February 9th
Ahhh, Thursday, what a day. We’ll start with Alexander Hleb who was quite literally shocked to hear reports that he had secret meetings with ze Germans and was planning a return to ze Bundesliga. He said “I am very happy at Arsenal. I love playing Premier League football, this is an exciting opportunity for me and I am determined to do well here. The Arsenal fans are great and I love playing in their team.”
His agent, on the other hand, said “In football anything is possible, but I do not want to get involved in speculation.”
Let me tell you this Hleb’s agent, in football it’s not possible that Dennis Bergkamp can give oral sex to a cougar on the halfway line, so there’s that fallacy blown (no pun intended) right out of the water. However, it is possible that a player who a club spends a lot of money to discover he is unable to pass the ball to his teammates more than once every eight goes might just well find himself sold back to where he came from. So there.
Arsene Wenger spoke about Sol Campbell’s chances of playing against Bolton on Saturday, saying “Sol has regrouped, he was away but has come back refreshed and willing to do well for us. I will see how he is in training. If he is OK he will play.”
Whispers suggest though that Sol is injured, his ankles unable to take the stress of that great frame, and won’t take part in this weekend’s game which is only right and proper in my opinion. Maybe some of you think it’s harsh but I thought Cascarino’s article yesterday was bang on and really the only reason Sol should even have been considered for the Bolton game is because we’re missing so many defenders. With everyone fit and healthy I’d only play Sol if everyone suddenly became unfit or paralysed for some reason.
For the last two home games of the season – the last two games at THOF – the tickets are going to be allocated by a ballot based on how many home games you have attended. There’s been no official word but I’m told you need to have attended a minimum of 10 games to be considered and the more games you’ve been to the more chance you have of getting a ticket. No doubt there’ll be some announcement by the club soon.
Looks like we have already made some enemies in the new office. War is brewing. Viva la revolución.
