The Smoking Gun + the Auld Triangle Pub
Saturday, 25 October 08, 07:38 AM · Comments(0)
William Gallas, caught almost smoking by a national newspaper, is the main topic of conversation today across the blogs. On the face of things it isn’t really a big deal is it? It is, I imagine, the closest thing to the exact opposite of Wenger’s philosophy that I can think of. Also, it’s fucking stupid. Most of us have dabbled with smoking and we all know that is bloody idiotic, but if your job depends on your body being a fine tuned machine then smoking is completely insane. Particularly when a player hits their 30s and its more of a battle to keep everything working properly. This confirms the stories of a couple of weeks ago about Gallas being a simpleton. For God’s sake it is time to take the captaincy away from this tantrum prone loon and give it to somebody that takes all aspects of the job seriously.
I loved reading all those stories about Dennis Bergkamp over the past couple of days. What a frickin’ legend that guy is. I can’t wait until he comes back to the Arsenal to give the youngsters the benefit of his awesome experience. As I’ve said before I’d love it if in a few years he took over from Mr Wenger as Arsenal manager. The only problem of course being that the silly sod doesn’t fly anywhere! That is actually a big problem isn’t it? I don’t see how he hopes to ever be a top flight manager if he won’t fly? Maybe his assistant will be tasked with spiking his milk?
I hope that tomorrow against West Ham that Wenger includes Diaby from the start. Having made such an impact in the Champions League in the week he deserves a chance to prove himself in the Premiership. RVP will probably make a return to the team after being rested against Fenerbahce. I hope that RVP can get his game back to the level he was at last season before his injury.
Jose Mourinho has admitted that Drogba is a diver, but he has also given RVP the same label. True Robin has, in the past made a bit of a fuss when he hasn’t had to but to put him in the same bracket as Drogba is insulting. Mourinho takes attention seeking to another level. He is an arse-hole. Totally self-obsessed.
Here’s an interesting bit of news. There is a planning application with Islington Council for the demolition of the Auld Triangle Pub on St Thomas’s Road. For those who don’t know about this pub, it is en route from the Finsbury Park tube station to the Emirates Stadium and comprises one of the busiest of the matchday pubs. The planning application is to build a block of flats in its place. Now the Auld Triangle is by no means a great pub, in fact, it’s a bad pub but it (and its previous incarnation the Plimsoll) is and has been a key part of the matchday ritual for thousands of fans over the years. I don’t object to its demolition as long as the plans for a new building include a replacement pub – I am not familiar with the plans but I assume that they don’t have a bar attached! The deadline for objections to the planning permission is the 6th November 2008. If anybody wants to object or support the application they should e-mail planning@islington.gov.uk quoting reference P081676 location: 52 St Thomas’s Road, Islington, London, N4 2QW. For an online link to the plans e-mail plansforauldtraingle@hotmail.com . Also, there is a meeting in the Auld Triangle on Monday 27th October 2008 at 7.30pm at which the architect of the proposed new flats will be in the pub to answer questions about the development. It would be a shame to take away one more London pub, if you feel the same send your objections to the above e-mail.
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