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And so Leicester drop points!!!!!!

Please guys where is proudly sport and Pataki sport or Roland? This is d time of the season I look forward to their post here. All the players in Europe has been linked to Arsenal. Now we are told Rabiot from PSG another Kawasaki from Villa in Spain. BTw 2 seasons ago you guys would have jumped out here to tell us who we should expect. Are you guys tired? Or now so busy to post here. Just thought I should let you know the transfers window is almost 10 days gone.

Nice game!!! But somebody needs to remind Geroud that their is a ref on the field, and d ref is d one that determine when a player is off or not. Just imagine what if that is the only only oppt to win d match

Again the defense did what they need to do to keep a clean sheet.that has being one area we have done very well this season. Now we are sure we can win a match with a 1-0 score line.

Nice game!!!!!! Arsenal vs Napoli will be tough

"Arsenal striker Nicklas Bendter doesn't lack for confidence. He sees himself moving to Real Madrid or Barcelona later in his career. (Metro)" hmmmm

Dayo Ade, A-40 &co will u please explain in simple english why the band fail to perform on the liverpool thread and why diciplinary action should not be taking aginst u for failure to perform. And one more thing, why did u people bot Aso-ebi for a team that did not need ur service wasting precious time,space and money on the wrong thread.

Roland well done man !!! I have invited. The prayer worriors for MO11 it is well

Nice one Roland!!! who was in goal for Poland? Fabiansky? How bad is TR7 injury? Once again good job pls keep it up man.

ROland pls don't forget to give us update on our players, we also should pray that non of them will comebaCk Injured. The season just dey start for arsenal after the int.break.

Waooo this is Good, did you noticed Arteta and Flamini combo kept the Napoli attack quiet. I will like to see what cazorla and ozil combo will look like. Injust 15min tha NApoli match mas over. May this continue till may.

[quote author=4llerbuntu]the thought that flashed through my mind as the last pk went in was the disappointment that engulfed the hearts of haters at that moment eg DK....... priceless.


Hypertension football noni. Too many youngsters played IMO. of course there is barely any first teamer available anyway so it was probably unavoidable. remarkable how they tired so badly yet kept going. the mentality at arsenal is changing..


Robinson Crusoe played like a man who has been marooned for 2 years on suspension/injury. I doubt if that guy has really changed his mind to play tho...

fabianski's composure is still low. mertersacker is class.[/quot. Fabianski was very good tonite. I hope this is the last time Bentner will put on an Arsenal shirt.

Just tot I should ask this question, in case arsenal fail to make UCL, how are we going to cOpe for one whole year? (not sure I can watch tonite game life)make

Am waiting for Dayo Ade to humble himself and congratulate ArsEnal. For a good game.and then we can move on. because you now know youare not so invincible. Abi I lie

please i have asked thIS question before, WHAT IS THE DIFFRENT BETWEEN GEROUD AND CHAMAKH?

we have all seen what arsenal has been turned to a team with 4th place is good enough i have very little to say and as usual keep my mouth shut.
1,if we have a good striker we will not be in this shamefull position.
please can someone with good football sense tell me the diffrence between Chamak and Geroud? what is the use of a striker that cant use his legs? or are we saying if RVP was still in arsenal, Geroud will not be on the bench? or was that not the same problem with chamak he came and scored 6goals Before the return of RVP from injury.if chamak had the number of 1st team start as Geroud he would have scored the same number of goals if not more.
2,As 4ller said we all knew this will happened but we kept hoping it will not happen well we are now faced with the obvious DISGRACE but the real problem is that we dont have a team.
3,DAYO ADE,you see us like this before you started your rant and you knew nobody will have the boldness to take you up but if only we have a striker YOU WILL NOT HAVE THE BALLS TO RANT ABOUT A WAGER. if only you will promise me that once we beat Bayern you will leave this thread alone then am willing to give you the $200 WAGER please tell me where to drop the wager(its free money ABI?) dayo i watch Bayern against Wolf on friday nite and i can tell you that bayern team will not defeat arsenal.

Debo where is proudlysport na? wetin happen now

Jencejyde: Sorry about some typos though as i was in a bit of a rush.. On the game yesterday...hmmm.... Sad is just the word but then again something will give in sooner or later... City fans returning tickets?!? looks like one of those signs....

Well said bro, and thanks for mmaking it so worth my time, I enjoyed every bit of your analysis. Like I said before now we are likeLy to miss out of Europe completely and the only person responsible for that will be WENGER and not the board. Ihope swansEa will do us the honour of cancelling another record on wednesday nite (wenger has never lost a 3rd round fA cup tie).

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm end of story. It now crystal clear If Arsenal don't qualify for Europa, that must mean we miss out on Europe altogether.because this time wenger has lost it . Diaby ahead coquelin and Walcot against company. Simply sucidal.

