IPSWICH!

Would you believe it!

The Arsewiper asked, and the Arsewiper got. Ipswich 1-0 West Brom, and then we get paired with them. Just sweet. With West Ham and Birmingham fighting it out for the next place in the final, you've got to admit it: It's now or never. We've got a taste of the luck of Chelski in the draw, and this is going to be something we realistically should see through. While Ipswich and Roy Keane will no doubt be up for it, over two legs, there should be no excuses if we don't do the deed. It'll be nice watching the Arsenal over at Portman Road. The memories...

Elsewhere, I wonder if Ray Parlour's heard of plagiarism. Sayeth he:

"I do think they need a Tony Adams – a leader at the back."

"I just think is there a centre-half out there like a Tony Adams who can really drive that team on because trust me when I played there and you wasn't doing your job you got told straight away and I think that's what they're missing at the moment."

Goddamit! I said it first. Me! Me! Me! Bloody Einstein. But he does raise something which I forgot:

"I think it's one of these times where if he thinks Vermaelen can do the job give him the skipper's armband and say to him 'these are skipper's we use to have, Tony Adams, Patrick Vieira, who used to drive the team on, can you do that' and see if he can do it."

I was wondering why I forgot Vermaelen. I was thinking and thinking, and then I realised. Oh yeah. Right. No point having a captain who doesn't play and can't play, right? He the man with the mysterious one-day Achilles injury that's taking 6 months to heal. Can't imagine him standing up to Mr Just-give-me-a-painkilling-jab John Terry.

Anyway, Parlour may have been the Romford Pele, but he's still a plagiarist.

In the meantime, Wenger's not going to be signing anyone this January, betting of course, that Vermaelen will be ready to start (a running start, maybe) on 1 January 2011.

Okay. Sure.

I'm Zen Master, let's not forget.