Arsenal v Wigan Athletic

With Megan away in Paris for the weekend, I decided to give something back to the community by heading to the park across the road to support the local football team. Turns out they're pretty good. It was a cracking day for football and the local park was looking picture perfect. Through a stroke of luck, I ended up sitting four rows behind the Arsenal bench, right on halfway. So close you could smell the grass and hear the multitude of foreign languages jibbering away on the bench.

Arsenal made a cracking start to the new premier league season, beating Everton away 6-1 and Portsmouth at home 4-1. Unfortunately then things took a turn for the worse in Manchester, as we outplayed, but lost to, the champions Manchester United and then had an off day against a sharp Manchester City side. It was important to bounce back today, and bounce back we did - with a thumping 4-0 demolition of Wigan.

New summer signing, centre-back Thomas Vermaelen, rose majestically and headed in the first goal from a corner before Arsenal wasted three more good chances to score in the first half. In the second half Vermaelen decided defending was boring, so he came forward, controlled the ball on halfway, played a one-two with Eboue and then curled in a brilliant shot from outside the box that even the great Thierry Henry would have been proud of. Two more goals followed as the Gunners ran riot. Wigan never really turned up - then again, neither did their fans with the away section looking embarrassingly empty.

Alex Song played really well in midfield and Vermaelen was absolute class at the back. He has already made our defence look stronger and more confident than in past seasons. If we are to challenge for the title this season, our defence will be the key, as scoring goals has never been a problem.







Nicklas
Bendtner

Away fans...
all 23 of
them

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Pretty
useful
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Rosicky and
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Eduardo

We Will Rock You

On Monday night we met up in London's West End to see the musical We Will Rock You at the Dominion Theatre. We had dinner at 'mybar Bloomsbury' first, which was really nice. It's a small, modern restaurant/cocktail bar close to the theatre with a really relaxed atmosphere. The food was really good.

We Will Rock You has been playing in London for eight years now. It features music by Queen (obviously) and Ben Elton, including 32 of Queen's greatest hits! The show took six years to develop, with the help of the surviving members of Queen! The show also uses over £1 million worth of LED screens, which make its production and set design the most expensive and dynamic set ever seen in London theatre.

The story is set in the future, in a place that was once called Earth (now called Planet Mall). Globalisation is complete. Everywhere, the kids watch the same movies, wear the same fashions and think the same thoughts. It’s a safe, happy, Ga Ga world. Unless you’re a rebel. Unless you want to Rock. On Planet Mall all the musical instruments are banned. The Killer Queen's company computers generate tunes and everybody downloads them.

But resistance is growing. Underneath the gleaming cities, down in the lower depths live the Bohemians. Rebels who believe that there was once a Golden Age when the kids formed their own bands and wrote their own songs. They call that time The Rhapsody. Legend persists that somewhere on Planet Mall instruments still exist. Somewhere, the mighty axe of a great and hairy guitar god lies buried deep in rock. The Bohemians need a hero to find this axe and draw it from stone. Is the one who calls himself Galileo that man?

We won't ruin it completely in case you want to go and see it yourselves. But it is a very funny story and the music and dancing (particularly from the Ga Ga girls) is absolutely brilliant. Surely one of the best shows out there.

Freddie































Megs -
very excited

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The Ga Ga
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Scaramouche