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mr ferguson, where is wesley sneijder?
48 hours countdown. . . .

Goldieluks:
Its alright babes^^

is goldieluks married?

dayokanu:
All coaches in Europe are now sending condolence messages to Arsenal

From ferguson to Pep, One would think they are victims of the Haiti earthquake.

When your opponents start offering condolences then theres cause to worry

Maybe they should start donating their rejects to him starting with Benayoun and co

i blame alex ferguson.
he should have told his players to stop scoring. at 5-2 or 4-2, the scoreline would have been respectable.
8-2 is just farcical. . . . .disrespectful to arsene wenger, arsenal fc and the fans at large.
i think ferguson was spurred to beat the man city result against tottenham earlier in the day cos normally, fergie would take out rooney, hernandez and play rio ferdinand and fabio as strikers.

slimshay:
80percent pass stat is piss-poor. Aaaaawkay *9ice voice*

coquelin - 29/34
rosicky - 62/70

cleverley - 61/67
anderson -39/45

aaron ramsey was the poorest passer in the midfield.

naijababe:
Abeg help me tell coogar o. I have not bought garri in UK that does not have sand in it. Everything I bring is not contraband and I will continue to carry go. Laugh all you want cooger, if I invite you to my house for dinner once, even you will continue to beg me to continue to do my ashiru 

you guys need to relocate to london.
the african shop near me sells correct ijebu garri. no sand, no chaff.
even their red beans have been carefully picked(no chaff too). they sell everything i see in nigeria(even maltina and star lager beer).

[quote author=kay_pumpin link=topic=743413.msg9035424#msg9035424 date=1314636081]But for a team that was at the receiving end of blistering endless attacks yesterday,these statistics fairly support Ritch's assertions.

That said,Ramsey's ability to lose the ball under the least pressure is ridiculous.And wigga plays like he isn't aware of his immediate environment.[/quote]except that it doesn't.
arsenal had 3 men in their midfield. logic suggests arsenal should dominate that area of the pitch. they always do when united go with 2 in the middle.
but i saw the worst arsenal performance at old trafford in nearly 100 years. look at ramsey's passing statistic.

51/63? it is piss-poor for a passing team like arsenal.

naijababe:
. I admit that I'm spoilt o, I make about 3 trips a year. I have a family of four and 3 of us can carry 2 suitcases each and my lil' boy gets 1 piece. That is 7 pieces altogether.
My hubby carries garri, he only eats Ijebu garri. I carry beans - 15kg split between my two cases.
My snails and eja osan (correct dried fish) and correct dry crayfish go in one of my daughter's pieces and our clothes go in the last two cases. Shikena!!!
i.e. one basket of snails and I mean big, gianomous snails sets me back 12-15k naira ( about 22 pieces) and I have bought two measly snails for £5 here once. Abeg make UK border do whatever, I no send dem jare.

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Claremont lives in toon town, yam na luxury for dia 

i am sure avila-uk can deliver in toon town.

ritchboy:
Cleverley was on the far better side, it's a disgrace the stats are even that close!

Note, i didn't say Cleverley played badly, all i said is Ramsey caused United many problems going forward.

yes, by having 0 shots on target, 0 assists and producing a passing statistic worse than john o'shea's. . . . .
ramsey will not get into the united's 2nd team, never mind first. he is not good enough at this level.

claremont:
All those people saying there are African stores everywhere; we all know that the cost of African foodstuffs in these African stores is prohibitive as compared to the cost of these same items in Nigeria. If it were possible to bring a live goat from Nigeria, Nigerians would surely have done it. How an African shop would charge £10 for a tiny tuber of yam the size of my palm is beyond me!

they don't sell a tiny tuber of yam for £10. . . . . do you buy them from sainsbury/waitrose?

all y'all tight-fisted nigerians hoping to get yam at the same price they sell @ oshodi markets are comedians.
for example, avilauk sell fresh tubers for as little as £3.

http://www.avilauk.com/Tubers-Grains-Flours/Tubers-Plantain/Fresh-Yam-Medium

i buy my african foods from this site and they are fresh and deliver to your kitchen.

naijababe:
Abeg leave story. Me I dey always carry beans and dried fish (Scotland no get eja osan and ewa oloyin) and if I could I go carry live goat o. The meaty pomo cuts are non existence here jo!!!

