You could start by not calling me 'Bladder', sir

Got a much needed weekend at home coming up, lots of DIY to do as always, but am also playing poker on Saturday round at Gaffer's house in Devizes, crazy name, crazy place. I've never manged to come home from poker with more than £20 in my pocket, there's £120 up for grabs tomorrow, so I'm hoping to beat my record and have enough cash for a celebratory slap up binge at Mrs Miggins' Pie Shop on Sunday.

Good week of Champions League football, nice to see Arsenal bounce back, although the defence still looked pretty dodgy early on in the match, especially from corners, which the press have identified as our new achilles heel. I'd expect to see ol' mekon head Silvestre make his debut pretty soon, maybe even against the makems tomorrow. Pity Drogba's injury wasn't more serious, he always seems to raise his game when we play Chelsea (which we do on November 30th), still, good to see Transylvania's top club prove that Chelsea lack bite, arf arf.

My friend Dom gets married on Saturday in Daytona Beach, Florida. A few Steeple folk have made the pilgrimage out to Miami, no doubt Mr Brown has purchased a spangly vest, some 1980's shorts and a pair of roller skates for the occasion. Not that he's going or anything, think he just likes the look (I jest). Best of luck mate, hope you and the missus have a cracking day and good luck with the Crocodile huntin'.

Did anyone read Joe Kinnear's press conference from yesterday? it's hilarious, first line of it goes something like this:

JK: "Who's Mr X? (Daily Mirror's north East Correspondent)

Journo:"Me"

JK "You're a c*nt"

It went on like that, you can read a virtually complete transcript on the Guardian's website here. It's well worth it, good on you Joe, the press need ranting at occasionally. It's been a few years since his last pre-game press conference so I can understand the build up of tension inside him. Poor old fella, he was apparently 18th choice for the 'interim manager' position and got a load of grief from day one. Kinnear also lives next door to Arsene Wenger, fact fans.

There's an exciting new show by JJ Abrahams (writer of Lost)starting on Sunday on Sky 1 called Fringe about a plane that lands on autopilot with all the passengers and crew already dead. Also, next weekend there is an event involving Matt Willmott and Rich Ashby being lost and unconscious in a camper van, this drama will be called Ginge...

Enjoy your weekends