Be quiet Mr Keane, it's time for your Tranquilisers
Thursday, 09 October 08, 03:11 AM · Comments(0)
Thursday. Psychologically a very important day. Thursday represents safety. The weekend is within reach, the horror of Monday has been left far behind. Normally on a Thursday one would begin to get excited about the weekend’s Arsenal match, however, during the international wilderness we have nothing to do but read the carefully selected football stories that make it into the national press. Most of the time these stories are one of either complete fiction; the ramblings of a simpleton (most players); propaganda from the club; or the meaningless views of ‘x’ ‘y’ or ‘z’ who believe that they have the right to attack the team we love.
The latest attacker is Roy Keane, who, fresh from all the plaudits he gave our set-up in the run up to last weekend’s match, has decided to turn his thuggish intellect on our vaunted youth system. Keane claims that our system isn’t all that it is cracked up to be and that we buy most of our youth players. Well, we do buy a lot of our youth players, but if you buy a 15 or 16 year old there is a long way to go to make them a Fabregas, so to suggest that our youth development is flawed is ridiculous. Arsenal produce many players from their youth academy, most of them don’t go on to represent Arsenal, but have good careers at other clubs - these players are still products of our youth system. In short the Arsenal make a great contribution to club football in the UK with their youth system, and now we are starting to see the England National team benefit from that process also. The point that serial thug Roy Keane failed to see was that Arsenal great strength is the faith in youth that the manager demonstrates. How much money have Sunderland spent since Keane took over? I think that the opinion of a manager who buys Michael Chopra should be openly ridiculed, not published on the Telegraph website.The first piece of International injury news comes in the form of a hamstring injury to RVP. Great. Just when he was starting to get a run of games. He got injured this time last year with the Dutch squad. What is it about that lot, if they aren’t arguing with each other they are breaking down with injuries. Hopefully he will be back sooner rather than next season. At least there is another week of international break for him to get on the mend, though I’d prefer it if they shipped him back to Colney for rehab rather than leave him at the mercy of the Dutch medical team.
Platini has launched another tirade against Premiership teams, although he mainly targeted Man Utd and Chelsea so I’m not going to bemoan him too much this time. You do wish that he’d just f*ck off though don’t you. Well I do anyway. He did have a point about clubs losing their identity, but it’s a global game now and a club can still have foreign management and playing staff and retain its values, as Arsene has proven over the last 12 years.
Gallas has admitted in an interview that he is crap. Well maybe that’s not quite what he said, but it amounted to that. More annoying for me is that fact that he chose to give such a pathetic interview in the first place. What ever happened to the stiff upper lip and getting your head down and getting on with it?
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