Monday 11 July 2011

Transfer Tittle-Tattle

Ahhh! The Beckhams have had a baby girl (or as you say in Essex ‘ge-uw’). The name? Well that’s always a source of great interest as celebrities seem unable to call a child anything resembling a name.

I was convinced the answer would have something to do with his nibs’s football/modelling career so I had my money on Bernabeu, with a couple of side-bets on Police and Row-Z (where that scuffed penalty kick ended up in 2004).

Sorry pet but this is your Mum and Dad.

But it turns out they’ve named her after an obscure Australian lager: Harper Seven. Although Becks was pretty keen on Guildford Four. He discounted Birmingham Six as he couldn't imagine them scoring that many.

Obviously the ‘seven’ bit is cos she’s sixth in the family and after they got past four they lost count. As for Harper, I guess Posh reckoned it had royal connotations (as in Harpers & Queen’s) or they have a fondness for loyal bench-warming Geordie goalies who’ve finally secured a first team place.

Still it’s the silly season at the mo. Football carries on in a kind of Heat-magazine style gossip form. The chippiest kid on the block at the mo is Little Luka Modric. Having never listened to Elvis Costello he really wants to go to Chelsea. He’s such a tiny wee thing, it’s hard not to feel like he’s being bullied out of the sort of wage packet that Even Fred Goodwin might come out of hiding for.

You can’t help thinking of Suzanne Vega’s plaintive little tune: ‘My name is Luka, I live on the second floor, I play for Tottenham, Yes I guess you’ve seen me before, If you hear something late at night, some kind of trouble, some kind of fight... chances are it’ll be Daniel Levy coming round with the thumbscrews and the baseball bat.’

Modric says he had a gentleman’s agreement to discuss matters if a bigger club came in for him. Note the carefree use of the term ‘bigger club’. What he means is ‘richer’. A club’s size is directly correlated to its wealth. There are no other factors: forget tradition, loyalty, relationship with the fans.

"What?.... 80 grand a week, Mr. Levy? Call yourself a gentleman!"

Nevertheless I think Modric has been naive – and given he’s only twelve years old you hardly blame him for that. Perhaps he should ask Martin Jol about gentlemen’s agreements with THFC. Fact is, Modric can’t be sold now without Levy and Spurs looking like spotty teenagers trying to keep hold of their half a cider at a night-club for big boys.

You might say that Levy’s taking his cue from Wenger’s successful retention of Cesc Fabregas this time last year. And a lot of good that did them. When he wasn’t crocked Cesc was as unremarkable as an English penalty shoot-out defeat, as if half of him was already tika-taka-land – a point he proved with that impish backheel at the Nou Camp.

Of course Arsenal is the hub of football speculation at the mo. The fans are beginning to lose faith in the Wenger Plan – a kind of tika-taka lite – the same as Barca but without the burden of all them heavy trophies.

Clichy has jetted off from the Emirates to the Etihad. Bendtner has finally been given to leave to piss off somewhere – anywhere, probably. Apparently Niclas would have sent his resignation himself but he just missed the post. He could’ve e-mailed it but he couldn’t find the net either.

And England’s very own Manuel Almunia is destined to leave too. ‘Almunia’ always sound like a little-known department of rural Spain to me: a place where people constantly wander aimlessly out of their homes only to wonder why they left the door wide open.

Gervinho has arrived. Now there’s more to being a top footy player than adding ‘inho’ to your name like you’re some kind of honorary Brazilian (hmm... that sounds like something that comes with being made a freewoman of Romford).

Despite that, and a headband that’s so tight it resembles the sort of thing shepherds clamp on to lambs’ tails, the lad’s a class act.

But Fabregas will return to his beloved Barca, which leaves a question mark over Samir Nasri, the player of the first half of last season (unsurprisingly as that is Arsenal’s favourite bit of the season – the bit with no pressure).

Samir’s in demand. In fact if your club haven’t put a bid in for him then you support a club with no ambition. (NB – in the current climate of club football, ‘ambition’ is another word for ‘money’: c.f ‘bigger’).

But according to The Sun – which could mean it’s (a) untrue or (b) confidential or (c) just summat some copper told them - Wenger’s keeping him. And Fabregas. Such is Arsene’s self-belief, he is unable to comprehend either of them leaving even if that means another season of winning nowt.

"Shh, don't tell Arsene I had my fingers crossed when I promised to stay!"

Given half a chance I reckon Wenger would be checking the back of Clichy’s head to see where the Man City spies inserted the brain-altering microchip. But before Gooners everywhere start jumping with joy at the news, a little reminder for you: these blokes were there last year, and the year before...

And there’s no sign of Wenger bagging a decent centre-back yet. He’ll be in for Samba but he’ll come out with some no-mark Colombian called Passo Doble. And where’s the midfielder who likes a tackle? (That’s a tackle – not the Wilshere-trademarked studs-up lunge).

Chances are that 2011-12 will be the identikit Arsenal experience. A bright start, a lot of cooing, a centre-back injury, a quarter-final Champs League defeat, a Cup semi-final, and a drastic loss of form come February. The football equivalent a lover that brings you to the point of climax and then stops to ask you whether you think they’re any good at it.

Meanwhile I’m still trying to get over the Women’s World Cup defeat. Hopefully in 20 years time little Harper Seven Beckham will be taking the deciding penalty. And doing it better than her Dad.

192 comments:

  1. Plenty of Ar***al talk in this blog,so I expect the boots to be filled in the comments section.

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  2. Emerging From Gorse11 July 2011 at 12:58

    I think the Beckham's somehow ended up naming their daughter after the time of birth.

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  3. mornin' Lads. great stuff Robboinho.

    The world is back to normal then, unlimited Arsenal. They'll sign Cahill this week, leaving us held up by the Redcar Rock and Zat Knight. It'll be a roller coaster season for the Trotters with a top four spost just out of reach!

