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The Derby is Nigh?
2007-09-15 12:25:00 Just hours to go til the first Derby of the season and news is a little quiet on the Northern front, it would seem. No new injury news from yesterday. To recap, Sagna returns at right back, with Hoyte on the bench providing cover for central or right sided defence, with Gilberto and Toure starting. Flamini ... More About: Blogging , The D
Absentees mount up as Derby beckons
2007-09-14 01:20:00 News focuses mostly on injuries the day before the North London Derby at White Harte Lane. Jens Lehmannremains out of favour within the squad, as rumours abound that he has been sounding out other clubs to join come the January transfer window, in Germany. Now, as much as Jens is the most lovable goalkeeper since, ... More About: Blogging , Mount
Can?t Wait ?til Saturday?
2007-09-13 03:53:00 Oh God, I wish there were proper news to report. As you no doubt are guessing, there’s ‘feck all’, so to speak, to speak on, so to speak. No injury news, which is a good thing at least, and reasonable enough to start off with. Arsenal.com does their usual international-report, which interestingly saw neither Bacary Sagna ... More About: Blogging , Saturday , Wait
Cesc does an Eduardo
2007-09-12 00:37:00 Morning all. I wish the weather would make up its mind today. Cold for five minutes, warm for ten. The news is only slightly more colourful today, with Francesc Fabregas Soler telling all who care to listen that the ‘Cesc -Boom‘ (que?) is going strong in England, compared to Spain, where apparently, Arsenal and Liverpool are ... More About: Blogging , Eduardo
Hill-Wood: ?It?s Lunacy??
2007-09-11 00:03:00 Peter Hill -Wood has spoken to the media about (I hate to say it) takeover-speculation, saying yet again that the current board have no intention of following the Chelsea-Manchester-Liverpool trail. Where the papers get the idea of ‘hey, this is something new’ baffles me, but such are the pains of international week. Emphatically, Hill-Wood said: “The major shareholders ... More About: Blogging , Lunacy
Lehmann takes on the Sun God
2007-09-09 23:40:00 Good morning all. Jens Lehmann has come out with an ego bruised this morning, saying Manuel Almunia ‘doesn’t deserve’ the keeper’s spot on the team. “I am without a doubt mentally the strongest player at Arsenal because I have more experience, there will always be a keeper who will play better for two or three matches but ... More About: Blogging
FA Cup for Europe? ?Struth?
2007-09-09 04:39:00 So Wenger met up with a cohort of other managers with UEFA-big-head Michel Platini to discuss all sorts of flashy things. Every paper now points out that Wenger and Jose Mourinho (friends will be friends) have pushed for the FA Cup to be used as a qualifying device. Rather bizzare, coming from those managers in ... More About: Europe , Blogging , Rope , Ruth
Wenger Confirmation Confirmed, For Definite, like, Now.
2007-09-08 02:07:00 Very quick blog today - sitting outdoors in the glorious sunshine for this one. Aaaaaah. Wenger ’s contract is confirmed, signed, sealed and delivered. There’s not much more to say on it than what has already been said, though there’s a number of articles out there to read if you still like the good news - “I have ... More About: Blogging , Confirmation , Irma
Wenger Signing Imminent
2007-09-07 05:44:00 Ah, lack of sleep. I know you well. Reports from respected sources are all bigging up Wenger ’s ‘imminent’ contract signing sometime today. The extension will stretch to June 2011, and is worth £4million a season. In the ongoing board battle, Dein might say he was the one that brought Wenger to Arsenal, but the current board ... More About: Blogging , Signing
Granny-Morals Mode!
2007-09-06 03:20:00 Greetings, Gooner-chums! Straight into the lack of any news at all today, with the shocking revelation that Tomas Rosicky has a dire gambling problem. Rosicky reveals: “We have talked about scoring goals in midfield ? me, Cesc and Alex Hleb. We talked about preparing a bet between us.“ And it really begs the question of what kind ... More About: Blogging , Mode , Morals , Oral , Moral
Eduardo the Time Bomb
2007-09-05 00:43:00 While unquoted rumours of Wenger ‘barring’ David Dein abound, there is not much news floating around today. Smells like “International Spirit”, to me. Wenger has spoken about Eduardo ’s adjustment into the team, saying he’s ready to ’cause a chemical reaction between a number of elements and release energy transfers out of compacted compound constructs.’ In the ... More About: Time , Blogging , Bomb , Time Bomb
Jabba the Hutt ?in it? for Arsenal.
