november 24th
So here we are on the morning of the biggest game of the season since the last biggest game of the season. Arsenal are in Holland to take on PSV Eindhoven. A victory will see us through to the knock-out stages, a draw means it’s probably out of our hands and should we lose I suspect there will be suicides, looting and infant sacrifice.
Sol Campbell will start tonight to try and bring some stability to our defence. Arsene Wenger says about Sol’s return “Physically he is ready to play and it’s a boost to have him here as we need a bit of reassurance and experience at the back.” His presence should counter the crisis we find ourselves in, according to Philip Cocu. Cocu was the poxy diver who won the early penalty for Barcelona at Wembley, so we owe him one.
AW has again stressed he doesn’t feel walk-offs are the way to counter racist fans as it causes more problems than it solved. We all know PSV were fined for racist chanting the last time we played there so hopefully there’ll be no reason to even consider such drastic action, but I watched Real Madrid v Bayer Leverkeusen last night and it was shameful yet again. Every time a black Leverkeusen player got the ball you could hear the monkey chants going round the stadium. UEFA need to make an example of somebody now and who better than moneybags Madrid? Make them play their next home Champions League game behind closed doors. Fining clubs achieves nothing, unless you fine them a serious amount of money. Something has to be done about it, and fast, before it becomes the norm. Madrid’s ‘fans’ were a disgrace last night. Now let the club suffer the consequences.
To the credit of PSV they’ve taken steps since the last game to stop any repeat and their head of security says “We have reorganised our security policy since then. We want to welcome Patrick Vieira, Thierry Henry and all the Arsenal players back and assure them things will not be the same.”
Let’s hope the only thing we have to talk about tomorrow is a game of football.
In other news Arsene Wenger has requested a personal hearing at the FA as he denies calling Cheat van Cheatelrooy a cheat. Arsenal keeper Graham Stack, currently on loan at Milwall, appeared in court today after being charged with rape. He was released on bail and is due in Croydon Crown Court on December 14th. The BBC say were interested in Brazilian goalkeeper Marcos. We were strongly linked with him about 18 months ago.
Do you know what ‘Entelechy’ is? I didn’t either, till I read a column by the same name from Safety. Check it out. Finally, I know I promised you another t-shirt contest this week, but I’m saving it for tomorrow. It’ll be a wonderful victory contest or a make up for “Yet another disappointing night in Europe for Arsenal.“©™®
