I thought Gallas left Arsenal cos they only offered him a 1 year contract, but he wanted 2 years? Is

My Boro pals and me are taking rusty nails and shards of glass to the enxt home game. Not to pelt the team with. We re going to stick them into our palms Harry Palmer style so that we don t nod off. 'You're only supposed to bore the bloody draws off' The main question in the boozer after was nowt to with Boro, mind: If you were the England manager would you select Spaniard Mikel Arteta? It s complicated of course. If you were that person you d be an Italian. You d also be very content to select the Canadian Owen Hargreaves were he not spending more time on a couch than the average Mid-West American family. Furthermore, as we re told repeatedly, England already possess some World Class midfielders whose place of birth is not an issue although if that isn t a loose use of World Class then I m a Sydney Drag Queen (NB I m not). I mean Spain have got loads of world-class carnival cruise line december midfielders or we wouldn t be talking about Arteta cos he would ve got in their team by now. I like Arteta. He s - ooh what s that thing we ve been lacking creative. But the point is can we trust someone with a funny accent to play with his heart and soul? To wear the Three Lions with pride? To dig in when our backs are against the wall? Ermm, not necessarily. But given that we can t trust any other hobbling halfwit who went to South Africa either I suggest being born and raised here doesn t much matter any more. To me, it s one of them things carnival cruise line december they call a no-brainer I hate that expression. Borrowed from the Yanks I bet. Actually while we re on the subject here are some more stupid phrases that media twats roll out actually rolling out ! There s one! I m doing it meself! Add to that going forward which means nowt less than in the near future . Presumably when these spokesturdsmen talk about what happened yesterday they say Going backward . I heard some council exec calling the preparation for a Christmas cold spell being a winterisation progamme. It s all corporate speak isn t it? These wanker-bankers haven t just nicked all our money they ve flooded common or garden English carnival cruise line december with a load of babbling, meaningless shite! Where was I? Ah, si. Senor Arteta. 'Hof course Hi 'em Hinglish! Mekka me captain and I sleepa with your wife!' Look, pick him. If his national form bears no resemblance carnival cruise line december to his club form then we ll know he s truly English carnival cruise line december and we can embrace and/or jeer the poor bastard till he retires from the international game at 30 cos he hasn t got the cojones to carry on. Then Capello can recall Beckham from his bath chair/UN ambassador carnival cruise line december role and all will be almost all right with the world. It s been a weekend carnival cruise line december of storms in teacups. Arry has had to defend the signing of William Gallas, which some WHL regulars have suggested is about as appropriate as making Sir Alex Ferguson Chairman of the BBC. I mean I m all for a bit of needle between teams but surely Gallas can play for who the hell he likes and frankly good luck to whoever takes him on. As it is his Redknapp knows the territory of treachery well I understand that in the bibles in churches across the South Coast of England Jesus Christ is betrayed by an ugly ginger bloke with a twitch and a bit of a marf on him. The wisdom of the move is not financial he s come in on a free or indeed morally questionable. carnival cruise line december It s simply that Gallas has moments of nut-jobbery that, even in a world where a sane French footballer is scarcer than a faithful English one, to take him on at all would seem well bloody risky. Wenger once berated him for a having a ciggie on his way home from a club but I d like to leave that one to one side. Yes he was club captain but for Christ s sake smokers need role models too! Perhaps of more concern is that admission that if Chelsea didn t release him he d score own goals. And he s a decent finisher is Gallas. If, say, Emile Heskey made the same pledge right now Villa fans could laugh it off with a No chance . There was also William s wobbly moment at Birmingham a while back in the aftermath of Eduardo s leg-shattering when he sat in a strop on the pitch, displaying all the leadership skills of Violet Elizabeth Bott. But if he can put the adolescent tizzies behind him and put out them fags then I reckon Redknapp s got a flaming bargain particularly in the light of the fact most Spurs centre-backs seemed to have a loyalty card a the local Casualty department. If Capello is watching out for bright new English carnival cruise line december talent then there s a glimmer of hope in Andy Carroll. Six foot three, skin and bone, bad hair... he s in danger of becoming the new Mark Hateley. I reckon he s better than that, mind. Apart from Hansen inexplicably slagging off Theo Walcott after twatting Blackpool on MOTD (he scored a hat-trick, carnival cruise line december you miserable git! What next? That Joe Hart calls himself a keeper but look at his goalscoring record at club level terrible! ) the Geordies 6-0 duffing up of Villa was the most incredible game of the weekend. Joey Barton carnival cruise line december s tache has gone, celebrated inevitably with a gesture that the dumb numpty made look a bit Nazi. Of course he could have gone the whole hog and put a swastika on his arm but you don t get away with that sort of thing unless your surname s Windsor. And grin of the week was Fergie being left fuming after United s tame draw at Fulham. Sad to see he still wasn t up for talking to the BBC about it. We get Mike Phelan instead who had a charisma bypass operation at the age of 17. Sigh. Still even Phelan surpassed the entertainment on offer at the Riverside last weekend. Seriously I ve had more fun scraping old bits of food out of our dishwasher. But that s the thing with Strachan. He ll admit it. And somehow you can t help liking him.
