Rubbishy Rubbish

It being international week and all, the people who are supposed to write for a living are scraping the bottom quite seriously. Scraping so hard they've reached the bottom of the bottom, and have started making a make-believe bottom to further scrape. Case in point, this TWO-line story:


"Jeremie Aliadiere will quit Middlesbrough if they go down - with a return to Arsenal a shock possibility.

The French striker, 25, has only scored eight goals in 59 games for Boro but Gunners boss Arsene Wenger remains a big fan since selling him for £2million in 2007."


It's so funny, it's not even funny. Know what I mean???


(a) Scored 8 goals in 59 games for Boro

(b) Did nothing other than tie his shoe laces in his 7 odd years at Arsenal

(c) Consider his loan moves prior to Boro, and you'll get the drift:


Celtic - 2 subs appearances, failed; West Ham; failed; Wolves; failed; and then the big money move to Boro.


OK, I have to admit it, it is quite funny.


On to the internationals that happen smack in the middle of the season, and why I hate them. First, apart from Manuel (I-wanna-be-English) Almunia and Denilson; Theo, Cesc and Rosicky (with sick notes) and Arsene Wenger, everyone else is on international duty. Includes of course, previously crocked for 10 years Adebayor. There's of course been a whole lot of nonsense about whether or not he should play, how he'll risk his Arse career if he plays, how he may or may not have gotten permission, etc etc etc. (Again - bored journalists are a dangerous lot). But c'mon. Even if Ade had lost his eyesight, half his hearing, had one arm missing, and both legs in a cast, you think Togo would've called him up? Yes. If he had just one functioning arm, would he come off the bench? Yes. If he could breathe, would be play more than 60 minutes? Yes.


So he'll play. Whatever. So he gets injured again. So what. So long as we get our £35 million in the summer. The latter sum again, originating from under-utilised journalistic imaginations. But I think I know where it came from. You see, there are also stories around about Milan not only wanting Ade, but also Clichy, and the figured being bandied around is £12million. They got it mixed up. Simple mistake. £12million was for Ade, £35million for Gael. What were we thinking??? Who in their right mind would sell Gael for anything less, and buy Ade for anything more?? But, as I said, it's international week, cabin fever time, so we'll put this down to under-utilised journalistic imaginations too.


As for the internationals this weekend, looks like the remotely interesting ones would be Lithuania-France (just to see if Diaby does a Vieira impersonation), Russia-Azerbaijan (to see if Guus gets Arshavin injured on purpose), and Malta-Denmark (to see if Bent Nick gets to work on his finishing).


Other than that, there's nothing to talk about...unless of course more journalistic imaginations had their way.