A bit of a blur

Did you watch Glasto at the weekend? It was all about Blur really. For me, anyway. What with having tickets for Friday's Hyde Park gig, we weren't going to watch BBC2's coverage, but then we couldn't not watch it. At least until Jo found Nick Cave's set on the interactive coverage. I know two things about Friday now, one is that I'm going to have a great time, with Jo, Luke and Pia, and the second is that I will cry, lots, probably. Thereafter things are liable to become a bit of a blur...

Anyway, moving on to Arsenal matters, Gilberto's been bigging up the Arsenal whilst on international duty. Apparently, Felipe Melo has asked him about us and Gilberto said if he's interested he should come and join us "without thinking". Nice to hear a former player not talking bollocks in the media - Freddie Ljungberg anyone? It seems love is oozing from Gilberto's pores as he describes Arsenal as "fantastic" and "great", whilst saying Melo is exactly what Arsenal need, quality, powerful, potential to improve and a quality passer of the ball.

Why haven't we signed him already then?

In all seriousness, it sounds very promising. I'm sure Melo hasn't asked Gilberto out of idle curiosity, so maybe this is very much in the pipeline. We'll find out soon enough.

I haven't got much else to give you today, really. I caught, on my way to play cricket with the boys yesterday, RvP's "I want to be the best player in the world" inteview. Ambition, Robin, ambition! Yes, positive thinking and a desire to improve is what we want at this football club. Though I respectfully suggest that perhaps Robin will not scale those heady heights, why not aim to? It's that kind of thinking that sees Abou Diaby working with a personal trainer, rather than sitting on a beach, so he will be stronger for the new season. You will know by now I'm not a huge fan of Diaby's, but I applaud the fact he realises he must work harder to acheive the potential he undoubtedly has.

I also saw, and it's my fault for picking up the News of the World (I washed my hands afterwards), that Arsenal are going to make a bid for Karim Benzema. Would that be with the money that the media keep telling us we don't have then? Honestly, it's no wonder Arsenal fans get so pissy during the summer with the amount of bollocks in the press.

Oh, I got out for a first ball duck, if you're wondering. I watched it, watched it and I watched it. I watched it so carefully in fact, that I forgot to play a shot and the ball crashed into my off stump. Whoops.

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