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The Good The bad and the ugly

In the fourth minute of the first premier league game this season some good work by Clichy gave Nasri an easy opportunity, to open his premier league account. There was an expectation of a rout after the early goal, but West Brom dug in and the onslaught never came.

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Jack Wilshere or Nacer Barazite

Ask the average fan who is the best player to come out of the youth system this season and the answer you’ll most likely get is Jack Wilshere, put the same question to someone who’ve watched reserve team football and you’ll be guaranteed a different answer, most likely Nacer Barazite.
After watching last night’s game I [...]

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Arsenal FC season preview - The Defence

Continuing the season preview, I’ve decided to skip the leave the midfield for last. You can read the first part in this post . Mostly because we have so many options in the middle yet still look short. So what is the outlook on our defence?
Popular opinion seems to conclude that we need to sign [...]

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Adebayor to extend contract at Arsenal FC

Quotes from Adebayor today discussion later
Today I have to say it is clear to everyone and when I was on holidays, there was a lot of speculations and a lot of people were talking on behalf of Adebayor, which was never me, so yes I have never say I would leave the club and there [...]

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Arsenal FC season preview - The strikers

Wenger on our strikers
“We are not as short of strikers as people thought,” said Wenger. “In all areas, we are still maybe one player short, but up front we don’t need anybody.”
If this statement was made two or three weeks earlier, most fans would not have agrees with the boss. It just goes [...]

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A real sense of Deja Vu

Ok, so  I’m back after a couple weeks off. Just in time for the new season, I’m excited and ready to go. There is of course a few things that have irritated during the break.
There is a myth perpetuated by the media that with so many players leaving the Arsenal during the summer, Arsenal is [...]

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How to be a tabliod journalist.

So you wanna be a tabloid journo eh? It’s easy peasy man, just make up a catchy headline, take quotes rearrange them to your liking, add editorial comment around them to make your headline plausible and bada bing you have a column that will sell copies. That’s the job, to sell copies, the more bizarre [...]

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Arsenal Chairman wants to keep Adebayor

Peter Hill-wood is adamant that Adebayor will be staying at Arsenal. He (Hill-Wood) was quoted in the daily Telegraph as saying
“We want him to stay, definitely. Adebayor still has a long time (three years) left on his contract, and we have absolutely no intention of releasing him from that contract. “You want to keep [...]

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