The Largely Useless International Break

Each time the Premier League takes a break to allow the club players to play for their countries, players get injured in crowds. People care less about competitive internationals than they do about club games and people don't really give a crap about international friendlies. The stupid practice of calling up players like Wilshere who are important to their clubs and playing them in inane friendlies only puts them on the road to burnout. What I don't understand is why Capello chose to let go of Terry, Cole, Lampard and Rooney. Aren't other players important to their clubs too? What about players of clubs that are fighting for Europe or against relegation? What about Wilshere? I'm sure if Walcott had been fit enough to make the international squad, Capello would've played him for 90 minutes in both games, causing Walcott's shoulders to fall off and Wenger to become apoplectic.

This time, we have a huge worry in the form of Robin van Persie's fitness. Again. After playing for Holland. Again. And Bert van Marwijk says he'll make Arsenal's next game "With luck". Again. I hope he isn't wrong about this for the billionth time. The last time he said that, Robin was out for a matter of months instead of days.

The Arsenal site hasn't released news yet, but I hope that Cesc, Walcott and Song will be fit to face Blackburn at home. We've missed them incredibly and our team doesn't seem confident at this point, so a triple injury boost would sound good, very good. If we don't manage to win Saturday's game, I can tell you that we definitely will NOT win the title and stand a chance to lose the 2nd place to Chelsea, which absolutely disgusts me. We've got to step up our game and blast an Allardyce-less Blackburn out of London or at least win a scrappy 1-0, but we've got to win. Obviously.

It's been fairly quiet 2 weeks so I can't think of much more to say and I'll just take another jibe at Capello.

I read this on SkySports, where he speaks about Andy Carroll.

"The movement when he receives the ball is good. With the ball. He's strong. He's a good player. He's a good forward. Look, he's young. Really young. His behaviour now is really, really important. Really important. I spoke with him privately. I think not only Andy likes to drink beer. Not only Andy. He needs to improve, to drink less."

He repeats stuff in an odd way. Seriously, who speaks like that?