By Ollie Irish
After Robbie Savage's memorable rant at a BBC Derby hack last week, he might have guessed that
the Angry Gods of Journalism would come back to bite him on the arse, or whack him in the
face...
Nice that Savage's co-commentator was so concerned about his colleague.
Players you hate to love, and love to hate. Hence Marmite players. Okay lets
countdown...
10. Ashley Cole
The less said about him the better. However, he has proved to be a constant performer for
Arsenal and Chelsea as well as England despite him leading a life that points to one word.
Ever wondered which football club is the greenest?
No?
OK.
But other than The Arse and ManUre being held to draws (by the skin of their teeth), there is
little else to think about, is there?
So, which football club do you think is the greenest?
Well yes, obviously none at the moment, (they don't make 'em like they used to), but in an
ecological sense.
Did we see a reaction to Leeds yesterday? I don't think so. I'm not one to buy in to the doom
and gloom, so I'm not going to start now, but I wanted more from us against Birmingham.
After dominating possession during the first half, we should have been going 1-0 up at half
time. Antonio Valencia, who put in another good performance, played in a beautiful ball to Wayne
Rooney.
(Apologies for the tardiness – deadline week on the book Spurs' Cult Heroes)
The FA Cup? Why not? The only team that ever seems to beat us in knock-out competitions has itself
been knocked out, and for our part we look capable of despatching anyone on our day. This is not a
reaction to our win on Saturday, far from it, but rather a reaction to the exit of Man Utd.
Ivory Coast never scored, Tevez scored three. Total amount of football I managed to finagle in the
midst of my regular life: sixty minutes. Football for me is becoming a time trial. It would really
be honestly lovely to have two hours to sit on my arse and watch the damn game. On the plus side
I'm slowly managing to piece my site together, hopefully in time to get something up and ready for
Friday, fingers crossed.
Maybe the fact that the managerial merry-go-round seems to have slipped through the space time
continuum has thrown them.Or maybe it's just a sign of the now terminal decline at the ever poorer
Scotsman.Whatever the reason, further proof arrives that someone at The Scotsman doesn't know their
arse from their elbow.
It's typical Arsenal, you know we never do transfers quickly or easily. Sol Campbell played for
the reserves over 36 hours ago yet here we sit and he still hasn't signed.
I would guess though, the fact that the Arsenal.com website has turned into Campbell.com but
without the soup, that the news may very well come today.
The main talking point in the wake of the FA Cup defeat against Stoke will be the manager's team
selection. Personally I don't think he had much choice. Afterwards he said he had to rest
Vermaelen, Clichy and Sagna due to knocks they had. Play them and have them missing for the league
games and he's on a hiding to nothing.
