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laudable idea, better points ssumpta

it costs a minimum of $10 for bank charge + $25 for offshore charge to do a trfr
if i donate say 50 or $100,, im spending abt $85 or 135
is there not a better way

let her get an education so she can stand on her feet
a diploma in catering, home design or a skil will be helpful

then let her seperate from the man

Also known as the absence of Song ,

so how much 4 a flat

abou is attacking inclined

also talkin defensively

who sees the atrocious manner of response our bois made to the pen
no faith in the keeper
only silve moved for the rebound
that is piss poor

i take my word back for having being a diaby basher though i love his new found seriusness with the ball
break up play and pass

fOR Song to be the best DM in the league he needs to know how to take shots then his game is superb

i am happy for dudus gol goes a long way in helping his confidence as aa23 needs to go bk to the wing to do his darts

well i pray tw14 comes good as his chances are drying up he had 2 good chances yesterday one to tee up ramsey and he shot and even his pace has left him

oh traore when r u comin bk o but at times i think silve is a good piece of business imaagine if we did not have him now or is he sabotaging the other guys so he can play

i hope the injury bug does not go the center o,

tx bro will try it

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sorry i forgot almunia is not good enuff
if i were the mgr i wld sell off half the team

Arseblogger of the day

O[b]h, this Arsenal team. You take one step forward and the immediate reaction is not to make the most of it but to take a step backwards.[/b]

Last night wasn't a step backwards, although it does feel a bit like it. More a step sideways as we failed to take advantage of a bright start and an early goal. It was probably the quickest we've come out of the blocks this season. Cesc opened the scoring with a deft finish inside the near post in the 7th minute. We really made a great start, causing the home side all kinds of problems.

At the hub of it all was Cesc, as you would expect. He was Mr Energy, Mr Committment, Mr I Want To Win This Fucking Game. After the goal he went close with another effort after some fantastic ball juggling, he also played in Arshavin for a good chance which forced a save from the keeper. And Arshavin himself hit the post with a left footed shot after a deft set up just outside the Burnley box from Samir Nasri. There's no point saying it would have been a different game if that had gone in because it didn't.

After we went ahead though we allowed Burnley back into it too easily. Arsene said afterwards:

Maybe if we were guilty, it was that when we were 1-0 up, we were too easy instead of fighting for every ball. As soon as we were 1-0 up we took the foot off the pedal and they took advantage

Which just goes to show that footballers these days need to have lessons drummed into them over and over and over. Sunday's 'hairdryer' was effective only for as long as it took to get a result at Anfield, and it's so frustrating. All credit to Burnley, I have to say. They worked their socks off, not once did they allow us to dominate possession and pass it around the way we like to, and that's why their home record is so good. They beat United this season, they've beaten Sunderland, who beat us, so a draw isn't the worst result in the world. The main issue I have is that having gotten ourselves into a good position from the start, something we have rarely done this season, we let it slip.

Their equaliser came from the penalty spot. There can be no complaints about the decision, Vermaelen clearly caught Bikey and in Graham Alexander Burnley have the closest thing to Matt le Tissier when it comes to penalties. Almunia had no chance, but then based on his performance Almunia could have had 500 attempts to save it and he'd never have gotten near it.

I know Arsene came out yesterday and said he believed in the Spaniard, citing a deflection off Lucas that nobody else seemed to see for the Kuyt goal on Sunday as justifcation for such faith. B[b]ut last night Manuel Almunia looked a long way off a man who is ready to be playing Premier League football. In the first few minutes he came charging off his line for a ball he should never have been trying to get and only good reflexes stopped Vermaelen's header going in.

I lost count of the kicks that went into touch. From being a keeper who almost constantly plays it short, he's become a guy who kicks it all the time, and given most of our team are under 5'10 that is not a good tactic. At one point in the 2nd half he had the ball outside our area, Burnley dropped deep, expecting the long punt. Alex Song was clearly in space and asking for the ball. Almunia ignored him, booted it and we lost possession. At another point Gallas was making a clearing header, it was obviously the defender's ball, at the last minute Almunia decided to come, punched and instead of the ball got Gallas in the head and I think Burnley ended up with a corner.

The worst moment though came for their disallowed goal. When the cross came in from our left hand side, Sylvester hopelessly exposed again, he actually went down to save it and then pulled his hands away. I cannot think of any possible explanation for this. It was truly amateurish goalkeeping and in all seriousness I think his complete lack of confidence is viral. It's clear the defenders don't trust him and that is transmitting itself to the rest of the team. It's no wonder we don't play with any confidence when they're so worried about the keeper. He should be the bedrock of the team, the first part of the spine. Almunia is spinabifida at the moment and we need to do something about it. If I don't see Fabianski in goal on Saturday I'll be disappointed. And I'm not saying he's the answer to our problems but he can't do any worse than Manuel right now.

