It's an inauspicious sending off of the old blog, I must say.

Andrei Arshavin is all over the press because something he said 6 months ago was reprinted in the World's Least Reliable News Source. Felipe Melo (L'Equipe) has reportedly renewed his contract with Fiorentina until 2013, all but ruling the player out for an Arsenal transfer.

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Lies, damn lies, and Arsenal Stats

The blogoshpere is all atwitter (see what I did there?) about the dot com's article detailing Arsenal's supposed statistics. Ahhhhh, I'm calling bullshiat on this.

I don't trust statistics that are so obviously false.

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Ugh... Not much actual Arsenal news this morning but there are a ton of stories about players who were supposedly Arsenal targets who are now headed elsewhere. Love the idea, hate the idea, or tepid about the idea, it's looking increasingly like the Villa midfielder is not coming to Arsenal and is instead going to be paired with Robinho and a pack of other mercenaries trying to buy their way into Europe.

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It wasn't even close. 76% of you voted for Andrei Arshavin in the poll while Robin van Persie was a distant second at 58%. To put it another way, the difference between 5th place and 2nd place was just over 10%. It's a comfortable win for the little Russian and here's why.

First, he had to overcome the negative press that those racists at Zenit were spewing in order to make themselves look like the better party in this deal.

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Badge kisser.

Back in August, during a meaningless Arsenal v. Real Madrid match, following on the heels of a summer of seemingly schizophrenic interviews by Arsenal's then 30 goal scoring target man, Adebayor scored a meaningless goal and promptly ran over to the fans and kissed the badge.

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Match Reports

ESPNSoccernet: Title in the bag

Telegraph: Carlos Tevez seemingly waved goodbye to Old Trafford as Manchester United claimed their 18th league title with an uneventful 0-0 draw at home to Arsenal.

Man of the Match

This is a tough one because all the players played so well.

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Arsenal are down, no doubt, but to listen to the press portray it we are damn near suicidal, or in some cases outright suicidal. I've listened to the actual interviews from which most of these doom and gloom reports emanate and I'm not buying it. Take a phrase out of context, plaster it across the top with huge font and sit back and wait for the predictably irate reactions.

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Arsenal beat Chelsea 2-1 at Stamford Bridge back in November, a win which kicked off Arsenal's 21 match unbeaten run. Some folks say Arsenal were given a bit of good fortune as Robin van Persie's first goal was widely seen as offside, but sometimes good luck is exactly what a team needs to kick off a winning run.

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Match Reports

News of the World: Nicklas Bendtner fires up the Young Gunners

Match Video

I would link to News of the World, they claim to be #1 for video, but territorial restrictions prevent us Americans from seeing their video. As it turns out the only videos I can watch on their site are videos of scantily clad women.

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We all know that Arsenal's defense needs work, hell the whole team could step up in that regard: even Cesc is talking about the need for a team defense step-up ahead of the Champions League clash with Man U. So, us fans fretting over it is probably not going to do a lick of good and us bloggers writing about it is pretty much pointless.

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Match Reports

ESPNSoccernet: Arshavin hits four

Telegraph: Liverpool's title dreams suffer setback as Arsenal's Andrei Arshavin stuns Anfield

Match Video

See four of the sweetest goals and four of the worst goals you will ever see over at the Arsenalist.

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Lots to get to today, including a story that could very well represent the biggest change to English Football since the Taylor report recommended abolishing terraces in the wake of the Hillsborough disaster. Unfortunately, I can't devote any space to the story that a group of MPs have decided on their own that three of the top four teams are engaged in 'financial doping' and that English teams should adopt the 6+5 rule, irregardless of the fact that it's illegal and immoral.

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Match Reports

ESPNSoccernet: Poland international Lukasz Fabianski had a birthday to forget as his error gifted Chelsea a 2-1 victory in their FA Cup semi-final defeat of Arsenal at Wembley.

Sunday Express: DROGBA'S LATE GEM RUINS BRAVE ARSENAL'S CHALLENGE

Arseblog: There's only one way to deal with a result like that and it's to drink heavily.

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Now that I've gotten my Chelsea hatred off my chest I can focus in on some squad news.

First, a huge blow as Bacary Sanga has been officially ruled out of tomorrow's match. I held off reporting this until I could have it confirmed as I don't want to instill panic, but now that the Dot.

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair; we had everything before us, we had nothing before us; we were all going directly to Heaven, we were all going the other way.

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Less than 24 hours after I make a statement about how Barcelona would be the preferred destination when Cesc leaves, Joan Laporta is quoted in the press saying how much he'd like to see Cesc in a Barcelona shirt. I'm sure he would. What I don't get is how much outrage everyone seems to have over this [. Click to continue reading...

For my one non-American reader, this is a reminder to set your clocks to America time* tonight. For my American readers, this means that 3pm kickoffs in London now revert back to 7am kickoffs here in America. YAY. For the rest of you, there is an Arsenal story today. It's about Thomas Rosicky and his horrible [. Click to continue reading...