Finaly see what wenga. Has turn us. Arsenal fans into. We have a Big match tomoro and everywhere is so quiet because nobody can say confidently based on our past result that we can beat man city tomoro. We have sank into our into our MAT hoping the result will favour us.then you will see all sort of analysis.I pray we loose with a heavy Goal marging tomoro so that wenger will enter market to do the needfull. But if we manage a draw tomoro, or a win then you know the rest of the story.

Roland17: Guess our chase for David Villa is over as Sandro Rosell has refused to sell Villa to anyone, Villa was eager to make the transfer, but i guess the chase is now over.

P.S happy buffday to debossssssssssssskkkkkkkkkkkyyyyyyyyyyy

More reason why wenger and co should be in jaIl for selling Song to them. Now we are headed for the nite market again.

Happy birthday. Debo longlife good health and prosperity may your light shines and never grow deem.


We are all waiting for your pix then and now

Roland are you the one we are to follow now because proudly sport don catch fire, Debosky sport self get qwanta. David villa looks good. But will he be able to deliver or what is our coach saying about it?

Pls how can we help our coach find exceptional players abeg we no wan go nite market again oooooo

Wenger needs Help.

Pls. Where is proudly sport ooo. Any news on demba BA? Na adrian lopez we dey read again ooooo or proudly sport don close down. Or should we go back to debosky sport?

Arsenal7 Newcastle 3. This is a deceptive result guys. This result will make wenger think and believe all is well with the Team. And so he will rather sell in january than make any significant purchase.we need a solid addition. To our defence and our MF need reinforcement we can't continue to wait for diaby for ever now. HAPPY NEW YEAR. ALL see you all in 2013.

Where is that boy? When I said God wAnts to hunble wenger after we lost to swansea he said I no talk sense. Then we beat WBA with 2 dubious PK. All of us here said wi na win abi? But we faild to realised we did not score any goal in open play. "Sad to see a good man tarnish his reputation like so. We shldnt laugh at him. It is like seeing an old uncle slowly going senile. All he will be remembered for will be his 7 dry years. No one will remember d glory years, doubles, invincibles again. HmmnnnN sio

R2bees: did u say anything? I no see your comment o... Na reasonable comment my phone dey show me o

. Sorry oooo I can not translate it for u in igbo, or better change your china phone and buy a smaller phone or ignore my post because if I have to do this again you will not like it.

God. Needs to humble AW. And what a better way to start.this is just d begining. Wenger is like a proverbial chicken that use his legs to scater it mothers buriala. You sold your best players and you hope to remain competitive?. He used his own hand to destroy the Good Job he has been building. Out of Pride he sold Song a player that took years to hit form. You now think ARTETA will do his job. God just started with wenger.so guys get ready for talk like "we played with hand brake or we are a bit JADED oR SPIRIT Nonsense.

HMmmmmmmmm too much analysis trying to console ourself abi? If nothing is done in january in the market, this will be our final position. And we better believe it now. What saved us last season was man_u 8-2 but now we kept giving one reason or the other any time we fail to win our games. WENGER: will say "the team is low on cOnfident and short in the final third, on nairaland we fan will come up with: ramsey shit or everton is playing well now or the rain was affecting our passing game. Guys this is where we are mOst likely to finish at the end of the season. The arsenal team that I know is always very strong at the start of the season. Not this arsenal that can not take 3 pont from villa,norwich everton and co.pleAseeeeeeeeeeee

ARSENAL my ARSENAL why is it so difficult that you can't hang on to any lead.hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Adebayo new arsenal temprament. He did d same thing when he was in mancity. So he was hoping he will get a yellow and he will continue o tunt arsenal players thereby they will loose focus. Today he got a deserved RED CARD.. I hope we can now take it from here

Guys this should not be hear; but felt we should read it anyway:Wonder why referees who give United bad decisions never repeat the trick? It's because they get taught a heavy lesson from Fergie, The FA & PGMOB. The conspiracy unravels within....

The fortunes of the  institutions surrounding football in the UK will be negatively hit should any proof of corruption come out. It is naturally in their interest not to investigate the matter. In fact, the managers that have come out and questioned the refereeing selection process (Rafa Benitez, Andre Villas Boas) have been turned into laughing stocks by the English press corps.

So, investigate some more I did. And some of the stuff I found out surprised even me.

During United’s title winning 2010/11 season, they only lost 4 league games. I looked at who refereed those games and how long they then spent without being assigned Manchester United games as well their subsequent trend of behavior towards United.

Michael Oliver took charge of their first defeat, the February 2011 2-1 loss at Wolves. He was not given another Manchester United game to referee until December 2011. Since then, Oliver has had 2 United games.

United have won both, with Oliver refusing to give a clear Fulham penalty in the 1-0 United win late last season at Old Trafford; a game came right at the end of the title race. A few weeks ago, Oliver gave United a penalty for a shocking dive by Danny Welbeck in the home win against Wigan.

