By Ollie Irish

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Mmm, that is about as good as a modern kit with a sponsor's logo gets. It almost makes me jealous of Arsenal fans who get to wear it. Almost.

The PR eco waffle: "Every shirt is made entirely from recycled polyester, crafted from up to eight plastic water bottles as part of Nike's ‘Considered Design' programme, which sees discarded plastic bottles diverted from landfills to be used in the manufacturing process.

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Arsenal's new kit is a throwback to the 70′s and comes with a block red body with a white round neck collar, and white sleeves. In an interview, Alex Song was quoted as saying,

I watched Arsenal on TV lots when I was young and just saw red and white.

The west stand of Highbury being demolished in 2006, home of Arsenal since 1913.

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Juventus are chasing Arsenal fullback Gael Clichy.

Just what we need to hear from one of Arsenal fans favourites. Robin says it's time to get tough and get in the faces of the opposition. We need to do unto others what they so love to do to us. Play the pretty football, yes, but when the chips are down, put the pretty stuff on the back burner and start showing some grit and steel.

...but off it, the football world celebrates complete incompetence and negligence.

Following the defeat at Chelsea I decided to give myself a little time to mull things over. A chance to let the hysteria die down. Losing the last game before the international break gives everyone two weeks to dwell on the shortcomings – in our case that we're still unable to rough it against tough tacklers, that we flatter to deceive against the Mancs and Chelsea, and that Wenger's refusal to ‘buy big' means we haven't won a trophy in five seasons, obviously.

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Yep, it's that time of year again folks. Manchester United or, on this occasion, Chelsea, are touring their respective city in an open top bus showing off the Premier League trophy once again. Liverpool, meanwhile, are insisting that next year will be their year and their first title in decades whilst Arsenal have fallen away at the business end of the season and spent the last few weeks glancing nervously over their shoulder for threats to their Champions League Place.

I've always found it somewhat impossible to dislike Xavi. He looks like he should be bagging your groceries, and yet he's the finest midfielder of his generation and a genuine aesthete, which is something of a rarity in football today.

However, it appears his second job, that of Barca mouthpiece, is becoming slightly less amusing by the day, as the Catalan wagons continue to circle around Arsenal.

All football fans, across the planet, love a player in their team who does nothing but terrorise the opposition, literally bully the life out them.

Harass the opponent, chase him down, force a mistake... and if all else fails, smash him to the ground.

In 18-year-old Frimpong, we have a cast iron certainty of a future fans favourite, the kid is 100% assured to be the dominant midfielder in our team for years to come.

As a warning to football hooligans the police are cracking down on thugs ahead of the new football season, and they have scored their first success against two Tottenham "fans". Danny Scriven, 26, and Kali Hagenstede, 21, were amongst a gang of more than 20 hooligans who attacked Arsenal fans as they drank in The George, [.

Karl Henry did Wolves and Mick McCarthy no favors on Saturday when his late tackle on Jordi Gomez resulted in a straight red card and left Wolverhampton Wanderers with ten men.

In the video of the tackle (see above), you can see how Henry's hit sent the Spaniard flying into the air.

After Arsenal's home humiliation against Man Utd yesterday hit home, the fans have come out in protest against Arsene Wenger's refusal to spend some of the massive profits he has made from selling his best players in the last few years. The transfer window closes today, and Wenger has already stated there will be no new [.

Given that Arsene Wenger revealed that he was the sole reason the Arsenal manager didn't go out and buy a ready-made replacement for Manchester City bound Emmanuel Adebayor in the summer, that the Arsenal manager sees many similiarities between him and former Liverpool striker Robbie Fowler and that the 20 year old Mexican has been hailed as one of the brightest young footballers in the world for several years now, many Arsenal fans must be wondering when Carlos Vela is going to be given a chance to stake a claim for a regular place in the first team.

There is talk that Manchester United, Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur could be playing friendlies in the United States this summer. It's music to my ears and I'm sure many other soccer fans in America. But while teams in the past such as Chelsea, Everton and others have tried to conquer the States, they all have come up short so far and haven't maximized the level of success that's possible.

"Firstly I would like to apologise to all the Arsenal fans for not speaking sooner about my future but I have not known what I was going to do until this moment."I cannot deny that joining a club like Barcelona was not an attractive move for me. This was the club where I learnt my football, it is my home town where my friends and family are and a club where I have always dreamed of playing.

Arsene Wenger gave an interview about Paul Scholes offering plenty of praise, claiming he wished he played for Arsenal and that he has been integral to United's success over almost two decades.

Wenger was then asked whether he thought Scholes was a fair player. I think any United fan would be happy to admit that Scholes' tackling can be suspect at times, with him flying in on an opponent and not always coming away with the ball.

By Ollie Irish

Boooooooooooof! Now THAT'S a volley. Arsenal fans may wonder why Eduardo never hit one like that for their team. The closest he came was this inventive volley against Burnley:

Hello 2010. Hello readers. Pies is back in the saddle, a couple of pounds heavier (thanks poutine) but no less motivated. So, no messing, first up this year we have some breaky news for you. Arsenal fans, prepare to weep into your Fair Trade muesli...

My Spanish is sketchy at best I can say "Dos cervezas por favor" in a reasonably convincing accent but even I can understand the latest headline in Spanish rag AS, which announces with some confidence that Arsenal midfield starlet Fran Merida has signed for Atletico Madrid (the club he supported as a kid).

