Mmm. Saturday. In the olden days this used to mean ‘football day’, but no longer: my small brother (he’s young, not a dwarf), called upstairs to my father -
“When’s the game?”
“Usual time”
“What’s that?”
Honestly. Young people today, eh?
Anyway, at the usual time today we have Aston Villa, a team everyone expected great things of this season but who’ve not lookd so hot in the last few (Agbonlahor’s lack of goals precipitating a precipitous slide down the fantasy league table for myself. The bastard). Still they’re fifth in the league which doesn’t happen completely by accident, so we should expect them to make some chances, though if we’re up for it like we were against United I expect us to win – perhaps by a couple.
One player with fond memories of Arsenal is Steve Sidwell, who’s interviewed in the Times. The piece is pretty boring, so I won’t link it, but he does say he feels a bit frustrated that he didn’t get more first team chances – surely a rebuke to those who’ve been accusing Arsene of devaluing the Carling Cup. Under the current set-up Sidwell would no doubt have been blooded in Carling Cup matches, and had his chance to show what he could do under pressure and expectation. In the end he had to go round the houses a bit via Reading, but it’s good to see him back at or at least near the top. I’ve always liked Sidwell, and again here he seems to have a more sensible take on things than others, specifically Giant Mousey Pikey Knobbutlers.
Despite what I wrote the other day, it seems likely that Nik Bendtner will play again today, in lieu of Carl. This is unequivocally a pity, and much as I’d love to I’m not even sure we can fairly say it’s ‘make or break’ time for the Big Dane, even with RvP back after today and Eduardo on the horizon, because Arsene seems sold on his Big Danish physical qualities. A bit like Lego, i suppose.
It’s as if Arsene had decided at the start of the evening he wanted to do a snog on a tall blonde girl (say from Denmark), and despite the nightspot being brimful of exotic, (say Mexican?) tanned, beauties, all of whom are mustard keen for him, he persists in buying Smirnoff Ices for the one tall blonde bird even though she’s not interested at all, and couldn’t head the ball if it was strapped to the wall at head height. Very frustrating.
That said, come on the Arsenal . More later, as part of our new ‘rapid response’ blog campaign, by which time hopefully we’ll have three shiny new points to admire. Come here for all your post-match debate needs…
Update: The Gunnerlings have been drawn away to Burnley in the Carling Cup. Quite honestly (and with al due respect and all that sort of guff) I think Carlos and Co. will be licking their pubescent chops about this. Shame it’s not a home draw, but YUM nonetheless.
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