Nice bust

How typical. I mention 'knee knack' in my last blog and lo and behold, Robin van Persie twists his knee and is gonna be out for up to a month. Oh well, nowt I can do about it, better looking at it as a great chance for Eduardo to show us his stuff. However, van Persie's injury has also scuppered my Fantasy team which is a dreadful shame since I was shooting up the table like a gun-slinger with bad eyesight. Nevertheless, putting Adebayor will surely bag plenty of points....

We haven't seen much of our Brazilian Croatian yet, a couple of nice goals and some nice touches have whetted our appetite so tomorrows game against Bolton will hopefully give him a nice platform to represent.

It was the much-anticipated Arsenal AGM yesterday, the highlight of which was the surprise unveiling of a Herbert Chapman-stylee Arsene Wenger bust, well deserved too in my opinion. Reports of the Meeting all agree that Wenger's speech was as articulate and inspiring as you'd expect, whereas the Chairman's handling of the meeting itself was perhaps disappointing (the Online Gooner is particularly scathing, questioning Hill-Woods sanity and whether he might 'buy the farm' before the next AGM). Even so, the new lock down agreement will hopefully put any takeover talk on the back burner for a while, although Usmanov may well continue to pick off shares from the smaller shareholders until he's only got the big boys left to deal with.

Some belated congratulations to pass on, well done to Nath and Anna Marie for their impending arrival, chuffed to bits for you both. Also, a 'nice one' goes out to Verity and Kat for their respective births recently, as well as Tobe for his wedding.

Off on hols to Portugal next week so site will be updated even less than usual; I'm meant to be playing golf while I'm away which should be pretty funny as I haven't played in 3 years. i think I'll be relying on Pete's clubs and the ghost of Seve (or Tarby) to guide me round 18 holes, any score under, ooh, 110 would be viewed as spectacularly good methinks...