december 7th
10.31 – All kinds of fall-out from yesterday’s game. Well, two kinds. AW kind and the Ashley Cole kind.
In what appears to be a new policy, Ashley Cole has apologised for his tackle on Ben ‘son of Maggie’ Thatcher. “The tackle was in the heat of the moment. I didn’t go over the ball and I didn’t mean to hurt Ben Thatcher. That being said, however, I did deserve to be sent off and I have apologised to my team-mates and the boss.”
AW said “It was a red card and we have to accept it. He will miss three matches now and that can be costly but we have handled that before and we will deal with it again.”
In general, the boss expressed his disappointment at giving away a late goal the way we did. “We had a whole training session devoted to defending high balls like that and so we feel guilty at dropping two points in this way. We did not deal well with the ball.”
Still, however painful dropping two points so late is, you have to remember we’re still the only unbeaten side in the league. We didn’t play well by all accounts yesterday, but we didn’t get beaten. Maybe a couple of the substitutions might be questioned, particularly Wiltord who came on a did very little, when Kanu has been in good form recently, but maybe that’s nit-picking.
Thierry Henry is a doubt for Wednesday’s game against Locomotiv Moscow, although I expect him to play if there’s any chance whatsoever. However, we’ll leave all speculation about the Champions League until tomorrow. Today’s is Mrs Blogger’s birthday, so I’m off to make breakfast in bed. Obviously she’d prefer if I made it in the kitchen like everyone else, but where’s the romance in that?
