A genial head-nod to all Arselings out there. Things are usually pretty quiet on the disquiet
front after a win, and it has expectedly been all shush-and-silence in the wake of us playing
Blackburn like a set of drums last week. But just like the draw at Bolton didn't mean that the team
was on a one-way trip to Hades, a rout over ten-man relegation fodder doesn't a summer make.
It's finally here, the Champions League, of course! And just a few hours
before kickoff, here's a really innovative ad by Heineken, featuring some great footballers in the
setting of an Opera house. The Champions League theme song itself goes off into its own opera
("Die Meister, Die Besten!
And just when we had all got our breath back after the Milan game, and switched our focus back
to domestic matters, Gary Lineker of all people matches us with Real blinking Madrid.
Minor Digression
Some lilywhites of my acquaintance reacted with dismay to the draw, but around these parts there
were back-slaps and whoops unconfined.
