may 6th
08.59 – Obviously when your main rivals win the title, there’s a fair amount of banter and gloating goes on. I’ve had countless texts and emails from Man Utd supporting friends, which I will graciously accept because they know football, they’ve seen United lose in Cup Finals like in 1979, they’ve spent hundreds and thousands of pounds going to matches, they were there when they were shite. They had to put up with it from me in 89 and 91 and 98 and last year. Fair’s fair.
What I can’t abide though is clueless know-nothing cunts coming onto my site and deliberately acting the prick. Posting minging pornographic links for example. I have no problem with rival fans using the ‘arses’ or the forum. It’s nice to get a bit of variety in the debate and if other fans want to come on here, have a bit of a laugh and talk about football, great. We’re probably not going to agree on everything, but once it doesn’t descend the petty kind of shite you’d expect from a 12 year old with his first PC, I’m cool with it. If you act like a cunt though, you’ll get treated like a cunt.
Fair play to Gary Neville – ” If people expect me to gloat at Arsenal’s expense, they will be sorely mistaken. When two boxers trade punches for 12 rounds, we salute the champion and respect the loser. In football, why can’t we similarly acknowledge two great teams?”
Can’t say fairer than that really. John Sadler – you’re old, boring and quite frankly, your kind of idle conjecture that passes for journalism is laughable.
AW says the main target for the summer is to keep the players we have. He says “I will not sell one of my top players to finance any other deals.” Great – that’s not say he couldn’t sell the likes of Kanu or Gio van Bronckhorst for a few million, saving money on the wage bill at the same time. The Sun links us with Gallas or Terry, Rustu and surprisingly, Kevin Phillips – at the same time they have Man Utd’s possible purchases listed as Paul Robinson, Patrick Kuivert, Damien Duff, Harry Kewell and Ronaldinho (who Bruce Rioch reckons Arsenal should move heaven and earth to sign). It’s all speculation of course, but it shows the gulf in spending power when you look at the respective names.
Anyway, we’re not going to get involved too much in transfer speculation before the season is over. There’s still the Cup Final and a couple of league games to go. We’re likely to see some of the kids play against Southampton tomorrow night, time for one or two to show what they’re made of before next season.
We’ll also be having an Arseblog end of season poll, more details on that soon.
