Continuing our Summer series of articles in search of Arsenal's greatest ever team, this week we continue to highlight the defenders.Don't forget totake the opportunity to choose your personal favourite defenderby voting in the poll at the end of the week
This week, American businessman, billionaire, and possible future owner of the Los Angeles
Dodgers Stan Kroenke flew into London in order to publicly express his full support of Arsene
Wenger. Arsenal's board of directors has had some interesting topics to discuss, which include, but
are certainly not limited to: Robin van Persie's future with the club, Arsene Wenger's future with
the club, and the monies to be spent this coming summer all of which impact public perception of
Wenger in one way or another.
Arsenal.com are currently running an all time dream team vote. The problem with this it is often
only the young who vote and recent memory can skew the result.
We have a wide church here with regard to ages so how about we all pick our all time eleven,
manager, coach, physio and you can even throw in a few squad players.
Let's start back in the late 60's and early 70's. The mere mention of Leeds was certain to cause
fear in all but the hardest of Gooners. Leeds were as hard as their fans. Bremner, Giles, Charlton,
Hunter etc were without question the dirtiest side I have ever seen, but let there be no doubt,
that side could play great football before they kicked two colours out of the opposition.
Let's get ready to rumble One of the beauties of running OTP is that you sometimes get to right
about things that have actually happened even though they might sound like they are just a very
random but entertaining dream from the night before. Take this post, for instance. We have lost
count of the [.
Let's get ready to rumble One of the beauties of running OTP is that you sometimes get to write
about things that have actually happened even though they might sound like they are just a very
random but entertaining dream from the night before. Take this post, for instance. We have lost
count of the [.
And by 'top' we don't necessarily good Gerard Houllier's appointment as Aston Villa manager got us
thinking: most foreign managers only get on shot at Premier League success. They either do well, in
which case they stay at the club long-term, or else they get the sack and no other Prem team will
touch them [.
And by 'top' we don't necessarily good Gerard Houllier's appointment as Aston Villa manager got us
thinking: most foreign managers only get on shot at Premier League success. They either do well, in
which case they stay at the club long-term, or else they get the sack and no other Prem team will
touch them [.
However we choose to pronounce ‘2010' we have entered a new year and, indeed, a new decade. In
football, the past ten years might ultimately be remembered for any number of reasons: England's
5-1 win in Munich; David Beckham's free-kick against Greece; Arsenal's unbeaten Premier League
campaign; José Mourinho's sprint up the Old Trafford touchline in 2004 and the union with
Abramovich's billions that followed; Liverpool's comeback in Istanbul; Ronaldo's wink.
Toon Army soap opera lurches from the sublime to the ridiculous!
Alan Shearer could return as Newcastle manager as early as next week — but only if
owner Mike Ashley is willing to accept a £70million offer for the club from Geordie businessman
Barry Moat.
Shearer said: ‘If someone comes in and buys the football club and wants me as manager and
everything is right, and they want to get the club back up to the Premier League, then I would
dearly love the chance to finish what I started last season.
I don't know much about selling. But I'm pretty sure that setting your price too high and then
drinking cocktails instead of meeting with potential Middle Eastern buyers isn't the way to go. So
it doesn't look like Mike Ashley will be selling Newcastle anytime soon. Apparently Ashley and his
entourage (Dennis Wise, Derek Llambias [.
Aston Villa v Fulham, Villa Park, March 2006: God bless Villa fans for telling then-manager
David O'Leary what they really thought of him.
If you recall, pig-nosed egotist O'Leary had branded some Villa fans a 'fickle mob' after they
booed their own team during a League Cup match against Wycombe.
While having a drink at a local coffee shop Wednesday evening with Kartik Krishnaiyer, the topic
of Graeme Souness came up and what an abysmal football manager he was especially at Newcastle. It
got me thinking, though, that just as footballers retire from playing, football managers should be
put out to pasture too when they're obviously inept or past their prime.
Poor old Chris Hughton deserves a fair bit of credit for quietly taking over a job he doesn't want
and just getting on with it. Ashley's dumped him in it a few times now but Hughton simply remains
unruffled, appearing to treat his frequent calls to stand-in as manager of one the most
media-exposed teams in [.
The Guardian (amongst others) is reporting that Ashley will appoint David O'Leary as manager if, as
expected, he takes the club off the market. The Guardian is also reporting that Newcastle deny
they'll appoint O'Leary. It's all looks like sheer press invention to me but let's have brief look
at O'Leary's management career anyway.
As reported on this site yesterday Bassong has gone to Spurs and Beye looks likely to be leaving
for Hull. Sky Sports is also reporting that 19 year old winger Jonny Godsmark has been loaned to
Hereford for 6 months. The club has confirmed that Alan Smith will be captain against West Brom as
Nicky Butt [.
So now we know why Manchester United's troubled star Wayne Rooney suddenly hightailed it to Dubai
with Coleen. It was supposed to give the couple a chance to reinforce their marriage but in
actual...
