Morning all, it’s fairly quiet now that the Wenger to Madrid stuff has calmed down.
We head into the final weekend of the season, a game against Stoke, and then we have the whole summer to look forward to.
Really the most interesting thing about this morning are the pictures of the new kit going around. As you can see to your left we have hunky Spaniard Cesc Fabregas modelling the latest Arsenal away kit. And to be perfectly honest it’s ghastly.
‘Midnight blue’, it’s called. Now, leaving aside midnight is usually black and not blue, Midnight Blue was the name of a particularly awful mid-80s RAAAWK song by former Foreigner lead singer Lou Gramm:
I remember what my father said.
He said: Son
life is simple
it’s either cherry red or –
Midnight blue
oh
midnight blue
oh!
Now, it’s quite clear that Lou Gramm’s father had a severe mental illness, seeing life in only two colours, and this was translated into a song so dreadful that it made even Glass Tiger wince.
So this is where we are with the kit. The response the pictures last night on Twitter was quite mixed, some people liked it, especially the pinstripes (designed by Oswald Boateng I believe), but for me the main problem is the blueness of the kit.
My abiding memory of Arsenal in blue is Robbie Fowler scoring a hat-trick against us inside 4 minutes. What a great Sunday that was. Went down the pub, managed to get in at 3.55pm (this was in the days when pubs in Ireland were forced to close every Sunday between 2 and 4), sat at the bar, great view of the screen, pint beside me, and then Robbie Fowler scored the fastest hat-trick I’ve ever seen. It rather spoiled my day, I can tell you.
So you can stick your blue kit up your arse. Especially as everybody knows we never win anything in blue. If we fail to win a trophy next season there shall be no blame heaped upon Arsene Wenger from this little corner of the blogosphere. No. It will be all Nike’s fault. I’m telling you.
Meanwhile the agent of Emmanuel Adebayor has spoken about his client’s future, saying:
I do not know if the future of Emmanuel will be with Arsenal. The only certainty is that, at the end of the season, I will meet with Wenger to assess the situation. But it is premature to talk about these things.
So if it’s premature why are you talking about it? Especially if you don’t know his future. Don’t these agents take Tarot card course these days? Pffff. I suspect Mr Courbis, for that is his name, is somebody we’re going to hear rather a lot of in the coming weeks and months.
Also yesterday news that Eduardo underwent surgery on his ankle. Nothing major, just some running repairs and he’s expected to be fully fit for pre-season training.
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Not much else happening to be honest. We should probably hear something from Arsene Wenger today, there’s usually an in-house interview on a Thursday before his press conference on a Friday. It will be interesting to see how that’s handled because obviously when the press gang arrive on Friday it’s going to be ‘Real Madrid’ + ‘transfer budget’ + ‘Real Madrid’ + ‘When are you leaving?’ + ‘Real Madrid’ + ‘Real Madrid’ + ‘Real Madrid’ and possibly some ‘Real Madrid’ thrown in.
That’ll be fun! Right then, have a good day. Till tomorrow.
