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2-0 flamini Arsenal vs Newcastle

Well hello everyone, sorry I’ve been gone the last two days. I was down in Orlando watching my beloved Boston Celtics lose to the Magic. However I did get to see highlights from the big 3-0 win against Newcastle.

Emmanuel Adebayor scored two more impressive goals and let me have a few words on him. There are still people out there that do not think he belongs in the side. He has scored eighteen goals this season and we aren’t even out of January yet. He has already passed Henry’s total from last year, and even though Henry was injured a lot of the year, there were people saying it was impossible to match his production. Adebayor has gone a long way to ease this transition just by himself and if he keeps scoring at this pace he’ll easily score 25 goals in the league. Eight more in four months should be child’s play for him. He could even get close to the 33 total that Henry scored two years ago. He’s been outstanding for us and anyone who says he doesn’t belong in the team should start watching matches.

In other news, the FA Cup draw threw us up a tough one, as we have to go to Manchester United. That will certainly be a tough game and now we have to play there twice before the end of the season, once in the cup and once in the league. Should be a dandy.

Now for some transfer news, Arsene Wenger says he didn’t bid for Jonathan Woodgate. Well thank God.

A twenty-one year old Wolfsburg player, Edin Dzeko, is apparently a target for us as well. Never heard of him but he plays forward. I don’t think there is much to the story, they only wrote it because Boro Primorac had a quote about him.

In injury news, Kolo Toure was injured at the ACN but it is just a thigh strain and shouldn’t be any big problem. Tomas Rosicky was injured in the first ten minutes Saturday but Wenger says he should only be out, “days not weeks.” And some very good news, Robin van Persie is expected back in training on Tuesday. Let’s hope he isn’t rushed back too early this time as we could really use him for the last part of the season.

Cheers to beating Newcastle again.

So Emmanuel Eboue, off at the African Cup of Nations, apparently doesn’t watch Arsenal while he’s away yet still feels the need to comment on events that transpire in his absence. I don’t know who asked Eboue for his comments or if he just felt like running his yap but somebody interviewed him about what happened between Bendtner and Adebayor in the match the other day. He had this to say about it:

“I don’t know what happened. I tried to call my friend and he said to me that Adebayor punched Bendtner. But I didn’t ask him why. I am going to call Ade and speak to him about it. It is no good for a young player to see that on the pitch. For me, you have to take care when you are on the pitch and be careful because a lot people are watching the game. I am hungry when I am playing, but I hope I would never punch someone.“

So I guess his friend doesn’t watch the match either, because he certainly didn’t punch Nick. I think if Eboue isn’t even going to bother watching the match he should keep his mouth shut about anything that happens and concentrate on his own game. Just my opinion.

But that isn’t all Eboue said. He’s also saying that Milan and Juventus both want to sign him.

“I didn’t want to talk about that. What I can say is that many big clubs spoke to Arsenal about a transfer in the January transfer window.”

Well if you didn’t want to talk about it, why didn’t you just not answer? I’m sick of this pandering to other clubs just saying everyone and their sister’s uncle wants them to increase their value. It’s nice when players are just happy where they play and with their pay, but I guess this is how it’s gotten.

I don’t think Milan or Juventus are really interested in Eboue. I can’t imagine why they would be. He’s been complete shite out on the wing for us this year and really wasn’t that good of a defender either. He is still young and should just concentrate on improving his game and trying to succeed with Arsenal and stop talking. I think it would help.

In other news, Adebayor didn’t get into any trouble with the FA. It’s been reported on all the other blogs so I’m not going to go into detail on that, but it’s very good news because we need him.

Looking ahead to Newcastle, it looks like Clichy and Senderos will be back for us, which is definitely an improvement. Hoyte looked bad last match and Clichy I think is one of the best left backs in the league.

Bacary Sagna has been seduced by the FA Cup. He said he would sleep with the Cup every night and run his hands all over it. No but really he just wants to win it in his first season. That would be nice.

In injury news, it looks like Denilson will be out for the next month at least and RvP and Djourou still have no real time table.

That’s about all I have today. Off to Orlando for the weekend to watch the Celtics vs the Magic and go to Disney World. Up the mighty Gunners!

So if you haven’t heard, Emmanuel Adebayor and Nicky Bendtner had a bit of a row during the game Tuesday. Apparently when he came on he said to Nick, “I’m only on because you’re shite,” says The Sun, who is of course always 100% accurate. Gallas went and stepped in to kind of break it up. The FA are looking into it, which seems a bit stupid to me but the FA isn’t known for being the smartest blokes in the world.

