An extremely quick one this morning as I am decidedly unwell. I think I got poisoned last night or something, and not by drink. Honest.
Suffice to say my entire body feels like it’s been given a good working over with truncheons and iron bars. Not pleasant at all. I’ve just about managed to drag myself out of bed to do the blog.
Today sees the return of Tony Adams to the Arsenal in his role as manager of Portsmouth. He’s had a strange relationship with the club since his retirement. On the one hand he’s made it no secret that his ambition is to become manager one day, on the other he was notably absent from various events such as the farewell to Highbury. Still, he talks with great fondness about the club and while I’d love to see him make a success of his new job I’d love us to turn Portsmouth over even more.
It’s slightly ironic that a man who was part of that famous defence comes back at a time when we’re bemoaning our current crop. He doesn’t seem to have done much for the Portsmouth back four with talk of Distin leaving, a public spat with Sol Campbell and a recent hammering by Zola’s West Ham.
For our part we’ll have Emmanuel Adebayor back and Gael Clichy looks set to come back into the team. There’s no word on Johan Djourou’s fitness, he injured himself in the warm-up at Villa Park, while Alex Song misses out.
We’re currently on our longest unbeaten run of the league season, we’ve gone 5 games without defeat, so amidst all the gloom perhaps that’s something we should cling to. It goes without saying how important a win today is so fingers crossed we can put the Villa game behind us and get back on track.
Right, I can’t even type my shoulders and neck are so painful so we’ll leave it there.
More tomorrow.
