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Arsene Wenger has hit out at international friendlies after his in-form midfielder Mathieu Flamini picked up an injury whilst playing for the French 'B' side against DR Congo.

Flamini, who has been keeping Gilberto Silva out of the Arsenal side, limped off the field after 17 minutes with an ankle injury. Whilst the extent of the injury is still unknown, Arsene Wenger is less than pleased.

"That is one (round of international friendlies) you could do without," Wenger said after hearing the news of Flamini's injury.

"I think that if you did a poll of all the clubs involved in the Champions League I wouldn't be surprised if 100 per cent of them said let's get rid of it."

Arsene Wenger has already been without star striker Robin Van Persie for the majority of the season after he suffered a knee injury whilst on international duty and this latest blow to his young side has done no favours for Arsenal's title challenge.

[url]http://www.football365.com/story/0,17033,8652_3116628,00.html[/url]

I can understand all these DSTV-influenced Premiership fans flapping their fat lips BUT you as a person has disappointed me with your fuckeries.
The title race is far from over especially when Alex Ferguson is the one chasing 2 points. Are u out of your fucking mind?
How many times has Alex Ferguson wrestled the title away from Arsene Wenger with a bigger margin?
The funniest bit is Arsene Wenger himself cannot make the NOISE you GAYnners are making at the moment. . . . .

Last season at this point,United were 6 points clear of Chelski.

Loyika insisted that the was not yet over(I didn't disagree). Come week 28,9 points clear albeit with a game more.Loyika insisted that there was nothing to celebrate.

Fast forward this year,2 points clear and he is effectively declaring the season over with 13 league games to be played . Arsenal won't even finish in the top 2,never mind 1st

ritchboy:
don't be such a 'tard.don't you know the meaning of the word "if"?

What has last season's results got to do with this season? Where is the logical correlation between the 2?Try and use some logic for once.

So if I say,"if we go by last season's final standing,United will win the league",that will make a bloody lot of sense to you? If such guff makes sense to you,I'm not surprised.Won't expect Gooners to reason properly.

@A-40

Team on form has been variously United,Chelski and now Arsenal.What is the difference? You haven't made any sensible point. . . . knowing you,you couldn't,even if you wanted.

We are talking of Spurs most recent performances at WHL under Ramos,why bring up Spurs game back in October/September?In their most recent games at home,one included a 5-1 win against Arsenal.

You beat City and W.Ham comfortably home and away? Maybe na for BBC WorldService you dey follow Arsenal's games.

ritchboy:
u got it wrong mate.
we play 'pool @ home.
and if last seasons results are anything to go by, then were picking up 7 points from those three games.
take that to your accountant.

Yep,you don't need glasses,you need a guide dog!

Liverpool in the top 3? Bloody hell.

and if last seasons results are anything to go by, then were picking up 7 points from those three games.
take that to your accountant.

This absurd piece of illogic. . . . . . by last season's results?

Which one of this season's results for Arse against the Big 4 has mirrored last season? So what happened last season must happen this season?

@Loyika

For a side that dropped points to Birmingham,Boro and Newcastle;there are no guarantees of anything.We drop points against a Ramos side that thumped you 5-1 and you are bleating?

There was very little coming out of the Gunners camp by way of foregone conclusions just last week.One weekend of football(with 13 league games remaining) and you think the title is virtually wrapped up?

Can't blame Gunners,they are obviously not used to a title race for a while now

Our Senate Presidents have lost their jobs to graft,so what is the difference?

The most important person in Tanzania is the President,Kikwete. If he resigned over graft,that will be big news by African standards.

HNIC:
From all indications, Arsenal may finish below Liverpool and maybe Everton.
Talk of 'Clutching at straws'!!!

Look at this tit. You are talking like as if 13 league games are nothing.13 games ago(week 12),Liverpool were very much in the title race and Chelski were still behind even City.That is what a difference 13 league games can make in England.

I didn't know Rudy and his campaign was suicidal If not,I wouldn't have tipped him but hang on a sec. . . . you tipped Huckabible to sweep South Carolina Guess we were both wrong on that.

Rudy will pick the GOP ticket in 2012 or 2016 It mustn't be this year.

Arsenal play all their head to head games against the top 3 away from home.Throw in a few fixtures in between with more than 1/3rd of the season remaining and you can see why I strongly tip them to finish in 3rd.

I liked this part the most:

Sufi saint Sheikh Ahmad Sirhindi (1564-1624) who was the head of the Naqshbandi wrote:

"The honor of Islam lies in insulting kufr and kafirs. One who respects the kafirs dishonors the Muslims, The real purpose of levying jiziya on them is to humiliate them to such an extent that they may not be able to dress well and to live in grandeur. They should constantly remain terrified and trembling. It is intended to hold them under contempt and to uphold the honor and might of Islam.--" [letter #163]

http://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/sina50502p2.htm

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/004940.php

Arsenal will finish behind Chelski and Man Utd at the end of the season. Its an easy call to make.

doyin13:
I think the most telling of Horus's article is the last about the Potomac states having significant black populations.

