Hello there, I hope you remembered to put the clocks back. I didn’t. Modern technology being what it is mean my phone and computer all did it automatically. I like when I don’t have to remember stuff because I’m not very good at it.
Anyway, a quick Sunday round-up for you. It’s West Ham later, as we know, and although they’re second from bottom I think this is going to be a trickier game than the table suggests. I don’t necessarily know why I think that, I just do. I also suspect we might see the same team as the one that played in midweek. I know Eduardo is back but I reckon he’ll be used from the bench. Although that might depend on whether or not Bendtner is fit, in which case the boss might have a bit of a rethink.
We’re going to have to play better than we did against AZ. This won’t be a leisurely training ground paced stroll. West Ham are desperate for points, they’re at home, so it’ll be much pacier and much more physical. That said I think we have enough quality to win the game and not getting three points would be a disappointment. Fingers crossed.
Elsewhere Thomas Vermaelen, who disappointingly hasn’t scored for two games now, speaks to the Telegraph about his move to Arsenal. It turns out Arsenal sent head scout Steve Rowley to watch him playing for Ajax who at that time were playing him at left back. They lost both games, conceding ten goals in the process, but thankfully that didn’t deter us. His goalscoring might just have taken the focus away from his aerial ability but it’s clear that he likes a header, offensively and defensively. He says:
I know I’m not tall but, if you speak to people at Ajax they’ll tell you I was the best header there. They don’t care about how big I am, whenever we were defending a corner I always had to take the tallest guy. I’m not that tall but you have to jump so that’s how I try and compensate. I never trained for it. It’s just timing, I guess.
Looks like Wesley Snipes was wrong, white men can jump after all. Screw you, Wesley.
There’s a little bit of transfer speculation. The News of the World links us with ‘the new Georgi Kinkladze’, who turns out to be a 17 year old called Zhano Ananidze. What exactly do they mean by ‘the new Georgi Kinkladze’ though? As far as I can see all he has to do is rock up to a very average mid-table team, score one or two decent goals after flukey dribbles then disappear for the rest of the team. I could do that.
The People says we’re tracking West Ham’s Valon Behrami. He’s Swiss, apparently.
Charlie George is in The Times with his Best and Worst.
And that’s about that. It’s an interesting day of football today. Mugsmashers v United is bound to be interesting, lots of goals equally shared and a plethora of players punching each others faces in would be ideal, that’s followed by us. So I’m going to prepare my chair, get some beers in the fridge and have at it.
More tomorrow, have a good Sunday and come on you Goooooooners.