    Spit and Blog, thanks for the driving licence advice. I'll be the blurr on the speed cameras.

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  4. Afternoon everybody.

    Thanks Robbo for reminding that this season is going to be the same as last few have been. In fact I guess we all are very much prepared for it this time.

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  5. My name is Luka, I live on the second floor,.....
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    I knew this song had a use...

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  6. Bendtner has finally been given to leave to piss off somewhere – anywhere, probably. Apparently Niclas would have sent his resignation himself but he just missed the post. He could’ve e-mailed it but he couldn’t find the net either.
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  7. Emerging From Gorse said...
    I think the Beckham's somehow ended up naming their daughter after the time of birth.
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    chuckle...

    time of birth: Harper seven.

    chuckle chuckle.

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  8. also, Gercinho is a good 5 years over the previous cut of age limit Arsene had going for any signings to the club.

    can only be good.

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  9. So its that time again for the annual Cesc Fibreglass transfer tedium. Yawn. Can someone please get it sorted by the time I get back from me hols as I’m utterly bored of it. All summer, every summer.
    Has he been at Arsenal long enough to be called English yet?
    That Nasri is a canny player mind when he can be bothered. Looked proper brilliant in that match against England. I realise the opposition was poor (us) but he stood out as being one of the few people on the pitch who knew where the ball was when it was at his feet, if u know what I mean.
    Anyone think he'd fancy a spell at Leeds? He would have to loose the snood and gloves of course as he just looks like a twat

    Korgull

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  10. West Bromwich Albion are the latest club to show an interest in Owen Hargreaves
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    there'S a transfer I'd like to see happen.

    The baggies will profit from any number of games owen may be able to play for them. I guess their goal is cementing a place in the PL.

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  11. OK becks is not bright but then Stephen Hawkings not great at football neither

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  12. Bog Sam on the milk snatcher...

    http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/09072011/58/premier-league-allardyce-thatcher-killed-football.html

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  13. Actually, methinks Sir David of Beckham is going a bit "mutton"..
    Victoria - Davy darlin' can we call our new sprog summat normal this time?
    SDoB - Wassat? 'alf past seven I think.
    V - Brilliant! Oooh Davy you are a one...

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  14. Spit - Big Sam on a trampoline - what an image - I'm glad I wasn't eating my lunch when I read that!

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  15. Vendor of Quack Nostrums11 July 2011 at 15:20

    Roger T - you're about 2 hours late with the time of birth gag mate.
    About as slow on the uptake as the lad Becks, perhaps?!

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  16. Aaah, but I did put the same thing on my FB page at 9am....does that count?? :)

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  17. Seven? George Costanza's gettin' upset!

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  18. Most of these footballers only care about their weekly wage packet. Why else would you sign up for Man City, given the first team squad has about 20 players for each position (except goalie)? If Man City didn't have the Etihadis funding the club, they wouldn't have much "ambition" that's for sure. One day the money is going to run out and then there'll be an almighty crash in the blue quarter of Manchester.

    And Bendtner... wants to leave a team that plays the sweetest football (okay, doesn't win them anything) in the EPL to join Aston Villa, Fulham, Bolton or Newcastle?

    The Beckhams wanted a little girl, and having got one, they give her a boy's name? One that is more a last name than a first name? The seven could be Beck's Man Utd number, and her name is really spelt Harper7 or maybe it took seven penalties for David to score with Victoria?

    I'll get my coat...
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  19. Several England players hit back at Hope Powell after their coach accused some of them of "cowardice" ahead of the Women's World Cup quarter-final penalty shootout. Midfielder Jill Scott Tweets: "You win as a team, you lose as a team. And defender Casey Stoney tells 5 live: "I don't think anyone's a coward and that's not the impression got from Hope when she debriefed us after the game. She said she was very proud and we should hold our heads up high."
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    I think its just a testament to the gender equality that we have achieved in Ingerland.

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  20. how come she was organising that kind of thing in the heat of the moment? yes the strikeresses should have stepped forwards but criticising them post hoc is pretty cowardly as well and, worse, shows bad preparation by hope-less

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  21. there's nowt to dislike about the beckhams but they are living cartoons with so little substance I expect they'd blow away in a stiff breeze. that photo is laughable.

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  22. Inter Milan midfielder Wesley Sneijder is poised to seal a £35m switch to Manchester United this week. The Netherlands international's earnings will surpass striker Wayne Rooney's £220,000-a-week wages at Old Trafford.
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    what do you mean, city are the money bags?

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  23. the Bekhams:

    the man was a top class footballer and is a national sporting icon. If the rest of the imbeciles of the golden shower generation had an iota of his determination to trot out for the national team and give his all (fucked up penalties included) they might have won a trophy or two.

    as far as how the circus 'Beckhams' goes, dont bother me at all.

    everybody has the right to make a living while looking as ridiculous as they please.

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  24. Manchester City midfielder Nigel de Jong believes his side have taken over from Chelsea as the Premier League's most-hated team.
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    not yet, but getting there.

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  25. Wales have sunk below the Faroe Islands in the world rankings after a Faroese student pointed out a mistake in Fifa's calculations.
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    ho hum.

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  26. Hoof Hearted....(still chucklin')

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  27. The Beckhams are probably the most harmless and least disliked (even liked maybe) of all footy celebrity couples. Not the sharpest knives in the draw but the man has enough heart on the field to make up for the remaining 10 players, and in my book that makes him okay.

    ManU's team is beginning to look dangerously scary. If Van der saar hadnt retired, it would've been really bothersome.young,nani and sneijder in midfiled with rooney and hernandez ahead of them is going to cause many a problem for oppositions defences.

