december 13th
09.14 – According to the Telegraph, Arsenal want to sign Danny Mills from Leeds when the transfer windows re-opens in January. Not very likely really. We’ve already got one useless bald cunt at the back. Portsmouth meanwhile are interested in taking Matthew Upson on loan, with a view to a permanant move. The Pompey Chairman was at Highbury on Tuesday night to sound out David Dein about a possible move. This comes from Teamtalk so it could well be just made up shite, but when it comes to Upson, he comes and goes rather a lot.
The Upson situation is a funny one really. He’s obviously been sent on loan to build up his fitness after a long struggle after breaking his leg last season. He comes back to find himself behind Cygan and Keown to partner Sol. Cygan is not at all convincing, makes errors, sometimes costly ones, yet stays in the team. Keown is coming up on his Eleventy First birthday. One goal versus Aston Villa last season apart, I can’t ever remember Upson making the same kind of errors. Nobody is claiming that he’s the answer to all of Arsenal’s defensive problems, but I think most Arsenal fans will be very unhappy if he’s not given a chance to prove himself worthy of a first team place before he, or AW, decides his future lies elsewhere. He’s young, has something to prove, is English (and it is important to keep a core group of English players in the team) and should be given a go. So there.
Matthew Reed, an Arsenal fan who sells merchandise outside Highbury, has won his appeal against a European ruling that he cannot sell anything with the name Arsenal, Gunners or with the colours red or white, or any of the letters of the alphabet in it, or cannons or things that look like cannons, or…well, you get the idea. I understand the club want to protect their interests, but maybe they’d be better off doing something about the ticket touts that populate N5 for every home game, or the factories that produce dodgy replica kits in the far east. But then, it’s much easier to just pick on one bloke with a stall outside the ground, eh?
This is incredible. And with that in mind: “Free Kylie wanted, for various sinful pleasures of the flesh and to pay me €50,000 a week and to give me a brand new motorbike and 6 Heinz boil in a tin strawberry puddings”. Well, if some bloke will agree to be murdered and scoffed, it’s worth a try.
