Happy Sunday to you all and it’s FA Cup day. Yesterday saw some shocks, Everton out to Oldham, Blackburn out to Coventry, Bolton out to Sheffield United, Chelsea needing an own goal to get past QPR and many of us have seen Arsenal fall to lower league opposition before. That’s the magic of the cup, innit?
Hopefully that won’t happen to us as we take on Burnley at Turf Moor. They’re a team really struggling for form, 4 losses and 2 draws in their last 6 games, but what better way to get yourself back on track than a game against the Premier League leaders? Well, a game against the bottom team in the Conference whose players all have flu would probably be better but you know what I mean. It’s live on the BBC at 2pm, which is a nice surprise, I thought I was going to have to fannying around with streams and stuff.
While you can’t ever take anything for granted in the FA Cup you’d like to think we’d have too much for Burnley despite the absences which include Adebayor, Hleb, Fabregas, Clichy, RVP and Flamini. It’s another chance for the likes of Diarra, Bendtner and Traore to show what they’re made of. I’d imagine we’ll see Gilberto in the midfield as well and amazingly it’s a real opportunity for him too. His chances, as we all know, have been limited this season but he has looked a bit off the pace when he’s played. I’m looking forward to it.
Looking around the other stories, the boss says Chelsea will be most affected by the African Cup of Nations but says Arsenal’s absences cannot be used as an excuse if we fail to win the title this year. Quite true, everyone knows the score when you buy African players so there’s no point complaining about it. I was a little curious as to why Arsene said he’d consider them as if they were injured. Can’t he just consider them as fucked off to the ACN? In that same article he talks about the FA Cup, his approach to it and the way he views transfer window signings.
One possible signing is 15 year old Luke Freeman from Gillingham. Another one to add to the academy.
Cesc was interviewed by AS, the Real Madrid friendly Spanish newspaper, and as usual there was some stuff about Madrid and he was as diplomatic as ever. He did talk about how awesome Arsene Wenger was though and that’s why I’m linking to it.
Former Arsenal player Stewart Robson talks about our ‘cup kids‘.
Not much else to talk about really. I suppose I should mention the Carlos Vela thing. Having been given information in good faith by somebody the other day it turns out that Arsene says he won’t be coming till the end of the season. I’m sure most of you know already I wouldn’t post something like that unless I thought it was true so if it’s turned out not to be the case I apologise to you all and I am currently thrashing myself in pennance.
Bad Arseblogger, that’s it. Bad Arseblogger. Oooooh yeah.
Until tomorrow, self-thrashers.