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  28. AH, you've done alright too. I was just reading about Charlie Adam's happiness at finally being a Liverpool player. Looks like KD is happy too, finally somebody there can understand a fuckin' word he says.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/14106863.stm

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  29. I think Liverpool have done very well in securing Adam.

    An able replacement for Gerrard.

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  30. Trotts...I think one of the reasons for the late revival last season was the fact that no one knew what he was talking about and hence did their own thing. It can only be downhill from here now that he has a translator.

    Seriously though, it will certainly be downhill if we cant sign a decent winger or two (or Downing even). Actually, I thought Downing looked pretty good last season for Villa. Cant understand why the vast majority of folks on the liverpool message boards dont want him. Specially since the alternative is Maxi.

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  31. Spitfire said...

    An able replacement for Gerrard.
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    However, if we wanted someone just like Stevie, he would have needed to be somewhat disabled for most of the season.

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  32. You will never see Stuart henman or Tim downing in the same room for fey androids at the same time, ever

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  33. Hamburg confirm interest in Arsenal striker Nicklas Bendtner
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    Go Hamburg!!

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  34. stoke have signed Carlton Cole . all he needs is a set of kids stabilizer wheels a few pies for energy and a kick up the arse and that could be a v. good Signing .

    Meanwhile ledley king has had a knee implant. Surgeons successfully inserted a knee between his Femur and Tibia and removed the lump of gristle and chewing gum that the previous owner of the legs, chelsea pensioner Albert padlock, 97, had put there in 1917 when his legs were shot off on the Road to mandalay by a German howitzer

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  35. poor Albert. legs shot off at 3 years old, it's almost as bad as being eaten by a lion.

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  36. AnfieldHopeful said...
    Spitfire said...

    An able replacement for Gerrard.
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    However, if we wanted someone just like Stevie, he would have needed to be somewhat disabled for most of the season.

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    That's right AH, you should jump in for Owen Hargreaves!

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  37. TrotterUSA said...
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    An able replacement for Gerrard.
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    However, if we wanted someone just like Stevie, he would have needed to be somewhat disabled for most of the season.

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    That's right AH, you should jump in for Owen Hargreaves!
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    yeah, but StevieMe does play half a season.

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    Now Im confused abt who said it, but you guys are cracking me up. Laughing out loud in the office with folks looking at my like Im nuts, and no one has even said anything.

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  43. From Chief football writer Phil McNulty on Twitter: "Quotes attributed to Inter technical director Marco Branca in Italy this afternoon saying Wesley Sneijder is 'absolutely not for sale'."

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    If that's what McNulty has to say, then Sneijder is probably already in manchester for his medical.

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  44. Marco Branca - scored a cracker for the Boro v Lpoo in league cup semi - then retired - or was told to reitre - thats if its the same one - very classy

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  45. ANother italian (Gianluca Festa) has a good goal disalloawed for the Boro v Chavs - minutes before half time in FA Cup Final - FINAL I tells ya

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  46. There was a bloke sat next to me tonight - he was called Wesley Sneider - ok he wasn't - but he did ask me if I knew any jokes about Sodium - I said "Na"

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  47. http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8272204/salon-owner-kept-robber-as-sex-slave

    I have two questions after reading this article:
    1) Is this the greatest news story ever told?
    2) Where is this salon?

    Noel

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  48. Saint Basil was an unorthodox saint infamous for his naked walks around Moscow in the bitter cold, shoplifting and for his open mockery of Ivan the Terrible......

    Well he didn't have much to lose, did he, old basil

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  49. Maradona hit by a bus. Driven by Peter Shilton.

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  50. And that completes my Review if the Papers. Booooiiinnngggg...

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  51. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-14134851

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    the fuckers!!

    I was hoping they let him in and UK could ban him from entering...

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  52. Newcastle's Joey Barton denied US visa

    Nargh Spit - he would just need to join Al Qaeeda or sumat and he would get a special invite back in - to speak at the House of Commons maybe :)

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  53. I have to come to believe that if you intend to be a crook, a mug or a downright cunt (or an asshole), no use being a small time one.

    Go big and you become untouchable.

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  54. Followingborohurts said...
    Newcastle's Joey Barton denied US visa

    Nargh Spit - he would just need to join Al Qaeeda or sumat and he would get a special invite back in - to speak at the House of Commons maybe :)
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    should take Al Shaera along...

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  55. How far is your premier league team travelling on pre season friendlies?

    Liverpool racking up nearly 20,000 miles.

    Swansea City?

    19.

    http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00623/preseasonG_623252a.jpg

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  56. if i was in a room with stalin, hitler and joey barton and only 2 bullets in my gun i would shoot.....









































    .....joey barton. twice.

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  57. blogdignag said...

    if i was in a room with stalin, hitler and joey barton
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    You would be the luckiest person if that were to happen!

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  58. BojanglesOfOz said...
    I'd shoot myself twice
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    so you wouldnt learn anything from the first shot?

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  59. blogdignag said...

    if i was in a room with stalin, hitler and joey barton
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    The odour of putrid rotting flesh would be unbearable.













    I imagine Hitler and Stalin would pong a bit too.
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    I'm trying like crazy to find that hairdressers in Russia...

    I'd love a new pair of jeans.

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  60. I'm not too sure Mrs Jack would let me use it as an advertising plan H2.

    But one of my customers is in the schmutter trade,so I could get you some decent jeans.....

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  61. Cheers Jacks, but the russians are also offering viagra...

    That's some stiff competition.

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  62. Too hard for me H2.

    Slackers day today (1 o'clock finish).

    Off to the theatre tonight to take Mrs and Mmes Jack to see Joseph and his 3D HD ready coat with built in freeview (or something like that)

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  63. Ahh theatre, I kinda miss that a bit, we get all the shows over here, but they're all in dutch and that makes them pretty sucky. I saw Miss Saigon a number of years ago. The decour was good, but like I just mentioned it was in dutch, so sucky.

