Morning all, on this most Friday of Fridays. I don’t know why today is so particularly Friday, but I know that it is.
Despite the fact that the quality of football has largely been rubbish, it’s been an unsettling couple of days without World Cup football. Fortunately, today sees one of the most attractive ties of the tournament so far – Holland vs Brazil. In their wisdom, FIFA have made this the earlier fixture of the day, which means I’m either going to have to skive off work early for the second day running following an unscheduled skive yesterday, or I’m going to just have to watch it at my desk. Drinking beer at my desk may be taking things a bit too far though.
So skiving it is.
Arsenal interest is obviously with Robin Van Persie for the Dutch, and the somewhat tenuous link to Brazil through former player, Gilberto Silva. Seeing as Robin is still actually our player, we probably ought to be wishing Holland the better wishes, but – Dirk Kuyt. International football is so difficult.
The other quarter final doesn’t have any Arsenal interest, with Ghana playing Uruguay. I don’t think that’s a quarter final many people would have picked, and it will provide an unlikely semi-finalist.
In terms of pure Arsenal news, there’s not a lot happening. Lots of places have picked up on the quotes from Cesc that Blogger reported yesterday. I have to say that I’ve found the whole Cesc to Barcelona story more tedious than an England World Cup group match. Obviously I wouldn’t want to lose the captain and a player of Cesc’s class, but he’s always going to go back there at some stage. I suspect it won’t be this summer though, and we’ll have him for at least another season.
Responding to rumours of interest from several German clubs, Tomas Rosicky’s said that he’s only interested in pre-season with Arsenal. Good stuff. I like Tomas, and I hope he can find some fitness and keep hold of it.
Finally, in a hilarious faux pas yesterday, our old chum Ashley Cole was found to have texted friends telling them how much he hates England and all its inhabitants. It’s funny the way he’s going for World’s Second Most Detestable Footballer. Perhaps if he’d not got so greedy and hadn’t gone to Chelsea, he wouldn’t find people so awful.
Have yourself a good Friday.
