Good Monday to you all. It’s that day. That special day that we all look forward to in the summer. I call it ‘The day of nothing’.
This is the day in the summer when there is nothing happening. Perhaps something might happen later on but at the moment the only something is nothing. There’s so much nothing going on that even those who make something out of nothing can’t do anything.
There will be no ‘Arsenal close to £16m wonderkid signing‘ or ‘Revealed – Wenger’s transfer targets‘ or ‘Click here, we’re not big fucking useless spoofers, honest!!!‘ or anything at all with the word ‘mooted’ in it.
What kind of a word is ‘mooted’ anyway. To me it just conjours up images of cows wearing Doc Martens. Maybe that’s just me though.
Sometimes nothing is no bad thing though. When there’s so little going anyway it becomes a pain in the hole seeing the same story over and over again on dozens of different websites who have done little else but copy it from the first website it appeared on. It makes those sites look as crap as they are. Oooh, the Dulwich Evening Chronicle is reporting that AC Milan might not buy Adebayor because he’s too expensive. Well, if the Dulwich Evening Chronicle says it it must be true. We know what an august and reputable sports department they have.
So for today I am going to bask in the nothing and during the day perhaps a story will appear and then tomorrow we can look back and say ‘Well, isn’t this something?’.
Oh, the fixtures are out later. That is something.
Update: 2008-2009 Arsenal fixtures here. We start the season with a home game against West Brom and finish against Stoke at the Grove. Interesting that 2 of the final 3 games of the season are Chelsea home and United away.
Eurowatch – Arsenal interest last night came from Senderos as the Swiss beat the Portuguese. Sadly Ronaldo wasn’t playing and Phil couldn’t stamp on his neck. Repeatedly.
In the other game the Czech Republic were 2-0 with just 15 minutes to play until Turkey staged a fantastic comeback to win 3-2. Nihat’s equaliser came from an absolute shocker from Petr Cech, what a wonderful time he’s had recently. Amazing stuff though.
Today we’ve got Croatia v Poland and Germany v Austria with some suggestions that maybe Jens Lehmann isn’t up to scratch for Germany. I’ve seen the games, I don’t think he’s been bad at all and he was unlucky for Croatia’s second the other day.
If you fancy a go at predicting the scores in those games and a Eurocast, the Euro2008 podcast, join us over here later this morning.
Right, I’ve got the opposite of nothing to do all day so I’ll talk to you tomorrow.
