Tonight the ref is the number one ref in Belgium.  Or as Zafod Bebblebrox says in the
Hitchhikers' Guide "Belgium Man!" Here's the assessment of our resident Belgian Referee: Walter
Broeckx........ I really hope he doesn't screw up on us. Last season he had the Liverpool Real
Madrid game and before the game there was [.
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I have only just found out about the Soccer Lens Awards (thanks to our good friend Gf60) so there
is only a day or so left for getting entries in. (Sorry I have been so taken up with all the
events of the last few days. Fancy Liverpool losing all their players at once. Well [...]
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Well hi diddley dee do! I have just spent 2.5 years screaming about the insanity of football in
the EPL and how it will all end in tears, and what do you know? It is all ending in tears!Â
(Apart from those down the pub where it all ends in beers). There is so much happening [...]
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Let me make it clear that this is not a tirade against Fran Media. If he goes, or if he has
already gone, then I will be sorry, but I'll understand. It is what agents do to young players.Â
Get games every week, grass is always greener, all that stuff. But if he is going, I [...]
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By Walter Broeckx Great was my expectation when I saw the names of Fran Merida and Jack Wilshere on
the team sheet. I have seen them play a few games in the Carling Cup, the Emirates Cup, in the
reserves and even in the Champions League. When they play in the Emirates cup, which after all is
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1. He doesn't buy enough players. Quite clearly we need a new centre forward. Eduardo is done
for, Arshavin is too small, Nasri and Rosicky are midfielders not forwards, Vela can't score, Theo
is injured again, Bendtner's injured, VP will always spend more time out than in.  The argument
that we don't need a new forward [.
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By Walter Broeckx and Tony Attwood Knocking the Arsenal is an important part of the job of every
reporter.  To be fair some do back off when we are playing brilliant football and winning stuff
(only the Guardian and Observer did snarling cynical pieces about the club in the days after we
finished the unbeaten season).
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So everyone is "carrying knocks" or is downright injured. I have often wondered about "carrying a
knock". I mean, carrying where? In my pocket? And what, after all, does a knock look like
when it is carried? Is it perhaps a bit like the dark matter that physicists keep talking about
every time they try to suggest [.
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Gunners Today 08 December @ 03:03 PM EDT
Or rather, for a change, who do you want to start
10 out of the 18 making it to Greece to play against Olympiacos are teenagers. Days like these
don't come along that often, if at all, so they should make the most of this opportunity.
Of course unlike the Carling Cup, the result will not matter as we have already claimed the top
position in our group.
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By Phil Gregory Arsenal welcome Liverpool to the Emirates stadium for Wednesday's Carling Cup tie.
The Reds, already six points off the pace in the Premier League despite a solid home win over
champions Manchester United are expected to put out a below strength side for the tie with an eye
on their match at Craven Cottage [.
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So having spent a day arguing about when people were signed and the value of our youth system, the
Lord Wenger now tells us it is all going to be pulled to bits by the new FIFA plans to limit
transfers of players under 18. Our Great Leader pointed out that we have the "90-minutes" rule
[...]
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As Adam Smith pointed out yesterday, you couldn't watch last night's game on any sort of TV system
anywhere south of Pluto. In fact if you tried BBC radio you would have found that in the summary
half hour from 10 to 10.30 (when a couple of extra times were going on) the match actually didn't
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West Brom, managed by Roberto Di Matteo (formerly of MK Dons) are Arsenal's opponents in the
Carling Cup on Tuesday. They will undoubtedly be coming into this match on a wave of confidence,
having beaten Middlesborough 5-0 at the Riverside, and holding a one point lead over Newcastle at
the top of the Championship.
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Starting next season all EPL clubs will have to name 25 players over 21 before the season begins as
their registered players list. Eight of those players must have been developed for at least three
years by an English or Welsh club before their 21st birthday. The clubs can also have a limitless
list of [.
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At last, a club willing to stand up and fight against the insane, bent and discredited UEFA.
Arsenal's statement over the Eduardo affair was everything we could have wished for a complete
catalogue of everything that is wrong with the warped European governing body, including its
arrogant belief that it can get away with anything, [.
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At last, a club willing to stand up and fight against the insane, bent and discredited UEFA.
Arsenal's statement over the Eduardo affair was everything we could have wished for a complete
catalogue of everything that is wrong with the warped European governing body, including its
arrogant belief that it can get away with anything, [.
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During the 1990/1991 season a group of Manchester IOU (then known as plain Manchester Thugs)
players ran around some Arsenal players and there was a bit of pushing and shoving. In typical
idiotic, insane, pathetic, stupid, disgraceful, bizarre and incomprehensible style the League
decided to take two points away from Arsenal, and thus scupper their [.
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During the 1990/1991 season a group of Manchester IOU (then known as plain Manchester Thugs)
players ran around some Arsenal players and there was a bit of pushing and shoving. In typical
idiotic, insane, pathetic, stupid, disgraceful, bizarre and incomprehensible style the League
decided to take two points away from Arsenal, and thus scupper their [.
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The general view among the more thoughtful fans of Arsenal (well, my mate Ian and the two guys I
met down the pub) is that the Lord Wenger really has had a masterplan and has not deviated from it.
And it is now being revealed in all its glory. And in common with earlier Wengerian [...]
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Welcome to Season 91. In September 1919 Arsenal started to play in the First Division, having been
awarded a place in the reshuffle that followed the end of the First World War. The top division was
expanded by two clubs at that time, but the issue of promotion was made very murky because [...]
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Going off on holiday for a couple of weeks always makes me feel that when I return there ought to
be something BIG some incredible news that has changed the world while I have been away. Of course
it is rarely like that and I returned late last night to see that Newcastle are in [...]
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I am about to leave for a holiday for a couple of weeks out of the rain of Northamptonshire to the
sun of Italy. During this time I am leaving the site open so that comments can be posted by those
who have posted before. However anyone new posting, or [...]
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I can't remember ever being this excited about the Barnet game. This blog is, of course, dedicated
to giving eternal support to Arsenal, and so every season is full of hope and expectation, but this
one is something else. The last time I felt this good pre-season was after the unbeaten season. I
think the heart [.
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Arsenal have won some silverware!!!!! Before you get hopes up it's our very impressive youth
team who havent lost a single match since December. Yesterday we had not a lot to do after beating
LIverpool youth 4-1 at The Emirates we went to Liverpool and also won 2-1. I have watched both legs
on Setanta and we are gonna be invincible again.
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Arsenal won the league by 25 points, losing only twice, and last night defeated Liverpool 4-1 in
the First leg of the FA Cup final. It was a masterful performance, from what I hear, and though it
was broadcast on Setanta in England the match wasn't available here in the states so, I didn't get
a chance to watch.
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David Villa, Worth More than Ronaldo?
It's probably the most ridiculous release clause of any contract, ever:Â David Villa's ÂŁ130m
release clause would make him worth two Ronaldos. A goal poacher, worth two Ronaldos? A goal
poacher, worth an entire Newcastle United?
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