Bhoys Night Out and Save the Net

Not much of a post tonight. Football first, and the Arsenal did what was required and secured their place in the group stages of the European Champions League. I watched it on ITV and the commentators, Tyldesley and Begley with Matt Smith in the studio waffled on and on about, what was a very dodgy pen. To my mind they were already biased in favour of Celtic and Eduardo's dive meant they just went on and on. Any mention of the two games against Liverpool where we were denied a perfectly good penalty and suffered a blatant dive? Not a word. Football on ITV is crap. The only thing going for it is it's free. Somewhat surprisingly, Tyldesley didn't quite manage to squeeze in any references to 'that night in Europe'. Early days though.

(Eduardo puts away the penalty)

It's a bloody good job we play such wonderful football. Otherwise they would only slag us off rather than have to finish each piece of derision with how wonderfully we move the ball etc. 

Champions League draw tomorrow, 17:40 CET.

I had a few thoughts in place when I sat down.

The first of which, Celtic's awful away shirts. Had someone told them there was psychological advantage to looking like a demented wasp? Did they do them for a laugh? The dreadful result of signing sponsor deals. This will sound like 'a friend of a friend', but I read (on Arseblog I think) that someone had spoken to someone who was involved with looking at the mock-ups of new strip design for Arsenal and (I think it was the white one) whatever we were left with was the most sane of a bad bunch. Perhaps that is what happened at Parkhead and the wasp look was favourable to pink tartan or something. I will never ever wear a white Arsenal shirt. Nike took over Umbro, how come they didn't get any tradition in the deal?

Second of my considerations brought to the table following the fourth victory of the season (I like writing that) was my first sight of Flood. I wasn't watching the match in HD; in fact it was so far from HD it wasn't until I saw a close-up of Song late on that I even realised it was raining. This and my deep lack of familiarity with Scottish football drew me to the conclusion that William 'Willo' Flood, much to my amusement, was a shoe-in for Jasper Carrot.

To support this ludicrous and entirely non-footballing claim, I set about the task of locating a suitable biog photo of both parties to do a side by side comparison, thus proving my point to the masses (choke - yes you, you qualify as a mass). Bloody trouble I had finding a picture of young Mr Flood. Google Paulo Wanchope and you can't move for flattering polaroids, not so their Willo. So, without further ado, begging your indulgence (saucy bottoms one day, comedy photos the next! I spoil you lot) I present my evidence: Willo Flood and Jasper Carrot - separated at birth.

Jasper Carrot   -   'Willo' Flood

See? Amazing similarity, yes?

Away from the footie and my crime family concerns, the main theme of my search for inspiration seems to have been net neutrality and the internet itself. It seems the Americans have a vote soon. If it is anything like the health care debate, the telcos will probably sell new neutrality as a form of spreading communist terror and enlist someone who thinks Africa is a country to talk nonsense about it. If we get a 'Warner Bros web', one where paid providers content gets first class service it will kill  off the internet once and for all and turn it into a crap chute. Land of the brave, home of the free, death of the internet.

Welcome to the disappointment.