It appears I have some kind of hangover. Which is something of a surprise as I didn’t have one when I went to bed.
We might as well be Nirvanblog this morning as all the talk is of teen team spirit. Actually, scrap that. That would mean me blowing my head off to get away from Courtney Love and given the delicate state of my brain this morning that’s the only way I can think of dealing with her if she comes crashing through my door. I suppose I could blow her head off but that’s some type of misdemeanour I believe.
Anyway, team spirit. We’ve got it. Just listen. Robin van Persie talks about how the lads are going to ‘fight’ for each other in response to what the media have been saying:
Maybe being written off brings the players a little closer together but we will see what happens. I don’t want to say too much because I don’t want to make the ‘enemy’ cleverer than they are!
How fiendish. Keep your friends close and your enemies in a bamboo cage half submerged in a filthy river, that’s what I say. Meanwhile Manuel Almunia hints that the Arsenal dressing room is a better place to be this season. Is that down to redecoration or the players that have departed? He says:
All the players, we have a better relationship with each other and, if the dressing room works, then, on the pitch, the team works as well. It’s something that is right. Everybody comes into the dressing room with a better mood. It’s crucial to have a good relationship with each other.
It’s true that this season, at the moment, we don’t have any trouble or any problems inside and we appreciate that.
Which all sounds very nice but it makes you wonder what was going on last year. While I’m trying to be reasonable and sensible, understanding fine well that within any large group there are going to be conflicts of personality no matter what the nature of said group, I think it’s only fair to blame Moneybayor for all of it. The big lanky cockbadger.
Then, having opened a number of stories in tabs in my browser this morning, I was sure I had uncovered the real reason for the new togetherness. ‘Arsenal have disco’, says one tab, and there’s nothing like some good old disco dancing to bring people together. ‘Arsenal have discovered new resolve‘ is the disappointing real story from the Independent with quotes from Bacary Sagna but I prefer the the first version. And anyway, doesn’t Robin van Persie have a touch of the Tony Maneros about him?
Straight from the dancehall to the … erm … contracthall, where it’s being reported that Nicklas Bendtner has agreed a new deal with the club. Now that Moneybayor is no longer around to headbutt him (and I’m told he used to loaf Nick on an almost daily basis, sometimes even during charity events which would leave disabled children weeping at the violence perpetrated in front of their very eyes) his future at the club seems somewhat brighter. Which is good news.
I have to laugh at all these stories about Arsenal making a ‘pact’ with Barcelona over Cesc. I know the stories came from the Spanish press, creators of the finest fiction since OJ on the witness stand, but still, even for their standards it’s ludicrous. As if we would agree to any such thing. And pacts are stupid anyway. I remember when me and three of my friends found a dead body by the railway tracks we made a pact not to tell anyone but one of them had to blab his mouth off to Stephen King and then … bam … there’s my life in a book and on film. You can’t trust anyone these days. Or those days.
Not much else happening from an Arsenal point of view. Last night’s results were interesting, eh? A 1-0 defeat to Burnley means little for United, they’ll still be challenging come May, while Sp*rs sticking 5 past permatanned, used car salesman’s pack of cloggers up in Hull means just as little. Although it may just contribute to the eventual downfall of Phil Brown which would be rather hilarious.
Right then, that’s about that. Have a good day. More, and an Arsecast, tomorrow as we look ahead to Portsmouth at the weekend.
