With our game against Reading not until Monday it’s going to be a fairly dull weekend, isn’t it? Last night I had a dream that Arseblog and Bruce Willis, who was for some reason a passionate Arsenal fan, organised one of those things where all the people in the stadium hold up a card to spell out a message.
I think we may have overcomplicated things because the message was something like ‘Arsenal fans don’t want a takeover by shady characters and Orange men and this is our way of letting you know how much we don’t want it. Yes, these cards will show you. Take that, you rotters’. Sadly only half the people in the stadium turned their cards up the right way and it looked kind of crap. You won’t catch me organising something like that again.
Let’s have a look at what’s going on then. Gilberto has spoken about his situation and completely dampened any rumours that he’s had a bust-up with the boss, he says:
If I have said something to Arsène it would never come out in the papers. I would go to him and speak to him face-to-face; we have great respect for each other. Of course my situation is not very comfortable on the bench. But I’m still not thinking about leaving the Club. I prefer to think that I have the condition to get back in the team. I will do my job, do my best to achieve that. This is what I have in mind.
A true professional. Were that I were wearing a cap this morning I would doff it in his direction. Too often you see footballers shirk the challenge and look for an easy way out. Top marks to the Brazilian, I say.
William Gallas says the team just wants to ‘win, win, win’ and I find it difficult to find any kind of a problem with that. After draw, draw, draw some win, win, win would be just the cheese.
The Sun puts the word ‘invincible’ into Cesc’s mouth as he talks about the special spirit in the squad. I know we shouldn’t pay too much attention to the tabs but I’m not at all comfortable with this ‘new invincibles’ stuff they keep spouting. It puts me in mind of the pre-season time when they were writing us off, writing stories about how Arsene was going to leave and how we’d never cope with the departure of Thierry. If you ever needed any proof of the hypocrisy and fickleness of the press it’s the fact that they’re now creaming themselves over us and we are the new media darlings. As we all know though, a few bad results will put paid to that so it’s best not to pay too much attention to them. The cunts.
Meanwhile the Catalan press are at it again with big stories about how Barcelona are going to bring Cesc back ‘home’. They really are pack of tedious pricks.
The Sun also links us with Martin Caceres. He’s a Villarreal centre-half currently on loan at Deportivo la Coruna. He says he knows Arsenal are watching him. Sounds a bit whiffy to me.
Early team news ahead of the Reading game suggests that Toure and Rosicky will be back, Cesc and Hleb were merely ‘rested’ , while Philippe Senderos is not quite ready despite being back in full training. More on this over the weekend but you can see from this article how much Reading want to avoid a similar hiding to the one they got last season. I quite liked Dillon in Rumblefish though.
Now, Arsecast.
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[audio:http://arseblog.com/podcasts/arsecast_episode52.mp3]So, that’s it. Have a happy Friday and I’ll talk to you tomorrow.