how much foodstuffs can you carry that would last your entire stay before you go back for refill? you guys are just spoilt?
what's the essence of packing food stuffs especially to the united kingdom when there are super duper african stores in london? it's stressful enough to have travelled six hours on british airways, the last thing i need is any officer questioning and sorting the stuffs in my bags. i hope you know cctvs are trained on you each time you are stopped. maybe one of these days i will see your face on uk border force tv series.

ritchboy:
Ya'll need to watch the game again. He conceded possession cheaply a few times but Ramsey played well, going forward at least. I lost count of the number of times he made the Cleverley Coogar is raving about  and co look silly with some very clinical touches/dribbling. The whole defence was a joke but you can't really blame him for that can you?

tom----versus----aaron

67---total passes--63
3-----tackles won---2
61--accurate passes--51

3---scoring attempts--2
1---shots on target---0
90--minutes played---90

did you just say aaron made tomahawk look silly?
you must be smoking woolies.

naijababe:
I am feeling very sensitive right now.

i am perfect therapy you need.
where should we start?

macmoyor:
I am about to embark on international travel. I want to go along with some Nigeria food like grounded and ungrounded egusi(melon),red oil .
I do like to know,if its advisable to take these items along without any immigration hitches,
Could you guys in here please share your experience/s and advise me on this matter, ><>

i can never understand the reason nigerians pack these foods on their travel.
jeeez, leave em food in nigeria - there are african markets where you are going.
pack egusi, pack palm oil, pack garri. why not carry a live goat and a live cow along to complete the armoury?

shake-up at the emirates.

--armand traore sold to qpr after nani's sodomy yesterday.
--arsenal refund travelling fans that went to old trafford last night.
--wenger in for a korean striker(park)
--a cheeky bid for sneijder.

naijababe:
Talk about hitting rock bottom.  Someone please beg David Dein back  

forget david dein, it's fergie time.

https://i51.tinypic.com/23rkfv7.jpg

Johndoe100:
Don't mind them, they are suffering from congenital stupidity. They should all go and hug a boko haram bomber.

maybe you should also need to go and hug a high-tension cable. . . .
if the way jonathan is running nigeria excites you then you should donate your brains for lab experiment.

debosky:
That reinforces the view that Arsenal's squad is grossly deficient.

yes, let's blame david cameron's cuts for the gross deficiency.

werepeLeri:
and what has all the above got to do with Jonathan?

LOL.

if you finecomb the problems in your nervous system, you would know what it's got to do with jonathan.
the reason nigeria is the way it is can be blamed on people like you with poop for brains and zero intelligence.

jonathan goodluck is a simpleton.
but nigerians with their hidden agenda(anything but a norther ruler) voted like dumbfucks and installed the daftest leader ever as their president.
the whole world is laughing at nigeria.

under goodluck, nigeria have gone down under.
the economy is sick, the foreign exchange is nothing to write home about. power supply is actually worse off and to make matters worse, any nigerian muslim is now seen as a potential terrorist.

when would nigerians learn?
at this stage, the military should come back. nigeria is not ready for democracy.
we should stop imitating the developed world. they have a superior mentality that enables them to be democratic.

nigerians do not have such mentality. everything is tribal/religious.
hausas will put a donkey in power just because the donkey is hausa even when they know an igbo man or yoruba man is better at the job.
and it applies in all regions of the country. i am sick and tired of that country called nigeria. if the military men in that country has brass balls, they should take over the government now and put all those rogue politicians in jail.

[quote author=High_Chief link=topic=673205.msg9033652#msg9033652 date=1314621919]Trust me nothing fantastic about your play yesterday, Citeh will win the 2 derbies with high goal margin. Remember Arsenal did not take their chances and if RVP had scored that penalty it wuld have changed the complexion of that game. We have beaten you severally before so lets see what happens this season.[/quote]duh! united have already beaten city this season at wembley.
the young lads of united passed them to death with one touch passes that caused anarchy in citeh's defence.

if rvp had scored that penalty? if nani had scored plenty of his chances? if welbeck didn't go out injured? if arshavin had been sent off? if jenkinson had been sent off in the first half?
all those are dreamy thoughts. when van persie missed, it was still 1-0 - the scoreline was still recoverable then.

denzel2009:
The penalty was rubbish anyway. By January, SAF will be scouting for a new goalkeeper. Quote me!

we don't have a megalomaniac like roman abramovic as the owner.
united give young players their chance to grow and learn the ethos of the club.
de gea is world class - can't wait to eat chelsea for lunch at the bridge again(hoping mart atkinson has been suspended before then though).

denzel2009:
With that your dodgy keeper?

a keeper that saved a penalty is dodgy?
which goalkeeper hasn't conceded through his legs in european football?

