Wake Up And Smell The Cooum

Finally!!!! The new football season is upon us.....YAHOOOOO!!! Two months without any football is a bit much to bear. At this point I'm so desperate that even watching Wigan play Derby will qualify as an orgiastic experience.

As always I shall be supporting Arsenal F.C. A pre-season filled with player transfers and major upheavals has left all the pundits writing off the team's chances but I am optimistic.

This has also left me susceptible to the taunts of my Manchester United and Chelsea supporting flatmates. Disgusting fellows (Man Utd and Chelsea, not my flatmates).

In the spirit of times to come I have been practising my remote handling skills and beer drinking. This weekend is going to be spent very productively.

Brilliant!!!

An already glum week has drawn to a disappointing conclusion. Arsenal were dumped out of the Champions League last night and with that loss any chance of the club winning silverware has gone out the window.

Pisses me off. They play probably the most attractive attacking brand football you'll see but always fall to teams with less talent who sit back and defend for the entire match. The Beauty doesn't always get the better of the Beast.

Not all is doom and gloom though and the team should do better come next season what with all the newer players having settled in by then.

What I won't be able to live with though are my two friends, one a Manchester United supporter and the other a Chelsea supporter, crowing about how well their teams are doing.

As is obvious by now the weekends spent at my flat are passed played with the three of us playing the "my team is better than your team" game.

And now Arsenal get dumped out of the biggest football tournament in Europe rather unceremoniously.

May the good Lord give me strength.

I see light at the end of the tunnel in the form of Liverpool FC. Come on, you Scousers!!!

I just love it when people who are heavily involved with one sport take time to acknowledge the goings-on of other sporting disciplines.

This article written by a cricket reporter covering the ongoing India - West Indies One Day series about fans watching the Champion's League final that I took off of Cricinfo had me in splits and lifted the cloud of doom and gloom that has been hovering over my head since the day Arsenal lost the final. Demonic laughs have followed. Unadultered glee!!!! Its fun to be happy once again!!!