Yesterday though Adebayor apologized for the fight saying:

“We are a strong unit and what happened last night against Spurs will strengthen our desire and determination to compete for other targets. We are both passionate about this club and sometimes that can be projected in the wrong way. It was a mistake. We want to focus on the games ahead and rely on our squad’s great togetherness to achieve a fantastic season.“

So we don’t really know what the fight was about but hopefully they will put it behind them as soon as possible. I think Adebayor will because that kind of thing doesn’t seem like it would bother him, but Bendtner has shown that he does take his issues harshly and speaks publicly about them. He seems like a bit of a head case but maybe that is just because he is young. He is definitely a quality player though and hopefully this won’t upset him too much.

Remember yesterday when I said we should send Theo Walcott on loan? Well now the Daily Mail is reporting that we are going to do just that. I think it would be good for him to get away for a bit and get some first team action somewhere else. Hopefully that doesn’t lead to his departure as a lot of loans do, because I do think he will be quality. He just isn’t quite there yet.

Looking ahead, we play Newcastle twice in a row coming up, in the FA Cup and in the league, and we need to win both. We already played terribly once this year against them and it’s time to correct that. We can’t afford it to be like last year where we went out of a bunch of cups in a row. Hopefully the team picks their heads up and goes out there with a strong performance. I’d expect to see our best team out there for both matches so lets hope for two wins in a row.

You know if I’m playing footy with my team I often call my team mates things like “shite-faced cunts” and things just to have a laugh, not because they really have faces full of shite. Maybe Ade was just trying to be humorous? And who knows what he really said you can’t believe what the press writes about it anyways. Important thing is not what happened, but what happens in the future. Adebayor has been scoring all year long and he, Sagna, and Hleb have been our best players in my opinion. It is up to Wenger and Gallas how the team comes back from an internal incident like this. Adebayor has already apoligized, which was the right step. Let’s just hope Bendtner can put on his big boy pants now and suck it up and play. Cheers to a win against Newcastle!

Come on you Gunners!

Yes yes, I’m back. I’ve had a bit of a blogger’s block if you will, but after watching the match yesterday I had to write something. If you didn’t know already, we lost 5-1 for a total of 6-2 on aggregate and Sp*rs are through to the final. Bloody terrible and it made me cringe while watching it. I thought about finding a bridge to jump off of but it would have wasted too much gas.

So I’m not going to bother with a match report since it was so bloody terrible. Check out Arsenal.com if you really want to read one. I do however have some observations.

First off, this is NOT the same Cesc we saw at the beginning of the season before his injury. He was scoring goals and playing some of the best football I’ve seen. Lately he has been very sloppy and his passing has been off, and apparently he left he shooting boots in 2007 because he hasn’t been hitting the target. I don’t know if he isn’t 100% healthy or if he’s just in a bad patch of form but let’s hope he turns this around soon.

Secondly, Theo Walcott has not looked like he is ready to play at this level. Sure every now and then he has a good game or a good twenty minute appearance where you think he’s going to be great all the time but he is consistently not where we need him to be. He was miserable yesterday. I don’t know what needs to be done but he isn’t ready to play in the Arsenal first team yet. Maybe loan him out. Who knows?

Third and final is that we really need Kolo Toure back. Hoyte wasn’t completely miserable but I don’t think there was very good communication at all between him and Gallas. I just hope our league performances will still be good even with a different pairing than the preferred one at the back.

Good performances I think were from Sagna who is almost always outstanding, and Diaby who was solid with his passing and also took some shots.

Arsene Wenger spoke after the game saying,

“Of course it is disappointing because we lost. I feel that everything went against us. We were always in the situation where we were chasing the score. We were open to counterattacking and we were not mature enough to stop the counterattacking.“

That’s about it for this day. Feel free to write any comments about your views on any of it.

Hello all, just wanted to say a Merry Christmas to everyone that supports Arsenal and reads the site. Thanks for that. Cheers to being top of the league halfway through, and let’s hope it continues.

So the Champion’s League draw was today and it came out a nice one for us. We were drawn against AC Milan. The first leg will be played at the Emirates, followed by the return trip to the San Siro two weeks later. Remember playing Inter in the San Siro? We ran train on them.

Honestly, I’m not that worried about playing Milan. Everyone says it is the toughest draw we could have gotten, but has anyone watched Milan this year? They have Kaka and a bunch of old cunts. They have been terrible in the league. They won the Club World Championship or whatever it’s called but there weren’t any teams that could compete with us or them in the tournament.

I think we can and will beat them. We’ve done well in big games this year. Two draws and a win against the top four and we’ve looked good in the Champion’s League. Who here would like another 5-1 in the San Siro?

So work is killing me. I have 42 and a half hours just this week, which is ridiculous since I work a part time job. But since I last wrote, we’ve had two matches and won them both, in the league against Chelsea and in the Carling Cup against Blackburn.

