Damn Russkies

A one nil defeat to CSKA Moscow on a cold night in Russia means that the Arse drops to second in the qualifying group behind the former commies. I didn't see the game due to the early kick off, and after accidentally finding out we'd lost one nil (thank you very much Kings Cross station) was quite abhorent towards the idea of watching the game, although I did see Thierry's disallowed goal. It's hard to tell from the angle we've seen it from, but I'm fairly sure it was a perfectly good goal and should have stood.

From all accounts it wasn't a great performance, but then for some reason we've never done the business in eastern Europe. It's not the end of the world like some people are talking, I'm very confident that we'll do them at the Grove and am positive that we'll top the group once all games have been played. Everyone just needs to calm down.

There's a nice piece on Fab Muamba's current run at the Brum from the Birmingham Evening Mail. It's nice that for all our outstanding young talent, some of them (even by way of DR Congo) are English, and on that note Kerrea Gilbert is still performing brilliantly at Cardiff.

Rumours of us being interested in Huntelaar, the young Dutch centre forward. Can't see it myself, what with Thierry, RvP, Adebayor and Walcott, and the boy Bendtner from next season.

Ronaldinho has tipped Thierry to be his major competition in the upcoming European Footballer of the Year festivities. It would be ironic if Henry were to win it this year, as I feel that each of the past three years he has been better, but I suppose he did get to a Champions League and World Cup final, even if he did end up on the losing side in both.