News that is. First in the 'not in a million years' dept, Real, being obviously not afflicted by things like decency and respect, have decided Le Prof would do well as their manager and have said so. And likewise Goldenballs thinks it would be good to play with Thierry. Duh! The prize for stating the blindingly obvious goes to.....

Meanwhile Arsene has suggested that may not happen for a while at least responding to Perez "That's nice of him, but until 2008 I have glue on my seat." And as for Thierry, he said "For me, Thierry Henry is the best striker in the world so we would prefer to keep him here". Seems like a plan Arsene.

So onto the good news. 3-0 is the new 1-0. And Reyes has found the back of the net! May it be only the beginning of a landslide of goals, after all he now has to keep up with RvP as well as Thierry.

The bad news, Ash is out for maybe another couple of months yet. He doesn't want to rush back apparently. Doesn't seem any danger of that. I must be becoming cynical, but he couldn't be making the most of this injury surely. Anyhoots, since he is off to Real (well somebody had to go eventually after all that tapping up), we will end up with a Brazilian left back apparently. Or another Frenchman. Or not.