Sickening is how I would describe the Kung Fu kick meted out by Jonny "The Hitman" Evans of Man Utd against Drogba of Chelsea last Sunday. But lets be fair, Man Utd� have included Kung Fu in� its training� ever since Cantona was accused by a Shaolin Master based in Moss side Manchester of� having poor technique in his kung fu kick pictured above.

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Back to League action tomorrow with the visit of Birmingham City. Let's hope the international break hasn't disrupted the momentum that was building before the players scattered for the World Cup qualifiers. We need three points in the bag. Manuel Almunia is said to be "50-50" for availability for selection.

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Without prejudice...

I am returning to the subject of Alex Ferguson's comments and analysing his apology placed upon the official Manchester United Website　

"I apologise to Mr Wiley for any personal embarrassment that my remarks may have caused and to The FA for going public with my views.

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OK no TGIF for two weeks due to International duties, and I thought that today I would discuss non Arsenal matters on and off the field. The most obvious topic that gets me hot under the collar is what I perceive to be FA bias towards SAF. Sir Alex Ferguson manager of Man U. Now I have in the past called the FA the Ferguson Association for they seem totally unable to act with any kind of authority against him.

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BY HARPER:

The intent of this article is not to focus once more on Adebayor and his antics against our players and supporters at Eastlands. Rather, I wanted to write this piece in response to the ridiculous myths that have now become entrenched as "facts" with regard to the Gooner Nation in the aftermath of not only the events of that game, but also the series of incidents that have generated negative coverage of Arsenal supporters in the last few seasons.

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In a similar vein to the 1990 book of the same name this is an account of my favourite year, part one.

Brighton & Hove Albion Second Division 6th place (losing Play-Off finalists) FA Cup 4th round League Cup 1st round.

Albion 1990-91 (wearing the worst kit of all time)

The motley bunch above, wearing the lurid pink strip, looking like some Gay World Cup side, is the team from my favourite ever season, 1990-91.

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Despite the pathetic attempts of mark Hughes to distract people from the main point of issue, and in an effort to draw a line under the incident on the Manchester City Website, the authorities have taken a stance which indicates they will be making an example of Adebayor.

Mark Hughes said:

"There has been much discussion over the weekend regarding the various incidents in Saturday's game which is understandable, Emmanuel Adebayor sustained a tremendous amount of personal abuse from the kick-off but strongly maintains that there was no malice intended in the challenge on Robin Van Persie and apologised to him when he hugged him on leaving the field of play at the end of the game.

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With all the recent media attention on Eduardo he can expect to get an earful assuming he plays or is on the bench tonight at Wembley for Croatia against England.

Elsewhere Arsenal players are dotted around the globe playing for their various national teams in World Cup qualifiers. We can only hope that all return tomorrow and Friday unscathed and fighting fit for our visit to the City of Manchester Stadium (artfully titled "the Council House" by fans of the red half of Manchester) to play Citeh.

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The improvement in technology for caused the music industry to suffer for not adapting to the digital revolution. Now, after also taking newspapers, film and television in as victims, football is next. In particular, English football. The English Premier League is refusing to adapt to improvements in Broadband speeds and the increasing popularity in internet streaming and peer-to-peer streaming.

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It's almost pre-season and at last today there is something of substance to write about. The Barclays Premier league 2009/10 campaign kicks off with Arsenal playing away at Everton on 15th August on the first weekend. The first home game would have been against Bolton, but having finished fourth, there is the none too simple matter of a Champions league Qualifier to deal with.

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Finally, Christiano Ronaldo, World and European Player of the Year, is looking set to become the most expensive player in the world and get his dream move to Spanish giants, Real Madrid. The Spanish club have offered £80 million to Manchester Utd for the player, which Utd look to have accepted as they have allowed talks with their player.

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It was quite a season, 2008/09, with possibly the tightest challenge for the title in many a year. Even the battle for relegation was tight for up to ten clubs until the last few weeks of the season, and few would have predicted that outcome at the beginning of August 2008.

The previous season, Manchester Utd had won the premiership title and scraped the European Champions League final.

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March 31st arrives again, can you believe that 12 months has past since we had the Seventh anniversary and the "Make Some Noise" tribute for our Arsenal legend who was so tragically struck down by Lymphoma, a blood cancer of the glands at the age of 33. I refer of course to Rocky. PGL and [.. Click to continue reading...

