Back home from the match...oh and the demise of TFFO!

Sunday, 17 August 08, 02:06 PM · Comments(1)

If you've read the odd one of my blogs you may have realised that I try to avoid repeating the articles that many other bloggers out there already do quite well. As a result if you're expecting a match report on the WBA game then this the wrong place. Partly this is down to a personal decision and, secondly, it may be more to do with the fact that I got more excited watching Bradley Wiggins winning the 4000m Individual Pursuit Gold at Bejing (at least Arsenal had the common sense to show the race on the concourse TVs) than by anything much that happened during the game. I'm not being negative about the team but it's probably summed up perfectly by Arseblog's opening line, "So the season starts with a win, three points and a reasonable performance given the understrength nature of the side, particularly in midfield."

However, I will say that Nasri impressed, the beer was as good as usual in the pub before the match, the banter was okay but I'm expecting better performances as the season warms up and I'm not back again until the Hull game so hopefully by then the season will have taken some shape. I'm writing this after all the weekend games and so now have to survive the pointless midweek international friendlies - we have 9 players out injured so expect a couple more to be added to that by the end of the week.

On a more controversial note the main topic of conversation and emails has been the way the online Daily Telegraph fantasy league competition has managed to take a perfectly wonderful format and transform it into something completely unworkable (okay not completely but "if it ain't broke don't fix it" comes to mind). Someone has obviously given the job to some video game software junkie and he's "jazzed" it up thus making it far more complex than it needs to be for no real improvement, Hey Ho!

I'll talk French/Swiss stuff tomorrow but you'll want to know the Basel result, so you'll be glad to hear that they top the table after a 4-1 victory at FC Zurich today.

Wiggins wins gold