Arsenal, Man City, 4th, Vonnegut

Tuesday, 17 April 07, 02:21 AM · Comments(0)

Just a quick pre-bedtime post: Arsenal face Man City in the Premiership tomorrow. City are more or less safe from relegation, and at this point i'd say have not much to play for, so the Gunners should have a slight advantage. They can wrap up 4th place in the league if they beat City, and then it should be smooth sailing. I have a sneaking suspicion though that if they can beat City and Spurs on the weekend, that they'll have a good chance of taking 3rd place away from Liverpool.

The team will be more or less the same as it was against Bolton, but Freddie is injured so Julio Baptista will probably come in for him. At this point in the season with no Robin Van Persie or Thierry Henry, it's not really worth moaning and groaning about who plays, it's better to just get behind whoever is playing and support the team. I'm looking for Hleb to get a goal tomorrow, he really needs one, and ALL the midfielders need to spend a bit of time on shooting. Bring in Dennis and Wrighty, and let them teach a bit of brilliant technique from opposite ends of a sparkling spectrum.

And lastly, on a non-football related note, I just wanted to say a little something about Kurt Vonnegut, who passed away on April 11th. Sadly, i'm so out-of-touch with things that I didn't even hear the news till today. It's sad, sad stuff.

He was such a brilliant author - a man with morals, a social commentator, and an extraordinary abuser of genres. Insightful, witty and always ahead of his time, and able to dole out irony and advice in equal measure. His brand of satire can only be described as art.

Of the many Vonnegut quotes that are floating around at the moment, here is one of my favourites:
"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country"

I had always hoped one day to meet him, but it was not to be. Maybe it might still happen, maybe it won't. But "so it goes".

RIP Kurt Vonnegut.

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