    Enjoy your, as God and Andrew Lyodd Webber intended, good old English Theatre experience.

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  64. mornin' Lads, Cahill for Chelsea then, dithering old Arsene best pull his finger out!as I'm flying that way tonight I would have been very happy to pass JB going in the other direction!

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  65. i saw a couple of good shows in amsterdam, H. they were as you say pretty sucky.

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  66. Be careful he doesn't try to hide in your suitcase Trott.

    It's illeagel to smuggle shit over the border.

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  67. whose JB? and what club does he play for?

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  68. have a good time in Englandland, trott. its for sale you know. winter is now evenly distributed throughout the year, on a random basis eg today. and the football doesnt start for another month. and the pies are getting smaller and the beer is getting flatter, wait i feel a poem coming on ...jcc. featured, somewar incongruously i thought, on The Sopranos ...

    the bloody pies are bloody old
    the bloody chips are bloody cold
    the bloody beer is bloody flat
    the bloody flats have bloody rats
    the bloody clocks are bloody wrong
    the bloody days are bloody long
    it bloody gets you bloody down
    evidently chicken town

    yep that must have really pissed tony soprano off, his chips being cold like that

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  69. JB would be one Joseeph of Barton.

    Not to sure if what he does could be classed as "play"

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  70. That should be the new national anthem when William takes over the throne, Bloggs.

    I mean, God Save The Queen will just sound silly, won't it?

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  71. time yet for wills to have his sex change, H, to save the bother of us all having to learn that new, er, word, in the national anthem

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  74. Good idea Bloggs. That would make Elizabeth the real queen's mum.

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  75. god save the king
    a fascist thing

    no, youre right. it dont work

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  76. one way forward would be to sack the queen and replace her with andrew lloyd-webber

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  77. Get him to write a new anthem while he's at it.
    I'm sure he can come up with better lyrics.
    He helped me with an ode to two of my ex girlfriends;

    "Don't cry for me, Marge and Tina".

    It was well good.

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    Good advice that Blog, you should start writing a travel blog for the British Tourist Board, I hate overcrowding!

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  79. finally, I think I might go in to get my drivers licence updated...

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14135523

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  80. at the coronation the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards camp it up down the Mall playing a medley from Cats

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  81. Message from The New English Tourist Board:

    Foreigners! Fuck off! We've got enough problems of our own!

    (Consultant copy writer: Gazza Gascoigne)

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  82. Message from The New English Tourist Board:

    Foreigners! Fuck off! We've got enough foreigners of our own!

    (Consultant copy writer: Daily Mail)

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  83. What H? There's a plague too?

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  84. It's to keep the foriegners away, Trott.

    For those who are up for some footy.

    Malaysia v Arsenal;

    http://www.soccertvlive.net/watch/72913/1/watch-malaysia-vs-arsenal.html

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  85. Joseph (Barton) and his Techniclor Vomit Coat.

    In act 1 Joseph dreams he's good enough to play for england. in his dream he's the best midfielder in england and to prove it he punches out a teenager in macdonalds. His manager is given Joseph's coat covered in vomit as proof that he can overcome all adversity when it comes to punching out teenagers looking the other way.


    In Act 2, Joseph is the slave of the fat gormless geordie millionaire Pharoah Mick Ashley and his sidekick manic depressive pop crooner Nick Astley, of Never Going to Give You up fame.

    Nick interprets Josephs dream as meaning macdonalds take aways cause violence and sets out on a one man campaign to ban the big whopper. In a case of mistaken identity, Joseph escapes from slavery and punches out nick astley as he protests in a sandwich board outside washington tyne on wear macdonalds

    Epilogue : Jospeh wakes up. its all gone wrong. hes in prison now. everyone hates him, even his mum. andrew lloyd webber is queen of the realm. macdonalds is still purveying junk food and Pharoah Mick is taking his own club down to the Blue Square premier or whatever its called now.

    Joseph realises he is a scumball but pays a high price for this self-knowledge - he will never play for England again.

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  86. The show ends with two songs:
    "Finale: I will play for Engerland - Any Dream Will Do (Reprise)/Give Me My Vomit Coloured Coat"

    For curtain call in big productions, a rock/disco medley of most of the musical's major numbers "Joseph Barton, Scumbag, Megamix" played by the band of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards

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  87. I can't wait untill that appears (in Dutch) over here Bloggs.

    Ofcourse, the Whopper will have to be replaced by een kroket uit de muur.

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  88. Holloway2Holland said...

    Malaysia v Arsenal;
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    4-0 win for young Gunners!!!

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  89. Blasts in Mumbai...

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    I am safe.

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  90. That'll probably surpass the 'Scouse Trap' as the longest running play in the West End.

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  91. This USA v France women's fixture is the best football match I've watched since I reached puberty.

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  92. Liverpool agree fee with Aston Villa for Stewart Downing
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    I guess we paid up the 25 million then. Hmm..well at least we're filling up the vacant slots now and not just buying more midfielders, so thats something to cheer about. Also seem to have gotten rid of Konchesky to good old Sven, which is something.

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  93. SS ...glad you're unharmed. Hope they get the,twats responsible and slowly torture them to death

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  94. I am fully with Wenger on this one

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/14088970.stm

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  95. Man u and chelsea will look significantly stronger next season after refreshing their superannuated squads. man c players will be too just counting their money to train ... Liverpool on the comeback trail ... arsenal will probably have core players playing in shackles with a goon to their heads and it will be a miracle if they're in the top 6 unless wily old Arsene has a few tricks up his sleeve. You never know, he hasn't had any tricks up his sleeve for 6 years but he might have this year.... He could be busy reanimating and shrinking in his mad football scientist lab the Invincibles like a cries between Cocoon and Honey I Shrunk the Team

    1. Man u. Just let them fucking keep it for fuck sake
    2. Chelsea. The perennial nearly team.
    3. Man c
    4. Liverpool
    5. Stoke
    6. who cares
    7. Who cares
    8. Arsenal .. the perennial entertainers ... seeing you fail year after year in competition after competition . Arsene is Schadenfreudes best friend. "we can win 4 trophies" hahahahaha

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  96. its all gotten out of hand.

    what he really said was 4 truffles...

