It has been raining on and off in the evenings but I still feel burnt by the heat and humidity. I had an intense headache Friday afternoon which I blamed on the heat. At home, it gets suffocating at times and though I loathe opening the windows because I don’t want the mosquitoes to come buzzing in, I find myself doing exactly that some evenings. I don’t like hot and humid temperatures here, the unbearable tropical heat of Indochina countries (>40C in some months so do plan before going) or the frigid winter cold. I guess I’m made for Club Med countries and climates then. Heh. But seriously.
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It’s Oscar time again and Piers Morgan shares his thoughts on the winners – if the Oscars went to the sportsmen and women. And apparently, it’s shopping time again too: I spotted some stores advertising ‘F1 Promotional Sale’ or something to that effect on Saturday (of course most shopping stores will have a sale during the upcoming mid-term school holidays). Yes! Happy days are here again. What better thing to do to escape the stifling heat than to indulge in a retail therapy in the cool comfort of an air-conditioned mall (the downside is having to battle the school hols crowd of course). Plus I get to mall-walk. Don’t scoff, it’s exercise!
There was a lot of talk after the Rambo injury, about how he’d be in safe hands at Arsenal, how safe tackles should be and if Arsenal needed extra protection, to the banners planned for Rambo at the game against Burnley. Thankfully, it will not be a career-challenging injury, although I’m sure it will still impact his future games as it has for Dudú. The gaffer has said it’s too early to set a return date and urged his team to win the title for Rambo.
Rambo, overwhelmed by the support he received, has issued an official statement and for a boy and despite his pain, he sounded really intelligent and wise. Which is more than I can say for Sh*tcross. Oh and not one reference to Sh*tcross at all, unsurprisingly. Shows what Rambo thought of the tackle, surprise, surprise. Professional footballers know that genuine accidents can happen on the pitch, they would be the last to see a fellow pro castigated for something that wasn’t his fault; Cesc didn’t blame Alonso when the latter injured him. Oh and well said, Wenger. Why victimise the victim? Thank you, Martinez (I’m not too surprised it’d be another foreign manager who backs Wenger).
Perhaps the silver lining behind the incident at Brittania is that the Gunners are discovering their muscle and are now more motivated to win for Rambo. However, it was not an easy match against Burnley who are fighting for their Premier League lives. Nick forgot to put on his shooting boots (he could have scored at least five!!! Robin would have a hat trick) and my baby was fighting a tight hamstring. He finally went off after scoring - he probably told himself that he’d score first before leaving ;’) – and thankfully the others, notably Nasri and Theo stepped up. To go to the top albeit temporarily, we needed more than a four-goal cushion but we didn’t quite manage that as we looked like we were still stuck in an eternal footie education loop. *Sigh*
Cesc is a doubt for the Porto clash, Gallas too. We will definitely miss our captain (EA Sports Player of the month of February and for the fifth consecutive month too!): with his fourteen Premier League goals and 15 assists so far, he has proven himself a worth skipper. So much so he’s a tackling target almost for every other club and he knows he’s been lucky to escape serious injury this season.
Good luck for the rest of the season, Gunners.
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