September 26th
So, another Monday. They just keep on coming, eh?
We’re off to Dutchland tomorrow to take on Ajax and we’ve had some history with these guys in recent years. We had two draws when Ronald Koeman was manager and they’re now managed by another former Dutch international Danny Blind. We’ll just have to see if he can make a difference.
WE still have injury worries, it looks like Gilberto is going to be out with an ankle injury so that will probably mean the Fab-Flam partnership starting its first game of the season. We can only hope that Gilberto isn’t out for too long because we don’t exactly have many options in the middle of the park. If Cesc or Mathieu were to pick up an injury we’d be calling on …erm… I don’t quite know who. Larsson maybe. Song? I hope not. Anyway, let’s not dwell on the negatives but just in case I think you should all go to your nearest church, light a candle and say a prayer to Saint Busst, the patron saint of injuries.
Jens Lehmann thinks that Chelsea will suffer a period this season when things don’t go well for them. He may have a point. How many times can people jump out of the way of or deflect Frank Lampard’s free kicks. Jens says “We would like to be in front of Chelsea, but right now that is not the situation and we have to fight to get into a better position in the table. I am very optimistic that we can succeed to do that.”
Double-D says he’s ‘quietly confident’ that Thierry Henry will sign a new contract and that negotiations will begin soon. I keep reading bits and pieces about how a player in the final year of his contract can effectively buy it out and leave on a free. Anyone care to clear that up for me? Please let me know by posting a message in the arses. It’s not that I don’t want emails but I just have so little time to reply to them at the moment I feel bad when I can’t. I thank you.
The wages of sin are death – so says furq in a new article. What do you think?
Ho-hum, another day at work, then another pre-season friendly. I’m too old for all this football. Especially today.