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  97. 4 bottles.... for the new youngsters that are expected in before the new season begins.

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  98. Honey I Shrunk the Team! Hahahaha (oops laughing at my own joke there, bad form)

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  99. Arsenal!

    hahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahhahahah

    eerrgh errgh errgh

    ahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahhahahah!

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  100. Spitfire said...
    I am fully with Wenger on this one

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/14088970.stm
    \------------------

    I am most definetly not.

    This is a stupid/irresponsible idea and he's only doing it to save face because he was convinced that Nasri would sign a new contract and told the world he would be with us for the new season.

    Remember the Flamini situation? After he was allowed to leave on a free we were promised that that would never be allowed to happen again, yet here we are, with one of our so called assets entering the final 12 months of his contract.

    It has been reported that Man Citeh have offered in the region of 20mill for him, how the fuck can you turn down an offer like that for a player who had three/four good months in a three year stay who is almost 100% certain to walk out for free next season? For a manager and club that pride themselves as being transfer savvy and responsibly run this is just bad business and borders on incompetantance.

    Let him go, take the money and re-invest.

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  101. I love off season. Every year it's the same ol', same ol'. I don't think anyone has had Arsenal staying in the top 4 in the "next season" for the last 6/7 years.

    Yet.............

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  102. H,

    sell to City, yes.

    sell to united, No.

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    obviously, it must never come to a time where the player is his last year of contract. Mistakes were made. Again.

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  103. Also, I hope we dont sell Fabregas to Cuntalona as well.

    make him play as a sub for a year and wehn he handels in atransfer request, sell him to real madrid.

    They have used every dirty trick in the book, tapping up, media campaign, unleashed their xavis and their alves all to make arsenal agree a deal that values him less than a 19 year old Andy Carrol.

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  104. Holloway2Holland said...
    I love off season. Every year it's the same ol', same ol'. I don't think anyone has had Arsenal staying in the top 4 in the "next season" for the last 6/7 years.

    Yet.............

    .............

    Arsenal have underachieved for some considerable time if you look at income (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deloitte_Football_Money_League - looks from this like the more you earn the LESS succesful you become)

    fakt is Arsenal are in recent years consistently the 5th highest earning club in EUROPE. the success on the field bears no relation to this. i know there's the stadium..theres the sustainability...theres the beautiful football .. theres the endless excuses (stoke not playing it on the ground was my favourite) but at some point even you my gooner chums will have to stop defending your woeful record of achievement.

    now it probably doesnt look like it but im a narnia-closet gooner, and want them to do well but really come on, when are you going to acept that wenger's had his day. he's got you thinking top 4 in the league is relative success.

    i will eat these words IF and only IF he manages to buy a tevez hulk kaka ronaldo someone of that calibre but its not going to happen is it?

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  105. anyone know whats happening with Bale? now that would be a signing which demonstrated intent.

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  106. Spit.

    Xavi's always been a twat bag, but this time his comments ("Cesc is suffering") were on the official Barca hom(o)e page, which is more than a little disrespectful and tantamount to tapping up.

    What I can't understand is that if they all love Cesc sooooooooo much and want him back, so they all can have one big barca dna fuckfest, then why don't they make a serious offer for him or at least match Arsenal's valuation? Plus why o why would they spend all of their reported transfer kitty on a Chilean with not a trace of dna from the cuntalonian province?

    It's a mystery inside an enigma wrapped in a purple and red douche bag.

    ===
    It would make no difference to me if Nasri went to Citeh or IOU. If he really wants out and we can get a large sum, then let him go.

    I'm sure he'd be very happy playing men (rubbing) against boys with Patrice fuckstick Evra.

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  107. blog,

    if there was no stadium and no trophies, I'd be with you on the campaign to rid of wenger.

    fact is, there is a stadium.

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  108. Damn you blogidy, with your facts and statistics and truth and stuff.

    Ofcourse you're right, it was a scandal that we finished empty handed last term. There's no shame in losing to IOU and Barca in the FA, CL competitions, but getting bested by a bunch of relegation fodder shit kickers lead by a trogolidite was a sad, sad day for all gooners.

    On the other hand, being a fan, which of course is short for fanatic, means that the bleedin' obvious can be totally ignored when it comes to all matters footy/club related. That's just the way it is, innit?!

    So on that note, I can say, we will win everyfink 'coz we r da bestest, and if we don't, then at least we maybe, might, finish in the top 4 which is a place that the fans of the other 88 clubs that over the last 14 years have finished below us would love, and I mean give anything, trade their soul to Murdoch love, to be in.

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  109. Wots the weather like were yáll are at?

    It's been pissing down here for three days straight.

    I gotta swim to the shops, be back in a bit.

    *grabs scuba gear*

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  110. its cold today yesterday was winter like, H. next week will be tropical. i blame murdoch.

    the year i was in holland, it started raining in november and rained every day until march. then there was a day off and it started raining again.. i concluded those canals are really just waterlogged roads

    fandom, i agree mate, the gap between what you want and what you get can be painful. theres always that tantalising hope. here's an example - this is the year vale featured on the front cover of Shoot and Jimmy greaves tipped us for the cup, not completely sarcastically....

    http://www.onevalefan.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=5393

    mostly sarcastically, re-reading it

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  111. Tour de France enters The Pyrenees today,so we're into Basque country.

