june 15th
Arsenal got their first goal of Euro2004 yesterday as a very lively Freddie Ljungberg opened the scoring for the impressive looking Sweden as they battered Bulgaria 5-0. Little known Henrik Larsson looks like a decent player too, eh? And he’s free. In the other game Denmark and Italy played a pretty decent 0-0 draw. Not sure about the Italians though which means they’ll probably go on and win it.
Patrick Vieira has said that England cheated in the game against France on Sunday. Not quite sure what he’s on about, maybe he’s hinting at Wayne Rooney’s elbow problems, but all in all I thought it was a pretty fair game. Robert Pires meanwhile has hit back at Fat Frank’s moaning about the French players celebrating victory. Bob says “Yes, they were wild celebrations. But they were for us, not against them. It wasn’t disrespect. We were just excited.”
In Arsenal news Alan Curbishley has played down talk of Kanu moving to Charlton. Maybe Fulham then. Whatever happens the big man wants to stay in London. We’ve also signed a young Danish striker called Nicklas “Bendtner” Rodriguez. He’s been described as ‘the hottest young striker in Denmark’, and apparently he’s a pretty good footballer too. According to The Mirror we’re looking at making a £4m bid for goalkeeper Robert Green. The fact that Norwich have just signed another keeper might indicate there’s something to this one.
Not much else happening. It’s the Dutch versus the Deutsch tonight and with Shergar van Nistelrooy getting the Germans all wound up by mentioning the unmentionable it could be an interesting, red cardarriffic game.
