Walcott-ian Woes

Thursday, Friday saw the emergence of yet more sad but unfortunately not-so-unexpected news: another injury, to Theo of course. Besides the fact that he'll almost certainly miss the rest of the season, this does raise many other issues for the kid's future. By the way, he got it walking off the training ground. Go figure.

Anyway, more on the longer-term issues. A young, 20-year old should not have to go through the kind of injuries that he has had to go through. His shoulder, now his knee. At what point does one have to admit that he may have to face a career full of such Darren Anderton-esque injury problems? I worry for him.

As for the rest of the team, well, the problem is only as large as we want to make it out to be. I don't see that a big deal. Yes, with the oncoming crunch of key games, it would be nice to have Theo around. But we can, and should get by. It should by no means be used as an excuse. Hey, we've got Eboue! Goal machine Eboue.

So enough of this depressing shite.

Before looking forward to today's game though, a little bit more on Twat Brown and Spit-gate. Nice little piece here on the embarassment that Brown is to his team - and I would say, to the Premier League as a whole. Listen, dude - if Cesc did spit, fine - the FA investigations will see to that. But some of your comments - for example - on what Cesc was wearing, and how he came to be on the pitch - are absolutely pathetic. Your children should be ashamed of you. Since when has one's clothes been an issue? First, I think it's great that he was behind the bench, and that as Captain, he was part of the celebrations. Second, what about what he was wearing? Was he naked? Stupid twat. Anyway, Le Boss had this to say:

"That is unfair criticism. I believe that we have all the players behind the bench and I think it's completely normal that they share the victory with the players on the pitch. Regarding the way he was dressed on the night, he was free to dress how he wanted."

And if's found that either (a) Cesc did not spit or (b) nothing can be conclusively determined, then we should just put Brown out of his misery with a spot of euthanasia.

On to Newcastle this evening then. Team news? Apart from Theo, nothing new. Who knows if Eduardo will travel. I say leave him home. We probably shouldn't need to risk him for the game. Newcastle are crap right now, and there's no better time to meet them at St James' Park. All we need is for Bent Nick to breathe, and Vela to have a little bit more playing time. I'm glad RVP scored last time out, given his little tiny "drought" after a mind-blowing January. He'll probably score again tonight.

So there. Three points today. And we'll be sure of daylight since Villa will probably get whipped by Pool tomorrow.