I was in email conversation with a nice chap called Chris the other day, and he said something which got me thinking:

Lord only knows what people did in the pre-Internet days when Georgie Graham preferred to only spend money on Eddie McGoldrick and 14 centre-backs.

Although there were always rumours and chatter about certain players it was very much restricted in comparison to what we have today.

Following the riot after Persipura's 1-0 home defeat by Persija, which saw the visiting team forced to leave the stadium three hours after the game ended by boat, the Indonesia Super League in their wisdom have seen fit to impose no sanction on the home team.
This is of course bollocks and double standards.

Goof mornigh from Monsoon hit Dyblun. Or, to put it another way – having got my hands sorted Good morning from Monsoon hit Dublin. I have a dead leg picked up during football last night which made getting up the stairs something of a challenge, but I have struggled manfully on to provide you with your blog fodder.

Here we are again, people. I know it's been a while but another howler of a decision by a refereeing crew in England today in a massively important football game has again thrust the issue of video technology onto the front burner again worldwide. Premier League referee Martin Atkinson ruled that Chelsea had scored following a frantic goalmouth scramble to take the lead in their FA Cup Semi Final at Wembley Stadium, London against Tottenham.

With the N17 looters having dropped two points on Wearside yesterday the Good Guys find themselves needing defeat avoidance at the very least to return to third place.

One would hope that the Spuds have over achieved this season on the back of a few decent performances from their squad semi-evolved simian.

With the N17 looters having dropped two points on Wearside yesterday the good guys find themselves needing defeat avoidance at the very least to return to third place.

One would hope that the Spuds have over achieved this season on the back of a few decent performances from their squad semi-evolved simian.

Mike Wong has quit SLeague strugglers Geylang United. The Eagles had started the season poorly with three defeats in their opening three games including a 7-1 reverse against Home United.
The club initially announced Wong would be placed in charge of the Prime League side; a strange move that most professional football coaches would not entertain.

Firstly, *boilk*

Secondly, there was a bloke in the bar we were in last night who looked exactly like the villain from every film ever but most especially like the other bloke from the Karate Kid who kicked his legs that time. He was tall and overly blond with his shirt open too much and he laughed exaggeratedly.

This time last week, I was gazing firmly at my navel. Peering mournfully through black eyeliner at the poetry of Sylvia Plath whilst listening to The Jesus and Mary Chain on repeat. Without wishing to crucify the point, a pair of meek cup performances had left me one exasperated motherfucker. Yet today you find me practically skipping through the meadows, giggling like a schoolgirl.

Morning all,

the dust has settled somewhat following Sunday's drama, and if anything illustrates how quiet things have gone from the club's point of view, it's that one of the main stories on the official website is the news that Luis Boa Morte is joining South African side Orlando Pirates of the Caribbean.

Usually, after a defeat like the one we experienced against United, and one in which the main talking point wasn't the football itself, there's a tendency for the club to go into lock-down mode.

Not this time though. We've got a reaction from various players to what's gone on, not least of which is Robin van Persie's exclusive in The Sun (why there and not the official site?

What ho Arsenal fans? After two weeks of wandering in the interlull desert, with only the horse flies that feast upon our vapid flesh for company, a light twinkles on the horizon. Norwich be thy name! I can almost feel that 9am train beer (is there a better kind of beer?) slinking seductively down my gullet and slaking the thirst.

December sees the South Asian Football Federation Cup, like the ASEAN Cup but different region of course, and Pakistan are looking to South East Asia to help with their warm ups. Nepal are of course all ready back packing round the region, playing the odd game here and there.
Pakistan are already planning a week in Thailand, now Football Pakistan is reporting they are hoping to have a week in Indonesia.

By Chris Wright

Yes, I know most of you are pig-sick of her by now, but here's USWNT 'keeper Hope Solo posing completely 'billy bollocks' on the cover of ESPN magazine's annual 'Body Issue'...err...issue...

For reasons unknown, ESPN also had Hope engage in a spot of nudey-rudey gardening for good measure.

If there is one image that defines the revival that Arsenal are about to embark on, it's this one:

There were many positives to take from our dispatching of Bolton Wanderers on Saturday but, for me, this was the one that really counted.

Robin van Persie, mobbed by a herd of Bolton spongiforms, didn't give an inch.

