From James M. Levitt :
Hi Myles,
Hope you’re well and enjoying the Summer.
Been a mind-numbing summer of frustration for Arsenal fans yet again.
Any insight to what the hell is going on?
You mentioned Icardi a few weeks ago but never followed it up.
It’s called ArsenalNEWSReview….give me some news please…some hope..bloody anything concrete at this stage….
Myles says:
If the Nasty One called Wenger a specialist in failure, what would Jose Mourinho say about Arsenal’s billionaire owner Stan Kroenke?
If I was a Gooner I would pay daily attention, as you do, to stories around the club. A friend told me on Sunday that (1) we have a striker crisis and (2) we have a centreback crisis because Mertesacker is crocked.
David Dein was seen sitting next to Wenger at a game in the USA.
The fire still burns in Dein Senior. But the board detest DD because his son made zillions out of Arsenal transfers. His best man was Thierry Henry.
Hope? Are you hoping for change?
If you want change, hope that Tottenham finish above Arsenal.
Am I enjoying the summer?
Well, our trip to Members Day at the newly opened Tate Modern Switch House made June 15th a memorable afternoon and Geoff Dyer and his mate were amusing at the London Review Bookshop on the 29th.
Enjoyed Phil Mickelson playing brilliantly at Royal Troon but Stenson the Swede shot a lower score and Phil said, “I’ve never played better and not won.”
On Saturday my niece got married with 120 friends & family and the Colorado Palmers came over for the wedding and it was marvellous and I danced with the bride, and with Caroline and Jan and Veronica, the bride’s close friend who lives in San Francisco and wore a figure-hugging backless red dress and I said, “I like your earrings.”
After that I danced with a girl called Alice. Later on I sat down with Veronica and was telling her a story about Stevie Wonder when the DJ interrupted the story by playing Superstition, so we jumped up and danced to Stevie and I asked, “How tall are you?” and she said,”Five eleven.”
So the summer’s been OK so far. Haven’t been bored.
We also saw Nederland Dans Theatre 2, the company’s young dancers, at Sadlers Wells and two of ballets were good.
My nephew Derek is staying with us and last night he went out with our son Michael to see Jason Bourne.
When they came back from Sunday lunch with Caroline, Miran was here and Derek and Miran, who had not met before, talked films, allowing me to go to my office to start writing this piece.
When I went back downstairs they were on James Bond and Bourne and how actor Ed Harris was furious after being almost drowned by James Cameron during Titanic, so he punched out the director.
Derek said, “Think you’re Kubrick? Smack!”