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By Billy the Dog McGraw
I don’t know if it is just me but it seems to be easier these day to understand what Mr Wenger is going to do in terms of his playing staff for each game.
It is almost like the 1987/88 season when the same players would come out for match after match after match – irrespective of whether they were fit, injured, on holiday or transferred.
Lukic, Thomas, Sansom, O’Leary, Adams, Williams, Rocastle, Davis, Marwood, Smith, Nicholas
Every week.
Didn’t do us much good those days of course, but it made life easier, because the most you had to sort out was one player who might have stubbed his toe on a bottle of beer as so couldn’t play.
Under Wenger life has become more complex, but today we know where we are…
Henry
Henry Henry Henry Henry
Henry Henry Henry
Henry Henry Henry
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Of course there is some controversy there – the left back position looks a little dodgy, but well Henry is Henry, and so it should be all right. Not sure about his new facial hair style, but well, these old men do funny things.
Apparently Mr Henry is also being employed on the Emirates building site – Mr Wenger saying the Henry could make his statue bigger. You can catch him round the back of the workmen’s shed about half twelve, having a fag.
So, that is about it for a preview I suppose. Except to note the subs.
Fabianksi
Djourou*/Mertersacker Koscielny Squillaci Miquel
Coquelin/Rosicky/Oguzhan Ozyakup Benayoun
Chamerlain/Ryo Chamakh/Henry Arshavin/Park
*Now I have to admit at once that I am a little slow on the technicalities of Djourou being sent off in a league match. I imagine that he can serve his suspension in this game – in which case he obviously won’t be playing in the flesh, as it were. (If you think I ought to know this you are right, but I do recall a time when the cup matches were separated from the league games. There was once a moment when Bergkamp got sent off for a lovely elbow in the face of some WHU player, and he was suspended for three, but played 3.5 hours including extra time in some league cup match just to show he could. Ah, happy days.)
Anyway, back to the plot, we could have a back line of…
Coquelin Koscielny Squillaci Miquel
and a middle row of…
Rosicky Ozyakup Benayoun
and how about this for a fun and games forward line
Chamerlain Henry Arshavin
The only trouble is that Oxlade-C is so fast that that old plodder Henry is so slow poor Alex will be charging up the line and then having to wait about for half an hour for Thierry to come up from the half way line.
Anyway, all the drains in my house are blocked up, so I have a plumber coming this afternoon. Assuming he does the deed in good time then we can all toddle off to the Triangle, pay £888888 a pint and then watch a football match.
I’m quite looking forwards to it.
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