    I hope the Ar***al fans like this picture.....

    http://lockerz.com/s/120041366

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  112. Phew, back. *Gobs half pint of rain water out*

    Can't find the thread to that link, blogs.
    ===

    Nice pic Jacks, I personally have nothing against Spain or the Spainish, having lived there for a couple of years, many moons ago. Most of the Barca fans I've met on my travels are genuine down to earth fans and not smary gits as you may expect a club of their prowess to have.
    It's just the club itself is run by a bunch of no-class mongoids and a number of the players fall (head first) into that catergory too, which is a shame because their manager couldn't be a bettter bloke even if he attended a "How to be a great bloke" semina, hosted by the ten time winner of the "Greatest bloke in the world" competition.

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  113. blogdignag said...
    if i was in a room with stalin, hitler and joey barton and only 2 bullets in my gun i would shoot.....


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    All of them. I'd line them up one behind the other and shoot in a straight line twice

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  114. SS11 said...
    Holloway2Holland said...

    Malaysia v Arsenal;
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    4-0 win for young Gunners!!!
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    Did teh Malaysian Army Youth team win then? :)

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  115. adampsb said...

    blogdignag said...
    if i was in a room with stalin, hitler and joey barton and only 2 bullets in my gun i would shoot.....


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    All of them. I'd line them up one behind the other and shoot in a straight line twice
    _________________________________________

    I'd save the 2 bullets for Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant.

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  116. I still can't understand why so many educated people would waste bullets on guys that have been dead for donkeys.

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  117. still like Bo's response best to i would shoot....

    H,youre right that link is fooked. i used to buy Shoot just for the league chart, fill it in for the first week and then give up, demoralised by a 3-0 home defeat to tranmere

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  118. great to see murdochs empire crumbling about his evil ears. trouble is ive got the disconcerting sense that everything else is crumbling as well. its all these oldies expecting to have free pensions paid to them and all these youngies expecting to have free education. its not right.

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  119. I remember the old "Shoot" annuals, ol' xmas stocking fillers in my yoof, that and The Dandy or The Beano. Not all three of course, we wern't royalty, you know.

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  120. Bit harsh Jacks. Surely Jessie J needs to be first shot along with Chris Moyles

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  121. Let's not celebrate the demise of Murdoch too soon, just like the quintesential bad guy, in every horror/thriler movie ever made, that's just supposedly taken a death enducing blow, he'll strike back when you least expect it causing you to semi-choke on your popcorn.

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  122. Indeed although I'd love to see the FBI & Justice Department to start investigating them in the US as the americans aren't afraid to take down big companies when needed

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  123. youre right adam , we saw that with the collapse of Lehman's bank. it also proved to me that Arsenal were paying jens too much. that he could set his own bank up, like. jens lehman. goalie.

    coat!

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  124. Don't forget your umbrella too, it's pissing down.

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  125. Manchester United will use Nani as bait in their bid to lure Sneijder to Old Trafford.
    Full story: Daily Star

    =====
    Good idea.

    I'd also like to suggest that they use Evra as bait if they intend to go shark fishing.

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  126. Indeed although I'd love to see the FBI & Justice Department to start investigating them in the US as the americans aren't afraid to take down big companies when needed
    ===============================================================

    Only the ones thath refuse to cough up when asked.

    H2, the last two days have been glorious down here. Things are expected to change today though.

    I like the image of Nani dangling off a fish hook in shark infested waters.

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  127. Having lost his newspapers in the UK, Murdoch has lost his power to intimidate there, so you guys will soon be rid of the little Yankee wanker nee Aussie wanker. The Murdoch Empire is on the wane, Rupert is over 80 and his offspring are an embarassment to him. There wont be too many teary eyes mourners methinks.

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  128. blogdignag said...

    anyone know whats happening with Bale?
    ----------------------------------------
    Sssssshhhhhhhh Blogs! Teams were starting to forget about bidding for him this summer, then you go and remind them all. I imagine it'll be the same that is happening with Modric - he's just started a 5 year contract, and we're trying to build a team that can regularly qualify for the Champs League, so he won't be sold. And unlike Cescy, Luka and Gareth will carry on playing like professionals and put the team first. I hope.

    Noel

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  129. They reckon everybody has a double. I just saw mine, the only problem is it was on the body of a fucking dog.

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  130. arsenal's "destiny" to win the title this year, arsene says.

    i'm starting to doubt his mental health. youve got a mad man in charge, gooners.

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  131. good luck with that, noel. bale seems down to earth, though, so you might be ok....he'll probably be at man city in august, tho

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  132. better a fucking dog than a mad dog...

    ala gaddafi: the mad dog of africa.

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  133. perhaps Osama bin Laden, didnt die..

    he took over wenger's body and ...

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  134. blogidy,
    I think more than Arsenal's destiny. This comment he made should make us Goooners worried ;)

    Here's what he said on new signing Grrrrrvinho!

    "He has qualities like Theo Walcott, they have good movement," said Wenger. "I think Theo can play on the left, right and up front. He has a similar type of pace and finishing."
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    He'd run like headless chicken and forget to cross before jumping over the fence into the spectators on the sideline!!!

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  135. all this talk of destiny...

    perhaps the arsenal team is training to be highspeed suicide bombers that would neutralise hostile and or tackling 'infidels' that dont conform with wenger's doctrine...

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  136. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/14151004.stm
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    Well played Patrick Vieira 04. Wish you'd joined us as executive of some youth development.

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  137. BBC Sport understands Aston Villa have made a bid for Wigan winger Charles N'Zogbia. Reports claim the bid is £10m.

