october 8th
08.56 – So once again we’re stuck in the Twilight Zone that is international week. Our next game is against Everton (who managed to keep Utd at bay for 86 minutes last night, then conceded 3 in the last few minutes) in 11 days time. Is it true that the Chinese fella who played for Everton last night has to play because of some contractual agreement with Everton’s new Chinese sponsors? Makes sense, coz he was absolutely one of the worst players I’ve seen play Premiership ball for a long time.
One of the big surprises this season has been the amount of headers we’ve scored. So far 5 of our goals have come from headers, which is more than we’ve scored in the last 6 years or something. In the other little bit of Arsenal news around. Sir Robert of Pires reckons other teams in the Premiership are afraid of the Gunners, while in the same article, Dennis Bergkamp is effusive in his praise of born-again striker Kanu.
Elsewhere, Peter Reid has been sacked by Sunderland for being a bit crap, leaving the door wide open for David O’Leary (who has no doubt been sending flowers and chocolates to the Sunderland Chairman’s wife for the last few weeks) to make his return to management.
The lack of Gooner goings-on allows us to sidetrack a little bit and try and find answers to some of the questions that have puzzled us for years. You know, simple stuff like ‘If God created everything, who created God?’ and ‘Who decided that Vinnie Jones can act?’
Yesterday I saw a video from A-ha, the Norwegian pop combo who burst onto the scene in the 80s with their cartoon strip video for ‘Take on me’. Can anybody explain to me why lead singer Morten doesn’t appear to have aged one bit in the last 18 years? Must be the lashings of delicious antler-soup or something. It’s kind of spooky really.