Having lost Cesc just before half-time with an injury the drive of the team was gone. He was the guy who was really up for it, who created the chances for himself and others, and Burnley, I think, sensed we wouldn't be the same team without him. We had Diaby just back from injury and even at his best he struggles to impose himself on games. Theo Walcott barely touched the ball in the all the time he was on the pitch, his last act a tame sidefoot over the bar. His replacement, Eduardo, looked miles off the pace, which is no surprise given how little football he's played and this time there was to be no saving grace from the Polly Pocket Russian. And we can't complain about that. He can't be expected to rescue us every time.

In the second half I think the only save Jensen had to make was from a fairly tame Eduardo free kick. Yet Burnley might have scored on numerous occasions. They hit the post, they had that effort ruled out for offside - and Almunia is a lucky man in that regard because if that goal had stood after he'd pulled his hands away then I don't think he'd have been forgiven - there were two fairly decent penalty shouts in their favour, and in general they had more of the ball, more of the play and showed more ambition than we did.[/b]

In the end I think a point was a fair result, although I don't think we could have complained too much if they'd gotten a winner. A late one for us would have seemed a bit unjust. Welcome, of course, but unjust. We were complacent and could have paid the price. As I said, a point at Burnley is a point more than United got, so it's not the worst result in the world, but when we put ourselves in such a good position after Anfield it's hard not to view this result with frustration. Would we have taken a draw at Liverpool and a win at Turf Moor? Probably. But while taking nothing away from Burnley, they worked hard for their point, you just can't avoid thinking that if we'd worked as hard as they did we'd be sitting here this morning two points better off.

Afterwards the manager confirmed Cesc would be out for the Hull game on Saturday after picking up a hamstring injury. He didn't look to be too bad when he came off so let's hope it's not that serious. It was obvious how much we missed him when he went off. The manager also had a little go at the fixtures. Due to Fulham's participation in the Europa League Hull did not have a midweek game, prompting Wenger to say:

The guy who organised the fixtures this season must have come from a special school, because he's more intelligent than I am. We have some teams who do not play at all. We play Sunday and Wednesday away and at home on Saturday against Hull, who have not played all week. For sure, (the fixture organisers) have never played football, organising midweek games in a week when you have a Europa League programme.

Which is quite amusing, the special school idea tickles me greatly, and his argument is not without mertit but it's not relevant to last night at all. It's only an issue if we struggle on Saturday against Hull. You can't complain about it having an influence on the Burnley game. And the majority of teams played a midweek game, it was the bad luck of the draw really that we're facing one of the teams who had the night off. And Arsene has been in English football long enough to know that there is always fixture congestion at this time of the year. Also, let's not forget earlier in the season some other team faced Bolton who were due to play us but because of our Champions League qualifying game had more time to rest. It works both ways.

As for his comments about the Wolves team sent out to face Man United, I don't think there's much wrong with what Mick McCarthy did. Even with his best team it would have been a complete fluke for them to get a result at Old Trafford, a 999 out 1000 shot, and McCarthy saw the weekend game against Burnley, funnily enough, as more important. It's not as if we've never done it, you just have to think back to the Olympiacos game a couple of weeks ago.

To be honest I think it's deflectionary stuff from the boss, designed to make the headlines and the draw the attention away from the fact we didn't take the three points last night. As I said, a draw away from home against a committed, hard working side is not the worst result in the world, nor does it mean we're out of the title race. It does mean we've made life more difficult for ourselves though. And with regard to the Hull game on Saturday three points has to be the order of the day. More on that game in the next couple of days.

Finally for today, the winners of the competition to win the pair of books. Up for grabs were Arsènal : The Making of a Modern Superclub by Kevin Witcher and Alex Fynn, and signed by Arsene Wenger himself - as well as The Pocket Book of Arsenal, also by Kevin Witcher.

The answer to the question was Patrick Vieira, he scored the winner against Leicester on the final day of the Invincibles season, and the RNG has chosen the following winners: Michael Iacovides, Jeff Parton and Alex Clarke. Well done to you, I'll be in touch to get details from you. Hard luck to everyone else but don't forget that if you follow the links to the books and use the code ROCKY at check-out you get 10% off your purchase - publishers website.

So, that's that. More, including an Arsecast, tomorrow.

Now im really concerned about the captain
We need him desperately agast Villa

Also AA23 right foot let hope it does not fail us

@ debo you are right and i feel we were lucky to come out with a draw considering we on the back foot and defending for most of the second half aside the last 10 mins of the game where we came out (song, diaby and gallas) all creating decent moves

what i meant was if we had taken the early chances, 2 from cesc and i think one from nasri/aa we wld have been 2/3 additional gols in the fiirst half. aside the near howler from almunia/verma they had no solid chance int he first half all they were looking for was the free kick and set piece

chris eagles was impressive for burnley and so was fletcher, lucky for us that gol was ruled offside as they was no coming back from that

Summary

Without RvP, the team is struggling
Without RvP & Fab4, the team is almost gone
Add AA23 to that, hmmm ,

We need to buy

TH14, E9, CV can not do anything right now, they still need a run of games to improve.

