Today is the last international break day, it has been a
dull break, most of the Arsenal related news has been a bit tedious. We had the
Szczesny’s dad thing. We had a number of EXCLUSIVES
quoting our players saying they were happy at the club and didn’t want to
leave, shock horror. Walcott picked up an injury on international duty, shock
horror. There was the announcement Faye White will retire from our Ladies team,
she had an amazing career at Arsenal and I’m sure she will be missed from the
set up. In the NextGen series the young guns have beaten Milan away and CSKA
Moscow at home, they now face the young chavs in the semis.
Looking further back in history and on this day in 1987...George Graham brought Leicester hit-man Alan Smith to Highbury in a £750,000 deal.
Sooooo… If we chuck in a potential new shirt, some snow and
a conspiracy theory we can summarise the last week.
Looking forward to the Reading match (yes I am, lots!) this
weekend and they have appointed a new manager in the shape of Nigel Atkins. Teams
often respond well to the appointment of a new manager. Players who were out of
favour with the previous manager want to perform well for the new one. That intern
puts pressure on the starting 11 to play to the top of their game and the
overall team performances are improved.
We can’t take our foot off the peddle for a second until the
end of the season. We have got ourselves into a good position, where a win
would put us a point behind spurs, who have a tricky away match against
Swansea. We also have a game in hand. I’m sure we will talk more about the
Reading match in days to come. The new manager thing shouldn’t matter too much
really, as we need a win, we need 3 points, we know what we have to do and we shouldn’t
under anticipate them.
You will be pleased to hear that Sporting Cromwell, our 6 a
side team have managed a 2nd place finish in the league. We came
from 1-0 down to grab a late draw 1-1. It wasn’t enough to guarantee our
position as second and should the team in third have won in the match after us
last night, they would have been in second due to goal difference. But they were beaten 3-0. So we go to our
third awards ceremony in four seasons.
The first two awards ceremonies have resulted in some
serious casualties. The first almost ended my marriage and the second almost
ended Snipsters life!! What will happen at the third? HOLD ME BACK!!
A result of all this, is the release of the top 25 managers list
as you can see Will “the Maniac” our player/manager has made it into 7th
following our glorious few years.
- Sir Alex Ferguson [180]
- Jose Mourinho [174]
- Arsene Wenger [165]
- Fabio Capello [147]
- Vicente del Bosque [124]
- Marcelo Alberto Bielsa
- Will “the Maniac
- Carlo Ancelotti
- Luiz Felipe Scolari
- Rafael Benitez
- Joachim Low
- Marcello Lippi
- Frank Rijkaard
- Sven-Goran Eriksson
- Karel Bruckner
- Pep Guardiola
- Roberto Mancini
- Ottmar Hitzfeld
- Carlos Alberta
- Dunga
- Otto Rehhagel
- Giovanni Trapattoni
- Bert van Marwick
- Carlos Bianchi
- Muricy Ramalho
That’s it for today. See ya!
Pumpkiii
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