Arsenal's Abou Diaby and Chelsea's Fernando Torres-Photo by Richard Heathcote/Getty Images
While they are not direct rivals, there is a long history of heated competition between the two clubs dating all the way back to their first encounter at Stamford Bridge in 1907.
It was the first match between two London sides in the First Division and drew a record crowd of over 65,000.
Freddie Ljungberg was part of the Arsenal team who went the season in the Premier League unbeaten and he explains what happened when he got kicked it that season that team-mate Lauren would kick the Shit out of the culprit. Maybe thats what Arsenal teams are missing right now.
In which MotD2 guest pundit, the beautiful, beautiful Freddie Ljungberg drops a big bad 'S' bomb all over Colin Murray's lap while explaining the complex dynamic between himself and Lauren at Invincible-era Arsenal...
Still amuses me how appalled andrepentantthe BBC have to pretend to be when someone swears, even if it was over three hours past the watershed.
Arsenal's Ivorian striker and winger Gervinho has had a blistering start to this season after flattering to deceive since his arrival from Lille. Arsene Wenger has used him in more of a striking role and that could be the reason for his upturn in form. Former Arsenal star Freddie Ljungberg has spoken about the 25-year old and Arsenal's start to the season after his decision to retire from playing football.
The ex-Arsenal star Freddie Ljungberg has just retired from football at 35 years of age, and he has
taken the opportunity to celebrate his glory days at Arsenal, where he won two League titles and
three FA Cup Winners medals. But he remembers that Arsene Wenger used to buy in top stars every
year, and [.
No Freddie, it's no crying shame. It has been our pleasure to watch you play
One more day to go before match day and there's plenty to talk about. This gist of it coming
from Arsene Wenger's press conference. A press conference in which the manager was right in form
and provided a lot of tiny details which actually do mean a lot.
Reported Arsenal target Alan Dzagoev has alerted his potential
suitors by confessing that he might want to leave his current club CSKA Moscow
when his contract with them expires at the end of the year.
Former Arsenal midfielder Freddie Ljungberg has revealed the downsides of moonlighting as a Calvin
Klein underwear model: women are always fondling him in nightclubs. It seems that Little Freddie is
generally considered to be public property since the Swedish star appeared on billboards in his
pants.
Freddie's lived the dreams of every professional footballer. Well, he got to play for Arsenal
for a long time anyway what follows thereafter is a world tour of twilight and glancing eyes on
catwalks.
But still, the man got to be a Calvin Klein model, ascending to a plateau well below Becks
levels of fame, but notoriety well beyond his playing level.
Dennis Bergkamp has said that his former club Arsenal should go back to their English roots in
order to satisfy their trophy-thirst that has now gone unfulfilled for almost seven years.
The Gunners last lifted a major trophy back in 2005, when they defeated Manchester United in the
FA Cup final, and Bergkamp was a part of that side.
When Arsenal brought club legend Thierry Henry back for a short loan spell, they probably
thought he would provide a morale boost for the squad and impart a bit of wisdom to the youngster.
In addition to that, the 34-year-old striker has actually been a spark on the pitch and scored two
match-winning goals to keep Arsenal alive in the FA Cup and propel them into fourth place in the
Premier League.
It's almost as if the BITS-Pilani internet connection foresaw it with mystic eyes. As soon as
the Arsenal-Manchester United match shuffled to its conclusion, after all three goals, missed
chances, TheSubstitution™ and ‘You don't know what you're doing', the World Wide Web gave
notice and discreetly left the premises of my college for days on end.
We ended up giving a good account of ourselves against Man City but not winning, which was
pardonable enough, but embracing the tag of honourable losers is not an act any team should partake
in with any relish or frequency. Getting a positive result was the most important thing against
Villa, and it gave me perverse pleasure when we managed to do it in spite of being quite poor
overall.
A little over seven years ago, Tom Goom, a good friend of mine, fellow Gooner and all round good
egg, told me about this 'great fansite he'd come across', and that I should check it out.
At the time, I'd grown bored of gossip sites, as well as the majority of the printed press, such
was the dearth of accuracy and logic on offer, so I was naturally a little cynical.
Shimizu S-Pulse (清水エスパルス ) is a professional Japanese soccer club based in
Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka. S-Pulse currently competes in the J. League Division 1 (J1). The team was in
the news earlier this year for signing former Sweden and Arsenal midfielder Freddie Ljungberg
following his stints in MLS and with Celtic.
So, the unmistakeable chimes of Big Ben bring the craziest few months
an Arsenal fan has ever had to endure to a close. We have lost our club captain, we have lost last
seasons best player, and we have been humiliated 8-2 by Man United, yet, with that big bell still
ringing in my ear (insert your own joke!
Former Sweden captain and MLS Designated Player Freddie Ljungberg has called it a career.
Ljungberg, who played for the Seattle Sounders and Chicago Fire after a decorated career in
Europe, retired Friday, capping a career that began in 1994.
The other shoe in the Christian Tiffert signing has dropped and it's Alvaro Fernandez's
departure. The Seattle Sounders midfielder, who first announced that he was leaving the team via
Twitter, has been traded to the Chicago Fire in exchange for allocation money, the team announced
on Wednesday. The move presumably clears the way for Christian Tiffert to be announced as the
team's newest Designated Player.
