Another Monday rolls around and it’s fairly quiet to be honest. Saturday’s win against Newcastle was fairly uneventful and none of our players went after one of his team-mates with a meat cleaver which would at least give us something to talk about.
It’s not like the good old days. I can remember seeing Tommy Caton (God rest him) chase George Wood straight out of the ground and up and down the Avenell Road during a game against Villa after the keeper had made some less than savoury remark about the defending. Only for Don Howe’s intervention I’m sure Caton would gone to town on the keeper with the plank with nails in it that he always carried in his shorts. Now that’s passion.
Adebayor says he was trying to motivate Bendtner against Sp*rs. Whatever his skills as a footballer I don’t think he’s got a post-game career as one of those inspirational speakers that companies hire to make their workforce work harder. However, I do think he could break the world record for the most words ever in any rap song.
Kolo Toure is set to miss the Ivory Coast’s game against Mali with his groin injury. I am a bit doubtful that he has access to the kind of treatment he’d have at Arsenal so let’s hope his injury isn’t too serious. Or that he isn’t made play despite being injured. Or that a killer monkey breaks into his hotel room and goes at him in a monkey frenzy. No man deserves that.
Setanta Sports have decided the Sky Sports wonderkid to Arsenal reporting is the way to go. They link us with with some young Bosnian chap called Edin Dzeko, who sounds like a panda’s sneeze rather than a footballer. They quote Arsenal’s coach Boro Primorac, who says:
He is the kind of forward that could succeed in The Premiership. It is still not certain whether we’ll sign him, but his performance gets better every day and if you want to sign him you would need to pay good money.
I say we pay them with bad money, just for the laughs. The kind of money that hangs around on street corners with other bovver boys and makes semi-crude comments at pretty girls as they pass by. The kind of money that puts its feet up on bus seats and stands outside a pub to have a cigarette but blows the smoke back inside to rebel against the smoking ban. Yeah.
How nice to see Sp*rs return to form against United yesterday. For me the big conundrum about Tuesday night was how any team that regularly plays Michael Dawson can ever win a game of football. He is comedy gold though.
And finally if you have an iPhone or an iPod Touch (with the latest update) you can install an Arseblog webclip on the home screen of your phone. Simply browse to Arseblog in Safari, click the + and choose ‘add to home screen’. This makes your iPhone or iPod Touch 74% cooler than it was previously. Cheers to the Man from East Lower for tips ‘n’ stuff.
Right so, I’d best do some work today. I have a lot of work to do. I need more coffee. Perhaps I should get a killer monkey to do it. Or a less aggressive kind of monkey. But without the aggression you lose all the enthusiasm. It’s a tough one to try and figure out so early in the week, eh?
