It has to be a first for me, I can’t sleep, it half past four in the morning in Dublin and I’m tossing and turning in bed. I hit the sack about half an eleven only to wake up to the mother of all fucking nightmares, it was half time at old Trafford and we were down 3- nil, holy shit!
There’s just no way I'm going to get back to sleep now.

I’m flying to Birmingham about lunchtime most people on that flight will be shitting themselves, flight number? FR 666!!! But me, no, in the last 16 in Rome, I stayed in room 666 in the hotel which was good enough to get us through on peno's.

I’m still debating on the wear colours/ no colours, as I like to travel light, but I think both plain clothes and colours will be required. Colours for the match and no colours for the after match drinking binge.According to pintprice.com the average price of a pint in Madchester is £2.50 (€3.00) but I’m sure I will find some shitty dive that’s cheaper, keeping the spending down but the drinking up.
As my good travelling buddy hails from the Channel Isles so I’m about to be awash with cheap fags also. He can buy 400 for £35(€40) on his flight to Manchester! Now that amount of cigarettes in Dublin will set you back a whopping €167, how the fuck has this country got no money with taxes like that?

For tonight’s match you can more or less guess the likely line up

Almunia, Eboue, Toure, Djouro, Gibbs(50%/50%), Song, Denilson, Fabregas, Walcott, Nasri, Abebayor.

As long as Denilson and Song hold strong at defensive midfield we can go there and nick a goal, after all the spuds went there and bagged two!

I let you know how I get on.

Gunner on Tour