Evenin’ all. Hope you’ve had a good day. Have you? Bet you’ve not had to spunk a wedge of your shiny new pay packet on car tax like I have. Stupid car. Stupid tax. Stupid government. Gah! And what the hell is with those tax discs? Why can you not rip along the perforations without ripping the disc itself? What’s the point in them being round anyway? Where is the need for the roundness and the ripping? Square tax discs is what I say. I shall call them Squiscs™©.
Right then. In non tax related news…it’s all gone quiet again. Except on Arsenal.com. They gone news-mental over there. Of particular interest is this from Lukasz Fabianski, saying that he wants the No. 1 spot. Fair enough I guess. You can’t really blame a player for wanting to be the best in his position at his club, can you? The thing is, he didn’t feature in the Emirates Cup games games so you’d have to think that Arsene is going to use him as third choice this season, probably rotating him with Manuel Almunia in the Carling Cup games. However, Manuel has been looking in tippity tip top form this summer so maybe there might be a bit of rotation in the league between hm and Jens. What is clear is that Jens is on the 30+ 1 year contracts now and did look like he might leave at one point, so contingency planning would b no bad thing. I’ll miss that krazy kraut when he does go. Not only is he a good ‘keeper, but he’s pure comedy genius too. And his experience is invaluable as the age of the team seems to be getting younger and younger. But Wenger has given Fabianski a glowing endorsement, so we might yet see him between the sticks for a few league matches.
Man of the moment, Robin Van Persie, has said that Arsenal can win things this season. And he’s right. We can. He decided to elaborate on that sentiment however, and said to Arse.com,
“Football is not about age. It’s not about money. Football is about if you want to run for each other, if you want to fight for each other, if you want to really play some ball… We are young. So what? Age doesn’t matter. It’s about the way we play football and the way we like to play together.”
This soundbite-tastic statement from Robin is kind of a bit obvious, insofar as it’s the sort of thing you would expect him to say, as every man, woman and child wants to talk to him after that goal. That doesn’t mean he’s wrong though. Read more here.
The fianl offering (that I can be bothered to mention) from the offical website lists the possible opposition, and who we’ll avoid in the Champions League qualifiers. Now, there are a lot of options, and if you expect me to write them all down then you don’t know me very well. Not even a tiny bit. Jump from here.
In transfer news, Jose Reyes has actually gone to Athletico Madrid. Not the Madrid team he wanted, but he’s trying to make out it is. Never mind Jose, it will be just as sunny as in the Bernabeu. What is slightly annoying, is that although the fee is undisclosed, it will unlikely be as much as we paid Seville for him. Still, it’s good to finally get rid of what can only be described as a massive pain the the collective Arse(nal) hole.
More comedy as AC Milan join the list of clubs with blind managers and board members. Why do they keep doing this? Is it a joke? Seriously, is it?
Finally, Myles Palmer has decided to write something about the signing of Pedro Silva…weeks after I and many, many others have. OK, so he actually didn’t write it himself, but it’s his site so… He also reckons we should sign Ricardo Quaresma. No shit, Sherlock. I wonder where I’ve heard that before?
Right, time for me to do the Frank. Thanks for allowing me to waste your time. Have a good ‘un