Right, you all know what summers are like. There’s little or no football, yet copy still has to filed at the sports desk. Column inches need to be filled.
I saw this Cesc interview yesterday in AS but chose not to report on it, simply because I didn’t think there was anything too sensational about it. Cesc was asked various questions, he answered them, and that was that. Obviously though this morning the juicy bits have been taken, rehashed and now all of a sudden Cesc is off to Madrid and Arsenal are ‘impotent’.
So to analyse you take the words and use them in the context they were made. He was asked about Cristiano Ronaldo and said he was leaving Man United because he’d won all there is to win. For him, right now, it was the opposite as Arsenal have been unable to win anything. Ok. Where’s the problem in that? We haven’t won a trophy in four years. When using the word ‘impotencia’ he’s talking about our inability to win silverware, but labeling the entire club ‘impotent’ makes for better copy.
He says he’s angry, literally that it gives him ‘rage’ that we haven’t won things. Someone explain to me how that is a problem? Of course he’s angry. He should be. So should the other players. If they were content to coast through their careers without winning then I’d be worried, but that the captain of the club is in a place where he’s driven by the pain of not winning then I don’t see a problem whatsoever.
When you win, you’re well. But when you don’t, everyone is in a bad mood.
Fuck me, that must mean he’s so angry he’s on the point of growing huge, turning green and running about the place roaring in purple pants that have split down the sides, bashing the stadium to bits. Give me a break.
They ask him straight out – ‘Would your family understand if you signed for Real Madrid’. His answer:
Of course they would understand because they love me, they want me to be happy and what’s best for me. Whatever club I went to they’d support me. My family will always be there for me. They are always by my side.
Right, so that answer could be to any question. Such as ‘Would your family understand if you told them you were gay?’ or ‘Would your family understand if you told them you’d robbed a bank?’.
It’s just a fucking common sense answer and does not ‘hint’ that he’s going to Madrid. He just answered the question honestly because he’s got parents and family who love him. I know it’s not true for everyone but most of us, whatever decisions we make in our lives, will have the support of our families because that’s what families do (for the most part).
It’s such a load of bullshit. To twist something like that into a ‘Cesc hints at Madrid move’ is stretching the truth so far it might as well be that Octomom’s gee after giving birth.
They ask him ‘Can Cesc live without Wenger? Are your futures always linked?’. He says:
If he leaves, I don’t have to go.
He then goes on to say all the stuff you’d expect him to say about Arsene. How much he respects him, what a big influence he’s had on his career etc. He also has a little pop about Ashley Cole being too keen to celebrate against Arsenal after his move to Chelsea, suggesting he should be more professional and do it at home but that’s by the by.
So, let’s sum up. Cesc is not happy because we have not won trophies. That pretty much puts him on a par with every Arsenal fan, so why are people up in arms about this? He’s angry at our inability to win, like Arsenal fans. It hurts him that we haven’t managed to win a trophy. Good. I’m glad. It hurts me too. That doesn’t mean I’m going to stop supporting Arsenal and go support United or Real. He’s got a family who loves him but this somehow means he’s going to Madrid. Nonsense.
Let’s be very clear – this is all a lot of fuss about nothing. The sports hacks have nothing else to write about so they’re striring shit. From Martin Samuel’s piteous attempts yesterday to suggest we might sell Cesc this summer, and would be open to doing so, to this load of complete and utter septic goats bollocks, it’s all a load of shit.
I’m looking at the NewsNow Arsenal feed and it’s like a sea of stupidity. As far as I can see not one person has challenged what has been written, they’re all merely parroting what’s come before. This is lazy, height of summer bollocks of the highest order. Cesc’s ‘outburst’ or he’s ‘taking aim’ at Arsenal.
Wake the fuck up and smell the coffee and stop helping to perpetuate the shite they peddle about our club and players.
Elsewhere Theo Walcott talks about being angry after Stuart Pearce left him out of the England U21 side. Oh, he’s angry. Maybe he wants to kill Stuart Pearce. In the face. With a lump-hammer. No, he just wants to work harder to get back in the team. How disappointing. I was sure a player being angry meant something drastic had to happen, not simply motivate him to improve and do better. Oh NewsNow, how could you have lied to me like this?
Anyway, not much else happening. The club have released a statement about Arsenal TV in the wake of the Setanta problems and that’s about it.
Finally, thanks to Kevin who tells me the first game on the Austrian training camp will be against SC Columbia, a team in the Vienna city league, on July 21st.
More tomorrow, have a good one.
