Up For Grabs Now

Afternoon all.

 

Cup game against Plymouth Argyll today – this’ll be a quickie as I’m off to the Emirates to watch it, lucky me, on this bright, cold day in North London.

 

I’m feeling better than I was last night, because last night I got in an argument with a West Ham supporting gentleman of a certain age, who claimed that the Premiership wouldn’t let West Ham go down because they’re too popular, and then refused my logical refutations. Very frustrating. He also said he hated Arsenal and thought we would never win anything ever again. The muppet. We’re going to win things this year, just you wait.

 

Not quite sure what the team for today will be. Fabio’s in goal, but other than that it remains to be seen. I hope it’s a healthy mixture of young and old, by which I mean, because it’s Arsenal, a mixture of the young and the infant. Could be a chance for Ramsey and Young Jack Wilshere to stake their first-team claims.

 

In other news the transfer window rumbles on. One nice thing about having it is it means that everyone feels they have to talk about transfers very intensively for the whole period, rather than occasionally mentioning them as and when they occur. However, this obviously increases the onus on people talking piffle about rubbish, whereas in bygone years it has been as easy to wait for things approaching stories to emerge before writing, er, stories about them.  

 

I don’t have much to say about Arteta, Arshavin et al, except we’ll wait and see. Arsene is obviously not going to be helpful in his public comments, it wouldn’t make any business sense, so I’m also wary of taking anything from his comments, particularly when he’s being provoked and then reinterpreted by hacks fat from Christmas turkey and salivating over not having to do any reporting for months and months. I also feel we at UFGN don’t need to scrabble around in the blogging dirt to deliver crude and idle speculation.

 

I would say that David Moyes is acting like a cock. But maybe that’s what happens when you’re a goggle-eyed Scotchman around the Hootenanny period.

 

I’m also a bit worried about the Kolo Situation. There’ll be more on him next week, I expect, but it doesn’t feel like we’re out of the woods, whatever Arsene says about the differences having been patched over.

 

Daniel Finkelstein has an interesting (he usually is) piece in the Saturday times about the FA Cup. He points out that we’ve got a better chance of winning the cup than we do of winning anything else this season. So it’s well worth our trying to win it, then.

 

More later.

 

Come on the boys.

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