How’s your head this morning? Is it pounding, painful, pitiful and pthrobbing? I hope so for then you are like me and I do not suffer alone. It seems we lost a game last night.
I was considering turning the site entirely black to signify the correct amount of mourning but then, you know, I remembered it was just a pre-season friendly being used to tone the fitness and sharpness of the players ahead of next Saturday’s league opener against Everton.
The manager made loads of changes during the game (curiously though Aaron Ramsey didn’t get on at all according to the official site – a loan move imminent, perhaps he did get on, just some official crapness) and while a win would have been quite nice a loss is not the end of the world by any means. I only saw some of the first half, my patience for watching pre-season games in a tiny 300 x 200 pixel window is limited, especially when there are Bloody Marys and nice wine downstairs with Mrs Blogs. Or, indeed, Mrs Blogs downstairs with Bloody Marys and nice wine. Yes, that one.
So if you want a polemic on how we played, who played like a cunt, who is a cunt who will always be a cunt and never good enough for us unless we actually change our name to FC Cunt then I’m afraid you’ll have to look elsewhere. There doesn’t appear to be any post-match stuff from the boss yet so I can’t even tell you what he thought of it. I suspect he’ll have been glad that we got a good, physical game against a very good side and no doubt he used the opportunity of being in Valencia to purchase David Villa. I mean, he’d have been mad not to.
In other news the Daily Mail is saying our interest in Patrick Vieira has ‘cooled’. I wonder how they figured that out. Maybe it was Arsene saying “NO” when asked if he was going to sign Vieira earlier in the week. That was a bit of a clue, in fairness. They also say we’re ‘close’ to Marouane Chamakh. Whether that means we’re almost at the point of signing him or if it means Chamakh would tell us his secrets remains to be seen.
Larry White has a good old rant about the whole situation here. Did you know there’s a judge in Ireland called Justice Barry White? Every time I hear a report on the radio about how he’s sentenced somebody to jail I can’t help thinking of Barry White in the Simpsons on Whacking Day. I think, just for fun, all public representatives should be made change their name to that of a dead celebrity. It’d be brilliant.
“Today, British Prime Minister, Humphrey Bogart met Irish president, Myrna Loy, to discuss why it is that Sinn Fein leader, Divine, is such a beardy old cuntsack”.
It would make the news much more interesting. Anyway, I digress. Theo Walcott says Arsenal need to be more dirty next season. Hurrah. I love a bit of filth, me. Watching us clock up the red cards was a thing of awesome beauty and wonder. Is it any surprise that we stopped winning things when we stopped kicking people up in the air? Not to me.
Fabio Capello says Jack Wilshere could make England’s World Cup squad. Depending on various stuff such as if he plays for Arsenal, how he plays for Arsenal, who else might be available and all that. You know, if Pele can win the World Cup for Brazil … on his own … literally … at the age of 17 or 18 there’s no good reason why Jack Wilshere can’t do the same. I also expect him to find a cure for Phil Collins by next summer. No pressure on the lad though.
There’s not much else happening from an Arsenal point of view. Next week is gonna be interesting, the countdown to the new season is really on now.
So if you’ll excuse me there’s bacon downstairs with my name on it. Literally. I was very drunk last night.
