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Maybe Kalou will get to play the whole 90 minutes.

@musty, do you still think its 2pm? been waiting but seems its 3pm.

Its already 2.40pm naija time.

Somebody wrote this on 2nd October, Enjoy his analysis,




For the first time in my life, I applauded a team that just beat my team. It has never happened before even though a few teams have sliced and devoured Arsenal in the past with such class that it was hard not to appreciate. But with Hull, it was different.

Hull did everything that should be encouraged in English football. They did not rely on "clubbering" Arsenal off the pitch, being totally defensive or naively ambitious. They were controlled, played to their strengths and most importantly, played collectively with a hint of style. The week before, a memo from Wenger to his boys had been leaked. It talked about collective spirit, team and desire to win. It talked about what Hull did. Well done to them.

So here's how I started my last piece here ", The loss at Fulham reminded us that Arsenal team still has vulnerabilities – not least its own mental strength and defending high balls. Arsenal and Liverpool are the only top 4 teams that you can't bet on with confidence against a bottom team yet you can't bet against them if they were playing Real Madrid either".

Sure enough, Arsenal got beaten by Hull and won against a vastly superior Porto (compared to Hull). Sometimes it looks like Arsenal think that if they just pass the ball and play football, they will win. They seem to forget that the desire to win and mental strength are essential to winning. These characteristics were not displayed at all against Hull and unfortunately, neither was our defending of set-pieces.

I called the Hull game our best defeat because the opposition forced Arsenal to re-examine their desire. If we had been beaten by Chelsea 2-1, nobody would have called it sensational. Because it was Hull, everyone had to take stock. Wenger described himself as "physically sick" after the game. Hull made us realise things we should have learned at Craven Cottage.

Emmanuel Adebayor, Robin van Persie and Emmanuel Eboué were just lazy against Hull. Theo Walcott was ineffective, and even Bacary Sagna looked like Eboué at right-back. William Gallas was the only Arsenal player to show real desire to win. Wenger threatened changes but he only dropped Eboué.

We expect that Walcott is going to have up and down games so it was right to keep him. He was right to keep van Persie and Adebayor to give them a chance to show their reaction and he was right to drop Eboué. Eboué has worked hard to create competition on the right and as soon as Samir Nasri got fit, Eboué screwed up his chance to keep his place. The manager dropping him should make him think about his consistency – he's old enough, he's not Walcott and most of his problems are down to concentration.

Porto was a different game. The first 5 minutes of a game tells you a lot about how Arsenal are going to do. In the first 5 minutes Arsenal got in there so purposefully that they got an early warning from Porto's fantastic counter-attack. It told the players that absolute concentration was necessary.

van Persie's response was also good. He applied himself well as a support striker and took risks. He played like a 25-year-old.

Most interesting about the Porto game was the difference between Walcott, Vela and Nasri and the old Eboué. Nasri slows Arsenal down because he did not grow up with Arsenal football and because he has the technique to hold the ball in tight areas – pretty much like Hleb – so he does. The good news is that Nasri will score more and he's much younger than Hleb so he can still learn a quicker passing style.

Unlike Nasri, Walcott and Vela attack the smallest space available. They have no time for patience, if they see a gap, that's where they are going. Eboué has been good this season because he did precisely that. Walcott and Vela are annoying to defenders because like Ronaldo at Manchester United, you are guaranteed they will run at you every time they get the ball. When Walcott and Vela are on the pitch, the defenders work full-time. It is especially potent when Nicklas Bendtner is there too because the combined movement is too much for most defenders.

In Carlos Vela and Bendtner, I can foresee the best striking partnership ever at Arsenal brewing. Bendtner is infinitely cleverer than most people realize. Vela has got better movement in the final third than anyone I have seen at Arsenal for 12 years!

Drogba, Anelka and Essien may be out, but the Chelsea I know are a great bunch.

The blues win by 2-1

3 PM Predictions please?

Thanks everyone for all your responses to my request. I will be looking forward to pictures of the Golf, my budget is elastic and can stretch a bit depending on the qualities and grade of the car.

What sayest thou Phammyus before the hammer descends?

I dont know the cost of clearing, but how much do you intend to sell this car, apart from the shipping/clearing costs?

N1.2?

interiors?

What a lovely looking car, good price, please I want to pay immediately

But the seat opposite is vacant, how come the big guy is not seating there?

Manual or auto transmission?

Pumping or Aktopgun should please answer this one!

Wetin you dey find here sef? Trying to spend the loot?

Me I want lexus jeep, Rolls royce and Hummer, please dont bother to paste pictures, just tell me your prices

probably yahooze traps, just ignore them.

What happened to the front plate number, looks twisted to me?

And you cant even give us pictures, abi the car is too run down to be viewed.

Bill of ladden, bill of laden or bill of landing? which is correct?

Abi na Bin of Ladin sef ?

Hey! make una no use mouth finish nissan na!

I owned a 1989 nissan bluebird and it worked perfectly for two years after I bought it.

I only changed it when I needed something more modern, its only my neighbor I pity. He trekked to the bus stop this morning, leaving his precious maxima in the garage. He lost the war to start the car after a one hour battle.

I have a neighbor who uses the 1998 Maxima, and, in fact the guy dey cry daily. This guy could have bought two good cars with the money he has spent supporting the Maxima on the road. This car breaks down daily, I mean as in daily. most days I will lend him my battery to start the car, (he had bought a new battery four days ago, the fifth this year)

This guy loves this car like mad and spends money in thousands every week on his car, cleans it up everyday. This guy now knows how to repair cars, you could see him most weekend days under this Maxima, sweating away like christmas goat. Oh, here he comes, hope not to collect a tool from my toolkit

supposing you show the pictures or are you new here?

@STOjo,
nice work, will be talking to you later.

Any hope to get the prices for Honda range?

From what I have been reading here, it seems some people are anti capitalists . When a landlord spends money to build his own house from start to finish, most times without govt help, where will the government come in to help masses chose how rents should be paid. The business terrain is challenging enough without adding more confusion to the equation.

Landlords even stand to lose much from these advance payments. Have we factored inflation? the way prices of materials and services keep increasing, you will find out that after two years, inflation will make a nonsence of the present rent. The landlord is better collecting monthly, and adjusting his rent upwards, as the inflation keeps increasing.

And the pictures?

this guy was just joking?

I am also interested to see pictures and prices of both the 2005 and 2006 models of Honda Element.

@Rhemagirl, I will PM Omoge at the other side, just be careful about all these PPs, there is some warning from Wanajo, Aktopgun etc to look well before puting money in PPs, see you at the other side.

Thanks everyone here, be seeing you.

Chei! I still dey cry for selling my UBA, oversmart, na im dey kill monkey.

UBA! Bonus of 2:1? Chei! I don miss this one, but taking the recent past as guide, is the price going to see N60?

Abeg, wetin dey shelle for here sef?

Kai! I hope its not the president of this place that locked us out of the other side?

Its not fair o!

The true blues rules!