If I take the phone off the hook, I can put Arsenal’s fixtures up here at 10.15 am, then put the phone back on.
Skipping through today’s headlines, AC Milan say Adebayor is too expensive at £32 million.
Does that mean Arsene gave them a price? I don’t know. Would I sell him for £32 million? Absolutely. I’d flog him for £22 million.
Sir Alex tells Glazers : If he goes, I go.
It’s a good headline, that. Personally, I don’t believe Man United will sell Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid for £70 million. Man United are bigger than that. But the Glazers have said : If he is sold, Sir Alex will get all £70 million to spend on the team.
The Premier League toughens up European stars and makes them better footballers than they would have been without coming here : Overmars, Bergkamp, Cristiano, Zola. But, of course, many don’t hack it over here because our football is too rough, too fast, too intense ( think Malouda ). The best players raise their game and improve and their national teams reap the benefit.
Dutch commentators who followed Bergkamp’s career very closely say Arsenal improved him.
Thrilled for Nihat, who turned the Czech Republic upside down by scoring two late goals as Turkey came back from 2-0 down to win 3-2. But gutted for Petr Cech, a great guy who came back very well from a horrific skull fracture after Irish winger Stephen Hunt put his knee where it should never have been in the first minute of a match at the Madejski Stadium in October 2006.
Today I must get back from the gym by 5pm to watch Tiger Woods and Rocco Mediate play off for the US Open at Torrey Pines in San Diego.
The greatest golfer of all time is limping after a recent knee operation but who would bet against him ? He has never lost a major after starting the final day in the lead. And here he holed a 12-foot putt on the 18th to finish with a one-under total of 283.
Tiger admitted, “I hit it terrible today.”
What a competitor !
Tiger Woods is the greatest American since Duke Ellington, who was born in 1899 and died in 1974.