Hello there, still bloody freezing here. Almost too cold for blogging but I suppose I can muster a quick Christmas Eve round-up.
Despite Samir Nasri escaping further punishment for the little kick on Garcia in the Hull game, the FA have charged both us and them for ‘failing to control their players‘. How odd, I thought the whole thing was handbags. Apart from Barmby and Hunt there were no punches thrown and the two Hull players’ girly slaps can hardly be considered violent assault.
As far as I can tell no Arsenal player reacted in a negative way. They just tried to break things up. It all seems a bit nonsensical to me but then this is the FA we’re dealing with. They remind me of county councils who embark on road projects in December simply because they have to use up their budget. It’s a while since the FA have embarked on anything quite so frivolous, maybe they just have to use up their quota of arsehole twattism before the year is out.
Andrei Arshavin talks about life in the Premier League, saying he finds it more difficult than he imagined. I think he thought against the lesser teams there’d be more opportunity to shine and showboat a bit but what the so-called lesser teams lack in quality and finesse they make up for with hard work. He goes on to say we can’t really afford to drop any more points, lauds Arsene Wenger for allowing him the freedom to play and says of Arsenal fans:
I am happy, I sometimes think they like me more than my wife.
Haha, what that says about us or his relationship with his wife doesn’t really bear thinking about. Funny stuff all the same.
More snippets from Wenger’s webchat. Theo Walcott broke Thierry Henry’s sprint record, doing 40 metres in less than a second or something. Which only goes to prove Theo is really, really fast. Young Guns provides quotes from the boss about Wojciech Szcz?sny going on to be a great goalkeeper. I think as long as he’s got that many consanants in his name he’s going to find people unwilling to talk about him much. He should change his name to Woz Chezney, or something awesome like that, and I bet his fortunes will improve much quicker.
Arsene says football is in for some tremendous changes in the future. Platini’s ‘square ball’ idea should be in place by the 2018 World Cup. At that point I will stop watching.
Not much else happening so I’ll just take this opportunity to wish you all a very merry Christmas … even if you’re a non-Christmas person. I’ll be taking tomorrow off probably (although a quick post is not beyond the realms of possibility), so until the next one, eat well, drink well and have a nice time with friends and family or whoever you’re spending it.
Cheers!
