Young Luara Hayrapetyan representing Armenia came in runner-upyesterday at the EUROVISION JR contest with her song BARCELONA:She & her team dressed the FC BARCELONA outfit & poured theirhearts out to lovely & catchy tune. Perhaps the Spanish Club should consider Laura as a pre-match "Classic" Barça vs Real Madridperformance at "Camp Nou" next Sunday. Click to continue reading...

Where is the marking?

Disappointing would be the best word to summed up tonight's game. The team lacked cohesion, tenacity and showed no real desire to win the game. One could argue that after almost 2 weeks away from each other and barely had the oppourtunity to train as a team lead to the dispirited display.

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With RVP unavailable for a while, predictably, the consensus is that Eduardo will take the baton from the Dutchman. However, the way the media has chosen to focus on Eduardo is almost as if the guy has next to zero credibility compared to Robin.

Admittedly, the Croatian hasn't been at his best (considering he is 26, I suppose we should wait another year at least for that).

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Vintage Arsenal Goal

4-1 is may have been the final result but judging from the opening 20 minutes of the game, it would be rather hard to envisaged that scoreline. Credit to Wolves and McCarthy for their game plan as they came out firing on all cylinders and chose to take the game to us rather than just contend to defend.

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Meine Wahl fällt eindeutig auf den besseren Fußballer von den beiden, also den mit Verbindungen zu höheren Wesen, nicht nur weil der Song nicht so eine elende Schnulze ist.Wer singt besser Diego oder Cristiano?

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Its Carling Cup time! The trophy that no big club wants to win, but if they win it they'll be happy to gloat about it anyway. Visions of Mourinho celebrating back in 2007 when they beat us in the final still make me sick.

Rafa's red revolution received a massive boost when they humiliated Utd on Sunday.

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Good start but even Van Persie couldn't have guess the final outcome

I'm beginning to think that I curse the players. Since I've been effusively praising a certain player or a certain combination, there's bound to be something that went wrong with them in the said match. The Diaby-Song combo did not work well tonight.

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The formidable midfield duo

Upton Park is where our focus is today. Gianfranco Zola's West Ham faces exactly the same turmoil as Arsenal's previous opponent, AZ Alkmaar, financially stuttering that is.They have sold close to 10 players since last year just to offset some of the monetary difficulties but have kept virtually the core of the team in Robert Green, Matthew Upson, Scott Parker, David Noble and Carlton Cole.

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Points dropped, not a big deal

I was very close to lauding Alex Song to the heavens last night when he dropped his guard as to be honest did the rest of the Arsenal defence in the 93rd minute, enabling AZ Alkmaar to equalise.

He did have a terrific game, but he's not the polished gem we would yet have him to be, even though his improvement has been spectacular.

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Something unbelievable happened yesterday. Did Arsenal win the encounter at DSB Stadion? No, they didn't. Did AZ Alkmaar managed to overcome the financial disparity and obvious difference in squad strength to upset the odds and defeat Arsenal? No, they didn't either. It ended 1-1 and turns out to be a real shocker as it was Arsenal's first ever drawn game this season.

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A big thank you to all who took part in the poll. I really needed your help as I couldn't decide who our best player was. At best I could have narrowed it down to 3 but no further.

The Poll is now closed and I have the results. (I sound like an X factor presenter!). The player you voted as our man of the match is.

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I can't just let Vermy be the top scorer, can't I

It was the 7th consecutive win on the trot for Arsenal Football Club since the double losses to both Manchester clubs. It was not the best of performance from the boys. Exciting and seemed to be cruising, then almost immediately allowed Birmingham back into the game until the 3rd goal arrived.

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Hello all. It's been a bloody month since I last posted, and I'm quite ashamed of it actually. Sometimes, when you write every day, you just get burnt out and feel like what you write isn't that interesting anymore and just don't really get in the mood to write very much. That's what happened to me, and I feel like I'm not doing my job as an Arsenal blogger when I go that long without writing. Click to continue reading...

Manchester City 4-2 Arsenal

Bit late in the day to add my tupp'orth about yesterday's match couldn't get anywhere near the pooter till now. Obviously, it's mostly about Adebayor, which is wrong, but there you go.

I only saw the stamp on Match of the Day last night.

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1. 4-2 flattered Manchester City. Statistics showed we had nearly twice as many attempts on goal. We had 12 corners to City's 3. And we shaded possession as well.
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It might strike some people as surprising that, whilst on a football pitch career-threatening tackles still happen, players needle one another constantly and bully referees, there remain some things that are considered extremely bad form. For example, to showboat when you are winning comfortably is considered arrogant and to humiliate an opponent in this way wrong.

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Gallery, images, photos and pictures of Celtic v Arsenal, UEFA Champions League Play-Offs, Round 1, the 18th of August.

Includes Robin van Persie, Gael Clichy, Gary Caldwell, William Gallas, Shaun Maloney, Cesc Fabregas, Alexandre Song, Andrey Arshavin, Bacary Sagna and Scott Brown.

