Maybe if Thierry Henry was back with Arsenal , he could get himself out of a fix by helping the rest of the Arsenal crew dressing up and having a bit of fun with the kids at Great Ormond Street Hospital! Theo Walcott,Cesc Fabregas,Andrey Arshavin,Bacary Sagna all took part in the Fundraising video and showed the [. Click to continue reading...

The Russia Football Union (RFU) have officially presented the Russia adidas 2010/12 home kit. The presentation took place earlier today at the Pavlovsky Hall of the Moscow's Marriott Grand Hotel with Russian internationals Roman Pavlyuchenko, Sergei Semak, Vasily Berezutsky and Pavel Pogrebnyak serving as kit models. Click to continue reading...

At the� start of the season, Arsene Wenger's young Gunners were written off as title challengers by many analysts and TV pundits. Some even argued that the new Manchester City powerhouse would take over Arsenal at the top of the table.

It was an easy assumption to make as City� made news every day during the transfer window.

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The headline pretty much sums it up... as headlines are wont to do. Another 4 goals for the Arsenal, another late consolation goal for our poor victims. Wanderers came out into the amped up atmosphere of Molineux and really took it to us for the first 25 minutes. Until a Arsenal went ahead, completely against the run of play on a Zubar own-goal, that is.

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Goalkeeper: Hugo Lloris (Lyon)

Hugo Lloris showed Liverpool fans why he is France's number one keeper. While the Reds poured on the pressure he stood firm and made some brilliant saves early on against Kuyt, Torres, and Voronin. It took a wonder-strike from Babel to finally beat him.

Centre Back: Lucio (Internazionale)

Lucio showed why he is rated so highly around Europe.

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Russian star highlights a potentially big problem.

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Arsenal midfielder Andriy Arshavin says he expects a large number of Premier League stars to abandon England in the near future, as the tax band is almost twice as big as in Spain.

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With the Ballon d'Or nominations finally releasing this weekend, the headlines have mostly been devoted to the fact that world champions Italy have no representation whatsoever. But why blame the press for paying excessive attention to an irrelevant detail? After all, the award itself is destined to be heading Lionel Messi's way, which means very little is there to be talked about in terms of debating the winner, right?

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See below, as always, for match highlights and a post-match interview with Arsene Wenger.

Another multi-goal margin of victory. Another "more than two goals" tally. Another soft goal conceded. Arsenal have seemingly picked up� where they left off before the international break. Birmingham's visit to North London proved to be an entertaining match that is open to interpretation.

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What's more offensive - Redknapp's language or his haircut?
Congratulations to those nations that have qualified for the World Cup over the international break, but now let's get back to our addictive hobby - trying to manage ourselves into the world's fantasy football elite...
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Apologies to Ireland, Slovenia, Ukraine and Bosnia. FIFA does not want you at the World Cup in South Africa next summer. So fervent was its determination that the rules of the competition were changed midway through it with the introduction of a seeding system in the qualifying play-offs.

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Two of the top European 2010 World Cup qualifyers being played this weekend are the Russia vs Germany match and the Portugal vs Hungary Match.

Russia vs Germany Preview

The clash between Russia and Germany at the Luzhniki Stadium on Saturday is probably the match of the weekend, with both sides desperate to secure the top spot in their group and avoid having to go to a play-off for a place in South Africa.

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Okay, it wasn't quite that many... but if the game had gone long enough we might have gotten there eventually. And if we had, Cesc would have probably assisted on 3,990 of them. I would be a vain writer indeed to think that I could come up with some kind of superlative or plaudit that I haven't already read in the hours since the match.

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This week saw the annual release of the club's financial reports (The full report may be downloaded here). After much speculation for the last six months, especially from groups with their own agendas (i.e., Red & White Holdings, the media, and "Arsene Out!" supporters), we can finally see the true state of the club's finances.

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I will endevour to post some of the best goals both from the Champions League and the best domestic leagues in Europe. Enjoy!

Ronaldo's second goal against Marseille:

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Ryan Giggs' goals against Wolfsburg:

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As the Olympiacos team bus got closer and closer to the Finsbury Park area, I am sure veteran goalkeeper Antonios Nikopolidis began to relive some of the greatest moments of his career at the highest level. From his invaluable contribution in Greece's historic Euro 2004 win to his consistency during his club's league triumph over the last three years, Nikopolidis is no stranger to success at a grand stage.

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Does anyone really need any commentary on last night's 2-nil victory over Olympiakos? It was just pure, absolute domination for 90 minutes. Olympiakos registered only one true scoring opportunity but Mannone came up trumps when called upon not long after the restart.

As the match was getting into the later stages and it looked like it might be one of those nights when Arsenal just can't get the ball to actually cross the goalline, I was thinking to myself that, if this match finished scoreless, it would've been the most one-sided nil-nil draw I had ever seen.

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At the weekend we discussed accusations of Serie A referees favoring bigger clubs and now we have similar accusations of French referees favoring French clubs in the Champions League. Well, not actual French clubs, because their success in the Champions League would be far too suspicious. No, they're accused of favoring the one good club that's more French than Gerard Depardieu in a beret Arsenal.

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Bendtner will miss the Olympiakos clash due to being in a car crash.

