Good day to you wastrels and other folk. A bank holiday in the UK has robbed us of any real news. Well, I’m blaming the bank holiday in the same way I might blame clouds for hiding a flock of giant, man eating condors who swoop down and lift people from their back gardens.
Most of the talk seems to be about Kaspar Schmeichel. It’s not comforting at all that top cunts like Peter should breed. You see off the elder, confident that the years of ire and spite are behind you, then along comes a younger version. It’s not right, is it? Can you imagine young Robbie Savages or mini Cantonas? Horrible.
Speaking of fucking cunts Robin van Persie has been talking about Blackburn Rovers and their physical approach to the game. He’s absolutely not letting it lie and is unhappy with the media for their coverage of and reaction to the game, saying:
I’m watching Match of the Day, which I think is a fantastic programme . . . and I don’t think it’s honest to laugh at the boss and say, ‘Oh yeah, Arsenal are always the same, they always complain’. That’s not honest.”
Two or three people said it on TV and suddenly everyone’s thinking, ‘That’s the way to beat Arsenal’. It’s not. Personally I will never give in to it. Fabregas, he’s small, but he goes into battle. It’s the same for [Mathieu] Flamini. Same for Gilberto [Silva]. If you look at us, I think this idea is based on nothing more than air.
He goes onto say:
I want to say one thing. However you play, you have to always respect each other. Blackburn didn’t do that. I’m angry about it, still, because I think football’s a man’s sport. You have to be tough, yes, but you have to play fairly.
Right on, there’s nothing like a sense of injustice to spur on a player and I fully expect a hat-trick from him next time we play Blackburn. I also expect him to get a straight red card for gouging out someone’s eyes with his football boots but there you go. You can read more of Robin and his expectations for the season ahead in a decent Sunday Times article here.
And that’s it. There’s really not much else going on. There’s no team news yet ahead of Wednesday’s CL qualifier against the Spartans but we should get some idea which of our walking wounded will be fit and ready for battle.
In the meantime I’ll just bid you a happy Monday.
