Bank holiday greetings to you all. The front part of my brain says ‘ouch’ while the rest of it says ‘sweet holy mother of the sacred heart of the crucified Jesus, what have you done to me?’.
I’m choosing not to answer it. Footballers, what a weird bunch of people they are. Some of them are like politicians – evasive, full of lies and, for some inexplicable reason, they think we’re as thick as bottled shit. Take Emmanuel Adebayor. No, seriously, take Emmanuel Adebayor. Haha. But really. He has actually come out and said that money is ruining football.
After his shennanigans in the summer he’s actually come out and said that. I know. He says:
Money is killing the spirit of the game. If I had made my decision because of money, I would not be at Arsenal. I would have been in Milan or Barcelona. You know how I could be earning a lot more money than I am earning here.
So he had a decision to make. Check. He goes on to say:
There’s no-one that can say today ‘Adebayor told me he wanted to leave’. I decided to stay at Arsenal, told the boss I wanted to sign a new contract and eventually we did.
Right, so if he never wanted to leave why did he have to decide to stay? Plus lots of people saw an interview with him where he spoke openly about leaving. Twat. He goes on about having ‘won the fans back’ and how the booing never hurt him because he knew he was innocent. I dunno, these guys must live in a little bubble so far detached from reality that they have no idea what they sound like when they talk.
Still, he’s got 7 goals this season and if he keeps scoring more then I’ll be happy. I’m never going to like Adebayor the way I like Cesc, let’s say, or even the way I like the scraggledy looking old cat that sometimes comes into my garden and sprays his tomcat wee on the wall, but if he scores goals for Arsenal and wins us games then that’s fine. There is no love. There is no winning me back. Especially when he comes out with utter shite like this.
William Gallas talks about being his own harshest critic. That’s rubbish as well. I know lots of people who are much harsher critics of Gallas than he is of himself. Not me though. Oh no.
Sylvester says he’s not a real leader but he’ll do his best to try and lead the defence. He also goes on about how the current crop of young players at Arsenal can be better than the youngsters who came through at Old Trafford. If this lot can win half as much as Beckham, Giggs and Co, then they’ll be doing very well indeed.
The News of the World says, for about the 564th time, that we’ll sign Yaya Toure. This comes in the week where he gave an interview saying he was happy at Barcelona.
West Ham later on. It’s the first part of a very important double this week. Three points are absolutely vital if we want to keep pace with the clear Premier League favourites, Hull. Then in midweek we have Sp*rs who will have Harry Redknapp in charge. Arsenal fan Redknapp has taken over after Sp*rs sacked Ramos, Poyet and Commoli which must have cost them an absolute fortune. There is that line of thinking that it’s not good to play a team when they’ve just changed their manager so thankfully Redknapp’s first game in charge is against Bolton today.
Despite his wheeler-dealer ways I’ve always kind of liked Redknapp. He was generally very complimentary about Arsenal and he was a bit of a character. Now, of course, he’s an utter cunt.
Anyway, here’s to a good performance later this afternoon and scoring more goals than we let in.
Hasta mañana, arsebutlers.
