Good Tuesday to you all. I had been up and about nice and early only to receive a text message from Blogette to tell me she had no credit in her phone but needed me to ring her. Turns out that in her haste to leave for school this morning she left all her homework behind her which meant I had to battle rush hour traffic to get it to her school on time.
“Meet me outside the front of your school”, I grumped, grumpily.
“I will!”, she said happily.
After getting there and then sitting outside of her school for a couple of minutes my grump had increased to a most grumpacious level. I had to ring her again to get her to come out and get her stuff. On the way home I stopped off to buy some laxatives and someone is going to find themselves rather too acquainted with the toilet after dinner tonight.
Onwards to things football and there are a few bits and pieces going on. We still don’t have much in the way of team news for tomorrow night’s game against Newcastle but Gunnerblog makes the very good point that in the absence of Hleb and Cesc, two of our more creative players, Eduardo could go some way to filling the gap. When you consider just how very terrible Newcastle are defensively (and make no mistake, they are fucking woeful) it would seem rather too conservative to play the 4-5-1 formation when Eduardo could slot in up top alongside Adebayor in a 4-4-2.
Don Howe talks about the Newcastle game and suggests Allardyce’s men don’t have the same physical presence that Bolton did, thus rendering the Walrus cunt’s tactics rather useless. You know what? I’ve got the strongest sensation of deja vu writing this. Weird. The Times are reporting that the Newcastle players are not responding well to Allardyce’s regime so I’d really like us to go there and get stuck right into them from the start, their heads will drop if they go a goal or two down. More on this tomorrow though.
Wolfsburg are considering a bid for Jens Lehmann in January. The best thing about Wolfsburg is that for some years they were managed by a bloke called Wolfgang Wolf, which is probably one of the best things to ever happen in the world. Ever. I think if a bid were to come in we’d probably accept.
Other transfer speculation sees us linked with PSV Eindhoven’s Ibrahim Affelay. Smells a bit like an agent talking ahead of contract negotiations rather than anything else.
Arsenal players will give up a day’s pay to support the club’s charity of the season. William Gallas talks about it here and is looking for donations from Arsenal fans to help the campaign.
Arsenal reserves beat Derby County reserves 2-1 with Philippe Senderos taking part (ta, Ollie). Obviously he needs to get some games under his belt as he appeared rusty against Sevilla.
Man United are back into second place in the league, 3 points behind us but having played a game more, after 2-0 win last night over Fulham.
And that’s about it. There’ll be fuller team news breaking throughout the day so we can look at that tomorrow. Now, breakfast time and more coffee to degrump myself. Laters.
