An Arsenal Thrashing and the Championship is Coming!!
The weekend of Daddy Day Care is through and besides a few scars and the foreseeable need for counseling, all is well. We actually had a great weekend, got to hang out, play, and even saw the movie “The Ant Bully.” Decent enough of a flick with all the typical kid movie themes and morals. I think I actually learned something!
Also over the weekend, Corey Pavin won his first tournament in 10 years at the Milwaukee Open. Pavin, who is 46 and has a US Open title under his belt, began the tourney with a 26 on the front nine, which is a tour record. He then played some pretty steady golf and wrapped it up when his second shot on the par 4 8th took three hops and landed in the cup for an eagle. That took him from two up to four up over Jerry Kelly. Congrats to Corey.
Arsenal had another pre-season match today against Austrian 3rd division side SKA Schwadorf. It was the first match back for more of the WC participants (Cesc, Gilberto, Toure, Robin van Persie, and Jose Antonio Reyes) and they trod all over the little team, 8 to 1. RvP and Adebayor had 2 goals each, with Djourou, Kolo, Bendtner, and Hleb rounding it out. Luckily, Schwardof got a goal in 3 minutes from time to keep it from being a shut out. During the first half when more of the regular first XI were in, the team performed pretty well and there were some great passes and looks. It was a bit dodgy when the reserves and youth started coming on, but they did OK. It is a win and the more practice the team can get in now the better as Arsenal have an earlier European season than normal.
With all the Arsenal going’s on, the upcoming start of the Championship nearly slipped my mind. The season for Plymouth starts this weekend on Saturday against Wolves. The club will be skippered by Ian Holloway this season after previous years at QPR. He has done some great things as a player and manager and hopefully the tactics will work. If anything, he will keep us all entertained with his interesting comments to the press. Here are a few gems:
"To put it in gentleman's terms if you've been out for a night and you're looking for a young lady and you pull one, some weeks they're good looking and some weeks they're not the best. Our performance today would have been not the best looking bird but at least we got her in the taxi. She weren't the best looking lady we ended up taking home but she was very pleasant and very nice, so thanks very much, let's have a coffee"- on the "ugly" QPR win against Chesterfield.
"You can say that strikers are very much like postmen: they have to get in and out as quick as they can before the dog starts to have a go."
Holloway will have a strong defense to work with this season. The squad did well and only allowed 46 goals last season, which was better than Watford who were promoted to the Prem. By contrast, there needs to be some work on the offense and the strikers as the club only had 36 goals all of last season, which accounts for their mid-table position. Hoepfully new signing Sylvain Ebanks-Blake from ManU will turn things around.
Finally, speaking of ManU, they just completed the signing of Michael Carrick from Spurs for £18.6m. This is an amazing amount of money for an OK player. He is worth at least £8m less in my opinion. These inflated rates for English players are why Arsene continues to look at foreign players who are much cheaper. I would like to see more English Gunners, but the market is way too inflated.
Also over the weekend, Corey Pavin won his first tournament in 10 years at the Milwaukee Open. Pavin, who is 46 and has a US Open title under his belt, began the tourney with a 26 on the front nine, which is a tour record. He then played some pretty steady golf and wrapped it up when his second shot on the par 4 8th took three hops and landed in the cup for an eagle. That took him from two up to four up over Jerry Kelly. Congrats to Corey.
Arsenal had another pre-season match today against Austrian 3rd division side SKA Schwadorf. It was the first match back for more of the WC participants (Cesc, Gilberto, Toure, Robin van Persie, and Jose Antonio Reyes) and they trod all over the little team, 8 to 1. RvP and Adebayor had 2 goals each, with Djourou, Kolo, Bendtner, and Hleb rounding it out. Luckily, Schwardof got a goal in 3 minutes from time to keep it from being a shut out. During the first half when more of the regular first XI were in, the team performed pretty well and there were some great passes and looks. It was a bit dodgy when the reserves and youth started coming on, but they did OK. It is a win and the more practice the team can get in now the better as Arsenal have an earlier European season than normal.
With all the Arsenal going’s on, the upcoming start of the Championship nearly slipped my mind. The season for Plymouth starts this weekend on Saturday against Wolves. The club will be skippered by Ian Holloway this season after previous years at QPR. He has done some great things as a player and manager and hopefully the tactics will work. If anything, he will keep us all entertained with his interesting comments to the press. Here are a few gems:
"To put it in gentleman's terms if you've been out for a night and you're looking for a young lady and you pull one, some weeks they're good looking and some weeks they're not the best. Our performance today would have been not the best looking bird but at least we got her in the taxi. She weren't the best looking lady we ended up taking home but she was very pleasant and very nice, so thanks very much, let's have a coffee"- on the "ugly" QPR win against Chesterfield.
"You can say that strikers are very much like postmen: they have to get in and out as quick as they can before the dog starts to have a go."
Holloway will have a strong defense to work with this season. The squad did well and only allowed 46 goals last season, which was better than Watford who were promoted to the Prem. By contrast, there needs to be some work on the offense and the strikers as the club only had 36 goals all of last season, which accounts for their mid-table position. Hoepfully new signing Sylvain Ebanks-Blake from ManU will turn things around.
Finally, speaking of ManU, they just completed the signing of Michael Carrick from Spurs for £18.6m. This is an amazing amount of money for an OK player. He is worth at least £8m less in my opinion. These inflated rates for English players are why Arsene continues to look at foreign players who are much cheaper. I would like to see more English Gunners, but the market is way too inflated.
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