First things first. Apologies for not updating the site for such a long time. I had my reasons, and hopefully its back to business as usual from now on.

Now to football. I will not go over the games I missed because they have been discussed at every other blog already and its too late to go into details about them. In summary, we lost to spurs in the beer cup, we beat Newcastle twice 3-0 in the FA Cup and the league, and finally a 3-1 win at Man City capped up the week. Adebayor has been on fire, scoring 6 goals in the last 4, and 12 in his last 8 games! Adebayor has scored in every game he’s played in 2008.

We are extremely lucky that Togo didn’t for the African Cup of Nations this year! Losing Adebayor would have been a total disaster, especially with his current form. The tournament has been exceptional in terms of quality and goals. So many goals, this is actually the most goals ever in an African Nations cup! 98 goals scored so far, thats an average of more than 3.1 goals a game!

Yesterday’s 3rd place game was typical of the tournament. Ghana beat Ivory Coast 4-2, and the best thing about the game was that Gerard Gili, Ivory Coast’s coach, rested both Kolo and Eboue for the game, but played Drogba and Kalou the full 90 mins! I would like to think that Gili was doing his fellow Frenchman Arsene a favour, but I have a feeling it was a result of the shocking display by our pair in their embarrassing 4-1 loss to Egypt. Kolo in particular had a total nightmare of a game, and I’m glad he got that bad game out of his system in an international game and not an Arsenal one.

Song on the other hand has been magnificent for the Cameroon. He is one of the main reasons Cameroon have reached the final. In fact, he has played every minute except for the 1st half of the first game against Egypt, which ended 3-0. When he came on for the second half, Cameroon were significantly better, and his solid performance continued for the rest of the tournament. He will prove to be the perfect answer to everyone’s doubts about selling Diarra and Gilberto leaving.

We have been able to cope surprisingly well with the loss of Kolo, Eboue, and Song. Senderos has stepped in for Kolo and has proved how solid he is with almost faultless performances. Hopefully the knock he got from the England game is minor, but it seems like he is a doubt for our next game, which means Toure will have to be rushed in as soon as he arrives. Thanks again Gili for keeping him rested for our game!

In other international games, Fabregas was great for Spain as they beat Gallas’ France. Bendtner scored for Denmark for the third time in a row. Walcott scored for U21s. Lehmann kept a clean sheet, and there’s more about our players international games on the Arsenal.com website.

On a final note, you may have noticed the small award banner on the right side. Many thanks to Jammathon from third-gen, who started this initiative, and I am the lucky recipient of the first New Blog award! I feel like I betrayed that trust in not posting for so long, but hopefully I’m back to business from now on!