You know that thing you get when your alarm goes off and you think ‘It’s Saturday, I can have a lie in!’ but seconds later you realise it’s not Saturday but Thursday and you have to be up earlier than normal because your car which went to the garage and was supposed to be ready yesterday but isn’t because they found stuff wrong with it which is going to take ages to fix and is probably going to cost a fortune which means having to leave the house much earlier than you normally would because you have to walk to get somewhere and you have two very painful ankles from football so you’d rather not walk at all but walking is far preferable to getting the bus because the bus is full of smelly people who cough all the time and spread germs?
Yeah, well I got that this morning.
Arsene Wenger won’t be happy this morning either as Theo Walcott has been called up to the England U21 squad for the European Championships this summer. He’s not the only Arsenal man either, Kieran Gibbs has played his way into the squad too so congratulations to him.
There are two schools of though here. One is that Theo will be tired without a summer of rest. The competition ends on June 29th and we have pre-season training on the 6th of July.
The other is that Theo’s had four months off through injury, he’s only 20 years of age so he’s got all the energy in the world, and that Stuart Pearce is actually a bit crap and England will probably go out in the group stages having lost to Austria, Bratislava and the tiny principality of Perineumia. There’s not much we can do about it anyway so there’s no point stressing about it.
Some good news though, the squad is getting a good bolstering already. Many of us thought it’d take a few weeks at least before we saw some transfer action but not so. Two players are on their way into the club. 15 year old Cheltenham midfielder Jamie Edge and 15 year old FC Zurich centre-half Martin Angha (nickname, Lookbackin), will join the club and immediately add some experience and quality to the first team squad.
To be honest I don’t think we need to sign anyone else after this. I mean, if we did it would just kill them and one thing Arsene Wenger is known for is his Angha management.
From an Arsenal point of view that’s about all there is this morning. Last night’s Champions League final was quite enjoyable though. After a 10 minute spell at the start in which United threatened Barcelona, Demento’s men got sucker punched with Eto’o’s’s’s goal and after that they were never in the game. Barcelona dicked all over them, Iniesta was incredibly good and Messi’s header to seal the game was fantastic.
Despite everything I was happy for Thierry but especially happy for Silvinho who was very emotional at the end. I love that little raised-by-wolves guy. What made it even better was that Alexander Hleb didn’t even make the bench. Hahahaha. Not that I’m bitter or anything but that made me smile and I suspect there was a certain dreamy Arsenal legend watching the game in the Valencia region who enjoyed that as well.
Of course he cavorted around the pitch with a medal and what have you but he didn’t play. He wasn’t inured, he just wasn’t picked. ‘Discarded’ as the Spanish press so eloquently put it. Tee and indeed hee.
Right, that’ll have to do you for today. Thanks for all your phone messages in relation to the Arsecast so far. I’ll leave lines open until noon so if you have any thoughts on the season and feel like sharing see yesterday’s blog for more info.
Update: Lines closed now, thanks. Yes, it’s too late.
Till tomorrow.