Ther is lots of Arsenal transfer news about today, and the one that has shocked Arsenal fans the most (from looking at the blogs) is the news that Sol Cambell has been signed on a temporary contract until the end of the season. I have seen various figures relating to his paypacket, but it seems [...]

A reader once said my posts are void of controversies. I guess the ice has just broken. Here's another one

I would like to express my sincere thanks to all the Arse fans who sent in their appreciation of my post. Buoyed by their response I would like to give them back a second installment of my thoughts on yesterdays match.

Editor's note: EPL Talk reader Nicholas Buchel shared a series of three drawings he made that I should many of you would enjoy. The first features Fernando Torres who returned to action Sunday against Manchester City. The above picture is hand drawn in ballpoint by Nicholas. Below the fold, Buchel has included a ballpoint drawing of Emmanuel Adebayor (when he was with Arsenal) as well as a drawing of Wayne Rooney.

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Arsenal handed Cesc Fabregas an unprecedented £3 million ‘golden handcuffs' payment and upped his wages by nearly 50 per cent to £110,000-a-week to keep him at the club, Goal.

History tells us Wenger never gives up on his man.

Rosicky was monitored for a number of years, we missed signing him when he left Sparta Prague, in the Summer of 2001, for Germany.

AW finally cashed in on the Czech international during the Summer of 2006.

Felipe Melo is a player I personally rate very highly, he is obviously a player the manager also rates as he had a bid rejected by Fiorentina last Summer, before he moved to Juventus for close to £25M.

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ARSENE WENGER has lined up a £21.8million deal for Bordeaux ace Yoann Gourcuff his No 1 choice to replace Cesc Fabregas.

The good news for Gooners is a deal has been ratified by all parties concerned, as predicted by yours truly earlier this Summer, for Cesc to join his beloved Barcelona in June 2011.

Fabregras will complete his last season as a player and captain of Arsenal Football Club this forthcoming term.

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Germany's Per Mertesacker climbs higher than Tim Cahill at the 2010 World Cup

I wonder why many Gooners seem to be getting wet in the pants area over the rumour that their club will sign German centre-back Per Mertesacker from Werder Bremen.

Not sure how many of you saw this or not, but there's a new initiative designed to increase investment in and influence over the club. For a number of reasons, I have to say I'm skeptical:

The program is called Arsenal Fanshare, and it's an initiative launched by the people at the Arsenal Supporters' Trust.

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Arsene Wenger says, "It's Arsenal's title to win." And I agree. The stage is well and truly set for the second Act of the season and it's up to the manager to direct and the players to perform.

Birmingham away is not an easy game for any team. None of the top 6 have won at St. Andrews in the last 18 months.

The first of four half-term report cards for the Premier League features Arsenal, Aston Villa, Birmingham, Blackburn and Bolton:

ARSENAL (3rd, 41 points from 19 games)

With a fully fit squad, Wenger's young and exciting side have, at times, looked against the pre-season odds like real title contenders.

Nicklas Bendtner made his long awaited comeback in an Arsenal shirt yesterday evening at Villa Park.It had been 3 months since the Dane last kicked a ball for the Gunners & the Arsenal fans we're delighted to see him back with " super, super nick" ringing around the away end of the ground.

Bacary Sagna touched upon a topic that could be described as Wenger's Achilles' Heel. Here is what the French full back said,

Sometimes I think we play too much, We just want to do that and do not think about what is good for us sometimes we just need to cut out the football, stop playing for a bit and just consider what will help us achieve what we want.

Beaten Arsenal and Chelsea. Next up, Brokeback United.
Now, I don't know about the rest of you, but I think this is a game that we can win. Manchester United are nowhere near their best and I believe, as do some of the Spurs lads, that we can go up to Old Trafford and get a win. As long as the ref isn't their twelth man of course!

From a footballing point of view there isn't much left to look forward to as far as Arsenal fans are concerned . The couple of games left are mostly academic in nature. The season-end autopsy and transfer madness will get into top gear only after these games and that puts us in a state of limbo.

At such a time this Champions League semi-final clash comes as a respite.

Arsenal fans will be delighted to hear the news that manager Arsene Wenger has finally admitted he will add at least one player to his Arsenal squad. It is not easy to understand what the Frenchman ...

Take a deep breath, especially the doom and gloom merchants amongst you, but Barcelona don't have the deep, rigged, pockets of Real Madrid.

We hear this afternoon they have agreed a fee in the region of £35M, for the purchase of Valencia and Spain forward, David Villa, so where now do they propose to find another £40M .

Ain't it quite strange? When I wrote the match report for the Valladoid vs Barca match, many here thought that ideally would be my last post for the next two months. With my experience with previous transfer season, I knew that wasn't the case. The truth simply is that the real entertainment off the pitch starts the moment the transfer window opens or in other words when the season ends.

This has been one of my internet, blog world, pet hates for a while.

So now, with all this "Joe Cole is a Gooner" or "Joey the Gooner" baloney over the blog world, it's time to set something straight.

I totally respect all the newcomers to the World of Arsenal FC, the internet has done wonders for our following across the globe.

With the World Cup Finals currently underway, it is normal for Arsenal fans to think about Andrey Arshavin, one of their most important player who is not in action with his National side. Russia were only ...