Transfer latest: Giddyness moves from City to Arsenal

Giddy
Martin Keown was today exposed as the illegitimate love child of Peter Swales. Well what else can you say about a statement like Wengers job is now to make Arsenal bigger than Manchester United and Real Madrid. Is he really saying that they are already as big as Barcelona, AC Milan, Bayern Munich and Juvents, in your dreams.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/6982126.stm
It is great news if you are an arsenal fan though, they will be in the same boat as us when Fergie finishes, when he does go. Not knowing what the future holds. As us older heads have seen, having money does not guarantee you anything if you haven't got the right man at the helm. Never mind winning things, i mean watching great entertaining football. Wengers Arse have always played great football, where he doesn't match up to Fergie though is translating that into silverware. I may be wrong but i can't see them winning either league or champions league this year, even if they have made a better start than us and Chelsea.



. Music
1 - Simian mobile disco -Attack, decay, sustain, release : a bit more commercial than the techno i usually like, but it's pretty good
2 - Charlotte Hatherley - The deep blue : You can see why she left Ash, not much sounds like Ash here, saying that i like it. She seems to have stuck with ash's poppier moments, but got rid of most of the hard rock elements.
3 - Kings of leon - Because of the times :This would have to be my favourite of the three, in fact i think this is the best album they have done so far. They seem to have been listening to a lot more groups, you can definitely hear the Pixies in a couple of songs ( one of my favourite groups ). I can imagine them being a top live act playing this stuff.

Books
Cavour by Denis Mack Smith : Interesting book about the man who more than most was responsible for the unification of Italy in the last century. According to the author he was more a man who took advantages of the diplomatic shenanigans of the 1840's and 1850's to advance the state of Piedmont's cause, mainly at the expense of the Hapsburg empire rather than a patriotic visionary who saw the unification of Italy as his main goal. Fascinating stuff, i am now going to read a trilogy of books about the other hero of the Risorgimento, Garibaldi. Whilst Cavour was the diplomat, Garibaldi was the soldier, and most think more honourable man. It is amazing how you can be reading about a subject like this, when somebody who you didn't think figured that greatly in events, you suddenly find out did, and subsequently you find you want to find out more about him. In this instance it was Napoleon 111, i do have a biography of him and so at some stage will have to read it. It is a fascinating period of history 1848 to say 1871, it is when Europe as we roughly know it now really took shape.