Allez Allez
May 25th, 2008 by 'holic
We live in strange times. An over-fifty, north London born and bred, blogger has to get back home on a Saturday night for the weekends required viewing, the French FA Cup Final. Father of ‘holic was quite incredulous when I shared the game with him on the phone this morning.
A good friend was rooting for PSG so I adopted them for the evening. It was an apt choice for a Gooner. They were the better side for much of the contest, struck the woodwork twice, and had a goal ruled out for a controversial offside flag. Luck was not with them.
In extra-time they suffered one defensive lapse and Govou grabbed the winner for Lyon. Of course the main reason for watching was to check on Chantome, of PSG, and Ben Arfa of Lyon. We have been linked with both.
I’m none the wiser about Ben Arfa, who was left on the bench, allegedly because he doesn’t get on with striking colleague Benzema, a target for the bigger spenders in Europe.
I have to confess the couple of times I have seen PSG this season, Chantome has not stood out. To be fair, I wasn’t really looking for him until last evening. He is a typical Wenger target, unheralded in these shores, so any judgement is harshly based only on one performance. On that evidence he will provide good competition for Diaby and Song as the young pretenders to Flamini’s vacated midfield berth. If he is a diamond he would appear as yet to be unpolished.
So today, if everything works out, it will be a viewing of France and Ecuador in a friendly international, and potentially a glimpse of Samir Nasri. (Update Sunday night. See comment 10 for a grovelling apology.)
“You want your bumps felt son”, was ‘holic dad’s verdict on that. Strange times indeed.
12 Responses to “Allez Allez”
1st Drink.
Regards to Mrs ‘Holic!
What Dubs said, except second, of course
Good morning, or should I say, bonjour.
‘holic,
The France/Ecuador friendly — do you know which UK channel is showing it? I can’t find it on Sky anywhere.
Cheers,
Jonesy
Sorry Jonesy, I think it will be streaming only. There are a couple it would appear.
I would like to think we’ll sign Ben Arfa and Nasri and not just Nasri as with Pleb going we need the numbers and they are true quality. We’ll see i guess
*cough*livefooty*cough* – France game
I’ll check the streams mate. Ta.
Check out the videos of Samir Nasri and Carlos Vela on You Tube, Holic. You’ll really like what you see. Samir shoots and scores more times in these than Hleb has in the last three years. He looks good with the “maestro” playmaker number 10 on his back at Marseille. It’s wasted on William Gallas in the centre of the defence. Maybe we can persuade Arsene to make it 10 for Nasri? Also, Velas looks like the real deal. Check out the way he skins the Real Madrid defence. Looks like a real natural goal scorer. Maybe he can borrow the number 9 shirt while Eduardo’s recovering. Flamoney who? Hleb which? Come on you gunners!
‘ey ‘olic, how’s it going mate?
do let us know if you feel the bumps, buddy. I don’t think the game is showing in the Far east.
Cheerio.
What a cock up that was. Rushed back to fire up a stream of the France game. Honestly, there were two listed on cough*livefooty*cough this morning. Tonight they are not there. Check BBC for the fixtures, and the game isn’t until Tuesday. Sorry if I misled anybody.
🙁
I see I missed a blog again.
I think PSG were also denied a penalty for handball after they hit the bar the second time. But hey, referees love Lyon. The cunts.
I’m not being misled, it’s TF1 for me anyway! 😉
Happy St Michael’s day ‘holic