Not only that,most of the remaining states,bar Texas,have fewer Latinos.Latinos seem to have it in for Blacks in the US.

The myth about Sufism being a wholly peaceful version of Islam is only that,a myth.Here is the great Sufi Al-Ghazali comments on jihad:


"One must go on jihad (i.e., warlike razzias or raids) at least once a year, one may use a catapult against them [non-Muslims] when they are in a fortress, even if among them are women and children. One may set fire to them and/or drown them, If a person of the Ahl al-Kitab [People of The Book – primarily Jews and Christians] is enslaved, his marriage is [automatically] revoked…One may cut down their trees, One must destroy their useless books. Jihadists may take as booty whatever they decide, they may steal as much food as they need"


Nor is Al-Ghazali merely an aberration.Other prominent Sufis such as Tabandeh and Shah Wali-Allah have written in similar vein.Sufism may be a more peaceful version,relative to other schools of thought within Islam,but it is hardly what one may call a "peaceful sect." History tells us different.

@doyin13 a.k.a Tu quo que

Bloody hypocrite. . . . see as you dey scatter grammar on a sports forum.

romeo:
Did you read the topic of the thread?

It looks like he was posting in a state of drunken stupor. Neither his posts nor the people he is referring to have anything to do with this thread

Its a pity South Africa is in this state.This is clearly a result of under-investment,poor planning and lack of competition in the power sector.

They still have a 7% reserve margin(the percentage by which capacity outstrips demand-western average is 15%) but many of their plants,due to poor maintenance,are undergoing repairs at the moment.

They have started the tasks of rapid investments in generating capacity but there could still be shortages up to 2011.

The lesson we can draw from this is the need to deregulate the power sector.

A year older rather.

Who cares,with the wonders of modern medical technology we live longer-Greenberg and Redstone are examples of octogenerians with work schedules that will put us youngsters to shame.

I think McCain will only be 73 years young by the time he is sworn in. . . . . . .he is more than young enough.

Anywoman still get question for men?

Get back to topic abeg.I don report all of una for this thread to Seun.You will all soon be banned

KAG:
"The prevailing theory is that they [planets, including the Earth] are formed during the collapse of a nebula into a thin disk of gas and dust. A protostar forms at the core, surrounded by a rotating protoplanetary disk. Through accretion (a process of sticky collision) dust particles in the disk steadily accumulate mass to form ever-larger bodies. Local concentrations of mass known as planetesimals form, and these accelerate the accretion process by drawing in additional material by their gravitational attraction, " (sauciness: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet#Formation)
Your turn

"The prevailing theory" is your idea of a proven answer?

Horus:
I don't even think he will be alive in November to reach the white house but he might reach the cimetery before.

McCain is only a year younger than Reagan was before he became President.He turned out to be one of the best US presidents of the 20th century.

It is not the age of the man that matters but the age of his ideas. . . . . I think that is one of Bill's quotes

4Him:
Is it the Nigerian liberals who are at fault for the preponderance of dangerous abortions?

In the US,the numbers of abortions have increased since Roe v Wade and the liberals are responsible for that.

Iraq does not look like it will come and go, McCain is thinking of remaining there for the next 100yrs.

You would have said that in 1952 and 1968 for the Korean and Vietnam wars respectively. Iraq is a "mickey mouse" conflict compared to those conflicts.Iraq will come and go just like all the conflicts the US has been embroiled in throughout its history but liberal thinking has caused more damage to the US in the long term.

4Him:
thanks to the conservatives, we're stuck in Iraq.

Thanks to librulls we have 48.5m aborted between 1973 and 2006.

Iraq will come and go-the liberals gave us the far more bloodier Vietnam(54,000 dead Americans) and Korea(55,000 dead)-but the deleterious effects of liberal thinking-abortions,legalisation of gay marriages,wasteful welfarist policies-will always live with us.

Rush is a 'nutter'.McCain might not be the ideal candidate but he is far more conservative than Obama or Hillary.

If McCain appoints conservative judges and vetoes any tax increase,he has done what all conservatives want.McCain is probably more conservative than Rudy so I don't know what Rush is going on about.

PS:It seems Hillary is running into financial difficulties:http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0208/Clinton_loaned_her_campaign_5_million.html

Why would anyone support the Dems-those abortion loving,gay enabling,nanny state 'librulls'. People say the Democrats are more pro-black but that is open to debate.

I prefer the party that freed the slaves and whose Congress members voted in higher numbers for the Civil Rights Act.

JeSoul:
lol did you mean to write Republicans suck?
The Red party is really under and poorly represented if McCain is all they have to offer. Now it's not like the Democrats are a shining beacon of light either, not by a long stretch. But still if McCain is their main man, they'll be crying about another defeat in Nov.

