october 2nd
After yesterday’s reports of the 15 rounds between Lauren and Patrick Vieira, Arsene Wenger was quick to play it down as a “…minor, minor incident,” which is pretty much what everyone expected. Apart from those people who expected the ‘I didn’t see it’ answer.
The boss claims it was down to players being passionate and caring about what happens on the pitch, but refused to be drawn into giving details, saying “If I ask what was going on in a disagreement in your family do you come and say it? No. You have to respect what is happening inside the team and keep it inside the team.”
So despite something happening Patrick Vieira then claimed nothing happened at all and that him and Lauren are best friends and they’re always over at each other’s houses playing soldiers and swingball in the back garden. So that makes everything clear then. Still, I suspect it was nothing serious and these kind of arguments happen all the time in football, at every level, this one just happened to be a bit more public than we might like.
Team news for today is that Pires, Cole and Edu are out. Cole has an injury while Edu and Pires are ‘rested’. Clichy will come in at left back, Cesc Fabregas will start in midfield (which will make the Spanish commentators happy) and Dennis will start up front with TH and José should continue out on the left. The boss was thinking about giving Sol a break but the idea of Cygan alongside Clichy gave him the shits and Sol is likely to play.
“Obviously we do not have a lot of English players any more, but, in the end, we’re all wearing the Arsenal shirt. I may be French, but I’m playing for Arsenal.” – Thierry Henry talks to Observer Sports Monthly this Sunday, talking about Arsenal, France and Patrick Vieira. It looks a jolly interesting interview and the filthly lucre the Observer paid me to say that has nothing to do with it. I should be honest, they didn’t pay me anything at all but maybe now is a good time to say I will heartily endorse any product or sentiment for the right price. Just get in touch.
Arsene Wenger says Francis Jeffers missed the train. Amazing, with ears like that he should have been able to hear it coming from miles away. Boom boom.
That’s it. Exciting shopping for groceries lies ahead this morning, then it’s off to the pub to watch the game. More later.