I wil still be happy as I think we can be in the top4 and shd reach the UCL qtrs at least but the success of this team is directly proportional to the ambition of the board and manager. they cant do much more than they have done

My piece

PS I am sorry for TH14 I dont think he will be on the way to 2010 at best on the bench as an unused sub

unfortunately the match ended 1-1 and we were lucky to have escaped with a point considering we were not ruthless in the first half when we had 3 solid chances.
Seems the injuries to Theo, Dudu have really consigned them to averageness and lack of confidence
Well we still support the team

Song was the brightest light tonight considering we were pushed off the park and they were not as physical as Stoke.
AW needs to train our bois to take shots and set pieces
Song will be able to use this to help do some Paul Scholes once in a while

during the weeks he was out i found myself missing him esp during the sunderland & stoke games
he brings an urgency to the attack

i take diaby over rosicky, eduardo at least based on this seasons performance so far

duduspace:
Flops: Vela, Walcott

you can say that again,


ramsey also has some scope for improving his set pieces

sheron uve started again with this your comparisons

be happy with ur club, we are with ours

duduspace:
@biolabee

much as I hate to admit it, Dayokanu is supporting a Nazi machine that has immense mental strength. You never really give up on the germans, they always seem to find that extra bit required when the chips are down and were well worth their win. Not that this will make Dayo's gloating any easier to swallow though.

the old lady had nothing today
so sad with all the expectation,

dk, no 4get txgiving as una don reach ucl 16



quote grom bbc

From gunnergetit on 606: "Great, even German goalkeepers know how to score penalties. I wonder if Lampard and Defoe know how to save penalties?"

seems like donkeynu's team will be in the UCL after all
lovely use of set pieces schweinsteigers shots were superbly taken and olics gol was a classic poachers'
dayo congrats

a letdown by the old lady considering they were supposed to compete strongly for the UCL considering inters domination of the serie a and acquiring melo, diego

anyways second round ucl , lets go there

donkey nu are you prepared to watch europa league?

juventus v bayern , mouth watering

but i cant blame ebu for that cesc took the shot blindly. he needs to know how to calm himself and his team mates

i actually thot it wld end as a draw (if they scored from delap at 85") or even a loss (if they scored much earlier)

i think we cant take this anymore, this team causes graying of hair

@ edoyad bros na the same game and in that you are right and i agree

my beef is that AA23 is a;waystalking about the quality in the team- rightly so, and so the least i epect from him is to step up and be counted esp in games like this. however i wont be too hard on him he is challenged by his height which made him lose those through balls

what do you say about tomas

and lastly eboue can not take a shot to save his life

another tense game today!

Lemme talk about the good things first,

good possession, we did not give meaningless free kicks like the wolves game, traore seems to be making that role his gradually and someething much lacking in the gunners fold - a clean sheet!

now the bad, i still dont know how cesc could be given pk duties, he frickin places evry ball

AA23 should not complain again about the team he has not shown any leadership and today his play was criminal with the wasted chances
i still have not seen tomas's authority in the midfield and goody goody we did not concede from the delap throw though we had close chances

na wa heavy days ahead

just saw the young boys again lose,

no heart
i am not comfortable with vela leading the line
Rosicky could not add anything to the game and SWP danced doodles around Traore,
I am happy with the scoreline as a 1-0 will be contrued as unflattering by the gaffer

Silve is the most useless defender and it will be a disaster if Billy or Thomas are out at all

I am afraid for the few weeks ahead

I think Mo has done well his results speak for themself

but i dont think he is a genius coach
he is a very good one though

There should be a set of parameter to judge

1. Available REsources

2. % wins

3. Trophies won

4. Talent developed

5 Club economics

On this he has not been known for developing any one just using already made products

He is a good inspirational manager

I choose 5 because some mgrs have wrecked some clubs with their wheeling n dealing

I dont secretz has any extraordinary stingy skills
shes a chic and pple will gladly spend on her and even mumsy sef drop
so no biggie
a chic wld always be kept

For my guy i think u shd chill in ur folks place,, give gifts as that is better than money (sales stuff will help u)
spend ur time with ur family as that shd be ur prime concern then use the oppotunity to visit one or two places too,
God knows when ull be able to come bk to naija

Just lay low, security is worse than before

where is the thread on the barca game?

luvly shot by DD

the best striker in d league,

og by TV5

DD is just class

edu has lost form,

that was a close pen on anelka

we are showing possession but chelski are just taking their chances andd time
we need to convert

nasri and AA23 need tto step up!

nice lay thru from edu to aa23 weak shot from arsha