Internationals A No-Go.

So we're halfway there- not long now until proper football again. Eduardo notched his now obligatory international goal to make his tally forty goals in twelve games (may not be correct) to give his Croatia side a 1-0 win over Israel. France battered the Faroe Island 6-0 with signing of the season Le Sagna playing the full ninety, while Lassana Diarra came on for fifteen minutes and Gallas stayed on the bench. Alex Hleb's Belarus side slumped to a 1-0 defeat at home to Luxembourg. Poor Alex. "Despite currently suffering from an injury (yes Arsenal.com, please drop the act now)," Jens Lehmann miraculously managed ninety minutes for Germany during their goalless draw with Ireland. Cue more tedious speculation next week. Our vested interest in Spain's impressive 3-1 victory in Denmark was due to Cesc playing eighty minutes and Nicklas Bendtner coming on for the second half. Gilberto's Brazil take on Colombia today, while Swiss Tony and Swiss Bould continued their central defensive partnership for Switzerland as they beat their Euro 2008 co-hosts Austria 3-1.

Meanwhile Thierry Henry talks at length about the effect of his departure in the Telegraph. I found the comments about his goal celebrations particularly interesting- it was always so tiresome when people somewhat xenophobically dismissed him as moody and arrogant. The fact is he was always a perfectionist and never happy with himself, probably what made him the perfect footballer to watch. A comprehensive interview and well worth a read- it's good to see him finally starting to hit form after his hat-trick against Levante the other week. Some news about the upcoming AGM on thursday, with hyperbolic terms like SHOWDOWN and MASSACRE being banded about (perhaps not the latter). Hill-Wood seems to be rather desperately backtracking and brown-nosing with Stan Kroenke, now Usmanov is inching nearer to the share amount he needs by DISGUSTINGLY buying shares off the deceased. All very dull, hopefully Stan the man will get on board, the lockdown will be extended to a decade and that's the end of it. After all with the recent financial reports it's clear we don't need a minted benefactor. Right that's it. Only a week to go...