[quote author=High_Chief link=topic=673205.msg9033570#msg9033570 date=1314621184]Ofcourse those arsenal kids made ManUre look so good, nothing fantastic about their play. Citeh is something to worry about cos they have depth and the drive is there too, thou with Mancini am sure they might slip up sometime during the season[/quote]nothing fantastic about their play except they beat you four different times last season in the games that matter.
man city is rubbish. the united team i saw yesterday will demolish city home and away this season.

usbcable:
0-6
wonderful start to the season
mou is surely pointing us to greater heights.

CR7 Htrick and Kaka's goals are the icing on the cake.

much love to them all

i just hope the finishing improves

ronaldo hatrick again?
watch messi fan boys say yesterday's match was irrelevant, the league title has been decided.
ronaldo is now the king of tap-ins.? excuses excuses excuses.

rosicky and van persie were the only stand outs yesterday. . .

ramsey was rubbish. . . .

from times uk.

4 - Wojciech Szczesny [/b]The Pole will have conceded fewer goals and played worse. Made a number of smart saves to keep the scoreline respectable early on before the floodgates opened.

[b]2 - Carl Jenkinson His pasting by Young could prove damaging in the longer term, his sending-off almost merciful in sparing him more torment. But he received no support from his centre halves.

2 - Johan Djourou [/b]His repeated attempts to play offside so far up the field became something of a running joke. His positional play was wretched, his reading of the game equally so.

[b]3 - Laurent Koscielny He may not have played much with Djourou but his communications breakdown with his central-defensive partner became excruciating to watch during the second half.

2 - Armand Traoré [/b]Where to start? Things were so bad in the second half that he almost seemed to give up. Terrorised by Nani, who ghosted past the left back so often it started to become embarrassing.

[b]4 - Aaron Ramsey While he was by no means the worst offender in the Arsenal team, his passing let him down, conceding possession too cheaply and handing the initiative to United’s midfield.

3 - Francis Coquelin Of all the days to make your first league start for Arsenal, this was not one of them. The 20-year-old’s work ethic could not be faulted, but he was second to almost everything.

4 - Theo Walcott At 22, one of the more experienced members of the Arsenal team but he offered Jenkinson little cover at right back and did not help his team-mate by publicly rebuking him.

5 - Tomas Rosicky While there are plenty of players for whom size is no obstacle to success at this level, Rosicky’s lightweight frame does him no favours, even if he was one of Arsenal’s better performers.

3 - Andrey Arshavin Booked for a nasty late lunge on Phil Jones, he was fortunate not to be sent off for another on Ashley Young. Often lost possession and yanked a golden chance wide. A risible contribution.

[b]5 - Robin van Persie [/b]His penalty miss denied Arsenal the chance to draw level at 1-1, although it is unlikely to have affected the result. Forced some decent saves from De Gea and scored a consolation.

kandiikane:
^G[i]a[/i]y comment. . Why would you tell a guy to suck your dik? Gaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

so you fail to see the f beside his username?
f means male in your african village?

"kiss ma arse", "suck ma [i]d[/i]ick" are just phrases.
it has nothing to do with sexuality, you bushwoman.

nateevs:
There's no crisis on this side of town trust me.
We are just making last minute preps to ensure there is a chance we can overtake when Rooney and Young/Aguero and Silva break their metatarsals.

we are still warming up.
yesterday's team was mostly reserves. with vidic/rio, we wouldn't have conceded those cheap goals!

