Morning all and it's Friday, at last.

News is somewhat scarce but we'll muddle on and find something to talk about. We could start with the fact the club gave some futher insight into the appointments of Steve Bould and Neil Banfield. We know that the former is going to be Arsene's assistant but Banfield thought he was just going to have a chat about the reserves when the boss called him into his office:

The manager invited me into his office, and with Steve Bould going up to be assistant manager I thought that he may have pulled me in to explain his decision.

Morning all, a busy Friday ahead with our last home game of the season coming up tomorrow against Norwich and after a quiet week there's a glut of stuff to get through this morning.

We've been talking all week about how important third place is and the manager is quite well aware of that, especially in light of results in midweek.

Morning all, welcome to Friday. Last night I dreamt that I won a contract to paint the stadium but the club's insistence that it be painted with Tippex made it a very fiddly and time-consuming job indeed. It was taking ages, and I wasn't allowed to hire anyone to help me.

Anyway, on with early team news ahead of tomorrow's crunch game against John Terry's Philandering Flock, and the manager has confirmed Mikel Arteta's absence but says the injury is just a 'bad sprain' and nothing more serious than that.

Morning all, today starts with a mild *boilk* but it's not my fault. It's all the fault of The Man from East Lower who has left his comfortable surrounds and is in Dublin instead and insisted that I drink beer with him.

"No," I said, "I am an abstemious man who rarely partakes of the demon drink, especially around this most holy of times.

Morning all. It's still pretty quiet despite the fact that we play QPR tomorrow. That should all change when Arsene meets the press later on in his usual pre-game press conference.

As yet there's no team news but I'm hoping no news is good news as far as that goes. The only player we have any real concern about is Laurent Koscielny who has spent the week having his knee knack looked at.

Morning all,

some interesting quotes from Arsene have emerged from a radio interview he did in France. They've been carried via the Twitter account of the President of the Arsenal supporters club France. And if yesterday's performance by Mr Blatter has taught us anything it's that Presidents are men of honour and quiet dignity who are to be trusted implicitly.

Happy Friday the 13th to you superstitious types, or to those of you averse to hockey masks and chainsaws.

We'll wait for Arsene's presser this morning to get proper confirmation but the word on the street is that it could be a comebacktactular Sunday with returns mooted for Cesc, Samir Nasri and Thomas Vermaelen.

If I told you I'd spent last night with Mary, a number of Geese and a very tasty knob I fear you might get the wrong impression. It is true however. Mary was tomato and vodka based, the Geese came from Chicago, while if you're looking for something to sip on late at night you can't really look beyond the Knob (cheers, BG!

After a week of nothing we've got a whole pile of something this morning. Arsene's pre-United press conference took place yesterday but was only available for viewing late last night so I haven't had time to watch it yet.

Obviously the agenda revolved around the end of season slump which has put paid to our title chances for another year.

Good Friday to you all. If you're a short, preachy man with a beard and a gang of eager vagabonds, may I suggest that today you stay away from any Romans that might be in your neighbourhood? You'll thank me later.

Regular readers will know that I try and err on the side of glass-half-fullism.

Today Arsene will hold his pre-Blackpool press conference after a week in which the club has essentially gone into media lockdown.

Practically nothing has emerged. There's been no 'Dropping 2 points against Blackburn showed our mental strength' or 'We have belief in our belief that we believe in our belief'.

If I were an animal this morning I would be a shark. Not killer shark like a Great White or a Hammerhead, despite how handy that would be if you needed to bang in a few nails in your secret underwater lair, but a Basking Shark.

In the wake of the Barcelona victory I am basking. Go the shops?

It's been a while since I dreamt about Arsenal. Last night I was playing an indoor training match with some of the players. I say some because I'm pretty sure Zoolander wasn't an Arsenal player (he's rubbish, btw). Anyway, at one point I had the ball out on the touchline, Jack Wilshere came over to tackle me and I nutmegged him.