march 29th
The big story this morning comes from The Mirror who are reporting that Lauren and Thierry Henry had a punch-up in the tunnel after the game. As they were leaving the pitch you could see Lauren talking to Thierry, who was obviously pissed off that Lauren hadn’t passed the ball to him for an easy tap-in late on. As they got to the tunnel Henry allegedly went mad and the pair started throwing punches at each and had to be separated by other Arsenal players. According to an eye-witness “Henry was like a wild man. He was going crazy and the two of them were really going for each other.”
I’ll see what I can find out about this, but if true it’s definitely a sign of the pressure the team are under to keep going undefeated. Anyway, Thierry will get a rest on Saturday in the FA Cup as he’s likely to be rested along with Freddie Ljungberg because they’ll be playing international games in mid-week.
Robert Pires and Patrick Vieira have been withdrawn from the French squad for their midweek game against some other country, while Ashley Cole and Sol Campbell are not in the England squad. Fingers crossed our players come through unscathed and once again you have to think someone in FIFA needs to be shot in the face for scheduling friendlies at this stage of the season.
One thing I forgot to mention yesterday was the fact that Arsenal have now set a new record for games unbeaten from the beginning of the season. 30 in all so far, and you have to take your hat off and applaud the achievement. For a lot of people that got overshadowed by the late equaliser. There’s been a lot of debate about the substitutions made close to the end of the game. The only thing I’ll say is that the boss is the manager of the team that’s gone the whole season unbeaten so far, I suspect he probably knows what he’s doing, don’t you?
So another week of build up to a United game. If we win their season is over. How much more motivation do the players, or the fans, need?
