Let’s start this morning with the new home kit. Picture below.
I have to say I like it. Proper white sleeves. It’s Arsenal. A couple of observations though. The socks could have a bit more red to them but I suppose that’s just nit-picking. And the second is that Alex Song looks disconcertingly like Adebayor at first glance. This can’t be good. He should change his hairstyle at once. I think a flat top like yer bloke from Cameo would be the way to go.
Apparently this new kit is super fantastic and made from recycled plastic bottles (scratchy!) and does all kinds of cool things like make you run faster, leap higher, more attractive to the opposite sex and enhances your cooking skills. And you thought it was just another shirt? Thomas Vermaelen says:
These days the environment is really important for the world and it’s good that Nike cares about that.
Yes, I too think it’s important so that when the handicapped 6 year olds take their 20 minute lunch break from their 21 hour shift stitching the shirts in Nike’s underground sweatshop lair they have clean air to breathe. I kid, I kid.
They don’t get a lunch break.
Meanwhile, Cesc Fabregas has apparently been talking about life at the World Cup and his Arsenal future. He’s not happy at being on the bench for Spain and there are those who think if he goes to Barcelona he’ll have to put up with the same kind of thing. I don’t think that’s the case at all but he did speak about Arsenal, saying:
I haven’t said that I will definitely leave Arsenal. Everything is possible. Now I have my head and my focus on the World Cup. I am very proud to be captain of Arsenal and I love the club and have respect for them. It gave me such pride to be made captain.
Hurrah, there’s a straw and I, for one, am going to clutch at it like I have never clutched before. Obviously there’s plenty of life left in this story and we’ll just have to wait and see what happens. Perhaps the coolness of our new home shirt, compared to the dull duotone of Barcelona’s, will swing things in our favour.
Probably more effective would be signing some good players, a revolutionary concept which may yet make its way to the Arsenal, and this morning’s Sun reckons we’ve got our eye on a couple of centre-halves to add to our dwindling collection. With the deal for Koscielny almost done and Sol Campbell more or less saying his wedding is more important than football, we need more defenders. They reckon we’ve upped our bid for Everton’s Phil Jagielka to £10m while also eyeing-up Germanian beanpole Per Mertesacker (racketeer sperm!).
Of course it’ll probably turn out to be that Algerian chap who nobody’s heard and who costs £76.99 and comes with a half ton of dates but a man can live vicariously through The Sun, can’t he? Nah, come to think of it, he’d be much better off not doing that at all.
It’s all gone quiet at the World Cup but the word coming from the Dutch camp is that reports of a row between RVP and Rob Schneider are wide of the mark. How could anyone fall out with Rob?
Rob Schneider is a carrot …
Anyway, there’s not much more going on. As it’s July 1st I’m expecting a load of announcements from the club today regarding players whose contracts have expired. Official goodbyes to those players should pop up and who knows what else? Not me, that’s for sure.
And I won’t be around to tell you tomorrow. Or the next day. Or the day after that. I’m taking off for a few days so I’ll leave you in the capable hands of Tom. Thankfully there aren’t any matches (although we’ve proved once and for all Tom’s no jinx) so I for one look forward to some quality blogging and how he copes with the double-deal taking Cesc and RVP to Barcelona in return for Rafa Marquez as well as the club’s sale to a consortium led by T*ddy Sh*ringham will be fascinating.
Take it easy, see you next week.
