It’s a footie treat as best of ‘English’ game take on European champions
FOOTBALL fans could not have asked for a bigger treat.
Arsenal, the team whose passing style is unmatched in England, versus AC Milan, the European champions.
Two galactico teams going nose-to-nose in a classic Champions League contest.
These are the fixtures that you want your team to be part of.
Not piddling around with Olympiakos and Lyon, bring on the big boys – let’s see the best versus the best.
Arsenal, of course, will do well to repeat their 5-1 demolition of Inter in Milan the last time they rocked up to the San Siro, but this is the kind of mouth-watering match that makes football so appealing.
Contrast that with Top Four Tottenham, who instead of doing anything worthwhile must continue their pointless pursuit of the Wafer Cup, a trophy that the winners look sheepish holding aloft at the end of the season for its celebration of averageness.
The draw has underlined the gulf between the teams. While Arsenal head to one of Europe’s great stadiums, Spurs must take on the Gunners’ leftovers. Arsenal’s orderves are Top Four Tottenham’s main course.
One north London team have already dumped Slavia Prague out of the main competition. If Spurs can’t do the same, they may never be the top-four team they bragged about being at the start of the season.
SO, now you know the Champions League draw. What you don’t know is that Richard Osley (who recently described my humour as like Jim Davidson in panto) has been regularly seen wearing a Barcelona scarf around the office.
Whether it was for a bet I don’t know, but he knows he can carry on wearing it following Arsenal’s pairing with AC Milan.
Incidentally, don’t you find it irritating when TV pundits come over all continental and call the Italian outfit “Meelan”?
Surely the best Italian outfit is a sharp suit, not a team of match-fixing, continental has-beens.
If Arsenal can avoid an away goal at the Emirates they are through.
As a Plymouth Argyle fan, I was pleased with our draw, though we’ll need to get the tights out when we travel to Moscow Town for the second leg. But, it is winter and Moscow Town for goodness sake, so you should expect a bit of cold weather. OK, so we’re not in Europe, but one day we might be.
Didn’t the Spanish sides do well! No tough games for them. I’m not saying that every Champions League draw is a fix, but it just is, all right!
One last thing. Happy 2008 to everyone. Why not make it a new year to remember by seeing me in panto. I play Widow Twankey in that old favourite Aladdin at Bletchley Memorial Hall. Osley will be writing my gags.
