october 12th
08.37 – So England go through to Euro2004, Ireland’s two early losses under Mick McCarthy proved fatal (the curse of Phil Babb) and Scotland and Walesland go through to the play-offs. France beat Israel 3-0 last night, no idea who played or scored for them though.
There is pretty much nothing going on that’s Arsenal related this morning. The internationals have taken care of that. There’s a story about Lauren getting involved in a chairty to promote awareness of HIV/AIDS among young people in Africa. He joins up with Sven and Yoko, Gareth Southgate and former Crystal Palace manager Alan Smith. What an odd bunch.
Moritz Volz wants to be like Steve Finnan. “There are lots of things about him that I’d like to emulate.”
Seeing as we’re going to need at least one striker for the start of the new season, I think we should take a serious look at Nihat from Real Sociedad. He was well handled by England last night, but he’s got the lot. I reckon he’d score a ton of goals for us. During the week the Spanish press has us linked with Kluivert again, speculating that a deal could be done in the January transfer windown. He’s not having a happy time at Barcelona t the moment. While he feels (quite rightly IMO) that he should be applauded by the fans for taking a wage cut and not screwing the club over for money he was entitled to, the Barcelona fans wish he’d pissed off somewhere else in the summer. Wiltord + € = Kluivert.
And with that simple equation I bid you good day.
