The thing about an Arsenal free weekend is that when the weekend is over there is literally nothing to talk about. There’s no post-match reaction, drama, histrionics or anything else. The weekend’s results do mean more games for Villa and Sp*rs as they have to do the whole replay thing and while we still glance over our shoulder a little bit that’s no bad thing.
The best we have this morning are a few scabby headlines about Porto’s ‘Hulk’ saying he’s going to smash Arsenal. Yeah, whatever. It would only be interesting if we renamed our players after superheroes. It’d give yer man on the mic something to play with when call out the teams:
Talking Guy – “Number 27 Supermaaaaan…”
Crowd – “Ebooooouuuueeeee!”
Talking Guy – “Number 12 Wolverinita ….”
Crowd – “Veeellllaaaaa!”
Then he could go and spoil all the fantastic superhero based build-up, which has rattled the opposition to their very core, by playing that fucking Elvis song. The opposition are no longer scared as they now picture the Arsenal players in their cardigans, like 11 Val Doonicans, rummaging in their pockets for a Werther’s Original which won’t stick to their dentures. I know RedAction and those chaps have been trying to do something about that song but when are we going to get rid of it? We need a superhero DJ to storm the box one day and lash on something good.
Speaking of atmospheres at the the Grove and all that, I’m sure loads of you have seen this video already but ‘A night at the Emirates‘ is about the most gorgeous Arsenal video I’ve ever seen on YouTube. I know the competition isn’t up to much, usually pixelated clips of Arsenal goals set to a thudding German trance remix of a 60s song, but this is a thing of beauty. Enjoy and a serious doff of the cap to the man who made it. Great work.
Chamakh Obama scored for Bordeaux last night. A fairly bog standard header from a free kick but it’s no bad thing to have someone else who can score goals like that. I believe after he scored he took a moment to draft new legislation regarding the protection of wild lesbian otters who dwell in the Garonne river. What a man.
Seeing as it’s a bit vidtastic this morning, here’s a feature on young keeper Wojciech Szczesny who is enjoying a good loan spell at Brentford. Here’s there until the end of the season but if he keeps playing the way he is then he’s going to give the manager something to think about before he decides not to think about it and gives Almunia a new 10 year contract.
Not much else going on really. There’ll be a press conference tomorrow when we should get all the team news before Wednesday’s game against Porto. Ideally we’ll have Eduardo back and Alex Song’s knee injury will have turned out to be little more than a small irritation. The lads should be in good shape though, having had plenty of recuperation time from that run of fixtures which, if it was draining for fans, had to be draining for the players. A time to regroup and focus again ahead of what is going to be a tricky tie.
Hopefully more actual news tomorrow. It does make my life so much easier. Have a good one.
