Counting Your Chickens Before They Hatch

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'At the Arsenal ground - where few were at work on Thursday - decorations stayed in boxes and three open-top buses (paid for by a sponsor) were sent back to the hire company. At Islington Town Hall, intended as the high point of the procession, a canopy and scaffolding were quickly deconstructed and railing boards removed, stewards sent home and catering cancelled for an intended civic reception for the players (after a balcony appearance with the Cup).'

'Hundreds of businesses could finally cast aside the six-page letter of parade schedule posted to them by the council's Chief Executive, who had not mentioned in it that no London club has won the European Championship, ever.'

Arrogant Bastards with ideas well above their station I say!

http://football.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,1778578,00.html
'the neutral supporter will also be prepared to argue, should Arsenal persist in complaining, that not only did Eboué take a dive but Samuel Eto'o was not offside when he took the flick from Henrik Larsson to equalise.'

http://football.guardian.co.uk/rumourmill/index/0,,1777628,00.html
As none of this morning's rumours involve Champions League runners-up Arsenal, the Mill won't have the chance to laugh at the teary-eyed supporters meandering through London's airports this morning, their deflated hearts and inflated guts still wrapped in Highbury redcurrant. It won't even have the chance to scoff at Arsenal's suggestions that they were robbed by a referee who chalked off a perfectly good Barcelona goal and then awarded them a free-kick for Emmanuel Eboué's bruising encounter with fresh air. And it certainly won't get the chance to suggest that Will-He-Won't-Henry should look at his own performance before getting all Mourinho about the officials.