Monday, April 14, 2008
ANGRY KEEPERS: CECH NEEDS TO BE BUBBLE-WRAPPED, LEHMANN'S GOT GREAT TIMING, ALMUNIA WENT THERE
Jens 'Perpetually Pissed' Lehmann's has been in the press, with a well-timed claim that had he been in between the posts for Arsenal, the Gunners would've been the best team ever and nothing bad would have ever happened because he is the greatest goalkeeper ever:
"I have felt I would have prevented us losing in every game since the manager dropped me from the team after our 0-0 draw with AC Milan in February. I don’t find it very funny that I am behind in the pecking order to someone who only started playing (top-level) football at the age of 30. I am very angry."
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In a peculiar interview/press release , England's future No.1 (oh, that rumour was so fab) Manuel Almunia, who we reckon has been reading too much Eckhart Tolle ('I see everyone as equals'), has shockingly claimed that Jens Lehmann hates him:
"To have someone here who hates me is just amazing. I know he hates me ... But I don't care about him any more. He can say what he likes. I come into training and I work with Lukasz Fabianski and Vito Mannone. They are better goalkeepers than him anyway."
He could have at least thrown in some juicy goss like that one time when he found a voodoo doll, a piece of his wiry yellow hair and some pins in Jens' kit bag. That would at least be news.
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Not an angry keeper per se but rather a keeper we are angry at.
Delish Chelsea keeper, Petr Cech, has gone and busted his face in a training ground accident and now has to wear 'modified' headgear that infringes on his pretty even more than the last thing he was wearing on his head.
It's truly a sad day for keepers the world over. Keepers and us. Okay, hot keepers and us. Fine - mostly us.
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David James was all up in the Guardian this weekend waving the anti-smoking flag:
"I'm 37 and talking about hanging on for the World Cup in 2010. None of that would have been possible if I'd kept smoking. Whereas I used to struggle with training, now I actually enjoy it. People praise my fitness, but there's no way I would be in this condition if I hadn't kicked the habit. There are still plenty of players who smoke. Some of them have been photographed, like Zinedine Zidane before a World Cup semi-final in 2006 and Dimitar Berbatov."
If you ask us, he needs to take up a 2008 sort of cause. Something like organic, environmentally sound clothes or adopting Amy Winehouse. We hear that the Olympic torch o' destruction is still working its way round the globe, maybe he could jump on that.
Labels: angry keepers, david james, jens lehmann, manuel almunia
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I'll save some of my bubblewrap for Petr Cech.
I like the way Jens is subtley showing the finger to the cameraman. Nice.
Rusty - Appreciated. The man is in dire need. Welcome, by the way.
MG - But of course, Jens is the master of subtlety.
MG - But of course, Jens is the master of subtlety.