A short one before Monday.

Hope you lads enjoyed the weekend. I’m plenty knackered from playing footy this morning after only 3 hours of sleep. But the footy was good tho, scored a fluke goal at the end too to round it all up. I think i was inspired by the good play that was evident throughout the game on Saturday.

….which i will go into tomorrow. I’m so knackered that my eyes are protesting that i’m keeping them open till now. Somehow i couldn’t nap during the day for some reason. I do have alot of thoughts (which might or might not be reflected fully tomorrow) about the Reading game so i’ll definitely blog tomorrow.

So excuse me while i rest my Achilles. Cheers.

A long time coming…plus Match Preview.

Hi Everyone, I hope there are still some of you still here Been a while hasn’t it? Thanks for dropping in once in a bit to check up on me but its really been crappy life-wise and work-wise. Will i blog tomorrow? Should be. Will i disappear for a while again? Shouldn’t be. Intriguing isn’t it?

Enough about me. Lets come back to the matter at hand then. Tonight’s match (this afternoon for the UK netizens) comes at a time where supposedly it “doesn’t matter” anymore. I say, fadaddash. There i said it. Fadaddash. We need to win because there’s still the “possibility” of getting 2nd and having the luxury of not having to qualify for CL like the past 2 seasons.

We also need to win because we haven’t won for a long time. The last time we won happily was…if memory serves me right, the great and awesome night at AC Milan. No wait, when we came back from 2-0 to win 2-3 at Bolton? Which was still a long time ago. I do have many unspoken things about how we dropped points, yada yada…Oh right, because i didn’t blog about them. Idiot.

Team news ahead of the match, the peroxide one did not make it back on time from the Candy Shop down Piccadilly Street so Mad Jens stays in between the posts tonight. Justin Heezle to the Wizzle Hoyte, Bacary Sagna, Rosicky, Matty are still out while the Brazilian, Denilson could feature some way tonight. Which leaves us with the possibility of playing the most retarded Gunner (but seriously i heard that he’s not very bright) on the right again. I seriously do not like slagging off a player but what the hell, i don’t want to see him playing tonight and if i had a choice, never again.

Unfortunately he’ll play anyway so…let’s skip on ahead to other news. Le Boss wants to come back tonight all fists swinging like a cornered boxer. Can he land an uppercut on Eboue’s chin before the match so we can list him as “injured during warm up”? Also, the professor explains why he left Phil out last weekend. Which is clearly a huge facade because secretly, Phil Senderos was sent to Sicily to hire a contract out on Alex Ferguson and even more secretly to let Eboue “sleep with the fishes” discreetly…I heard Eboue likes fish tho, shucks. There seems to be some speculation already on the Captaincy of Willie “big penis” Gallas. Apparently Wenger walked into the showers after a game to speak to Cesc about a new tactic and the Flamster almost tripped the Boss while powdering his bollocks nearby. I say the bigger equipment wins all the time.

In other news, despite popular opinion, we are not in the market for David Villa. Excuse me but when do we discuss the property market…huh? David Villa is a player? Really? Never heard of him. From Valencia? Where? Spain? Sure… Flamster is given a deadline to sign the new contract for us. Personally i want him to stay but i guess if he really wanted to, he would have done so already. He did give his best for us this season so there should be no gripes about his performances to “push for a move”. See what i’m trying to do here? Reverse psychology. Last thing. I called Wenger’s bluff last week when he said “i’m only going to add one experienced player to the squad” because this week he says “i want one or two quality, real quality, players…”, so basically in Wengergebra we want 3 players - 1 old one and 2 younger, fast zippy ones.

Okay i’m done. I have to go pay some bills and possibly take a nap to rest my weary ankles from playing 6-a-side footy at 2 am in the freaking morning today. Fingers crossed we keep a clean sheet and score from a direct free kick plus from corner and from open play tonight. I’ll read you tomorrow.

A Tuesday Treat, especially for you.

Boy have i got a treat for you. To make up for all the days i didn’t blog, Steve-o, yes that’s me, took the pain and effort to bring you not 1, but 2 Spanking new Wallpapers.

1. Cesc Fabregas - Midfield Maestro
He was the catalyst in midfield during our fantastic win in San Siro last week and is, i believe one of, if not the favourite player of all Gooners. Men want to be him and women want to have his babies. The wallpaper is made from one of his shots/passes during that match itself, although it wasn’t that match winning shot. So this is my homage to his brilliance, the brilliant Arsenal Player that he is.

2. Mathieu Flamini - Blood and Guts
Matty has been such a revelation this season and has displaced last season’s fan favourite, Gilberto Silva, as the defensive anchor. The title of the wallpaper is quite apt, ain’t it? Blood and guts all the time, he demands a 100% from himself every time he steps on the field for us. To go one better, he also tries to encourage the best out of everyone else around him. I really really like his attitude and it shows every match.

Click on the links (on the titles) below the pics to download them. I believe these are my best wallpapers yet and if you could give me feedback on them, it would be well appreciated. I spent quite some time doing them because i felt bad not being able to blog and give you something to read daily for the past 3 weeks (work, life and bullshit) so…this goes to show how much i love my fellow gooners.

I hope the 2 wallpapers will go some way to ease the slight disappointment of Sunday’s result. I mean, seriously now, be fair to the lads; they traveled back from Italy, have loads of players injured and although we might be on a high its not easy. You might argue that we have RVP and Toure back but they’ve been out for a while, especially RVP (bless him). Fuck the pitch issue tho, my take on it is that we had 3 clear chances but it was either due to fatigue or the lag from San Siro. The very first chance we created (Cesc’s brilliant through ball to Ade) should have and would have been a goal on any other day. Don’t get me wrong tho and look, Adebayor has been shouldering the scoring burden ever since RVP’s injury and we had Dudu (bless him) during January to ease the load a bit but we all know what happened to him.

Anyway, lets all sacrifice some young goat or whatever to hope against all damning odds that Derby can spring some sort of miracle and hold Yanited off…Ah fuck. Hopefully, i’ll have the mobile versions of the 2 wallpapers up for you soon and also something for you to read tomorrow. Fingers crossed and all that. Have a nice evening now.

*Note: The new wallpapers are only linked on this post but they should be loaded onto the wallpapers section soon enough, i need to clear out the kinks as that page is going cuckoo on me. Hold on tight then.

**Update - I’ve had enough time to fix the wallpaper section, you can go there to get the new wallpapers and also look at the old ones.