With the signing of Designated Player and FC Kaiserslautern midfielder Christian Tiffert, the
Seattle Sounders needed to create a DP opening on their roster. With the trade of Alvaro Fernandez
to the Chicago Fire, they've done just that.Â
The Sounders sent Fernandez to Chicago in exchange for an undisclosed amount of allocation money
Friday, making way for Tiffert and sending a DP to Chicago for the second time in two years.
Last year I examined how MLS teams have done based on the number of minutes a team gets from
players that were on that same team the year before. For example, the Chicago Fire had Patrick
Nyarko, Marco Pappa, Baggio Husidic, Logan Pause, Gonzalo Segares, Corben Bone, Sean Johnson, and
Dasan Robinson in 2010 and all of those players provided the team with minutes in 2011.
There has been a lot of talk in recent years about successful and yet past-their-prime players
moving to the United States to earn the big bucks and to continue their career in the American
limelight. This began with David Beckham moving to LA Galaxy, with much of the commotion
surrounding his wife, Posh Spice's desire to hang out with Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise.
With the epic U.S. Open Cup Final slated for tomorrow, I thought it might be a good idea to give
a quick rundown of the brief history between the two teams. Although the Fire have tied the
Sounders, Chicago has yet to actually defeat Seattle in a match. What better time for that to
happen than tomorrow night?
Recently I've been spending some time analyzing designated players around the league. The
results of DPs on the field have been a mixed bag despite the immense amount of attention they
receive when they enter the league. Some are consistently in the pack of the best players in MLS.
Others barely see the field.
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Is this Eric Hassli goal vs Seattle Sounders for the Vancouver Whitecaps the goal of the season for
MLS 2011? Judging by the video of the Hassli goal, it is hard to dispute that fact. Hassli's goal
vs the Sounders came in the 85th minute of the Sounders vs Whitecaps MLS game and was the [...]
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could.
"What the fuck were you doing?" Arsene Wenger shouted at Robin van Persie as he trudged off the
field, following his second yellow card, soon after the second half kicked off with Arsenal a goal
down against Southampton. It was the end of February and van Persie's sixth ever start in the
league, after usually being kept on the bench late in to the game before replacing Robert Pires or
Freddie Ljungberg.
"What the fuck were you doing?" Arsene Wenger shouted at Robin van Persie as he trudged off the
field, following his second yellow card, soon after the second half kicked off with Arsenal a goal
down against Southampton. It was the end of February and van Persie's sixth ever start in the
league, after usually being kept on the bench late in to the game before replacing Robert Pires or
Freddie Ljungberg.
The first FA Cup final held outside England saw two of the competition's most successful clubs
square off at the Millenium Stadium in Cardiff, as Liverpool and Arsenal, both near the top of
all-time FA Cup winners, met in Wales in 2001. After the League Cup victory over Birmingham in
February, and with a UEFA Cup Final date set just four days later, it was a chance for Liverpool to
achieve something remarkable.
Glasgow Rangers' foray into administration appears set for Tuesday.
The club faces a deadline imposed by the Court of Session to appoint an administrator today.
Should Rangers fail to meet that deadline, Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs would be allowed to
step in and detemine who takes over the club's dealings, something that would undermine the club's
control while it goes through and tries to climb out of financial turmoil.
The Seattle Sounders appear to be hitting the international market during transfer season yet
again.
After officially announcing the acquisition of Swedish right back Adam Johannson on Thursday,
the Sounders are reportedly close to signing Danish winger Christian Sivebaek, a player general
manager Adrian Hanauer told the Seattle Times that the Sounders are "very interested" in
acquiring.
Former Chicago Fire defender Wilman Conde wants back in Major League Soccer. This isn't news. It
has been floating around for awhile now. What has changed is it now appears that a Major League
Soccer team wants him back in the league as well. In fact, the New York Red Bulls have reportedly
purchased his rights.
The last time D.C. United came to Toyota Park was on October 16, 2010. It was Brian McBride's
last home game and it turned out to be C.J. Brown's last home game too. 306 days is a long time but
it feels even longer ago, more distant. The lineup for that game was Andrew Dykstra; Steve Kinney,
Wilman Conde, Kwame Watson-Siriboe, Deris Umanzor; Bratislav Ristic, Logan Pause, Peter Lowry,
Marco Pappa; Brian McBride, Patrick Nyarko.
Newly retired Freddie Ljungberg has severed off his middle finger on his right hand. The Arsenal Invincible and former Swedish Captain was treated at the Halmstad Hospital where he tweeted his followers updates on his condition. The 35 year-old who is right-handed still found the time to tweet a thank you to the hospital for saving his hand.
TweetUmmmm, naughty Freddie Ljungberg said the S word on Match Of The Day 2 at about 11pm last night.... For those who were offended, try going to a football game. If you're a parent of a kid who saw it, be a better parent they shouldn't be awake that late. Football is a sweary [...]
Perhaps you find projects like this a better fit for you, Freddie? We're fine with that.
Hot Hall of Famer Freddie Ljungberg has left J-League club Shimizu S-Pulse after only six
months, stating that it "just wasn't the right project" for him.
If we were feeling inquisitive, we'd be obliged to probe deeper into Freddie's cryptic reason
for leaving.
A year ago today at 11:28 AM, a little post on a new Blogger page called 'Go Live in the Fire'
popped up. It was a Mid-Season Report Card for all the Fire players in 2010. That blog post was the
beginning of what is the site you are reading now, Hot Time In Old Town. Like being a fan, this is
an experience that is sometimes frustrating, sometimes discouraging but mainly filled with times of
great excitement and exuberance.
