Arseblog.com

Tired of these copycat, Lenny Clark wannabes who keep churning out the same, tired Boston sports blogs that are polluting the internet? Yeah, me too.

Of course, across the pond where soccer reigns, the blogosphere is even more crowded. Yet for fans of the beautiful game and the Arsenal Football Club, there’s Arseblog.com, a daily blog devoted entirely to one Dublin-resident’s love of the Gunners, as they’re known to fans.

Besides providing relatively extensive coverage of the squad, the Arseblogger, as he is called, isn’t afraid to inject his expletive-laden opinions into the team’s affairs.

Many of the entries from the Arseblogger are posts of the cynical and scathing state of mind that most English soccer fans have. See especially an Oct. 20 entry about drinking too much Guinness and an Oct. 16 post laying into Spanish club Barcelona.

The blogger also takes frequent shots at those *#@*s from Chelsea (for the un-football-educated, the New York Yankees of England), Manchester United and Tottenham, not to mention some pudgy Russian billionaire who’s trying to buy his beloved side.

The entries after matches are slightly less humorous, and some of his references might be lost on those who don’t know anything about the soccer, but catch the Arseblogger on a particularly irritated (read: hungover) morning, and there are few funnier sports bloggers on the Web.

-John Clayton, asst. sports editor

Published on October 23, 2007 at 12:00 pm