Iya Witch:
Real witch drain life from human being. so this means human being is a slave to real witch. Like when you eat animals, that means you have dominions over animals, not so? So real witch that drain soul from human being is spiritual master of human being and has spiritual dominion over human being, that is why you should kneel when addressing or being addressed by real witch

iya witch, answer my question.
you lazy hypocritical and obnoxious heifer!

gestapo:
Get your itchy fingers working by using the report to the moderator button to get this thread locked or keep yapping. . . your choice, your headache, Arrow

you can suck my di[i]c[/i]k with amy winehouses's teeth, you ginsoak inbred twunt!

ramsey performed well?
he was surgically sodomized by cleverey time and time again.
ramsey was arsenal's worst player bar jenkinson and maybe djourou.

hahaha

see united's rivals in london shitting kittens. . .
what a pity. . . .it seems the premier league trophy won't be in london for the next 8 years.

manchester - the european capital of football.

4llerbuntu:
where do we go from here?
that is the question. and frankly, at this rate we will soon start hearing of dressing room unrest and players facing off wenger.

cos honestly, all the credibility he has is gone. he has been consistently lying to everyone's face, refuses to do obvious things, and not helping those boys any bit, or do you think oxencart chamberpot and coquelin are happy they were put in such invidious position yesterday?

it's not wenger's fault entirely.
amy lawrence delivered this master-class before the game. it's what all arsenal fans should read before crucifying wenger.

"Everyone thinks they have the prettiest wife at home." It's a resonant old line. Perhaps the pick of Arsène Wenger's classics. It evokes an era when he was at the peak of what seemed at the time to be manifold powers. Arsenal were Double winners with a team who welded the might of Sol Campbell, Martin Keown and Patrick Vieira with the marvels of Thierry Henry, Dennis Bergkamp and Robert Pires.

Sir Alex Ferguson, suffering the ignominy of watching the enemy win the title at Old Trafford in the summer of 2002, was not at his most generous. "They are scrappers who rely on belligerence – we are the better team," he scoffed, inspiring Wenger to respond with a flash of wit, throwing the media a juicy bone on which to feast in its insatiable analysis of the Ferguson-Wenger feud. At its height, they traded quips, insults and honours like two heavyweights.

If it seems like ages ago that they were arch-competitors, that is because it is. Almost a decade has passed since then, and although the barbs continued for a while, with each passing year the colour has faded, the spikiness has softened, as one of the fighters has evidently struggled to make his weight.

When Arsenal defeated Manchester United 1-0 at the Emirates during last season's title run-in, it was a rare success. United's dominance of this fixture – sometimes to the point of doling out humiliation – has become almost routine. It has reached the point where Ferguson feels a degree of compassion for the Arsenal manager. That has to be as clear a sign as any that Wenger's touch has gone awry. Nobody who lives in football's extreme world of winners and losers wants the sympathy vote. Nobody welcomes pity. Has it really come to this?

Wenger's image has taken such a pummelling since the start of the season, even people who would normally relish the schadenfreude have confessed to feeling sorry for him. Some critics felt moved to congratulate him on his team's safe passage into the Champions League at Udinese, as if they were relieved to see that he had found some refuge from the relentless pounding. "Well done Arsenal!" hurrahed the opening line from the Sun's match report, in all seriousness. Yet another clanging sign that things ain't what they ought to be.

Gutsy though their Champions League recovery was, and critical as it is to the club's profile, it would be foolish to allow a 90-minute shot-in-the-arm to paper over the cracks. Arsenal head to Old Trafford on Sunday with a thin squad stripped to the bone, still overloaded with problems that scream out for solutions.

But should all of them pile up at Wenger's door? While he bears a lot of the responsibility for their dysfunctional summer, others, too, should share the burden. Wenger needed help during this close season from other departments within Arsenal, but that help has not materialised. The scouting network, and the transfer negotiators, have never looked so weak. The board, which should have either backed him or forced him to shake things up before the Cesc Fábregas and Samir Nasri sagas took their toll, have sat back.

It is a myth that Wenger is the man who controls all transfer activity. First, he is dependent on his scouts for identifying and researching potential recruits. Apart from the obvious exceptions – Henry, Vieira and Nicolas Anelka were clearly well known to Wenger – in the main, the names and reports that are brought to him by the chief scout, Steve Rowley, are what persuade him to make a move for, say, a teenaged Fábregas. Or for that matter a Manuel Almunia, Denílson, or Igor Stepanovs. It is unusual for Wenger to watch much of little-known players in the flesh before they sign.

