It’s dark these mornings, isn’t it? And I bet the clocks are going back/forward soon and it’ll be even darker. Is that happening this weekend actually? Stupid time.
A bit of a quickie this morning. We’ll start with Theo who says that other teams will be scared of playing Arsenal after seeing us lash five past Fenerbache. You might even suggest that Fenerbache were a bit scared after seeing us stick four past Porto. Theo also reckons the European win will help us focus when it comes to the league, saying:
It definitely does help because the Premier League is important as well. We always want to play well whatever game we play, but we are just looking at every game as it comes, not getting ahead of ourselves and that’s all we can do really.
I can’t help but think that another Blackburn type performance in the league would do a lot more for us than the European wins. That one game aside we haven’t really put anyone to the sword in the Premier League and a good thumping of someone would send a nice message out.
Emmanuel Adebayor talks about winning the Champions League and improving on last season’s performance. Perhaps it’s a bit premature to talk about winning it just yet. There are plenty of games we need to concentrate on before we get down to the nitty gritty of Europe.
We’ve got two vital London derbies coming up in the space of three days. West Ham away on Sunday then Sp*rs at home on Wednesday evening. What we’ve done in Europe thus far is now irrelevant and all the focus must be on those two games. Adebayor will, I suppose, have a big part to play. He has replaced Robert Pires in as much as he’s taken over the mantle of the bloke who always scores against Sp*rs. In his relatively short Arsenal career he’s scored 6 goals against them so far and with his form a bit patchy so far this term he could do with a big goal or two in the next couple of games.
Arsenal’s AGM takes place today with Stan Kroenke expected to attend. There’s no word yet as to whether or not the disgusting, fat, Man United supporting Jabba the Hut looking cunt will be there but I’d be surprised. After the usual presentation there’s a Q&A session with the floor being opened up to shareholders. The manager is usually in attendance and I suspect today there might well be some difficult questions regarding the spending, or lack of, during the summer.
As always I’ll endeavour to bring you an AGM report tomorrow and hopefully there’ll be some coverage in tomorrow’s Arsecast as well.
Not much else happening so I’ll leave it there for today. Told you it was a quickie.