    ---

    good job Villa.

    sell the 'english' but average winger for 25 million

    buy the 'foreigner' but above average winger for 10.

    good job indeed.

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  138. Ar***al should sign this player,if only for his name.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creedence_Clearwater_Couto

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  139. Other great footballers names.

    http://www.midfielddynamo.com/players/players_bestnames.htm

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  140. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/14088970.stm
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    Wrong decision. I'd rather sell him to Non-PL club and re-invest on whichever player we can.
    But I think we are past the time now...

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  141. looking forward to the on coming test series vs. India.

    should be interesting.

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  142. Rebekah Brooks has resigned from News Corps.

    1 down,2 to go.

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  143. she actually resigned earlier jacks.

    Murdoch didnt accept it.

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  144. Now that she's left Spits (I think this was her 3rd attempt to go/jump/be pushed/whatever) perhaps she can do another series of Groundforce.

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  145. I say we hand her over the team at Top Gear and they can dispose her off the same way they dispose off old MG Rovers. Or Caravans.

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  146. jacksofbuxton said...
    Ar***al should sign this player,if only for his name.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creedence_Clearwater_Couto

    ..........................

    If Creedence Clearwater cant spark a revival then who can?

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  147. blogdignag said...
    jacksofbuxton said...
    Ar***al should sign this player,if only for his name.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creedence_Clearwater_Couto

    ..........................

    If Creedence Clearwater cant spark a revival then who can?

    ----

    Jesus?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jes%C3%BAs_Navas

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  148. Spitfire said...

    looking forward to the on coming test series vs. India.

    should be interesting.
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    No Sehwag for first 2 tests. He will be missed.

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  149. Frankenstein?

    http://www.castrolfootball.com/upp/

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  150. "We only made minor mistakes"

    Who said it?

    a) Saddam Hussein
    b) Rupert Murdoch
    c) Sepp Blatter
    d) Arsene Wenger
    e) Fred "the Shred" Goodwin
    f) All the above

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  151. Obviously a) Saddam Hussein

    No wait...

    it could be b) Rupert Murdoch

    Actually I am confused between c) Sepp Blatter and d) Arsene Wenger

    I think I heard him e) Fred "the Shred" Goodwin say it on BBC Business News last night.

    Tough question really!!??!!?!!

    Well I say f) All the above

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  152. Sybil Fawlty: You're going to buy no one again, are you?
    Arsene: Yes I am, thank you dear, yes.
    Sybil Fawlty: You just haven't a clue, have you?
    Arsene: You wouldn't understand, dear - it's called 'destiny'.

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  153. well if you insist on treating it as a real quiz, SS, i'll have to insist on telling you the real answer.

    it was murdoch. the others never admitted to any mistake whatsoever.

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  154. Sybil Fawlty: But Arsene you've lost the plot. You need to change or resign otherwise Arsenal will never win anything again in the history of the world ever until kingdom come.
    Arsene: Can't we get you on Mastermind, Sybil? Next contestant - Sybil Fawlty from Torquay. Special subject - the bleedin' obvious.

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  155. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/14166038.stm
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    common sense? May be.

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  156. It is indeed common sense, Spit, just as it was stupid to force clubs into naming a 25 man squad before the start of the season and them fining them even if they used 11 players from within that selection.

    Well done PL, your honoury degree in "the bleedin' obvious" is on it's way.

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  157. Reports from Italy indicate that AC Milan and Inter Milan are contemplating a bid for Tottenham's left-sided player Gareth Bale.
    Full story: footieonline.com

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    You can blame Blogidy for that Noel.

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  158. I hate to admit it, but I think your analogy of Crazy Bazil and AW is pretty close to the mark.

    I used to enjoy hearing Arsene speak, he was calm, eloquent and you generally got the idea that he knew what he was on about. Lately though, he just seems like a parody of himself. The same old soundbytes, cliches and excuses are been ground out time and time again.

    How long can we be a young team?

    How can a player coming back from injury be like a new signing?

    How the fuck are we ok in defence and I quote;
    "I don't think we are weak defensively but we are an offensive team and sometimes that exposes our defenders,"

    That's just asking to be ridiculed, a shot on an open goal, but not by one of our strikers (RvP excluded) because none of them seemed to be able to hit the target from Febuary onwards.

    My biggist concern is that everyone, and I mean literaly the whole world can see where our problems lie, it's really not rocket science, a fer additions to strengthen the weak areas and a small tweek in the tactics and we'll be there, we've been on the verge over the last few seasons and I'm convinced that had we made those changes earlier we'd now be trophy winners. It's easy to laugh off a top 4 finnish, but it's a hell of a job to do it every year, just ask L'pool or Spurs who strengthened their squad last season with CL experienced players and still just managed to scrape in 5th.

    We were promised an overhaul of the squad, yet off we went to Asia, with one less left back (Clichy) and a new 19 y.o. right back, signed from a third tier team and a young Japansesse lad that probably won't get a work permit. This is not just good enough.

    Oh hold up, we've also apparantly signed (although no official confirmation) a winger from Lille with a slap region so big that you could call it an eighthead rather then a forehead. He maybe the best thing since sliced bread, but I can't see how signing a winger will adress the problems that are o so clear to all.

    Weger is always notoriously quiet on his transfer dealings and I pray that this is the case and we get some new arrivals to shore up the defence, if not, then there will be serious questions asked of him if next season our weakness' bite us in the arse again.

    Once again, I really, really, REALLY, hate to say it, but I think it's make or break time for Le Prof.

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  159. Now they (Barca) are just taking the piss;

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/jul/15/cesc-fabregas-arsenal

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  160. Liverpool sign keeper Doni
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    He is a good keeper and hardhitting batsman, but did we really need Dhoni? Who next, Tendulkar?
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    I cannot imagine why KK would spend twice as much on Downing when Nzogbia was available. Anyhoo, given his impressive results since January, I will grant that he may no a little more about managing a football team than me (unless the rumours about Wayne Bridge turn out to be true).

