Podolski signing represents massive shift in policy for Arsenal Football Club

Apologies for my absence yesterday. I awoke to find that my internet and phone line had been unceremoniously cut off by Virgin Media for failure to pay a bill that they hadn’t even sent me. The Marble Halls were plunged into darkness.
When the lights came back on it was like the entire world had shifted ever so slightly. Arsenal had only gone and signed a footballer.
Yes it was the worst kept secret in football and no, it didn’t quite have the magic factor of waking up one morning to discover that we’d signed Dennis Bergkamp completely out of the blue but despite the fact that we’ve all known it was coming for months and months there was still something immensely exciting about getting my in...