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| Surprise. Injured Edgar fails
to justify his £47,000 wages this week |
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to see Spurs start the season with a dash of style and pinch of
skill. Pity London’s lesser teams had to rely on a stickier
recipe for success – jam.
The Chelski moneybags certainly needed the sticky stuff against
the pie eaters, but lucky, lucky Arsenal definitely took the biscuit.
First up, the referee decides he likes the poodles’ new purple
kit so much he wants to join the team.
 Then
he gives Thierry Henry the chance to finally score on the basis
that underpant pin-up Freddie Ljungberg flopped in the box.
Looked more to me like the Richard Osley lookey-likey had just fallen
over trying to un-twang his new fleece-lined G-string.
But not according to Arsenal’s 12th man. Pity the ugly mugs
of the gurning Gooners celebrating behind the goal frightened Tezza
so much he forgot to smile. Again. Still, every cloud has a silver
lining and seeing the mild man of football Graeme Souness and his
Intertoto failures flee the capital with their tails between their
legs yet again is one dish I’ll never tire of.
 EDGAR
Davids? Injured? Shurely there must be shome mishtake. Not our Edgar?
Impossible?
One week of the new season gone and we’ve already got our first
Edgar sicknote.
“Dear Marty Jol, I can’t play on Saturday against Portsmouth.
I fell over in training and my knee is hurty-hurty. I’ll look
out for the score on teletext, Edgar.” Eat your heart out Daz
Anderton! Mugged Tottenham fans – wow, you’ve beaten Pompey,
EVERYBODY beats Pompey – should get used to it.
 Meanwhile,
Chelsea’s fluky win against Wigan must have had Peter ‘group
of one’ Kenyon spitting caviar.
Let’s hope they play like that against Arsenal.
As I’ve said before, everybody should be supporting the Gunners
in Sunday’s big showdown.
Not just because of Frank Lampard’s truly awful advert for
The Sun’s sports coverage, in which he shouts: “Ohrso
aht on Mahhn-day, we larve it!”
(For those not fluent in Lampard-ese: “Also out on Monday,
we love it!”)
But because of the way Chelsea have cynically relied on financial
means to change the course of football. Vote Arsenal. Save Football.
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