Morning all, it’s Friday. Hurrah for Fridays.
After yesterday’s troubles you thought things couldn’t get any worse for William Gallas, well, you were wrong. He’s pulled out of the French squad with a thigh injury and apparently this has added to Arsene Wenger’s woes.
It strikes me it might be quite convenient for the manager. He can change things around in his defence without having to drop his captain, which is always a difficult thing to do. That’s providing the injury keeps him out of our games and not just the French ones, of course. If that is the case it’ll be interesting to see who comes in. Will he bring in Djourou who will add height and pace to the centre of the defence or will he play it safe and bring in Sylvester to add some funk?
I know who I’d play and it wouldn’t be the fishfaced disco queen but we all know how conservative Arsene at times. Nevertheless, it’s an indication of how poor Gallas has been that nobody is bemoaning the injury in the same way we would if it were an important player like Cesc, for example.
Meanwhile Robert Pires has urged the French Football Federation to bring in Arsene Wenger to replace Raymond Domenech. There’s no love lost between the two, Pires was not selected by Domenech because he was the wrong star sign (no, really) and, of course, Domenech is a poxy cunt who should be sodomised by an angry bear every day of his life. It’s a good bit of a rant by Le Bob but I don’t see Wenger in international management just yet.
You know the Interlull is well and truly upon us when you see stories like ‘YouTube star linked with Gunners’. Of course my first thought was that we were going to sign the Chocolate Rain kid to add some depth to the midfield but apparently it’s just some cunt who scored a good goal. The story was nearly interesting for a few seconds when I read the name of the team he scored against as Titburger but on second reading it wasn’t.
If we could sign any YouTube star who would it be? If it were up to me I’d sign the motorbike that blew up Anthea Turner. That’s the kind of attitude we’re missing at the moment. We need to be more explodey, there’s no doubt about it.
Lukasz Fabianski says he’s happy enough on the Arsenal bench at the moment but insists he’s learning and getting better all the time. He also talks about Tomas Rosicky (as Poland play the Czechs on Saturday), saying:
I hoped we would meet each other at international level this weekend, but that is not going to happen. I am very sorry for him. He loves football and Arsenal have missed him.
Poor old Tomas. But good old Lukasz. Well, good young Lukasz. And his bowler haircut.
Right, enough of the nothing and on to the something that is the Arsecast. On this week’s show Amy Lawrence talks sense around my preposterous waffle, the Man in the Bar is there and there’s talk of Bourbon creams. Don’t ask me.
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Finally for today, and as I completely forgot to put it in the Arsecast coz I am Johnny Forgetful at the moment – congratulations to David “Cassmahass” Casson, occasional arsebloggerer and friend of Boghog (which is not unlike friend of Dorothy I’m told), on his nuptials which take place today. Wishing you many hours of happiness.
Ok then Arsebandits, have yourselves a good Friday and I’ll talk to you tomorrow.