It appears that the scouts have not come up with a useful enough list of targets to work from this summer. Given that they knew they would in all likelihood lose a number of players, it was obvious they would need to do a fair bit of shopping. Considering most of the "shops" operate with a hint of poker school, and that agents block the shop front with all the charm of burly bouncers, it would have made sense to have numerous options to consider and to hit the stores  quickly.

Yet Arsenal find themselves scrabbling about in the dwindling days of the sale, hunting for bargains where few remain on display. The experience of last summer with Mark Schwarzer, when they thought that if they hung on to the last moment Fulham would have to cave in (they did not), should have been a salutary lesson. That trick used to work. Not any more. The scene has changed since David Dein could pull transfer strings with the best of them and most players were instantly attracted to joining a winning team comprising the likes of Henry and Vieira.

It has been a tough summer for Joystick Law, currently the chief deal maker, who has struggled to see through interest in a handful of major targets that were on the radar. Chelsea rang rings around him for Juan Mata; Bolton have played tough over Gary Cahill, rejecting Arsenal's latest bid on Friday; the Gunners did not even appear to make much of a play for José Enrique – available for less than Gaël Clichy and a real no-brainer purchase who instead went to Liverpool. Law lacks the global football contacts who packed Dein's address book, not to mention the ability to engage in smooth talk or hardball if appropriate.

Dein remembers how the atmosphere around the place could be exhilarated by a flurry of signings. In the summer of 2006, just after leaving Highbury, six deals bubbled along right until the 11th hour of deadline day. "Arsène has a lovely expression: You need some salt and pepper in the soup. You need to spice it up. This is not a perfect science," he says. "If we all knew the formula of Coca-Cola we'd all be multimillionaires."

Arsenal have a transfer budget of around £70m just from their summer sales. They are chasing an assortment of players, but it all feels worryingly late in the day and, so cack-handedly have they been functioning during this window, the Emirates crowd would be amazed to see the handful of needed signings arriving. Which brings us to the great unanswered question of life at Arsenal: Who really calls the shots when it comes to money available for players?

Depending on who you believe, either the board actively encourage Wenger to spend and feel frustrated at his reluctance, or Wenger does a good job in taking the flak and shielding the board from a financial reality that is much more sobering than they would like to admit.

The economics at Arsenal remain puzzling. And while the boardroom situation remains uncomfortable, with Alisher Usmanov's stake undermining Stan Kroenke's majority shareholding, nobody can put forward a clear message about how the club intend to be ambitious.

And so Wenger heads for Old Trafford, to take on his old nemesis at a time when United have just demonstrated that the youth project that has obsessed him can work wonders. Seventy million pounds for his thoughts as he scans the callow faces in the away dressing room and prepares them to do their best.

debosky:
have the rants finished?

Not much to say really - poor selection, poor squad, wrong formation, poor finishing, wrong substitutions, poor defending.

Result: Abysmal, atrocious, annihilation.

3 days to go, till the window closes, there really isn't much of a point commenting about Arsenal.

poor selection? poor squad?
are you aware that was mostly united's reserves?
a team missing rio, vidic, twins, valencia, carrick, berbatov, hernandez, giggs, park, fletcher is not a senior team.
besides, the team is actually younger than wenger's starting xi.

johnny evans was excellent yesterday. over-excellent.
he wasn't culpable for any of the goals and theo walcott dived for the penalty - that was the softest penalty ever to be given at old trafford.
it must have led to howard webb's decision to award evra a penalty for what was also a dive by a slight push from walcott.
those penalty decisions were rubbish.

the first goal was actually caused by evra. he is now the weakest link in our defence.
he left his position and his attempt at clearance was passing to another arsenal player. the opponents quickly realised evra was missing and walcott was left all alone with a space that would fit the titanic. the ball simply went back to where evra should have been and walcott scored from 8 yards.

https://img831.imageshack.us/img831/435/walcottgoal.png

the 2nd goal was a mistake from evra again. he was nowhere when jenkinson delivered a sweet cross.
phil jones' clearance was not good enough and arsenal scored from it.
but jenkinson had so much space on the right channel to power that cross into united's box. i think fergie should start looking at replacing evra.