Opening a blog with a picture is a very rare occurrence on Arseblog. This morning is different though. Firstly it’s as quiet as Helen Keller doing an impression of Anne Frank and secondly you very rarely get a picture quite as awesome as this:
What can you say? The club are celebrating 25 years in the Community and I doff my cap to whoever thought up this particular idea for a photoshoot. Outstanding. I hope they do an evening-wear version with Rosicky, in a blond wig, and William Gallas dressed in linen suits to channel Miami Vice. Cheers to hadareud for the find.
And speaking of Andrei Arshavin, his official site continues to throw up comedy gold. After last week responding to a question asking whether or not he had, at any point in his life, died, the little fella was at his best again as more questions piled in.
From veizel: Hi! I’m overweight. What shall I do?
Arshavin: Lose weight 🙂
From veizel: Hi, Andrey! I am 13 years old and I began to play football 2 years ago. Do you think I’ll be able to become a professional footballer?
Arshavin: I do not know.
From kostea: Have you ever been stung by the bees in the forehead or near the eye?
Arshavin: No, but I’ve been stung once in my behind by a bee.
From iorh99: Do you watch football on TV?
Arshavin: Yes
With such forthright and in-depth answers it is little wonder that people flock to Arshavin.eu to have the great questions of life answered for them. Like, ‘Have you ever been stung by bees in the forehead or near the eye?’. Who amongst us hasn’t thought of asking a professional footballer that? I mean, after ‘Have you ever used a mole or perhaps a sick otter to beat someone in the face with after they did that thing where you’re standing in a queue in a shop for ages and the person rings up all their purchases and puts them in a bag and only then do they think about taking out their money and they spend an eternity trying to pay with the exact change?’, it’s one of football’s hottest topics.
Robin van Persie is injured. We know this. He knows this. The Dutch FA know this. But with the World Cup this summer it seems the Dutch are trying some kind of positive reinforcement stuff. Like if they say he’ll be ready at the start of April enough times he might believe it and it might just come true. They’re at it again despite Arsene Wenger saying he’s unlikely to be in any way ready that early. I think we’ll be lucky to see him again this season and he’ll recover in time to snap both cruciates in the 94th minute of the third game of the group stage after Holland qualifed for the knockout stages in the second game.
Some good news to finish us off this morning, Eduardo reckons he’s stronger, fitter, more confident and on his way back. Possibly. He’s hoping to return against Stoke. I’m not really sure about the stronger and fitter bits but hopefully he’ll have found that missing confidence and will score a couple on his comeback #47a.
And that will have to do, more tomorrow, including an Arsecast and the usual Friday waffle. Fingers crossed there’s a bit of team news and some other vaguely related Arsenal guff to see us through. Till then.
