april 1st 2004
So it’s April 1st. April fools day, and if you take a look back at April 1st on Arseblog over the last couple of years, you’ll see it’s been traditional for me to play some kind of April fools prank with varying degrees of success. Last year’s Gilberto story on March 31st caught out a few, while the Google story the following day was even more successful because I’d made it clear that the Gilberto one was the prank. A bit tricksy I know but what can you do?
So this year I was racking my brain trying to think of something, and I’ve pretty much given up the ghost. Anything I do today would be seen through in no time, and while it might be a bit of a laugh, the whole idea of April Fools is to fool people and if I can’t fool anyone I might as well not bother and wait until another day later in the year and do a belated April Fools.
This was one of my ideas, and I’d even thought about approaching Sky to get them to donate a URL to it but I just didn’t have time to do it. This was another, although regular readers will know that to be a most unlikely event, although my good friends at Arsenal Mania could do with taking that idea on board it seems. So you’ll just have to hold onto your hats and see if you can spot the gag in the coming weeks and months. Oh, by the way, your shoelaces are untied….
Thierry Henry played 45 minutes for France as they drew 0-0 with someone. I can’t even be bothered to go look up who they were playing because it’s not important. The important thing is that Thierry came through the game without injury, unlike Aston Villa’s Darius Vassel who managed 6 minutes of England’s game before getting clattered by his own team-mate, Olaf Mellberg, and eventually had to come off. I’m sure our old chum Nose-Face is chuffed.
Up and coming striker David Bentley appears to have his feet firmly on the ground, even if he does have lofty ambitions. He wants to eventually replace Dennis Bergkamp in the Arsenal side, but he’s under no illusions as to how difficult a job this is going to be. He says “I feel my chance will come. They can buy another player but if I’m not ready this season or the season after, then it will be the season after that. I’ve just got to keep performing in every game.”
It didn’t take much to figure out that the earlier story of Thierry Henry and Lauren having fisticuffs after the United game last Saturday was more than likely fed to the Mirror by a Manchester source. BlogFC gives you more of a clue, and to give you even more of a clue and to show you how erm…clueless the source in question was, I’ve got a picture of the source talking to the Mirror journalist outside the press room at Highbury atfer the match. Because I was sent this by someone who obviously wishes to remain anonymous, I’ve put it in a password protected area so it won’t get picked up by the search engines. Just go here, then log in with the username: 11618912 and the password: tonto and feast your eyes on the moron in question.
Right, it’s the last teaching day before the holidays. Hurrah. Then it’s some serious nothing, well, by nothing I mean ‘not teaching’, which suits me like a fox.
