Once I heard that Silvestre was starting and that Campbell's hamstring wouldn't last, the writing was very much on the wall. There's no disgrace in losing to Barcelona in Camp Nou. Wenger's post match conference hit the right note. He mentioned the what might have been as well as praising Barcelona in general and Messi in particular.
Fortunately there's a week now before Arsenal go to White Hart Lane and hopefully some of less severe injury victims will have a chance to recover. Meanwhile Messi should have sealed the world footballer of the year display, which is a relief as I, for one, was getting fed up at the English press making a case for Rooney.
The Dons travel to York tonight to play the rearranged game after the original fixture was called off due to a waterlogged pitch last month. Four games in a week will be an endurance test to say the least, not only for the players but also for supporters. The supporters coach is due back in SW19 around 3am tomorrow morning !
More minutes of hope
To no ones surprise the General Election campaign kicked off yesterday, and to no ones surprise the TV cameras followed the three party leaders has they moved out of London and took to the road. Perhaps for the first time I fully appreciated how difficult it will be for smaller parties to inject themselves into the campaign . The Lib Dems have stole a march, and getting themselves invited into the TV debates is I'm sure the killer deal.
I'm sure during the next month the image that will annoy me most is Cameron wearing a white shirt with sleeves rolled up beyond his elbows. I can't be the only one who thinks that as an image its about as fake as permatan.
Sky News interviewed Adrian Ramsay (deputy leader of the Green Party) during the afternoon. Adrian did well although he was coupled with a UKIP spokesman, again stressing the point that these are small parties feeding at the growing trough of disillusioned voters.
Yet perhaps there is hope, later in the evening I received a tweet from Caroline Lucas linking to a film clip, outlining the Greens campaign, available on Utube. Now to forward it in the hope that there is more than one way to campaign for votes.
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