Bring the Phones and Banknotes anyway. 9 December, 2006

Yesterday the club released this statement saying anyone bringing the inflatable phones or fake banknotes that would be ejected from the ground. Fair enough if the club says they don’t like the abuse that we will give Cole but they should be able to stop us for taking these objects in. It’s not as if they are knives and guns. I’d love to be going to this match, I for one would definitely be taking the big phone and banknotes in, obviously I wouldn’t be waving them about as I entered the stadium but once I was safely inside and the game had started I’d get them out. Even if we don’t mange to have the phones and banknotes I’m sure it’ll be great fun at the Bridge tomorrow, win or lose. I’d love to be going, it’s going to be an amazing game to be at; if anyone wants to give me an early Xmas present you know where I am.

Arsene Wenger has been saying ‘we should respect what Cole did for us”. What’s that? Get greedy and write a book about how we ruined his career? Obviously as the manager of Arsenal he has to say these nice things about Ashley Cole, however we the fans are allowed to voice exactly our opinions. When Gallas left Chelsea the Club sent out statements saying how he’s disrupted the club and just wanted money (it’s does beg the question why they wanted Cole to replace him but oh well) whereas Arsenal picked out what Cole had done for the club. That’s class. Chelsea do not have class.

I absolutely hate Chelsea; I hate them more than Spurs. Not just because they are cocky bastards but because they have ruined football. I suppose that means I hate Abramovich more but still Mourinho is a twat, Drogba is a twat, Cole is a twat, Essien is a twat…they are all twats. I’d love for us to beat them tomorrow, it really would be great for this club and who knows, we could consider ourselves title contenders again. Well maybe not but we’d be getting close to it. I believe we can beat them, Thierry believes we can beat them and I think most Gooners will say we can beat them if we perform like we know we can.

Yesterday it was announced that Djourou will be fit, that’s a massive relief otherwise we probably would’ve have to of put Hoyte in central defence. We’ve got Eboue on the right who’ll need to have a big game defensively to stop Cole’s surging runs, could you imagine if Cole scored tomorrow? Oh God I don’t even want to think about that…So this is how our back four will shape up:

Then for the rest it’s a bit harder to pick, I think Wenger will go with a 4-5-1 but I’d like to see two strikers. Below is the midfield and attack I think will start tomorrow and below that is what I would pick.

I’d really like Baptista to start but I really don’t know where he’d fit in, I’ve got this horrible feeling that he’ll go back to Madrid at the end of his loan and I’m pretty sure Reyes will want to stay there. We’ll just have to see how it goes. It will be interesting to see what team Arsene does actually go for. I just can’t wait for the game to start. Remember this game isn’t just about Ashley Cole, of course it’s a big part of the game as it’s the first time he plays against Arsenal but at some point we need to forget that and concentrate on winning the game.

Enjoy the game people, happy weekend.