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Celtic 0-2 Arsenal

Let's get something straight here: Arsenal's goals may have been a tad fortunate last night (a 'backer' from Gallas and an own goal from Gary Scoredwell), but Arsenal earned their luck and more than merited the first English success at Parkhead since 1983.

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Morning all, hope you're well. Been a bit busy over the last week or so so I haven't had much of a chance to write quality articles, and in my opinion it's better to post a few quality articles than post shite ones all the time.
What a start to the season we've had then, eh? I'll admit I was worried that we might draw or even lose at Everton to start the season. Click to continue reading...

Everton 1-6 Arsenal

Here I am again, eight days since I last fired up the blog. I've been away, breathing in deep gulps of bracing coastal air, and though I had access to a laptop and a broadband connection, I let the blogging go fallow. So no season preview seems a bit late now anyway.

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Gallery, Images, Photos & Pictures of Arsenal's Alexandre Song 2009/2010 Season. Teams/Clubs: Arsenal Players/People: Alexandre Song Events/Matches: Arsenal v Hannover 96 Friendly Match, 2009. Arsenal Training Session, 2009. Arsenal v Villareal Champions League, 2009. Wigan Athletic v Arsenal Barclays Premier League, 2009. Click to continue reading...

Saint Etienne midfielder Blaise Matuidi will sign for Everton this summer, according to French radio station RMC. 22-year-old Matuidi is extremely highly-rated in his homeland and it's no secret that Arsenal's French scout Gilles Grimandi has already watched several Les Verts matches this season. Click to continue reading...

Alexander Song must cause Arsene Wenger the biggest headache of all our players. What is this player really capable of achieving, where do you play Song?

It is well documented that Song had a nightmare start to his Arsenal career, eventually moving to Charlton and performing well in midfield.

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The following is an opinionated list of Arsenal's best and worst moments of the last season, plus some awards for notable and notorious acts on the field. The Ten Best Performances by the Gunners. 1. Fenerbahce 2 Arsenal 5. Our finest outing of the season. An intimidating crowd and we put the Turkish side to [. Click to continue reading...

Gael Clichy revealed all in an exclusive interview on France television earlier this morning. The French fullback, who missed the latter part of the season with a back injury, spoke about the Arsenal fans' chant for him and his problematic back injury while Gael's father talked about his 'natural' right foot! Click to continue reading...

Whether they won, drew or lost you could be guaranteed that Arsenal would provide footballing entertainment in whatever match they played in. Gooner Talk have compiled a selection of our favourite Gooner games this season along with highlights; check it out and give your views on the Top 5 Arsenal Matches this campaign! Click to continue reading...

Another trophyless season, but many positives to take out of it. Who is the player that you feel has made the biggest, most impressive contribution to the Arsenal cause this campaign? Here are my Top 5 contenders: Denilson - Quietly impressive. Those are the words I would use to describe this flamboyant Brazilian midfielder. Click to continue reading...

Now I didn't mean to plan it this way, but here is my 50th post. I started almost 4 months ago in January. At first writing about the Arsenal was meant to be part of a eclectic blog. Since then I have developed so much interest in blogging that this Gunners Today has become an entirely separate project. Click to continue reading...

Andrey Arshavin returns to the Arsenal squad for Saturday's penultimate league game against Manchester United. The 27-year-old Russian has proved a massive hit since joining the club in late January scoring 6 goals in 11 appearances and notching up 7 assists. "Andrey Arshavin is fully fit," Wenger said at Thursday's press conference. Click to continue reading...

Watching our collapse against Manchester United set me to thinking about what changes we need to make at Arsenal. Right now we just aren't good enough to win a trophy. We need to offload some players and we need to start looking at other players who could come in and address our shortcomings. Click to continue reading...

Watching our collapse against Manchester United set me to thinking about what changes we need to make at Arsenal. Right now we just aren't good enough to win a trophy. We need to offload some players and we need to start looking at other players who could come in and address our shortcomings. Click to continue reading...

Arsenal will have to face a top European team in Champions League qualification this August after Chelsea secured third place with a 4-1 mauling of the Gunners. Alex headed in the opener despite Arsenal's early dominance and Nicolas Anelka struck with a superb effort before half time. A Kolo Toure own goal wrapped up three points for [. Click to continue reading...

Arsenal and Chelsea both have to pick themselves up after midweek disappointments in the Champions League, to contest a London derby on Sunday, which is about nothing more than pride. For Arsenal, the season is now over. They are out of the FA Cup at the semi-final stage, out of the Champions League at [. Click to continue reading...

Arsenal and Chelsea both have to pick themselves up after midweek disappointments in the Champions League, to contest a London derby on Sunday, which is about nothing more than pride. For Arsenal, the season is now over. They are out of the FA Cup at the semi-final stage, out of the Champions League at the semi-final [. Click to continue reading...

Morning all. Well, it was pretty bloody awful wasn't it? This match is like Chlamydia, it's awful and disgusting and yet it just will not go away. While I'll admit to not being confident heading into yesterday, I was at least hopeful. I thought maybe we could at least get the first goal and give ourselves a chance to prove we could hold them off, but I was wrong. Click to continue reading...