Reports of our death have been greatly exaggerated, but thank you to all for your messages of goodwill and support. There we were thinking the only people who read this were Arsene Wenger, Le Grove and a few other crazed obsessives, but it turns out there are several more of you prepared to tolerate the half-baked rumour and complete bollies that we insist on perpetuating. Good for you, and I’m very pleased that a single missed blog brings out the worst in you.
I should warn you that it looks as if there might be more. We feel that by continually peddling low-rent transfer gossip we are lowering ourselves slightly, and I only ever like to lower myself emphatically. We shall still try to get something out every day, but as they say if there’s nothing doing, there’s nothing doing, and we won’t waste your valuable time. Even if some of you have more of it to spare than others…
Today I’d like to talk about Bentdner again, and particularly Arsene’s apologia for him in his weekly email:
It is so cold for the subs when you come on it is not easy. You sit there for an hour and you start to warm up until you come on. When you really get into the game, the game is over. When Nicklas came on there were 15 minutes left and he had no real time to warm up really.
Overall this season, he had an injury problem with his ankle and I thought it affected his game a little bit, especially with his back to goal. He looks in training as if he is sharp again. He had some difficult periods because of those problems with his ankle but now slowly he is getting back to where he will be.
I have a few problems with this, not least the bits where he complains about the ‘cold’ concerning a man from, er, Denmark. Also the construction ’slowly he is getting back to where he will be’. Even with Arsene’s notriously complex use of English, this seems a bit much. The point is that the big-blonde-barmily-booted one hasn’t looked as if he’s improved much this season at all, and this time there isn’t even the excuse of injuries, as there is in midfield. It also doesn’t look as if he’s going to be going anywhere. What I’m hoping is that either he massively improves (although in some ways his rubbishness provokes me to wish him otherwise), or as our attacking midfielders get fitter one of them steps up to fill the vacancy. Carl, perhaps.
Speaking of which, does anybody know why the song for the midget Mexican is now ‘Vela’ pronounced to rhyme with ’superstar’ and ‘Cantona’, as opposed to the conventional usage of Rihanna’s ‘Umbrella’ song, as agreed by all UFGN users…?
Most peculiar, I think we can all agree.
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