Happy
Thursday guys and gals,
We
have broken the back of the week again and we march onto another weekend, GET
IN!
Unfortunately
due to a tournament being held over 15 months away, we have a weekend without Premier
league football. What do we think about that? BOOOOOO. That's what!
I
quite like international tournaments, but only really the finals. The group
stages and friendlies are a bit of a pain in the neck and makes building
consistency in the league tough. It might however give the players a little
break from the pressure at the club, which could be a good thing. The wind was
in our sails and spurs were tipping over the worlds end of waterfalls, lets
hope we come back to the same situation.
Picking
up Injuries at meaningless internationals is always the big concern and I hope
we don't. It was interesting to read that Rio won't be going as he has training
planned at Man U and he can't miss it as he might get injured. Surely that's a
blag straight out of the "forgot my gym kit" book of terrible blags.
No real surprise though as sir Al*hic*s, mourinho and the rest have been doing
it for ages. Lampard, terry and co have missed many friendlies due to their
club wanting to win cups and leagues, and who can blame them. The clubs they
play for pay them fortunes and those clubs have targets to achieve with their
assets. If they can't utilise their assets then maximising their returns is
economically unviable. And we all know that sustainability is the real
winner!
This
is what happens when you write a football blog while on the way to a business
meeting. Busiball, the business side of football.
I
think we have a few players playing in the internationals, perhaps we could
look at them tomorrow. Snipster?
Onto
some other thoughts:
I
watched Tyson (the film documentary) the other day. It was a good watch and
well worth a view. Tyson came from very humble beginnings, when he was young
his parents split up and his mom moved them to an area so bad women and
children would be mugged and beaten up regularly.
Tyson
grew up in fear and was constantly bullied. He kept pigeons and one day the
bullies found out where he kept them and grabbed hold of one. Tyson asked /
pleaded with them to give the pigeon back. The leader of the bullies rung the
birds neck and threw it back to Mike dead. This enraged Tyson and he beat the
bully into a pulp.
Mike
Tyson got a lot of respect for this from the other youths in his area. He was
still a shy and unassuming guy though. He got involved with the wrong crowd and
ended up in juvenile detention. It was in jail he started boxing and on Tyson's
release, the jail boxing instructor put Mike in touch with a professional
boxing coach as he had seen so much promise during his incarceration.
This
coach trained Mike Tyson to be an excellent technical boxer. A boxer with pace,
power and technique. The one thing the coach couldn't train was for Mike to be
confident. Mike Tyson still had a quiet and introverted character.
The
coach would complement Mike all day every day, about every aspect of his personality,
body, power, ability, intelligence, even stuff like his hair, his style and his
dance moves & singing voice (probably). Mike didn't know until later in
life why the coach did this. He just thought he had the nicest coach in the
world and thought he was possibly hitting on him. Later in life he realised the
coach was building Tyson's confidence. Mike Tyson was now not only the best
technical boxer on the planet, but he also believed he was unbeatable and
destined for world domination.
Tyson
spoke about winning fights before a punch had been thrown. He would be able to
see in his opponents eyes if there was a glimmer of doubt. When there was be
would punish them.
Arsenal
players need to build this sort of confidence for the future. Too many times
this season we have looked low on belief.
Arsene,
after the team have finished watching the defensive videos, chuck Tyson the
documentary on but remember to press pause before he gets all messed up on
drugs and women
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