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  161. The media twist things around to make attention grabbers. In the rumour column today/yesterday it states - Manager Arsene Wenger says it is Arsenal's destiny to win the Premier League after a terrible end to last season. - yet when you read the actual article this is what Wenger says "I believe that the real destiny of this team is now. It demands the strength of character that champions have. I believe we are perfectly good enough." OK he mentions destiny but in a totally different context to how the beeb printed it.

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  162. blogdignag said...

    anyone know whats happening with Bale?
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    As H pointed out;

    Reports from Italy indicate that AC Milan and Inter Milan are contemplating a bid for Tottenham's left-sided player Gareth Bale.

    blogdignag said...

    stoke have signed Carlton Cole . all he needs is a set of kids stabilizer wheels a few pies for energy and a kick up the arse and that could be a v. good Signing .
    -----------------------------------------
    The BBC reports that Carlton Cole's proposed move to Stoke has fallen through.

    Blogs, are you going to use your superpowers to fight good or evil?

    Noel

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  163. It fell through Noel because he wanted more money.

    Who'da thunk it,a greedy footballer.

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  164. ok the lack of activity on this blog for the past 24 hours is freaking me out...where is everybody??

    --BeeZee

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  165. G'day me

    This blog is dying by the day. 4 posts (including this) in two days must mean the temp in the UK has reached 20 degrees and everyone is out sun worshipping.

    I watched the Argies play Uruguay this morning and the ref carried a can of white spray paint. Whenever a free kick was given around the goal, he marked the spot where the kick was to be taken and also where the wall had to line up... never seen that done before but it is a bloody good idea.

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  166. I just read that Guardian article H2. Estanislau Forsi Garcia, the mayor of Arenys de Mar (who's only claim to fame is that Fabregas came from there) says "He [Wenger] has to stop clowning around because it's disorienting for all of us." I kind of know what Senor Forsi Garcia means, Le Prof has that affect on me sometimes.

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  167. Dont worry Beezee..4 posts in 2 days will quickly rise to about 5 or 6 when footy kicks off again in less than a month.

    I have to say I'm reasonably happy with the Liverpool transfers thus far. While we have definitely paid more than either Henderson or Downing are worth, if the guy whose money it is doesnt care, then neither do I. As long as we're filling in the glaring gaps in the team with reasonably good players who can all add to the 'team', I think we're in good shape for next season. Now if we manage to add Aly Cissokho (or any other decent LB) and a right winger before aug-31, we should have done alright in the transfer market.

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  168. Worry not fellow blognauts.

    this dearth of comments on this blog is a yearly occurrence and coincides with the lack of proper games of the ONLY sport that matters.

    Normal service will resume shortly.

    I think, for the time of the year its doing al right...

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  169. so the Americans are no better at penalties than the english are.

    its well funny.

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  170. 'Brazil': how not to take penalties

    --BeeZee

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  171. Spitfire said...
    so the Americans are no better at penalties than the english are.

    its well funny.
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    hope you watched the Brazil Paraguay shootout Spit


    --BeeZee

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  172. Penalties: just seen the Brazil ones.

    or as they turned out, the brazil none.

    Hilarity

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  173. Atletico Madrid striker Sergio Aguero prepared to take a pay cut to join Manchester City.
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    dont think the poor boy has grasped the whole concept of project Al Etihad.

    Thats not how it works mate.

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  174. Under-fire Fifa boss Sepp Blatter has been voted the biggest 'celebrity villain' of the past decade.
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    Morning all. I think this poll would be more accurate if you change the words "celebrity villain" for the word "cunt".

    Colch

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  175. the poll would more beneficial and accurate if it was placed in the above mentioned cunt...

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  176. Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini has said that an agreement has been reached for the sale of Argentina striker Carlos Tevez to Corinthians.

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    such a shame. money bag leaves money bags

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  177. BASIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    in Port Vale news, as i know youve been wondering, how are the vale preparing for the new campaign? - we thrashed the tacoma tide franchise, stateside (av attendance 201) 4-2. yes, thrashed.

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  178. pity poor tevez's kids theyve been taking a welcome break form his ugly mug. if theyre old enough to watch lord of the rings they'll think the king of the orcs has moved in.

    he goes where his agent telss him to go, doesnt he. his agent's just getting better at the PR spin ("say it's your kids, your missing your cash.. er.. kids")

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  179. AH - you've overpaid for just about everyone since you bought the geordie bouncer in January. Looks like Maxi Rodriguez and Aquilani will be on their way at a loss then

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  180. Adam - you're mostly right. I wouldnt say we have overpaid for Adam at 8 mil or Suarez at 23. As I mentioned though, if that buys result while still keeping us within the remit of the Financial Fair Play thingy, then its perfectly fine with me (seeing as its not my money).

    Latest tweets from John Henry suggest that Aquilani will be staying (or that could just be a ploy to jack up his price). He went about 6 months in Italy without an injury and I think he could be a good addition to the team. Would be sorry to see him go without getting a decent run in the side.

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  181. What you still doing here. New blog up.....

    Colch

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  182. I think Aquilani was a bit harshly treated to begin with but I can't see how he will get in the side with Lucas, Hendesron, Gerrard and Adam in the way.

    It will be interesting to see how KD sets the team up as Adam and Henderson could end up doing a lot of bench warming.

    Ife he pushes Gerrard up to support a main striker then Suarez and Kuyt will be looking at a fair amount of benchtime.

    1 soilution could be 4-1-2-1-2 which would allow him to deploy Lucas as a holding player and Henderson and Adam in front of him with Gerrard in a roaming role but would give a lack of width that the Geordie ponytail would find problematic

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