Time to get out the Thierry Henry Prayer Beads

This is going to be a long, nervous summer. It sounds like Thierry Henry is serious about a look away from Arsenal. Reports this morning that Henry is pleased with interest from AC Milan.

Sayeth Henry:

"Although no one is bigger than the club, Arsene Wenger and Mr Dein are really close to being Arsenal.

"So if you ask me if there was one person on the board I would not like to see leaving, I would have said Mr Dein.

"Unfortunately it is out of my hands. I don't agree with
what has happened but sometimes that's the way things are. We just have
to move on."

Gulp.

On an etymological note, I have long been a fan of the song Walking Spanish, by Tom Waits, off the great album . I had an idea of what the phrase meant, but today got curious enough to Google Around and found the following:

Walking (someone ) Spanish [Walking Spanish ] 1. To force someone to leave,
usu. from a public place, by lifting him by his coat or shirt collar to a
walking position and propelling him toward the door (Dictionary Of American
Slang, Wentworth/ Flexner ) 2. Being in the act of doing something you don't
want to do. So, to paraphrase the example Waits himself gave, a guy reaching for
his wallet after being told to do so by a mugger would be "walking spanish" as
he did so. (This example from the publicity LP release of Rain Dogs, in which
Waits talks about the theme of each of the songs in turn.) In the instance of
the song itself, then, the guy is on death row and is only walking to the chair
because he has to: hence he's "walking spanish". (Tom Waits Digest, Seth
Nielssen ) 3. To make a man walk Spanish is to give him the sack; to give him
his discharge. In 1885 one of the retired captains in the Trinity House
Establishment said, "If I had to deal with the fellow, I would soon make him
walk Spanish, I warrant you."

: ("The First Hypertext Edition of The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable", E.
Cobham Brewer. © 1997-99 Bibliomania.com Ltd )

As Waits sang, "Even Jesus wanted a little more time, when he was walking Spanish down the hall."