*supreme boilk*
I have to admit to you, one and all, that sometimes getting up and writing a blog is the last thing I want to do. Especially when one has attended the society wedding of the year in Dublin the night previously. There was champagan, wiyan and rumm and goodness me my head, bowels, torso, limbs and organs are feeling it this morning.
Thankfully though I have a careful recovery plan. It consists of some kind of fried breakfast, a couple of dozen of the strong painkillers I picked up in Spain last weekend and then watching football all day long. Hurrah. Apart from the feeling like crap bit. And having to fry food.
What more can we say about today’s game that hasn’t already been said? Arsene Wenger says he doesn’t want a war and that William Gallas is ‘key’ for him. Gallas himself says that he wants to win the title so he can show his kids a picture of himself lifting the trophy. Stewart Robson says Arsenal cannot switch off against Chelsea, Adebayor features in the Telegraph and John Terry says Ade was the most difficult striker he faced last season.
So that’s what the morning papers are saying/reporting/printing and such. I am expecting a tough game, obviously we’ve been through a little blip but this is a team that can certainly up its performance for the big games. So much will depend on the injured trio and how many are back and whether or not Robin van Persie starts. I suspect Chelsea, if they see Hleb, Cesc, Flamini and van Persie on the teamsheet will know they’re in for a game and a half. It’s been too long since we beat Chelsea and they are a team packed with horrible cunts that it would be a pleasure to see grimace in post-game glumosity.
I’m sure the atmosphere today at the Grove will be fantastic and echoing the manager’s and Cesc’s call for massive support I think the extra spice of Cuntley’s return should make it as loud an occasion as we’ve heard yet. I am looking forward to this in most forward looking way. Come on lads.
Now what else is going on. Well, Liam Brady has defended Arsene Wenger from accusations that Arsenal don’t do enough for English football. He says:
We get criticised for not doing more for the England team, but that makes my blood boil. How many other Premier League clubs have done more than us? From a personal point of view, it is true to say we haven’t produced as many players for the Arsenal first team as we would like, and I am disappointed in myself for that. In terms of the academy, I believe the next three to five years are going to be the best I have seen in this job.
Quite right. He cites people like Bentley, Sidwell, Cole and Harper who have all been produced by Arsenal’s academy and are now enjoying fine top level careers. There are a crop of young English players in the academy now that people have high hopes for and it would be great to see a couple of them make the breakthrough. If they don’t though, they’ll go elsewhere having received the finest footballing education in England.
Lassana Diarra has chosen the morning of the Chelsea game (his former club, of course) to reveal he wants to leave Arsenal. Brilliant. He says:
We’re halfway through December, and I’ve decided: I want to leave Arsenal. They don’t want me. I signed for Arsenal because I was led to believe I was going to be playing, and there would be healthy competition. That hasn’t been the case.
Ok then, fuck off. Seriously, I’m not sure what he wants. He’s been unable to get into a team that is currently top of the league, in which the two central midfielders have been playing the best football of their lives, and he’s shown he’s got as much fight as an armless boxer because he hasn’t gone straight into the side. Suggestion for Diarra – next time you get a game in midfield try and raise your game above astonishingly average and you might play a bit more. If not, as I said earlier, fuck off. He was a player I never thought we needed anyway and the Flamster does what he does so much better. Ship him out, I couldn’t care less.
Right, it’s time for a cure then countdown to the match. Here’s to a 10-10 draw between Liverpool and United with 6 red cards and three points to us, and if it came in the most controversial of circumstances I could live with that.