Arsenal vs Olympiakos

The Gunners will be keen to put the horrible start against Standard Liege behind them against Olympiakos on Tuesday. A solid 1-0 win has to give them confidence going in, especially in young Italian goalkeeper Vito Mannone made a series of spectacular stops against Fulham at the weekend.

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The matches to watch after you realize Andrei Arshavin is physically incapable of not making goofy faces. Or looking like a 12-year-old.

Saturday

Wigan v Chelsea at DW Stadium Coming off a 4-0 loss to Arsenal, Wigan are looking to take on the impossible challenge of stealing points off Carlo Ancelotti's still perfect reign at Chelsea.

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Being an Arsenal blog, and unable to review books like A Cultured Left Foot does so well due to family and university commitments, there is not much in the way of reviewable media. That all changed this week as Arsenal Station received a copy of "The Gooner Review" DVD. I had seen the trailer and was really looking forward to seeing what the filmmakers had done.

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Russian side want Andrey back, but they can't have him!

Zenit St Petersburg have announced their intentions to lure former star Andrey Arshavin away from Arsenal and back to Russia after a huge financial injection from billionaire gas giants, Gazprom.

Global fuel providers, Gazprom, have decided to substantially increase their investment in the 2008 UEFA Cup winners in an attempt to create a European super-force to compete with the like of Manchester United, Barcelona, and Real Madrid.

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They Think It's All Over... draws three conclusions from this week's European action. Click to continue reading...

Russian star puts his foot down!

Even in imposing a vow of silence, the Arshavins can create headlines.

Andrey's wife, Yulia, was in trouble earlier this year for claiming that English people were 'too reserved', the country was 'dull' and the food was sub-standard.

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So the old Club vs Country debate is back in the news again, as Arsene Wenger was in an irritable mood regarding Andrei Arshavin's appearance for Russia against Wales on Wednesday. The Arsenal midfielder has a groin problem, which he picked up when his club took on Man United a couple of weeks ago and [. Click to continue reading...

For Premier League fans around the world, the last couple of weeks have been almost too painful to endure as something very important seems to have disappeared out of our lives. But with yet another international period finally in the books, we can once again look forward to the return of our most beloved brand of football this weekend.

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Arshavin with some of the taller members of Arsenal's first teamArsenal's Arshavin out but Rosicky, Walcott on way backArsenal's Russian midfielder Andrei Arshavin will miss their next three matches after aggravating a groin injury on World Cup duty this week, his club manager Arsene Wenger said on Thursday. Click to continue reading...

Andrei Arshavin is the latest injury casualty coming out of the international break as the Premier League sets to resume this weekend.
The Russian superstar aggravated a groin injury playing for Russia against Wales.
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Former AS Roma manager Luciano Spalletti has long been linked with Zenit St. Petersburg.

In partnership with Russian Football Now, EPL Talk presents the second episode of RNF's podcast.

An active week in papers sees former AS Roma manager Luciano Spalletti take an additional step toward the long-rumored more to Zenit.

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Officiating in modern day football has already received its fair share of flak. Of course, whenever a certain team is at the receiving end of harsh refereeing decisions, its passionate fans jump at the opportunity to hit back at the match officials with great force. In this article, however, I will not go ahead with the oft-repeated idea of accusing the referees of lacking the ability to call big games without the heavily proposed use of technology.

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Wow, we're back!! The season is really set to get underway. No more making due with an MLS fix here or a big-time international friendly there (DC United vs. Real Madrid in 100 degree heat none-the-less). Obviously we're firmly entrenched in our new/old home and excited for the freedom that it brings us as we continue to bring you what we hope is the best coverage around of Premier League Fantasy Football (especially pertaining to the Yahoo game but hopefully useful for those of you playing other games as well). Click to continue reading...

Who will fill the Cristiano Ronaldo shaped void?

With the season approaching at the speed of a Robinho step over there are many things to start spouting off about in the pub with your mates, things like top scorer, relegation fodder, best signing, title winners, worst signing and who will take over CR7's title of most theatrical simulator?

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Gunners players find eet's seemple to mock team-mate Arsenal players have found a new way to tease Russian team-mate Andrey Arshavin. The squad apparently enjoy joking that he sounds like the Compare The Market meerkat. A "club source" told The Sun: "A few of the first team lads started it off and now the joke has spread [. Click to continue reading...

In what could be the most significant news of the late summer thus far - yes, bigger than Alonso to Real - EvdS is apparently out for approximately 8 weeks with a broken finger suffered in a penalty shootout yesterday against Bayern Munich.
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Andrei Arshavin scored two goals off the bench in Arsenal's win over Atletico Madrid in the Emirates Cup on Saturday (which produced the spectacularly disturbing sex face pictured above), proving just how nicely he's settled into life with the club.

And it sounds like he's even getting used to life in England, as well.

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Andrei Arshavin scored two goals yesterday as Arsenal beat Athletico Madrid 2-1 in the first game of the Emirates Cup.
After giving them the lead, Arsenal were pegged back with a goal from Pachelo only for the Russian to latch onto a poor back header, and take the ball past the goalkeeper and somehow scoop the ball in on the slide when the ball had just about reached the touchline. Click to continue reading...