november 4th
This is one of those dull inbetween matches mornings where there’s not much going on and everyone’s fed up talking about the Champions League game already.
Some of the stats boffins reckon that if we beat PSV we’re through, no matter what happens for the rest of the group phase. Last time we went there we won 4-0, so here’s hoping history repeats itself. The captain has been talking and the Indo runs with a piece titled “Vieira must find old fire for Arsenal to survive.”
Couldn’t have put it better myself. I have to say I harbour some concerns over Vieira, but it is very early in the season. I do stand by what I said yesterday though as to the role he should be playing on the pitch.
In other news Leeds would like Jermaine Pennant back if he were to become available (remember his contract is up at the end of the season), while Robert Pires has been summoned to a meeting with the French Football Federation where the agenda will be the things they don’t like about his behaviour after his recent criticism of coach Raymond Domenech.
Now, in the wake of our terrible crisis and run of shocking defeats…erm…*cough*….well, you can prove you can do it better than Arsene. We have got three prize packs of Football Manager 2005, the game where you can be manager of Arsenal and tell Alex Ferguson you don’t like him (really), to give away.
You get a copy of the game (PC or Mac), a t-shirt and a mug. Nifty, eh? All you have to do to enter is tell me who was Arsenal manager when we won the 1979 FA Cup. Was it:
- Don Howe
- Terry Neill
- Theo Foley
Answers to [email protected] and the winner will be announced on Monday. The game is available in the shops today for those of you who can’t wait. Official site here.
And that’s about it. Football tonight for me. I expect a sluggish game as I went to the gym yesterday, ran too far and now I’m crippled like a fox.
