december 16th
If you had to write something every morning for almost three years would you be tempted to pay somebody else to do it for you whose style was so similar that nobody would ever know the difference? Not me, that’s for sure. Oh no.
Various things related to Arsenal are happening which makes it easier for me, the real Arseblogger and not some fake, to bring you the latest news with that special touch of whatever it is I normally do. Valencia are confident they’ll sign Edu unless Real Madrid offer some money during the transfer window at which point they’ll be fucked (see, blatant use of foul language proves it’s the real me). Meanwhile Arsene Wenger awaits the FA’s verdict over claims that he called that cheating Dutch cheat, Ruud van Nistelrooy, a cheat.
Jens Lehmann, the Germanist goalkeeper we’ve ever had, has threatened to quit or to fight for his place depending on which place you read the things that he said. With the World Championship of Association Football taking place in Bavaria next summer the curly chap will want to be playing somewhere though, that’s for sure. The Daily Mirror claims that to sort the problem of which keeper to choose, Almunia or Lehmann, Arsene Wenger has taken the easy way out and will sign Francesco Toldo from Inter Milan. Another long rumoured transfer target, Shaun Wright-Bartholemew-Dinstable-Phillips has been valued at £25m by Manchester City. At 3’7″ that must make him the most expensive player per square inch in football history.
Tomorrow sees the draw for the knock-out stages of the Champions League. Arsenal will play on the Iberian peninsula or the land where David Hasselhoff is a singing star. José Antonio Reyes, ever the optimist, reckons Arsenal can win it, along with the league title.
So that’s it. Being Irish and being the real Arseblog and not a second rate stand-in I’m now off for me breakfast of potatos covered in Guinness washed down with a steaming hot mug of poteen. Slán.