So first, the victory over the scum from across the Thames. Can anyone on Earth feel better than William Gallas right now? He’s scored against Man United in the 93rd minute to earn a draw, and he beat his former team with a goal that he scored. I was thinking it was a bit of a stupid move to make Gallas the captain, but now I see whatever Wenger saw. The guy is massive for us. I’d say after Cesc and maybe RvP he is our most important player to the team right now. He is always steady at the back and he has shown he knows when to get forward. More importantly, he knows how to finish when he gets there.

As for the game as a whole, we pretty much had the better side in the first half. We were passing well but didn’t get the goal until the 45th minute. Cesc sent in the corner and Cech made an arse of himself and forgot to grab the ball and Gallas soared to head it into the corner. The second half was very fast paced both ways and we had two more good chances to score. RvP and Cesc were both returning form injury and you would think that they both would have scored if they were up to their normal fitness levels. Chelsea had a few chances but Almunia was very solid in goal saving a few good shots from them. So it was a good win that put the pressure back on Man U and we are top of the league again. Liverpool are now ten points behind us and you wonder how long it will be until they win another title. It could be a long time with Benitez in charge.

On to the Blackburn game. We changed the entire side from the one that played against Chelsea and started such well known players as Mark Randall against Blackburn’s first team side. We scored in the fifth minute when Bendtner crossed for Abou Diaby and he sent a swerving half volley into the opposite corner. Friedel never had a chance at it and it was a great goal. We almost scored right after that when Bendtner hit the bar with a good effort. The next goal didn’t take long after though. We went up 2-0 on a good finish by Eduardo. On 41 mintues though Blackburn pulled one back through Roque Santa Cruz, who I’ve decided has too much skill to play for Blackburn very long. So halftime came and it was 2-1, but not for long as Santa Cruz put in another shortly after the restart. So it was 2-2 and the game was wide open for the taking. Randall came off for Barazite and in the 90th minute Denilson got his second booking and was sent off. It went into extra time and in the 105th minute Eduardo got his second. Alex Song of all people made a great run from the back with the ball and sent Eduardo through and he made a great finish of it. We held on with 10 men after that and got the 3-2 win.

I’ve been quite critical of Eduardo, but he did have a good performance in this match. Maybe this is his level though…he doesn’t seem to perform at all in league matches and maybe at least for this year this will be where he makes his mark. He’s been a bit shite every other time he’s played. We will see.

As for Lasagna Diarra wanting to leave Arsenal, let him. He isn’t all that good and if he isn’t willing to work for playing time then we are better off without him. Every player that comes to Arsenal has to earn their spot. Very few times has an established player come in and just gone straight into the team. You can think of Pires, Gallas, Sol Campbell, and maybe Rosicky, but other than them, every other player has had to prove he can play to get into the team. See ya Diarra.

Alright that’s all for today. Have to finish Christmas shopping. Later all. Cheers to Captain Gallas.

First loss of the season, and we played terribly…more to come later on today.

Hello everyone, another away league fixture today against a team coached by one of the fatest twats I know. It’s up to St. James’ Park to play Newcastle, a team that have really just been terrible so far this year. They defend about as badly as the scum and they haven’t really scored goals either. However, this isn’t one we should be taking for granted as they do have some quality players and could give us a game, especially away from home.

Some team news ahead of the game, Cesc, Hleb, Diaby, RvP, and Flamini are all out with injuries. I would assume it will be Diarra and Gilberto starting in the midfield. Denilson is the other option. Up front I can see us going with Eduardo and Adebayor, and the usual back four of Sagna, Toure, Gallas, and Clichy. Rosicky on one wing and Eboue on the other even though I don’t think he’s very good there. RvP is reportedly two weeks away from returning to action. Wish it was sooner.

That’s really all I have for the preview so now just some news.

Bacary Sagna (my new favorite player) has delighted Arsene Wenger at how quickly he has adapted to the English game. He really has been quite good in defense AND going forward. Hoyte was better than Eboue at defending, while Eboue was the better attacker. Sagna is better than both of them at both. I didn’t think we needed him during the summer, but Wenger yet again has proved me wrong.

Emmanuel Adebayor says he wouldn’t mind staying with Arsenal for the rest of his career.

“In a way, Henry’s departure has liberated me. Today I know I will play, so I can dare much more.

“Deep inside of me, I never wanted to leave. Arsenal is a family club, where I hope to end my career.

“The team is young and we want to win a lot of trophies together.“

And you can’t really say it any better than that. Ade is having a much better year this year and if you don’t like him by now remember that he is still only 23 and will keep improving. He is a beast and I’d love for him to stay until his career is over.

And here is Arsene Wenger yet again talking about how we can win the Premiership.

And that’s all I have. Here’s a Nicky Bendtner to Chelsea story but I couldn’t be arsed with it. Come on you Gunners!