Good Friday to you all, it seems to have been a long week but now, thankfully, the long-awaited glamour game against Bolton is almost upon us.
The papers are full this morning of Gary Megson telling Arsene Wenger to stop ‘whingeing’ about Bolton’s physical approach. He claims we’re just as capable of putting in a hefty tackle or two, pointing to Abou Diaby‘s shocker last season.
Look, here’s the thing about that – Bolton are cunts. And Gary Megson is a cunt. And no matter what we do, even if one of our players unsheathes a razor sharp cutlass and sets about the opposing team leaving little more than piles of freshly chopped limbs and organs, we still won’t be as dirty a side as any that has had Kevin Davies in it for the last 10 years.
Megson claims Davies is the most fouled player in the Premier League? Is this supposed to shock us? The bloke is an absolute wanker, why wouldn’t other players foul him? I bet Kevin Davies even elbows his own children in the face.
“Morning Daddy”.
*thwack*
“Owww. Mummy, Daddy broke my nose again!”
So, frankly, Gary Megson can just shut his fat mouth and concentrate on getting his team relegated.
In terms of our team news we’re a bit short in defence – and not just because of Kolo and Gallas playing together. Ahhahaha, sorry. Anyway, the news is that Gallas is out for three weeks. But wait, thankfully Kolo is back.
There are those that might wonder at such a thing. Gallas out for the duration of the transfer window with a hamstring strain and, miraculously, as soon as he’s unfit Kolo’s groin has recovered. It does rather put paid to the rumours about Kolo clearing out his locker, unless he was just reorganising. You know yourself how much crap you accumulate over time. Bits of paper, tupperware you keep meaning to bring home and wash out, the various flotsam and jetsam that you think ‘Oh, that could be handy’.
So it seems likely that Kolo had a bit of a spring clean, said ‘Cheerio everyone’ as he would do every day and someone put 3 and 6 together and got 9. No, 11. Yeah, 11. So Kolo gets a chance to show he can forge a decent partnership with Johan Djourou for the next three weeks at least. Denilson is also back in the squad and there’ll be more team news and what have you tomorrow.
The manager has been talking up the team’s increased solidity at the back, saying:
We have definitely become more solid over the last few weeks. As a team we are better defensively and I also think that the creative spark will come back quickly, as confidence builds.
Erm, what? Better when? In training? The Villa game is barely a couple of weeks old and that game really highlighted the defensive frailties we have. We conceded a silly goal against Plymouth too so I’m unsure as to where this defensive improvement has come from. Don’t get me wrong, I’d very much like it to be true, I just think we might need slightly more to go on than the manager’s word. Without trying to get all technical and stuff – evidence would be good
Emmanuel Adebayor says William Gallas was right to say those awful, hurtful things and claims that he is Arsenal’s ‘big brother’. He’s right you know. He is like a big brother, but not an elder sibling, more a freakish, non-stop car crash of a reality TV show chock-a-block with self-indulgent weirdos.
Newcastle’s Charles N’Zogbia says he’s got a preference for joining Arsenal. Good for him. I too have a preference for joining Arsenal, sadly me being quite crap at football means I have to play on a Tuesday night in an Astro League. I would respectfully suggest that N’Zogbia set his sights similarly, although I wouldn’t pick him for my team. He’s just not good enough. Which means we’ll probably sign him. He’s certainly French enough.
Right, that’s more than enough of that, it’s time for the Arsecast. On this week’s show I have a blogchat threesome with Goodplaya and GilbertoSilver of Gunnerblog, the Man in the Bar has a player history, Amaury Bischoff PI is in there, I give you the winner of the Savile Rogue scarf and more.
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