My best friend’s been on holiday for a week.
Doug phoned and wanted to know what had happened while he was in Cuba.
So I told him all about Arsenal, Man United, Liverpool, Chelsea, and said, “From now on the season’s about injuries. That’s what will decide who wins what.”
Then, much later, I turned on the TV in the early evening and tuned to Sky Sports News.
I’d heard nothing all day, I was working on my book, so it was a shock. Bad news that really rocked me.
ASHLEY COLE is out for three months with a fractured ankle. He could miss the World Cup.
The best player Arsenal has produced in the last 20 years could miss a World Cup where, for the first time since 1970, we have a manager who knows what he’s doing.
Capello has made the England team greater than the sum of its parts and qualified with two games to spare.
RYAN GIGGS has broken his arm and will miss the AC Milan games.
SONG has medial ligament damage.
ARSHAVIN has had a scan on his hamstring.
Arsenal don’t have so many good players that they can fly to Portugal on Tuesday without Arshavin and Song.
To me the Champions League is like the Derby.
In a horse race I want to know that every horse is trying, every jockey is trying to win.
In the so-called Champions League, every team is trying.
Only four clubs can win it but they’re all trying