Greetings from the slow-moving line for my half-time ‘refreshments’ – a styrofoam container of ridiculously hot chips, liberally smothered with some of Birmingham’s finest curry sauce, all to be washed down with a fine pint of Carling Black label lager served in a plastic cup. Now if we can just win the match, life indeed would be good…
Meanwhile, as I stand here, my thoughts meander to other aspects of The Game…
I just took a quick glance at the remaining fixtures for Newcastle – three home wins against Fulham, Reading, and Sunderland may be all the points they get the rest of the way!…If that turns out to be the case then The Messiah-on-the-Tyne will be wishing he’d never returned to lead “the fanatical and windswept 52,387” to the promised land of Premiership survival…Having said that, due to the existence of numerous even poorer teams beneath them I think the Geordies will survive by about four points or so…
Crap Hairstyle of the Week goes to The Arse’s goalkeeper, Alumnia, whose bleached blonde look resembles Alan Smith if he’d been dragged through a hedge backwards…Willliam “Crybaby” Gallas, whose ‘do’ looks like he’s been trying to pull his hair out, is a close second, and full-back Sagna, with his peculiar blonde bits, fully deserves third place for his ludicrous efforts…(Note to self –do not go to that barber shop near to The Emirates Stadium, a.k.a The Library)…Rounding out ‘The Other Big Four’, I have West Ham’s Dean Ashton who looked like he was playing a sickly, ghoulish character from a B-horror film – and when you perform like he did on Saturday against Chelsea perhaps that is what he should be doing rather than playing football…
Over the past couple of weeks many people, including myself, have doubted The Arse. Their tame effort at Man. U in the Cup followed by a first leg home draw against A.C Milan in the E.C.L. and further draws in the League at the BlueNoses and at home against the Villa suggested thir pursuit of various trophies was going to fall short on all fronts. I mentioned that the Wenger Boo Boys would soon be out in force and had already seen a couple of comments from them about how his lack of signings in the transfer window had left the squad lacking in depth and therefore vulnerable down the home stretch…Well, lo and behold, Arsene and the Arse have hit back in the best possible way. Their fully deserved victory in Milan yesterday meant that the two excellent matches concluded with the correct outcome and once again, for what is about the 317th time, Wenger proves his critics wrong – bastard!…
