There Is Only One Sinnacle

Somewhere in the meat packing district of New York hipsters ask to be taken to their queen and just like that this chick from Arcade Fire happens. Let me get out out the way the fact I kinda like this song. Please don’t hate me.

What bugs me about this video however is the headphones this chick is wearing at the start of the video. Beats by Dre headphones are not good enough, instead this chick wears headphones stolen from my grade school stock room. Anyone who has ever made it to grade two knows those 1950′s style headphones don’t work so in the end she must be wearing them as a fashion statement.

Song thumbs up – video crap

As most people who have read this site know few things annoy me more than Arsenal when to comes to football. So let me come right out and say this, WTF is taking so long for Arsenal to lock up Thierry Henry on a short term loan from the New York Red Bull.

Even more to the point why does it take Arsenal so long to do anything? It took them forever to sign Arshavin from Zenit three years ago. For some reason Arsenal got an extra two days to get that deal done. It also took them forever to finally sell Cesc Fabagas and Samir Nasri when everyone knew they were out the door. Of course Arsenal waited until the last day of the transfer window to sign players and now we have Thierry Henry.

This should be a slam dunk for Henry to make his return to the club that he loves. It would give new life to their fans and Henry can still add something on the field. Of course it wouldn’t shock me that this drags on so long that MLS season would start before Arsenal could close out this deal. It kills me knowing that Arsenal chief executive Ivan Gazidis was the number two guy at MLS for many years. You’d figure he be able to speed up the process but no I still don’t get to see Henry return to Arsenal when it makes too much bloody sense not to happen.

Catching up on events of the last few days another no doubter was the fact Manchester City asked the Ivory Coast FA to keep Yaya and Kolo Toure a bit longer before sending them off to play in the African Cup of Nations. Another no doubter was the Ivory Coast FA saying nope.

Obviously I don’t know how these back room dealings work but if there isn’t cash involved there sure as hell should be. I mean really if Manchester City says we will give you 500k to build a soccer field in the Ivory Coast if you let us keep the Toure brothers a couple of days longer do the Ivory Coast FA turn it down? Throw in an extra 100k into the back pocket of who runs the Ivory Coast FA and it sounds like a done deal to me. You know FIFA is going to turn a blind eye to any money being sneaked under the table.

When the news finally became official that Carlo Ancelotti will take over the reins at PSG no one should of been shocked the least of which being former coach Antonie Kombouaré. You have to feel sorry for the guy since Kombouare was a lame duck from the start. Mind you hurt feelings are quickly eased with his 4 million dollar payout.

Quite simple if a club like PSG wishes to jump into the elite of European football they need an elite coach and no one can doubt Ancelotti resume. Big name players are going to have a hard time jumping ship to PSG with a guy like Antonie Kombouaré in charge no disrespect to the man. Plus the club itself wants to send out a signal to the rest of the football world that they are a team on the rise. It’s like buying a million dollar house with a Toyota Yaris parked up front. It’s just not going to cut it. Ancelotti is a Ferrari in the coaching world so it was only a matter of time before PSG got their coach to take this project forward.