The Marble Halls Blog
July 24, 2012
I woke up with the Irving Berlin song ‘Sisters’ in my head this morning. Do you know the one? It goes ‘Sisters. Sisters. Never were there such devoted sisters.’ It’s utter rot. I hate it. But whilst asleep my brain had ingeniously replaced all the lyrics with the word football so now all I keep…Read the Rest
July 23, 2012
Did you ever wonder why Harry Redknapp was so popular with the British press? Why, despite his not particularly impressive club management career and his tendency to leave clubs bankrupt, he was constantly being praised to the skies and championed for the England job? Well I did. I do. Things like that bother me. I…Read the Rest
July 22, 2012
Sometimes when you’re faced with nasty little situations like the one forced on the club by Robin Van Persie at the moment you have to look around for the positives. Like, I don’t know, at least next season we won’t be accused of being over reliant on one world class player to score all of…Read the Rest
July 21, 2012
On the day that the Arsenal squad pack their bags and head off for the pre-season tour of Asia without their captain who’s staying behind to ‘work on his fitness’, Arsene Wenger has announced in an interview with Arsenal Player that he still wants to keep Robin Van Persie at the club: For me, Van…Read the Rest
July 20, 2012
I went to the Museum of London last Saturday. Oh yeah. How about that? It’s not just about the football you see for me. There’s all sorts of cultural stuff going on there too. Well, there is in the close season. Occasionally. Anyway, predictably there’s a big section of the exhibit devoted to the Great…Read the Rest
July 19, 2012
So today’s big, largely baseless, Robin Van Persie rumour comes from the Daily Mirror who claim that Alex Ferguson ‘is understood to have told footballing friends he believes Van Persie will be moving to Old Trafford’. Yes it’s a new twist on that old favourite the ‘told close pals’ story but with even more ambiguity…Read the Rest