Leagues jacks barber shop 5 jacks head to head l 3 robbo blog league 6 robbo head to head l 4 Thought I d post this as its as high as I ll get this season......... Reply Delete Why Did You Ngog Rafa 24 August 2010 11:28
Spot on about Our Mikky aka the best little Spaniard we know (spotted my allegiance carnival cruise line december yet?) Robbo - a shoo-in (is that more meejabollocks speak?) for Ingerland s lethargic midfield. Hansen, for an ex-Shi*e, speaks a lot of sense normally unlike that dour twot Lawrenson, but his slagging of Walcott was odd, even Lineaker noticed it! Great result for Citeh last night, carnival cruise line december means altho we re 16th we re above t Shi*e!! Reply Delete jacksofbuxton carnival cruise line december 24 August 2010 12:32
Arteta for England?I don t think so.He s a very good player but England need to look forward.Ditch the golden shower and play the young lads out there.Aim for WC2014,introduce better coaching and training facilities. Failing that,get Derren Brown to hypnotise the entire carnival cruise line december squad and convince them all that they re Pele. Reply Delete stalin_bbz 24 August 2010 12:37
Howdy all, been following for a while and decided that a Scottish influence carnival cruise line december was needed carnival cruise line december in this blog. I can help translate any rumblings coming out of boro, (if needs be) and confirm that fergies purple face is a permanent side affect of staying in Govan for too long. I wouldn t mind seeing Arteta playing for England (well maybe I would a bit), good nifty player that I ve liked since he played with Rangers, and its a shame he hasn t been able to prove himself at the international level. Also, 9th in the league, copying Ngog here coz its probably carnival cruise line december my peak eh, just call me Blackburn. Love the blog Robbo and keep up the bloody good work. Reply Delete Roger T 24 August 2010 12:41
Actually I m on the horns of a dilemma (can be bloody painful that) re Arteta/Ingerland interaction. Me head says yay, why not, me ticker says no way Jose, we need proper Englishmen like that Wilshire fella, or Rodwell? Reply Delete Starfire 24 August 2010 12:44
Now t wrong with having Gallas at Spurs ...unless you ve declared you d eat your hats if an ex Arsenal player would fetch up at WHL before the end of the transfer window. Seriously though, one more CB who ll get stuck in can t be a bad thing around the place. Reply Delete stalin_bbz 24 August carnival cruise line december 2010 12:52
So Gallas is the stop gap while King is wrapped in bubblewrap, only to be released for clashes against the big teams and possibly Champs League group games/Eurhopeless league games? Maybe not as good as Woody that Gallas lad, but at least he ll manage to get through a game without shattering into tiny pieces. My biggest concern would be that, Tottenham are relying on King and Arry to keep him in line, can t see anyone else on the team with enough cojones to keep him in place. Star, may I recommend brown sauce to accompany the hats, the watered down chippy version instead of hp, it ll make it easier to digest. Reply Delete Flying Squid 24 August 2010 13:39
I thought Gallas left Arsenal cos they only offered him a 1 year contract, but he wanted 2 years? Is that correct?? If so, why has he signed a 1 year contract at Spurs? Reply Delete TrotterUSA 24 August carnival cruise line december 2010 13:45
Good stuff Robbo. Just wanted to reach out to say no Arteta for England. He s a good un mind but if we win owt, the Spaniards will be laughing their bollocks off, if we have to clutch at straws and bring bloody foreigners into what is supposed to be a team (and management) of Englishmen then I for one will be looking carnival cruise line december at my Grandmother s ancestry. Having said that, I think it s disgusting that the FA have already announced that the next England manager will be English! Along with reach out , Just wanted to give you the heads up annoys the piss out of me. I ll catch ya later. Reply Delete carnival cruise line december Why Did You Ngog Rafa 24 August 2010 13:45
Obviously I rated Arteta highly and have persisted with him in my FFL. But he has nt performed yet. I dont think Arteta can fit into English style of play, I will not pick him ahead of Barry s, Wilshere s, Young s, Milner s, Lennon s, Johnson carnival cruise line december s, et al. Reply Delete stalin_bbz 24 August 2010 13:57
Yes Squiddy, my surge up the table from 26th to 9th was so good it probably did merit the repetitions. I think Arteta carnival cruise line december would be a good stop gap for 2012 while the likes of Rodwell carnival cruise line december and Wilshere get a couple of years in