warmed up with a 2-1 defeat at home to Real Mallorca who played the last 15 minutes with 10 men. They’ve got a new manager and had been in good form (although they’ve suffered two defeats in a row) so we can’t take anything for granted. They are a strong team. There’ll be a fuller preview in tomorrow’s blog.
With the game against Chelsea on the horizon everyone’s favourite, Cuntley Cunt, has been speaking about it. He says:
Of course I will go there and front up. I am a grown man and I am looking forward to it. They threw money at me at Stamford Bridge. It would be nice to go there and shut some people up.
Conveniently he missed the game last season and it would be no surprise to see him ‘injured’ again this time around. I know we should probably be mature about the whole thing but fuck it. We need our cartoon villains and let’s face it, he really deserves it, even after all this time. We play Chelsea on the 16th so there’s plenty of time for more incitement between now and then.
Kolo Toure is enjoying playing under William Gallas. Hmmm, that sounds a bit too erotic. Kolo Toure thinks William Gallas is a good captain. That’s much less sensual first thing on a Monday morning. He says:
Both on and off the pitch, William is a really good captain. He is loud in the dressing-room, he has a big heart, and everything he says and does is for the team and that is the most important quality in a captain.
It’s funny really. You could almost argue that the captaincy diminished players like Vieira and Henry. Perhaps not Vieira as much as Henry who really didn’t suit the role but with Gallas it’s the opposite. It seems to have transformed him like a dose of radiation to Dr Bruce Banner. Gallas is now rampaging through the season with torn purple pants and a green tinge to his skin. Remarkable really. The real test will come when things aren’t going as well as they are now though, and it will be interesting to see how he, and the team, reacts to a setback or two. Obviously I’d prefer if we didn’t have to have any setbacks but I’d also prefer to never work again and spend much of my day in a hammock.
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That’s about it then. Hope you had a good weekend. I saw a physio during the week about my knee who said I had a small strain and he did some old heat lamp treatment before manipulating the ligament and I tell you it felt about 95% better. Played a match yesterday (3-3 draw) and today I can hardly fucking walk. Knees are stupid.
How was your weekend then?
