Thierry Henry is leaving Arsenal Football Club!

Having been a fan of Arsenal for over 30 years, it came as a great surprise to me to learn yesterday of the sudden decision to allow the club's captain and greatest ever goal-scorer, Thierry Henry, to leave so that he can join arch-European rivals Barcelona. The main reason this news surprised me was that only last year Thierry pledged the rest of his career to Arsenal. An interesting new definition of the word "pledge", that's for sure.

It's particularly sad news for me (and all other Arsenal fans I'm sure), because Thierry has truly graced the sport here in England with his amazing footballing skills and gentlemanly conduct for eight seasons now. He has been a joy to watch, and is one of the greatest players ever, of that there can be no doubt. I am so sorry to see him go. I would just like to say a huge thank you to Thierry for all the wonderful memories he has left me with. I wish him and his family all the very best with the new venture.

I hope the Arsenal manager, Arsene Wenger, knows what he is doing. It seems to me to be a very risky decision to let Thierry leave. But I'll keep faith with the boss, for now anyway...

Ratatouille, and other Disney/Pixar movies

The pending release of Disney/Pixar's newest movie, "Ratatouille (rat-a-too-ee)" is something I am really looking forward to. Like a great many people all over the world, I love all the Pixar movies to date - "Toy Story" (1995), "A Bug's Life" (1998), "Toy Story 2" (1999), "Monsters Inc." (2001), "Finding Nemo" (2003), "The Incredibles" (2004) and "Cars" (2006) - but from what I have seen of the official trailers, this latest offering looks to be their best one yet.

I have included some Flash games in my fun and games website based on Ratatouille and all the other Pixar movies:

Ratatouille: Grab the Grub

Ratatouille: Match the Batch

Cars: Lightning McQueen's Desert Dash

Cars: Luigi's Casa Della Tires

The Incredibles: Thin Ice

Finding Nemo: Cruisin' with Crush

Monsters, Inc.: Mike's Memory Game

A Bug's Life: A Bug's Land

Toy Story: Catch That Moving Van

Buzz Lightyear: Operation Alien Rescue

A great little Scooby-Doo web-browser game...

...that you can play right here (in a 0.56MB Flash file):

(Or you can play it by clicking on the following link if the Flash file above doesn't load for some reason: Scooby-Doo web-browser game)

Fun and games related to cartoons, movies and TV

My new mini-site of games related to cartoons, movies and TV is now live. You can find it at the Dan-Dare.org and .net FreeFun website.

Some of the highlights include: Star Wars, Star Trek, Harry Potter, Shrek, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Simpsons, D.C. and Marvel Superheroes, Disney/Pixar, Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, The Flintstones, Scooby-Doo, SpongeBob Squarepants and Garfield. There are many more games in addition to all those - check out the site index page to see them all.