Monday Bloody Monday
1 comment February 14th, 2009
Hello old friend. There won’t be a match preview today, as we don’t play till Monday. That means we’ll be playing our fourth round tie after most sides have played their fifth round tie. Confuddling, eh.
This whole ‘waiting till Monday’ rubbish gets old quickly. Plus it leaves one in the position of having to spend a weekend longing for Monday, which is not simply confuddling – it is plain wrong. I am fairly confident that by the time Arsenal play Cardiff, it will have been approximately 457 years since our last game. At least, that’s how it feels.
Not a huge amount of news floating about this week, but Arsene did speak to ArsenalTV yesterday, in disguise as Fabio Capello. Unsurprisingly, he leapt to the defence of sacked colleagues Phil Scolari and Tony Adams, saying of the former Arsenal skipper:
“I believe that Tony will be a very good manager and I don’t believe he was given the needed time. It is a big surprise that so quickly they made a big decision because when they made the decision to give him the job they knew he has worked there for a year and a half and they knew him. When you give a young manager that much responsibility you have to give him time.”
That said, reports coming out of the Portsmouth dressing room don’t reflect too favourably on Adams’ time in charge, and it’s hard to see him getting a plum job anywhere now. Perhaps if he swallows his pride and accepts he needs more time as a lieutenant there might be a place for him on the Arsenal coaching staff in years to come – Arsene clearly thinks highly of him.
Elsewhere, Eboue is suspended and idiotic, yet it’s a good thing that Arshavin is not available on Monday. Interesting. I suppose the only sense in which I’d consider that a good thing is if it allows us anoter glimpse of Jack Wilshere on the right-hand side.
That’s all for today. Come back tomorrow, when there’ll invariably be even less news.
