There's something in the air at The Emirates Stadium. Arsenal Football Club has had a difficult 2012 so far, and patience for some, at least is starting to wear thin, leading to a protest that has brought puzzled expressions from elsewhere. At this lunchtime's match against Blackburn Rovers in the Premier League, a group of supporters plans to place black bin bags on seats at the ground prior to the match.

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At half-time yesterday Arsenal left the pitch to a chorus of boos. 2-0 down against Aston Villa, it looked as if we were heading for a fourth January defeat. We hadn't played particularly badly, to be fair, but got caught out twice in ways we really shouldn't have.

Three goals in seven second half minutes that's all it took for Arsenal to win a game in which they were otherwise unimpressive. While the comeback was miraculous and the result crucial, many problems still remain.

As has been the case for the last month or so, Arsenal started at a pedestrian pace.

I have spent the last season and a half bemoaning the boo boys, this week I was not alone as Arsenal fans rallied round our beleaguered manager and club in an attempt to rid us of the discontented.

But today as we prepare ourselves for our pilgrimage to the red half of North London it is time to consolidate, stand side by side and live alongside each other in harmony.

I have spent the last season and a half bemoaning the boo boys, this week I was not alone as Arsenal fans rallied round our beleaguered manager and club in an attempt to rid us of the discontented.

But today as we prepare ourselves for our pilgrimage to the red half of North London it is time to consolidate, stand side by side and live alongside each other in harmony.

I have spent the last season and a half bemoaning the boo boys, this week I was not alone as Arsenal fans rallied round our beleaguered manager and club in an attempt to rid us of the discontented.

But today as we prepare ourselves for our pilgrimage to the red half of North London it is time to consolidate, stand side by side and live alongside each other in harmony.

Unfair on Arshavin, Unfair on Arsenal FC (By S.H) The home stadium erupted in loud BOOS in protest over Wenger‘s decision to substitute Oxlade-Chamberlain for Andrey Arshavin. Even Robin van Persie appeared to show his dissent over the manager's decision. The Ox had played a marvellous game, and I too, was disappointed to see him [.

Dateline 22 January 2012, this date will go down in history, it is the date the fans at the Emirates turned on Arsene Wenger.

The fans booed the team off at half-time and were rewarded when youngster Nico Yennaris replaced the hapless and hopeless Djourou who becomes a bigger liability every time he puts on an Arsenal shirt.

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United made it Manchester 2-0 North London in the second of Sunday's super-duper all-singing-all-dancing encounters, beating Arsenal 2-1 at the Emirates to whittle City's lead at the summit of the Premier League back down from six points to three.

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It's interesting that even this morning the focus appears to be on a controversial substitution when the bigger issue is the fact we've just lost our third league game in a row, taking our total of defeats in the league this season to eight.

When Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's number went up in the 74th minute many of the 60,000 at the stadium made it quite clear what they thought of the decision.

Arsenal slumped to a 2-1 defeat at home to Manchester United as boos rang out after Arsene Wenger inexplicably substituted Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain with the scores at 1-1 The nippy and technically astute youngster was having his best game in an Arsenal shirt and after much persistence from the hosts, set up striker Robin Van Persie [.

Injured Manchester United players Ashley Young and Darren Fletcher made it a family day out to Old Trafford on Saturday.

Ashley brought his adorable 5-year-old son Tyler to United's match against Bolton, although Tyler probably just played Transformers or dinosaurs in the on-site creche while daddy hobnobbed with the big fellas.

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Arsenal's gifted young goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny has made the latest in a long line of footballing Twitter boo-boos. Indeed, it's not even his first offence.

On responding to a photo team-mate Aaron Ramsey has posted of himself at a golf event, the Polish international Tweeted: "I don't wanna be rude mate but you look like a rapist on that picture.

szólj hozzá: Chelsea v A.Villa 1:3 MOTD

David Luiz was AWOL as Villa took advantage of Chelsea's non-existent central defense to first slip in Steve Ireland, then Stilyan Petrov, and finally Darren Bent. The last two came within minutes of each other towards the end of the match. Stamford Bridge erupted in boos.

New year celebrations for Chelsea fans were cancelled after the Blues suffered a humiliating 3-1 home loss to Aston Villa yesterday. Not only has this loss pushed Chelsea down to 5th position in the league, but coach AVB has also conceded that his primary target now is to ensure Chelsea challenge for a top 4 finish.

Anfield Match Zone: Kop drown out Craig Bellamy boos

Given he had a much publicised fall-out with Alan Shearer during his time at St James' Park, it was inevitable Craig Bellamy would be booed by Newcastle fans.

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During last night's 5-0 win over Fulham, Manchester United fans took the opportunity to let Luis Suarez know what they thought of him after the FA have found him guilty of racially abusing Patrice Evra.

Meanwhile, up in Wigan, Liverpool fans were singing the original song, which was met with boos from the home fans.

It was billed as a match in which the losing manager would get fired, and if that is the case then it will be a much happier Christmas in the Coyle household this season than the Kean one as Bolton beat Blackburn Rovers 2-1 in a relegation six pointer.

The result means Blackburn replace Bolton at the foot of the Premier League, and Rovers will be bottom at Christmas with only one team avoiding relegation from that position.

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Just Football's ‘Gems of the Lower Leagues' series continues with a look at Barnsley midfielder Jacob Butterfield. James McMath looks at why talk of a January move to the Premier League will surprise some, but not Barnsley fans.

Downing shrugs off boos

Stewart Downing has brushed off being booed upon his return to Aston Villa and believes Liverpool's win justified his decision to move.