I would have prefered Rudy Guiliani but he was "swiftboated" at the beginning of the campaign.Plus,his campaign strategy was nothing short of absurd.However,any of the 2 leading GOP cnadidates is better than anything the Democrats have to offer.

[/quote]WASHINGTON — The director of national intelligence is backing away from his agency's assessment late last year that Iran had halted its nuclear program, saying he wishes he had written the unclassified version of the document in a different manner.

At a hearing yesterday of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the intelligence director, Michael McConnell, said, "If I had 'til now to think about it, I probably would change a few things." He later added, "I would change the way we describe the Iranian nuclear program. I would have included that there are the component parts, that the portion of it, maybe the least significant, had halted."

Mr. McConnell was referring to the specific Iranian program to design potential nuclear warheads, which the December estimate said had halted in 2003. But in his opening testimony, Mr. McConnell noted that two other components of the nuclear program were moving ahead — the enrichment of uranium, which he said was the most difficult part of making a bomb, and the development of long-range missiles capable of hitting North Africa and Europe.

The National Intelligence Estimate on Iran's nuclear program released on December 3 distinguished Iran's enrichment of uranium at Natanz and Arak from its formal nuclear weapons program, which it said had halted in 2003 after the American invasion of Iraq.

Yesterday, Mr. McConnell struck a different tone. "Declared uranium enrichment efforts, which will enable the production of fissile material, continue. This is the most difficult challenge in nuclear production. Iran's efforts to perfect ballistic missiles that can reach North Africa and Europe also continue."

He went on, "We remain concerned about Iran's intentions and assess with moderate-to-high confidence that Tehran at a minimum is keeping open the option to develop nuclear weapons."[quote]

http://www.nysun.com/article/70818

It seems the US intelligence agencies shot themselves or rather,their country, in the foot with the last report.It is only a matter of time for them to seek to unravel the havoc they have caused to international counter-proliferation efforts.

almondjoy:
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!   I-man?

The capricious poltroon that runs this place banned me Maybe he is an ESUT graduate!

Freewilly:
What are the crazy Republicans thinking voting for the old man McCain, I can't believe McCain is now the front runner for the republican party. This is a very sad night for my old party "Republican party" One of my biggest idols and the poster child for the republican party Ann Coulter the other day on Fox News said she would vote for Hillary before she supports McCain. Very Very sad night for America.

You were never a strong Republican anyway. McCain scored 82/100 for his conservative positions by the American Conservative Union.He is not the ideal Republican candidate but he is the most electable.

RichyBlacK:
davidylan, I'm not conesting the allegation of rape in Darfur or in Nigeria. The thread started with a rape story accusing US soldiers of rape. Because the attached picture was questionable, some wanted to deny the fact that US soldiers have raped and massacred families in Iraq.

You are a mendacious plonker. Show us one single post on this thread that has sought to deny rape by US soldiers.Just one single post that makes such a denial.

The reality is that you have an unbridled urge to embark on US bashing no matter the issue in question.

Its only if the rapists are US military personnel that some ostriches are bothered.They are not bothered by the rape per se,but the identity of the perpetrators.

Just look at the farcical way he dismissed the point made about impunity in Nigeria,claiming that our judicial system is unreliable anyway,that is what people call the soft bigotry of low expectations.Its almost like saying,Nigerians are animals so we have no point bothering about the impunity of our rapist soldiers,lets concentrate instead on the US that actually disciplines its soldiers.

The whole putrid mindset of the Guff Merchant recommends turning a blind eye to more egregious cases of sexual abuse closer to home in favor of engaging in the bashing of nation with a capacity for self-examination

Reverend:
Amnesty International

Nigeria: Rape - the silent weapon

Index Number: AFR 44/020/2006
Categories: Nigeria, Africa, West Africa

Rape of women and girls by both the police and security forces, and within their homes and community, is endemic in Nigeria. It persists because the state has failed to tackle discrimination against women or address the entrenched culture of impunity for human rights violations committed by the police and security forces. Amnesty International is calling on the Federal and State authorities in Nigeria to urgently address the legal and social systems that tolerate rape and sexual violence on a wide scale. The organization is recommending actions to give meaningful effect to the international treaties Nigeria has ratified.

We are interested only in Iraqi women. . . .some of us are closeted Arab-wannabes totally uninterested in the plight of Nigerian women except if they are raped by Americans.

I guess if a female relative of Richy Guff is raped,he will first ask whether the rapist was American before deciding whether to be outraged.

@Guff Merchant

What is the correlation between this thread and racial inequality in the US Justice system? Trying to hijack sexual abuse as a vehicle to embark on your bone-headed anti-US rants is obscenely stupid.

The US takes measures against its soldiers,in sharp contrast to most other nations on planet earth.

Do they pay you for being a purveyor of imbecility?

@nwando

No mind the cry baby . He is taking his Arab-wannabe syndrome to a new level,imitating the worst excesses of the adherents of the Religion of the Perpetually Offended