The Goon Blog

There is not a great deal to talk about today. There is however some good news for Eduardo, who is expected back before Tomas Rosicky, Wenger has given us the latest;

“Eduardo is doing very well but is not close to play, Eduardo will be OK before Christmas, of course”

Its fantastic news, when he steps out onto the turf of the Emirates he will get such a good reception, he has handled the challenge that injured him with great grace and humility. He was probably wanting to tear Taylor’s eyes out but acted with decorum and class. I for one will be on my feet when he makes his comeback, be it in front of my TV, radio, computer whatever. I will applaud the great man.

The latest on Rosicky was a lot less encouraging, sadly.

but Rosicky is a little bit behind him. [Eduardo]

“I monitor Rosicky’s progress very closely but at the moment it is very difficult to put a date on his comeback. We are not pessimistic about the future of his career but we still need more patience. If he comes back before Christmas we have done very well but I think we can achieve that, that in December he can play again.”

Well if Rosicky is due(ish) back in December maybe there is a possibility that Dudu will be back next month or there abouts?

Man that sounds good!

Sideshow Song is also expected to be back for the away trip to Sunderland at the weekend. We will need him.

Wenger has also issued some classic comments after Sol Campbell’s abuse from the Yids the other night; the discusting sods racially and homosexually abused him.

AW said;

“Sometimes stupidity is contagious as well and sometimes in the crowd there is a competition to see who can be more stupid. That is why you should not let these people be together.”

Very true, nobody should have to put up with that abuse. Ever.

I hope they catch the cuntsters.

Til tomorrow peepz.

After the win yesterday Arsene Wenger has praised the teams attitude. I feel it was a much better overall performance, despite the opposition being total and utter rubbish, but you can only beat the team in front of you and thats what they did in style.

Wenger said;

“We were focused. I thought at times we were a little bit too tense, especially at the start of the game. But we were focused and at that level, whether it is the Premier League or the Champions League that is vital. I believe that on Saturday we were caught by a lack of focus.

“I think the team is maturing and there is big potential in the side. We want to be intelligent and in the end you measure that on how well we do together.”

The start was nervy but that wasn’t surprising, i feel the crowd didn’t help, there were massive groans everytime a player made a mistake and that cant be nice at all. Saturday is done, this was a different game and we needed to get behind the team, im not having a dig at fans i just feel we dont help ourselves sometimes. Liverpool and Fenerbache fans make their staduims a couldron, so should we.

Theo and Cesc were picked out for special praise after a fantastic performance from them. The boss said;

[cesc]“I think he was outstanding tonight. He was good defensively and offensively and overall it was the ‘complete performance’.”

[theo]“Theo was dangerous again and he makes big progress and a big improvement. It was the response I wanted. It is half of the response of the week, the other half comes on Saturday”

The boss also confirmed that Theo is not injured. Great news.

Manuel Almunia has also praised the performance and expects it to be repeated at the weekend, the ‘keeper is an important part of our team i feel, he is not experienced on the pitch but he has sat in many dressing rooms many times and offers the experience of knowledge and also experience of life to the younger players, some of whom have not yet seen 20 years of age.

He has though admitted attitude was our downfall against Hull;

“I think Hull deserved the three points because our attitude wasn’t very good during the game.”

Onto Van Persie now; he seems to have really pissed Sneijder off when he was at the Euro’s, apprently their conflict stems from Van Persie taking a free kick ‘against his team-mates wishes’ Just seems the latest bust up in a long line of bust ups in the Dutch camp.

He has also been spoken about by Adebayor, who believes their partnership can fire us to glory this season;

“We are working hard for the team – he has got the same ambition as me,”

“We are here to help this team, we are here to help win something so I’m very pleased with the way he played against Porto.

“I gave him a pass and he gave me a pass. That shows there is a good relationship between the two of us.

“We are very happy and hopefully we can help this team win something this season.”

Why not? on their day they are two of the worlds best strikers so they really should be firing us to glory! I have faith in them.

Well thats about it today. Join me tomorrow for an interview with Yogi’s Warrior from ‘A Cultured Left Foot’. A link can be found on the links section to his blog.

Thats it from me, take care gooners.