Happy Saturday, I’ve got to take my semi-sprained ankle out into the garden again this morning. Hopefully we’ll get everything more or less finished today though. Only a couple of tons of stuff to shift today.
We’ll start with someone who has also had injury problems, Tomas Rosicky. In an interview with Arsenal TV Online he revealed he thought he might never play football again and explained the injury that has kept him out for so long. In a game against Fulham he got a kick on the back of the knee which caused him pain but he was able to play again a few days later against Newcastle.
After this first sprint of the game he completely tore his tendon away from the bone. Ouch. Unfortunately scans didn’t show the damage, it was only when he had a bog-standard x-ray that it was revealed. The injury, as we all know, was rare. Doctors looked for similar sufferers so they could see how to go about fixing it but found nobody.
So a couple of surgeries later and over 12 months here we are. He says his knee is absolutely fine, he’s just got a bit of a groin problem now but he says he’s ‘boiling inside’ to play again.
You can say what you want about how picking up big wages helps soften the blow of not playing but if you love to play football and you can’t it’s hugely frustrating, at any level. I think I’m going to have to miss my game of 5s tomorrow because of my ankle and I want to lie down on the floor like a toddler going ‘NOT FAIR!’ (the fact I’m a big baby might have something to do with this though).
All the same, I can’t imagine not playing for more than a year. Obviously it’s great to see him on the cusp of being back because at times the information we were getting about his injury was extremely negative. He wasn’t the only one to think he might never play again. Whether we see him this season or not remains a question but fingers crossed we’ll see our number 7 on the pitch sooner rather than later. He’s a fine player and someone who would have made a difference this season.
It was also revealed yesterday that the club has no problem at all with Emmanuel Adebayor playing for Togo. AW revealed he’d spoken to the Togo manager and also said that as Adebayor was ‘ready’ to play there was no issue with him turning out for his country. So there.
The Mirror has apologised to Nicklas Bendtner for some rather poor interpretation of quotes he made to a Danish newspaper. Vital Arsenal has the story and it’s one that deserves some coverage.
Cesc’s dad talks about his son, interest from other clubs and how they turned down Real Madrid and Florentino Perez. With Perez set to contest this summer’s presidential election at Madrid I suspect he’s going to throw some names about, and I’d put a fair chunk of money on Cesc being one of them.
Not much else going on really. There are a slew of internationals on today and our players will feature in some of them. Fingers crossed they all come through unscathed … until Wednesday’s internationals, at least.
I’m going to hobble out into the garden. More tomorrow. And don’t forget the clocks go forward tonight, one hour less sleep, but more sunshine (hahahaha) in the evenings.