Before the game I was a bit apprehensive about our away form, the lack of match practice, the pressure and atmosphere that Redknapp and Jordan had been talking up and the injury crisis in our midfield. All of those worries, much like Hearts, were exposed as utter bollocks within the first 5 minutes.

We're bang in the middle of the repulsive transfer window, and it's been like an Anu Malik song so far. There are some beats cascading on your eardrums, it's not like there's no sound; but most of the sound is a gigantic pile of bollocks. So it has been with Arsenal, linked with all and sundry, but the welcome gates at the Emirates are rusting from lack of use.

This morning I was looking back through the archives to see if I could do an 'On this day', kind of feature. I think I picked a bad day.

My choices were: the day after Thierry Henry left (2007), us being linked very heavily with Alexander Hleb (2005), Jens Lehmann talking about how we should sign Miroslav Klose (2006), Barcelona talking about wanting to sign Thierry (2003), vaguely hoping Igors Stepanovs might cripple Ruud van Nistelrooy in the Euros (2004) and a quote from Chris Waddle talking on 5Live about the Swedish back four at the 2002 World Cup:

The Swedish back four is amongst the tallest in the world cup.

There hasn't been many peeps out from the Camp Nou regarding Cesc Fabregas lately but I'm sure there will be over the summer.
I have heard and seen little snippets. Apparently after the Champions League final Carles Puyol said: "I'm convinced Cesc will play with us soon."
It does make me wonder though.

I've never seen Arsene Wenger look as frustrated as I did on Sunday during the defeat against Aston Villa.
He looked like a man who was told he could spend the night with Nicole Scherzinger but, unfortunately for him, he suffers from impotence.
His demeanour and the angry looks tell me a thousand words.

I'm expecting most, if not all of the blogs and websites relating to Spurs to be fairly depressing today. The majority will be negative about Saturday's dismal performance and the poor results in the previous three games. I should warn you now, this will be no different so if you think all is rosy at White Hart Lane and you're happy with a 5/6th place finish and a quarter final of the champions league then I'd advice you to close the browser window and read no further because it's unlikely you'll agree with anything I'm about to say.

Aura and Grrrr

Written by mickydidit89

I think we, The Arsenal, need a new Aura.

Now, we are not Chavs, so we will not simply pop out to Harrods and buy the most expensive one available. No, because remember we have Class, and while that is something quite tricky to define, we all know that we have the stuff in abundance.

Yes I thought the same as you lot for a split second and thought to myself SHIT!!!. Then, I came back down to earth and realised that this report is total rubbish in my opinion.
The Guardian is reporting that Roman Abramovich will revamp the squad in a complete overhaul this coming summer.

Referees seem to have gone card crazy in the SLeague this season. A whopping 12 yellows and one red were issued at Gombak United a couple of nights ago while last night there were nine yellow and one red. One guy even got a yellow for trying to take a corner outside the white lines; something that I've been seeing more and more frequently over the last couple of years.

Is it this?

Certainly up there. Assault on the ref has to be admired, Di Canio, take a bow. But is that better than assault on a paramedic? Andre Bikey everyone:

I'd argue both pale into comparison with assault on a fan. Look how collected Cantona seems before he launches himself into Matthew Simmonds.

Tonight's game has never been too far away in every gooner's minds eye since the draw was made last December in Nyon, Switzerland.

There is no point in making far reaching rally calls..... my take is to sit back and hopefully enjoy a festival of Total Football, played out by the two purest footballing sides on earth.

Arseblogger sensationally escaped death this morning despite waking up with what appears to be the beginning of a cold.

The Arsenal blogger (39) was at the centre of a life and death incident when he found himself to be a bit sneezy and needed to blow his nose a couple of times.

Image: Google.hr.

We gotta hand it to the 6'4, silky jet-black haired Croatian man candy: Tottenham's Vedran Ćorluka finally kicked the drunk-off-her-arse-in-public bird to the kerb.

Ćorluka's ex-girlfriend, Iva Buzov, moved out of their London flat and high-tailed it back to Zagreb two months ago.

So 2010 is over. The first league game of the year saw Rosicky score a late equaliser against Everton, the final game saw Squillaci score a late equaliser against Wigan. Oh, hang on, for Wigan. Whoops.

After the fantastic display against Chelsea, it was always going to be a letdown that we failed to take three points from an easier game two days later.