2007-09-04 00:18:00 Anyone excited about the internationals coming up?….anyone? Tim Payton of the Arsenal Supporters’ Trust has expressed his wanting to meet Alisher Usmanov over continued take-over speculation. Payton is quoted as saying: “We would like to meet Usmanov and we will remind him of the responsibility his position now holds. Arsenal is about its history and its supporters. ... More About: Blogging
Portsmouth Thumped by Ten-man Arsenal
2007-09-03 02:45:00 After Liverpool’s storming demolition on the very poor Derby County, not only did Arsenal need to win today’s game, we also needed to win by a clear seven goals. It is for this reason that I look on this result as an abject failure. Just kidding. A confident, almost breezy performance saw Ports mouth shell-shocked (just watch Rosicky’s ... More About: Blogging
Awaiting Portsmouth, Lassana Signs
2007-09-02 04:00:00 What a day to miss, you would think. Straight into the news, and Arsenal have confirmed the signing of Lassana Diarra from Chelsea, for the proverbial undisclosed fee and ‘long-term contract’. Given the No.8 shirt vacated by Much-Loved Freddy, Diarra will provide good cover (I want to say ‘excellent’, because this is a signing I ... More About: Portsmouth , Blogging , Signs , Ports , Wait
Sevilla, and ?Dein-must-come-back? firmly down the loo.
2007-08-30 23:17:00 Gawd, you’d thought it’d go away for once. The new bogey-man to haunt Arsenal is a firm called Red & White Holdings Ltd , of which David Dein has now been made chairman after he sold his whole stake in Arsenal FC for £75million. Apparently, David Dein has all our best interests at heart in selling ... More About: Blogging , Back , Sevilla , Villa
Sparta slink away, Europe opens its doors.
2007-08-30 04:48:00 Having had to get to work at sparrows’ hours this morning, I never got a chance to check on the score until a good five hours after the game concluded. It’s funny how your mind plays games and plans for the worst. It was hardly that, though. A 3-0 win comfortably sees us through to the ... More About: Europe , Sparta , Blogging , Arta , Spar
Soliciting Ourselves to Strikers?
2007-08-29 02:43:00 A glut of news today! My job so much easier. In some rather perculiar / tiresome / bizzare news, an Adriano loan offer from Inter Milan (which apparently has been made to a number of clubs besides us) has been rejected by Arsenal out of hand. Reportedly West Ham are now making serious bids to ... More About: Blogging , Striker , Soli
Preach to me, Ade?
2007-08-28 03:17:00 Only a slight improvement on yesterday’s no-show with regards to news, and I say only slight… Adebayor has spoken about his partnership with Robin van Persie and how it can make up for Thierry’s absence and then some. “Give us time. We understand each other off the pitch, so we are just trying to do it on ... More About: Blogging
Getting Physical
2007-08-27 02:12:00 Not much to report today: a redefinition of ’slow news’, I think. William Gallas has spoken about the need to get physical (yet again) with the upcoming Sparta Prague game. “Sparta were physical but to be honest I think we are a physical side when we need to be. We were against Fulham and again against Sparta. ... More About: Blogging , Physical
Last Season Written All Over, Only?not.
