From Simon : wind-up
Sorry Myles,
I don’t agree with your assertion that Vieira and Co would’ve told Gabriel to not get wound up.
Vieira always trod a fine line with discipline and ‘lost it’ on numerous occasions to ‘wind-up merchants’. The Ruddock spitting incident was a classic example.
True, Gabriel was an idiot for taking the bait.
But Costa should not have been on the pitch following his ‘assault’ on Koscielny. Poor refereeing cost Gabriel his place on the pitch yesterday.
If Dean had his wits about him and had grown some bollocks by sending Costa packing, the game may have been a lot different. I can understand Wenger’s frustrations as Dean took centre stage and fucked the game up through cowardice, myopia and ineptitude.
Tottenham next in the Rumbelows, Coca Cola, Carling, Beverage trophy.
Will Wenger throw that game? I don’t think he can or will.
I hope you enjoy this lovely late Autumn sunshine.
Myles says:
Croatian sunshine is helping me transition from holiday mode to London mode.
But I’m wearing trousers every day now, not shorts.
And while the sky is beautifully blue, there’s no rocky mountains, no blue sea, not one big white Jadrolinija ferry anywhere to be seen, no 2km walks round the Dubrovnik City Wall starting at 8.15am, no beach cafes playing 60s songs all day long, no trio of 13-year-old roller girls gliding among the tourists as we dined in Diocletian’s summer palace in Split.
A local boy, Diocletian was the son of a slave who came up through the army to rule the eastern half of the Roman Empire: Greece, the Balkans, the eastern Med and beyond maybe.
The big brains back in Rome had realised that the Roman Empire was now far too big to be governed by one man. Another guy took care of Western Europe.
I’m sure Lord Wenger will chuck the Capital One Cup game at White Hart Lane.