Here's to one Hull of a night
Tuesday, 17 March 09, 02:00 AM
Ok, so we've all showered at least five times, used brillo pads to scrub ourselves clean, and then powdered ourselves with delousing stuff you always see them using in prison films? Good, then the stink of wishing the Spuds well is truly gone and we can get back to hating them.
I will not be saying thank you for doing us a favour. I know the thought of it must be making them feel as sick as we did on Sunday and that makes me smile. They've handed us fourth place for the second time in three/four years and we can now draw a line under the whole sorry affair.
Today, as you all know, is St. Patrick's Day, the Patron Saint of Pissed People. Being in Belfast it's a bank holiday (how cool is that, a day off work just to get drunk) but alas I have to work. St. Pat will be very mad indeed. Hopefully he'll forget about it when he's had a few, which should be about 9am if he's truly Irish (which he isn't).
We 'welcome' Hull to the Grove tonight for our belated FA Cup quarter final (which is live on Shitanta so they'll be rambling on about Ebouegate all night). Not for the first time this season, there's revenge to be had. I am not going to predict a spanking, as when I do, we don't dish one out. But with our form vs. their form kinda being like Rambo vs Arshavin in a fist fight, it's hard not to think it might be a possibility.
Rotation will be the order of the day. Fabianski coming in for New Jens (admit it, Saturday in the box with Diouf made you miss him, Mad Jens would have sorted him right out), Eboue should get a start, and with his scoring rate of two every seven minutes, he should score around 20 before he's substituted in the 70th minute to give Bendtner the chance to match that number with misses.
VP should start up front, but I hope it's not on his own, that just doesn't work. Will Arshavin play? He maybe deserves a wee bit of a rest, but I want to see him do to them what Geovanni did to us so he can't have one and should start if the gash on his foot has healed enough. The man himself is 'desperate' to play. I think I love him already.
Diaby will likely come into the midfield and Gibbs will probably replace Clichy. After that, who knows. Carlos should start up front with VP, where he can chip and dink all night long.
But this is the FA Cup, and we all know anything can happen. Bendtner might even score. In fact, I'm gonna put a fiver on him right now to get two.
You'll all, no doubt, be delighted to learn that Eboue has signed a new contract (it's at the bottom of the article). I guess if he goes back to being shit again we can just not play him...o, wait, we do play him when he's shit. I have a funny feeling he's going to be a star for us in the season run in. I can hear you all snickering, don't think I can't, but people snicker at me all the time so at least this time I know the reason why.
In what must be the most predictable, inevitable, and non-shocking story of the century, Rosicknotes return has been delayed as he suffered a 'set-back' Arsenal say two weeks, but I don't believe it. In fact, I don't think he actually exists. Did he ever exist? Did Arsenal not just use some new-fangled subliminal thingymajig to insert images of a phantom player into our brains? It might sound a bit out there, but it's more believable than Rosicknote being back in full training in two weeks.
I'm thinking of starting an Arsenal version of 'Where's Wally' using Rosicky. I could also use Bendtner, but that's taking the Wally bit too literally (only messin' Nik ol' chum).
I've bashed Bendtner a lot in this blog, which wasn't my intention...he just provides a lot of material. I still think he'll come good. Honest.
I'm going to shut-up now, it's probably best.
Til tomorrow...may St. Pat see you home safely and with all your clothes, phones, wallets, traffic cones, and a semi-final place.
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