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Aston Villa boos disappoint Liverpool's Stewart Downing

Liverpool midfielder Stewart Downing is pleased with his team's performance in the 2-0 win at Villa Park but disappointed by the reaction of some Aston Villa fans on his return to the club he left for Anfield in the summer.

Defender beats defenders...
Liverpool scored two goals in the first fifteen minutes at Villa Park to secure a much needed three points. In the slot under the top four at the moment Liverpool are slowly but surely putting some pressure on and the win lifted them up to 6th. Craig Bellamy and Martin Skrtel were the goalscorers.

Skrtel Scores Second In Villa Win

Defender beats defenders... Liverpool scored two goals in the first fifteen minutes at Villa Park to secure a much needed three points. In the slot under the top four at the moment Liverpool are slowly but surely putting some pressure on and the win lifted them up to 6th.

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The woodwork continues to frustrate Liverpool and Luis Suárez in particular but this was never going to be one of those days when Kenny Dalglish would be left lamenting the number of times that his side have been denied by the upright or crossbar.

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Blackburn Rovers 1-2 West Bromwich Albion Premier League 17th December 2011

The Venky's support for Steve Kean has shown little sign of weakening this season, at least from the outside. However, behind the doors of the boardroom at Ewood Park, the Indian chicken overlords must surely be concerned after yet another league defeat for Blackburn.

Blackburn Rovers fans jeered and booed Steve Kean On Saturday despite a 4-2 victory over Premier League new boys Swansea City.

Apart from demonstrating their displeasure during a win, the most unusual thing was that they also greeted a a goal celebration with boos. Four goal hero Yakubu ran over to his manager to hug him after scoring for Rovers and the fans showed their disquiet at this.

Blackburn Rovers fans jeered and booed Steve Kean On Saturday despite a 4-2 victory over Premier League new boys Swansea City.

Apart from demonstrating their displeasure during a win, the most unusual thing was that they also greeted a a goal celebration with boos. Four goal hero Yakubu ran over to his manager to hug him after scoring for Rovers and the fans showed their disquiet at this.

Five things we learned from the Premier League this weekend | Alan Gardner, Gregg Roughley and Penny Woods

Yakubu may be Steve Kean's saviour; clear goalscoring opportunities lack clarity; Stoke carry flame at home and abroad Feed the Yak and Rovers may stay up There were boos at Ewood Park again on Saturday during Blackburn's 4-2 win against Swansea .

I'm proud of the team today.

An Arsenal side composed mostly of our youth players and our second string benchwarmers did much better than anybody expected, outplaying a "reserve" Man City side that still had the likes of Nasri, Dzeko, Aguero, Johnson, and De Jong on the pitch and which likely cost more to assemble than 15 first XI's in the EPL.

Liverpool midfield stalwart Lucas Leiva has admitted that he has been watching Xabi Alonso closely, in order to improve his own game.
The Brazilian initially found life difficult after his move to Anfield, sparking displeasure in The Kop over his performances, and looked to Alonso in a bid to turn his career around.

It took 68 words for Hibs to dispatch of Colin Calderwood.
Even that seemed needlessly verbose, the gist was simple:
"Thanks. Goodbye. We live to find another boss."
A taciturn end to a joyless reign. Consider the contrast to July when Rod Petrie - hardly a prolific wordsmith - devoted 434 words and the logic of a one-eyed statistician to a celebratory love letter in support of the manager.

Let's be honest here, it wasn't our best performance, but at Blackburn it was never going to be. There were boos at the end from the Ewood Park fans, but you have to hold your hands up and say on another day, they could have had at least a point.
AVB chose to bring Alex back into the starting line up next to JT with Ivanovic moving to right back in place of Bosingwa and for the most part it worked.

"Marco Boogers never asked for that!" Harry Redknapp has always said that the Europa League was something of an irritation so perhaps it was no surprise that the Spurs boos should take the opportunity to sort his ‘ticker' out and avoid the long trip to face Rubin Kazan. In his place, Kevin Bond and Joe [.

The Seattle Sounders need a point to win the group. Monterrey basically needs a point to advance. Both sides will put effort forward, but while the American side has been strong if you read the preview over at MLSSoccer.com you know that Monterrey hasn't been great lately. In this edition of three questions we'll dive a little deeper into the reasons behind their struggles with FMFStateOfMind editor Eben.

Arsenal kid's shocking miss, fat bloke's mad skills, Mancini boos Tevez press ban and a new Nike viral

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Its been 13 long months with plenty of goals, twists-and-turns, boos, surprises, rants as well as media out-roars, but at last the 12 nations who will be partaking in next summer's Euros have been finalized, and the eight teams who will vie for four more spots via the play-offs is now known. There have admittedly [.

September 1996 marked the arrival of the man who changed English football forever, all the science and technology that surrounds every club these days is 100% down to Wenger's original ideas and methods.

Fergie may have more silverware.... but he has not implemented and introduced methods which the entire league have picked up and copied.

This was originally going to be a three-part piece on life, liberty, and the profligacy that once defined the career of Fernando Torres. But then I read the news, and checked Twitter to find that everyone is mouthing off about Fernando supposedly mouthing off in a Spanish paper about his teammates.

Deja vu could well be the most commonly used phrase by Arsenal fans during the summer break (among other slightly more inappropriate ones). It was supposed to be the summer that Arsene Wenger finally opened his famously closed eyes, the summer that he addressed the weaknesses within the Arsenal squad, that appear to be obvious to all but the Frenchman.

So, earlier today, the CL play-off draw took place
While I'm pretty sure most of us were hoping for some nice Odense action and praying to avoid the dark, cold depths of Kazan, the reality resulted, as it is always, somewhere in the middle.

Arsenal got Udinese Calcio in today's draw for the CL play-offs, with the matches to be played on August 16/17 and the return legs to be played a week later.