june 4th
09.04 – It’s the end of anothe era at Arsenal today, as it becomes clear that David Seaman is set to leave the Gunners to go and play for Manchester City.
I have mixed feelings about it to be honest. Complete and utter indifference crossed with not giving a shit. He’s been a great servant to the club for the past 13 years and has played a huge part in the success we’ve had. But he’s nearly 40 years of age, and when you read this article in The Times it seems that Seaman’s primary motivation is England and reclaiming the number 1 jersey. Forget 13 years at Arsenal. Forget the chance to become goalkeeping coach. Play for one more season at a crappy club so you can prove those nasty people in the press wrong and play for England again.
Arsene Wenger has always been a great backer of David Seaman – he’s continued to choose him as Arsenal’s number 1 when maybe some of us thought his time had passed. Sven Goran Eriksson has decided it’s time England went with a younger keeper. Doesn’t the fact that it’s David fucking James in goal for England tell Seaman anything? Arsene Wenger has decided that Seaman would miss too many games with injury – he needs a number1 who will be fit for most of the season.
There’s also the basic problem that at 40 years of age, your body is slower, reactions are slower – and I don’t know about you, but it’s been a long time since I’ve seen DS1 get off the ground to make a save. The spring in his legs is well and truly gone. Wenger said this about Seaman’s retirement, “You never know yourself when it is time. You have to trust people who know and will tell you.”
He should have retired after the FA Cup final in my opinion. For a player with so much pride, surely going out at the top with another winners medal at a club like Arsenal is preferable to playing on for a mid-table side like Man City? Playing behind Richard Dunne and Steve Howey will sure keep him busy, and it’s most likely our memories of Seaman will be tainted by seeing him pick the ball out of the net time and again in Man City’s shiny new stadium. I hope we win 8-0 when we go up there. That’s terrible, isn’t it?
All the same, I wish him well. I think he’s making a mistake though.
Sylvain Wiltord fears he’s going to made a victim of Arsenal’s cash crisis. Our pointy-headed Stringer (that’s striker crossed with Winger – works better than Winker) says “I would like to stay for another four years but we have not had many discussions about the contract so I am waiting to see what happens. It took me some time to settle but now I am very happy at the club and with my life in London and I would like to stay.”
Yesterday’s Sun carried a story which asked the anonymous Arsenal player to contact them over allegations sent in an anonymous fax. If it was anonymous, how do they know for sure it was an Arsenal player? It all stinks of piss and scuttery shit – a sure sign it’s something to do with Marc Roger. It was only in the hard copy, the story wasn’t carried online. If you want to make the Sun’s day, why not send them a fax claiming to be this Arsenal player to : 02077824074 – outside the UK fax to :+442077824074
Might be good for a laugh. Anyway, we’ll see if they have the balls to publish these ‘allegations’ but it does sound like some serious shit stirring is going on somewhere.
Amoruso – good stuff that.
Right, that’s yer lot for now, anyone still affected with the ‘POYC’ image – see below. Later.