For those of you who follow my Google Reader shares (link there on the left to my page and an RSS Feed on the right of the blog) you'll already know that we've got a lot of stupidity to get through today. But before we get to the stupidity, I just want to say that [...] Click to continue reading...

What got into you nut bars yesterday? The comments section was full of insanity. This is a sane, sober, and rational weblog and I expect you all will act accordingly. Now, stop stealing each others' passwords and posting drivel. Please use your real name to post drivel, like the jealous guy from that one blog. Click to continue reading...

Holy Christ what shit storm have I awoken to? Cesc is accused of spitting, Phil Brown is spitting dummies, Arsene is spitting mad and not shaking hands... have you people all lost your minds? Because instead of focusing on a well deserved 2-1 win over a pack of notloB bred, time-wasting, lucky-goal having, lying, cheats we're [. Click to continue reading...

As usual Wenger's playing the starting lineup close to his chest; only giving out little bits and bobs of who will be included today. From the article linked above, we can see that Fabianski and Gibbs (who have featured in the FA Cup) are the only two who are certainly being included in the starting [. Click to continue reading...

My co-workers make me sick, maDe, made, sorry about that. My co-workers made me sick by coming in to work while coughing up a lung. And now, I'm sitting here, unable to sleep, but tired, coughing up what little lungs I have left, high on nyQuil. This will either be the best or worst blog. evar. My [. Click to continue reading...

Good morning kickers, quick blog today because, well, because I feel like it. Straight in with a two footed tackle to the shins, our opponents on Saturday (Blackburn, a pack of no talent hacks plus the greatest diver of all time) are talking shiat because they had a huge win over, erm, Fulham on Wednesday. Click to continue reading...

Quote of the Day For the second one, I touched him. I put my leg up because he had touched me before in front of the referee and he did not say anything. He kicked me when I tried to go forward and I put my leg up. The second card is normal, I accept it. [...] Click to continue reading...

Good mourning everyone! Today is the day that the transfer deadline will pass, Arsenal will sign no one, and Gooners the world over will be seen pulling their hair out. You might as well start mourning its passing right now. The latest news goes like this: Arshavin flew in to London in order to be available [. Click to continue reading...

Match Reports ESPNSoccernet: Arsenal's title bid suffers fatal blow Telegraph: Arsenal bereft of ideas as West Ham's run continues Quote of the day We will finish above Aston Villa. I've nothing against O'Neill. But you ask me who will be Manager of the Year and you have to wait until the end of the year. Click to continue reading...

If I ask you 'what does it mean if your house burns down?' you will tell me 'why should my house burn down?' That is exactly the same for me. Arsene Wenger on why losing 4th place isn't a big deal. I would say it was an incredible presser, [...] Click to continue reading...

A West Ham team that is brimming with confidence  having dispatched 6 of their last 7 opponents comes in to the Emirates stadium to face an Arsenal team brimming with false hope after eeking out a 9 game unbeaten run. It's almost amazing to think that the team have remained unbeaten for 9 matches and on [. Click to continue reading...

Sick of it all Yesterday's blog was meant as a sort of piece of performance art; a commentary on how wild eyed we've all gotten over the signing of a man who hasn't played a lick of football in several months, who's never played in the EPL, who is undoubtedly a decent player but is by [...] Click to continue reading...

Today is Arsenal's self imposed deadline for something to happen in the Andrei Arshavin transfer deal. Follow along with me as I obsessively hit "refresh" in my Google Reader, hoping for a nibble of fact in this deal. 6:10 am ZOMG HAVE YOU HEARD??? Charlie N'Zogbia, who has been angling for a transfer to Arsenal [. Click to continue reading...

Arsenal travel to Ninian park on Sunday for an early FA cup match but all that anyone really cares about is the Andrei Arshavin signing saga.  Well, that's not true some of us care about that, the FA Cup match, and Arsenal signing someone better than Alex Song to anchor the midfield but if you [...] Click to continue reading...

Animated GIF of Wilshere scoring a wonder goal. Oh man, I had a good sleep in today: I hit the snooze button twice! So while I normally get up at 4:30, I got up at 5:30. I'm not complaining though, the reason I slept in was because I got up at 1:30 the day before to [...] Click to continue reading...

Gunnerblog is reporting that the Arshavin deal has essentially fallen through. Not that he needs any backing up, he's usually very reliable with inside information, but the story is being picked up more widely and so I feel confident that the clubs have reached an impasse. Well, I say "the clubs have reached an impasse" [. Click to continue reading...

Not much Arsenal news to report today. The Arshavin deal is "progressing" I guess. According to several sources, Zenit invited Arsenal's negotiating team to Russia and they have accepted the invitation and... well.. yeah that's about it.But don't let facts get in the way! Arshavin's "omnipotent" agent claims the deal is done! Click to continue reading...

Good morning kickers, I have the day off and the whole family had a good sleep in. So that's why the late blog. Anyway, Wenger ran the gamut today, talking about transfers, rumors, Kaka, and erm, who is that team we play tomorrow? Oh yeah, Hull City, god, they suck don't they? This should be an [...] Click to continue reading...