We're Getting Closer Friends!

August is finally here, which means league football is right around the corner friends! Even Cesc is excited!! The transfer market is starting to heat up (heard today Vieira went to Inter for £6.5m) and Mourinho is starting his inane tirades. Injury reports are starting to come in, squads are finalizing, and I’m ecstatic!! The dull void that occurred after the WC is starting to fill in as the Championship is set to kick off this weekend and the Gunners have CL match a week from today. Good times are coming my friend.

In the latest edition of the Cashley Cole saga, Arsenal has now told Cole’s publisher that they cannot use club photographs in the upcoming autobiography. Arsenal had previously consented to their use as they have the copyright, but after all the shenanigans, they are pulling their permission. It is a bit petty, but hey, he started it! ;)

The satellite is supposed to be installed today, so I am hoping to watch tons of football tonight! This may be the next step towards my wife leaving me, but I gotta do what I gotta do. Football fanaticism is a disease, right?

More from Ian Holloway:

“I reckon the ball was traveling at 400mph, and I bet it burned the keeper's eyebrows off”

“Whoever picks up this baton has to be able to carry it forward”



In other areas of life, I just finished reading “Cash” by Johnny Cash. It was a pretty decent autobiography, but it dealt with a lot of the later aspects of his life. I’ll have to look for his earlier autobiography to fill in the details. He did lead a pretty crazy life and has done some very interesting things and met/performed with tons great people. I am now reading a book called “Out” by Japanese author Natsuo Kirino. My wife suggested it and said it was one of her favorite books in a long while. She really has been into Asian authors and almost anything else Asian. I had to ask her to stop shopping at World Market though as our house was starting to look like a pagoda!

Finally, I am going to have to put in a word verification on comments portion of the blog as I got two spam messages yesterday. Not that anyone reads this thing, let alone comments, but there you go.