october 26th
And so it continues. Yesterday the FA, quite rightly, charged Ruud van Nistelrooy with serious foul play after his scummy challenge on Ashley Cole during Sunday’s game. If they can give Lauren a four game ban for a bit of pushing and some mild choking then he has to get the maximum three game ban. Anything less would be a total cop-out.
It also appears likely that the FA are going to investigate the incident in the tunnel which was apparently sparked by Arsene Wenger calling van Nistelrooy a cheat. I can’t imagine why that would spark a row. It’s like calling him a man, or Dutch. That’s what he is. A filthy, spineless cheat. I hope he gets polio. Amazingly he’s denied the challenge on Ashley Cole was a deliberate foul and claims he was just going for the ball, so not only is he a cheat he’s a fucking liar too. Who does he think he’s going to convince? Not me, not anyone who watches football, not former ref Jeff Winter – who wouldn’t be opposed to lengthy ban as a deterrent – and hopefully not the FA. He didn’t look at the ball, he looked for the man and raked his knee and shin. Even Stevie fucking Wonder would have seen it. He might be a good player – although 2 goals this season isn’t much to get on your knees and shout like a cunt about – but he’s not much of a sportsman. Anyway it seems a food fight is now the worst thing to ever have happened in football and we’ll hear more about it as the week goes on I’m sure.
The FA have also asked Arsene Wenger to explain his criticism of Mike Riley. What’s to explain? He’s a shit ref who makes bad decisions and has a record of awarding penalties to Manchester United whenever he refs there. The FA should be asking Riley to explain that record and how he missed the van Nistelrooy challenge when he was looking right at it. An email I got from a source in Granada Media yesterday might explain a bit of it:
“A few years ago while making a programme called It Shouldn’t Happen To A Referee for ITV, a colleague of mine asked Mike Riley, who was appearing on the show, which team he supported. Answer, and this is 100% true: Man Utd. I have never believed referees in this country wilfully cheat although they’re human and clearly get pressurised etc. but a confessed Man Utd fan refereeing a game like this and making those decisions? Something stinks.”
He got all the big decisions wrong on Sunday. If you or I displayed such incompetence in our jobs we’d be up the creek, but referees seem to be able to able to get away with anything (unless you’re Andy D’Urso and we don’t feel sorry for that cunt one little bit). I’m right behind the boss speaking out about Riley. The more focus there is on his record at Old Trafford the more difficult it is for him to give penalties every time he’s up there. I’m sure there are 18 other managers in the Premiership happy to hear something being said about it. I’m sure lots of you saw this yesterday (created by an Arseblog forumer) and I do like Arsenal Shorts’ van Nistelriley shirt here.
José has had his say on the game – “In all my sporting life I have never received so many kicks as in Manchester.” He’s looking forward for the return fixture in the new year so he can take some measure of revenge.
Leopold has been in touch and he’s not happy. It seems he’s been the victim of a robbery most foul. Read ‘On the end of a skewer‘ on the real ANR to find out more.
T-shirt lovers: yep, it’s competition time again. With thanks to my good friends at goalhanger.com (with whom we’ll soon have an official Arseblog t-shirt) I have two t-shirts to give away. The first is to celebrate the 49 game unbeaten run while the second is for all you soup fans out there. To enter just email: [email protected] and tell me the answer to this question: Who is a cheating, lying cunt? Winners announced on Friday.
Get going.
