Amazing result for Arsenal yesterday. They beat West Ham 6 nil away from home. What’s actually incredible is not so much the ‘6’ as the ‘nil’. Because to attack with sufficient potency you would think that you must be compromising on defence. Spurs fans know this, right to their cores. But Arsenal managed to attack the whole game, en masse, whilst keeping a ‘clean sheet’. And without a ‘proper’ striker. In that very ‘Barcelona’ way of winning without Ehrling Haaland but instead just 7 midfielders who can score at will. And even though it was only West Ham, you have to give credit. And just hope they can’t repeat it.

I told my brother all this, but he was asleep. Even without the sedative he’s been on for 9 days, he’d have been asleep. He hates football. But I just thought, let him know.

I also told him about Azhar Ali, the labour bye-election candidate from Rochdale (up north, flat caps, probably kefiyas actually, black pudding, eccy thump, not too bright). Azhar posted online that Israel had allowed, encouraged even, the slaughter of its own civilians, 1200 of them, by Hamas, on October 7th, because then they could go into Gaza and destroy it. It was the ‘excuse’ they needed. Told you ‘not too bright’, particularly during his party leader’s mission statement period of eliminating anti-semitism. So Azhar apologised. Oh, sorry, what was I saying??? Course I didn’t mean it; read a conspiracy theory online (www.jihadis-are-us.com) and got carried away. I’ve always been a friend to Israel, blah, blah, fucking blah.

And Richard, in his fentanyl haze (yes, amazingly, that’s the drug of choice in the ICU these days because, when not abused by drug-dealing scumbags mixing it with heroin, it is apparently quite wonderful at what it was designed to do), I’m sure uttered the word C***!!!, or perhaps that was me ‘projecting’, in honour of Azhar Ali.

Then I just had to tell him that the president of America, Bo Siden, has deemed himself fit to stand for office again, even though he can’t remember how to get to that office, after the scandalous questioning of his mental facilities and memory. People all across Africa are getting anxious about him. Possibly Australia. America, Argentina…

And that was the news in the ICU. Where there’s so little change its imperceptible.

Happy Monday

A xxxx