2007-08-26 02:33:00 What a frustrating night. Get over to the uncle’s to watch the footy on the big-screen, only to find we cannot get the Active to work because (cue Daniboy) Austar don’t have nuttin’ until September 8. A night filled with Gamecast and sporadically watching Chelsea and Portsmouth bore the hell out of each other (though, ... More About: Blogging , Season , Seas , Written
Wenger?s Feeling Jol-ly
2007-08-25 02:54:00 An interesting morning’s news to say the least. We’ll start with Wenger , who’s been chatty per usual leading up to the Man City game tonight. Firstly, he’s refuted any know-it-alls who are jumping to conclusions with regards to Wenger’s contract and David Dein. In response to the speculation, Wenger stated “There are no major problems. ... More About: Blogging , Feeling
Lehmann?s Mystery Crock-up
2007-08-24 02:18:00 Flooding in this part of Australia today. Lovely British-simulation, really. Arsenal news sees Mad Jens Lehmann ‘crocked’ for the Man City game after doing in his Achilles tendon. Is it really an injury? Is it Wenger sparing Jens from any further cock-ups? It is one thing to make two ghastly mistakes in two league matches, but ... More About: Blogging , Mystery , Myst , Croc
Wenger, a Contract and a Honduran
2007-08-23 03:52:00 In a big rush today, with the houses and whatnot. Starting straight away with the news that Wenger is very close to signing a reported £9m pound, 3-year contract with Arsenal. There is also no room for that silly get-out clause that was mentioned every now and again in the past: Wenger’s committed, and we ... More About: Blogging , Contract , Trac
Jens, Willie, Theo are Dunn
2007-08-21 23:52:00 Starting the day off with David Dunn feeling rather holier-than-thou in a modestly satanic way: the Blackburn-thug (not a dying breed by any means) is pleading with Wenger to ’shut it’ for the sake of human kind, Keynesian economics and root-beer. In response to the violent-tag, he says: “Committed, yes, aggressive, yes, but they have ... More About: Blogging , Willie , Jens , Theo
New Signing? ?Far Away, (So Close!)?
2007-08-20 23:08:00 The ether is still in regards to Arsenal. Wenger has remained coy on the subject of new signings, saying he is ‘nowhere near’ finalizing any deals. He says: “I have not found anybody. Either they do not exist, or if you go into the market and want to buy someone tomorrow, it will be at a ... More About: Blogging , Close , Signing
Another Gaffe, No Winner
2007-08-19 22:05:00 So a 1-1 draw coming out of Blackburn, at a time when Chelsea and Liverpool draw, and Man Utd lose. Damn it all. Eduardo made his full debut last night, as Hleb took the left wing and Walcott the right. Arsenal marginally dominated the game in the first half, though it was clearly not going to ... More About: Blogging , Winner
Late Blog: Blackburn Preview
2007-08-19 04:41:00 Apologies for my conspicuous absence: Sometimes life dictates I will be out of the house from 5am till 12pm the next day. Straight onto Arsenal news, and Arsenal’s chances for Blackburn are fairly concerning. Rosicky is out, Eduardo likely to come off the bench, with Eboue out as well. Crick-sticks, I say. Three possibilities here: 1) ... More About: Preview , Blogging , Blog , Late
More Stories about ?Attitude?
2007-08-17 01:02:00 Wow, a sleep-in. Saints be praised! The stories all coming out of Arsenal are about fight, attitude, and ‘not the same team as before‘, as spouted by Gael Clichy. Almost in response to Fabregas’ tackle and then mimicking of Repka (which, whether he denies it or not, was one of Cesc’s more hilarious moments), the whole ... More About: Stories , Blogging , Attitude
Encouraging Performances as Arsenal Win
2007-08-16 04:10:00 So a 2-0 win to the Arse in a match we didn’t exactly dominate. Always lovely. A very sparse blog today, as I have all sorts of hell to get through. Finding houses, moving houses, all that. The first half remained at 0-0 with Sparta - backed by a rather animated crowd - being well organised, ... More About: Arsenal , Blogging , Performances , Perform
Wenger?s Handling of Captaincy upsets Gilberto
More articles from this author:2007-08-15 00:41:00 Morning, one and all. Number of things going on to do with Arsenal, the most surprising of which was Gilbert o revealing the means by which he found out about Gallas’ appointment: The internet. Not Wenger , not teammates even (though that would have been just as bad), but the same medium all us non-playing plebs use. ... More About: Blogging , Upset , Captain 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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