Nine Gunners played in International fixtures for their countries yesterday and most came through Unscathed. B. Sagna – Played a full game with France who beat Lithuania one nil courtesy of a goal from Franck Ribery. W. Gallas – also played a full game with France, who started their campaign diastrously now have [. Click to continue reading...

A disappointing result against the ‘appy ‘ammers on Saturday. We really needed all three points. I was mildly encouraged by the performance though. We lacked a cutting edge up front and Emmanuel Adebayor still seems to be suffering from his Samson problem. Since he cut off his locks he hasn't been the player he was. Click to continue reading...

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So, at least two cross-border games coming up following yesterday's fourth round FA Cup draw, to Italy to play AS Roma in the Champions League and to my native Wales to play Cardiff City, last season's runners-up. As Bluebirds fans of my acquaintance never cease to tire of reminding me, they are still the only club [. Click to continue reading...

  Shakespeare's Hamlet Act 3 Scene 2 is when Queen Gertrude is challenged by her son as having remarried after his father's death with a degree of ease which contradicted the apparent intense devotion  prior to this event. It suggests that the protests are so loud that the sincerity of the emotion is called into question. Click to continue reading...

I'm going to pass over quickly our two disappointing results in Oporto and on Teeside in the past few days. The loss to Porto means we'll be away second in the round of sixteen in the New Year. We can get Panathinaikos (hopefully Athens will have calmed down by [...] Click to continue reading...

It was Jane Addams who said "The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself." Yes, I am of course referring to the definition of Hypocrisy. Coming from the Greek hypókrisis for play acting, It is a word often used about others and rarely about ourselves. Take the treatment of players like [. Click to continue reading...

Good morning Insiders. It's been another hell of a week to be a Gooner! Thankfully this week its been for all the right reasons! Man the kids looked good didn't they? So the ‘Senior' side face another tough test today against Martin O'Neill's Aston Villa. As ever, I've been in touch with the opposition faithful, this [. Click to continue reading...

The footballing world are taking sides today in the light of Arsene Wenger's angry comments about Stoke City's tackles from behind which injured several Arsenal players. I would go further than calling the Stoke players cowards, I would argue that the lessons of Eduardo have not yet been learnt by professional football players and referees [. Click to continue reading...

What I am about to reveal has long been suspected by those in the know. The existence of Aliens and their flying craft, otherwise known as Unidentified Flying objects or UFO, has been strenuously denied by HM Government until now. But why now, with the financial markets in utter panic over the sub prime fiasco, the [. Click to continue reading...

Recently several players have had to suffer the anger of football fans. Adebayor has had to suffer this treatment and one could argue that the fans indulging in this kind of behaviour actually do more than attack one player, they also encourage the opposition and therefore harm the interests of the team as a whole. Click to continue reading...

Lord Triesman, the chairman of the FA has sounded a stark warning to the Premier League and indicated that many are living beyond their means with all the risks that is entailed in that situation. He is concerned that in the storm that is the credit crunch, some football clubs will become casualties. Click to continue reading...

I know that this is an Arsenal Blog, but the current woes of some of the Premiership clubs and their Billionaire connections provide valuable lessons for us as fans, as our AGM approaches and the inevitable pander for Billionaire ownership mounts. Manchester City's new owners have had a reality check following their defeat [. Click to continue reading...

Staffordshire County Senior League Map of League Teams in the SCSL - here.  As I'm starting to run out of grounds close to my home at Step 6 and higher of non-league, I've started taking an interest in the Staffordshire League. This is three divisions running from Step seven to step nine. The reason I don't ordinarily show [. Click to continue reading...

While not a true supporter but rather� a keen follower of Stoke's results, I feel duty bound to praise the Potters for a remarkable first half of the season, as it looks like nobody else outside the city is going to! Most Stoke fans' hearts sank when it was announced that Pulis was coming back last year, [. Click to continue reading...

Ground - Shawbridge Saturday 29th September 2007 FA Cup 2nd Qualifying Rd Clitheroe 8 Spennymoor Town 2 HT 2-1 Att: 330 Entrance £7;� Hot drinks 70p/80p; Programme £1.30 I had agonised for over a week about where to go for a match for the 2nd qualifying round. There were many tempting grounds such as Gainsborough, Barrow, Boston, Halesowen, Stourbridge and [. Click to continue reading...