Good morning. It’s starting to get a bit cold first thing, isn’t it? After the hot, balmy summer it looks like winter is well and truly on the way. Bah.
Not a lot going on really. Emmanuel Adebayor (OleOle link) has been talking up his partnership with Robin van Persie (OleOle link), saying:
There is a good relationship between him and me. We are just enjoying playing together up front. He’s a very good player. I’m using him and he’s using me as well. We’re trying for a telepathic understanding and against Porto we’ve shown we can do something.
I wonder do they stay after training practising their telepathy with those test cards with pictures on them.
Ade: “Ok, Robin. Concentrate now. I’m looking at a card. I’m trying to send the image to you. What is it?”
Robin: “Is it a Barcelona shirt with a big bag of money beside it?”
Ade: “Oh man, you’re good. Your turn! Your turn!”
Robin: “I’m looking at the card. What’s on it?”
Ade: “Is it a footballer on crutches smoking a cigarette?”
Robin: “No”.
Ade: “Well that’s the image I’m getting, man. A footballer on crutches smoking a cigarette … hitting a free kick into the upper tier”
Robin: “No, that’s not it”.
Ade: “What is it then?”
Robin: “It’s a miniature version of Escher’s ‘Relativity’! You know, the one with the staircases”
Ade: “How the fuck am I meant to get that? I mean, what kind of person puts that on their psychic test cards? You make me sick. So sick I’d rather play with Bendtner”.
Of course there’s always the ‘if’ factor around van Persie, something Adebayor doesn’t shy away from:
He’s just back and we’ve only had five or six games together. Robin is a good player and if he is fit for the whole season we have a chance to do something special, that’s for sure.
It was around this time last season that van Persie got injured so there’s that little hurdle to get over yet. I suspect Arsene will be lighting votive candles during the upcoming international break. So we’ve yet to really see if they can be the kind of partnership we’d all like them to be and I do wonder if Adebayor’s bigging up of the partnership is somewhat inspired by seeing how well Bendtner and Vela seem to work together. Obviously if the two of them forge a great twosome then it’d be great for the team but let’s give it some time.
What’s also interesting is the revelation from Adebayor that it’s Cesc Fabregas who brings players together off the pitch. He says:
Robin is in contact with Fabregas and sometimes he makes everybody sit together. We are not the best friends ever but sometimes it does happen that we go to a restaurant.
I know that under the captaincy of Vieira the team socialising together was an important part of life at the club. Whether it was dinners or whatever those social events do help foster good team spirit and it’s no surprise that Cesc is at the centre of it. Can I say Cesc for captain again? Of course I can. This is my blog, I can say what I like.
Cesc. For. Captain.
Former captain Patrick Vieira has backed Arsene in the wake of the comments by curly-haired cuntbutler Michelle Platini. And rightly so.
Apart from that there isn’t a great deal going on. Chelsea’s away draw in the Champions League last night was made even more hilarious by an injury to Didier Drogba and there’s a great picture in the Sun this morning. I know I shouldn’t take pleasure in the pain of others but come on, it’s Drogba. How many times have we seen him writhe around in fake agony? Some real agony is nice to see. The Drog who cried wolf, haha.
Ok, that will have to do. More tomorrow with an Arsecast. Until then.