The second game United lost was away to Chelsea. Martin Atkinson was the referee then and some of his decisions incurred the wrath of Alex Ferguson. Atkinson was not given another United game to referee for an ENTIRE YEAR.

Atkinson was further punished with his decisions that went against United that day. He was not given a single Premier League game to referee for a full month. Even worse, he was subsequently given 3 lower league games to referee that season- when he’d previously not officiated a single one that campaign.

It seems that Atkinson was given a clear message that day.

The 3rd United loss came at Anfield, where a Dirk Kuyt hat trick secured a 3-1 home win. The referee that day was Phil Dowd. He was criticized by Ferguson for not sending Jamie Carragher off. In the very next United game Dowd refereed, he gave them a penalty which secured a 1-1 draw at Blackburn and their 19th league title.

Giving United penalties in the very next game you referee for them after having been criticized is a trend we’ll soon notice.

The final United loss of the 2010/11 season came at the Emirates, where Chris Foy refereed a 1-0 Arsenal win. It will come to no surprise to people to know that Foy was subsequently not assigned a United league game for, again, AN ENTIRE YEAR.

He did however referee 2 United games in the cups during that time. The first was in the Carling Cup against Crystal Palace. He awarded United a penalty. The second was at Manchester City in the FA Cup. United got a penalty and Vincent Kompany was sent off early in the game.

To resume, we’ve just analyzed what happened to the 4 referees that officiated United’s 4 league losses in the 2010/11 season. 2 of them were not given any more United league games for a full year (Atkinson and Foy), a third for 9 months (Oliver). 2 of those referees gave United penalties in the very next game (Foy and Dowd) they took charge of and one refused to give a blatant one to the opponents (Oliver). Martin Atkinson, was not given Premier League games to officiate for an entire month and assigned to 3 lower league games.

I also looked at Mike Jones after prompting from the comments board. Jones refereed the 1-1 home draw with Newcastle last season and falsely awarded Demba Ba a penalty.

Subsequently, Jones was not given a single football game, at ANY level, to referee for an entire month. The next United game he was handed came a few months later, the 2-0 home win against Stoke which saw… You guessed it: 2 penalties awarded to Manchester United which, according to reports, were “very soft”.

How about Mark Halsey? Well, when he gave WBA a debatable penalty in the 1-1 draw at Old Trafford in May 2005 it was his 5th United game that season. He then also went an ENTIRE YEAR without being given any United games to referee. From 5 games in a season to none for a year. His record since then? He’s refereed 11 Man Utd games which have seen 11 United wins: the latest coming at Anfield, where 3 controversial decisions went the away team’s way.

In terms of trends, considering what we discovered about Alan Wiley and Mark Clattenburg (whose record with no United games to referee now stands at 36 league games since he took charge of the 6-1 home loss to City), there’s enough to make you wonder what exactly is going on in the referee selection process. It also ties in perfectly with ex referee Jeff Winter’s comments about The FA being reticent to assign United games to referees Ferguson has criticized in the past.

The whole world revolves around incentives and punishment. From a young age, kids are brought up that way. Positive and negative reinforcement are at the very core of child psychology. You can’t blame people who are well aware of the punishment awaiting them (through the form of demotionsand suspension from future United games) if they’d rather go for the safe option of keeping Ferguson happy.

I don’t blame the referees.

The people I blame are the ones that are letting this happen. The media who have not uttered a peep or written a single article about this for 2 decades. The FA who run the game in this country and have allowed this situation to fester. The clubs who see no issue with having David Gill, United’s CEO, on the board of the FA. And of course, the PGMOB:  the people who regulate officiating in England

The person at the head of the PGMOB and who is in charge of selecting which referee gets handed which game is Mike Riley, an ex professional referee who is most famous for giving a penalty for a clear dive by Wayne Rooney in the 2004 Man United 2-0 win against Arsenal which ended the Gunners 49 game unbeaten streak.

Riley was accused of pro United favoritism throughout his career. For younger readers, he’s my generation’s Howard Webb.

According to the Guardian’s research, which goes to back to the beginning of the 1997-98 season until 2004, “Riley refereed 23 United games in all competitions and gave 12 penalties for United in that time, but only three against them. And he has sent off five of United’s opponents.

At Old Trafford, Riley’s record is weighted even more heavily in favor of United: He gave 10 penalties in the 14 games he officiated to the home side, Manchester United.”

Riley’s bias was so suspected than when was awarded the Everton vs Man Utd FA Cup semi final to officiate in 2009, David Moyes actually called for an investigation on whether Riley was a United supporter.

This is the man who now decides which premier league games to assign to referees.

Add that to everything we’ve found out: the year long waits for referees who take charge of United losses to be given another United game to officiate, the penalties that are given to United in said referees next United games, the punishment for making mistakes that cost United points (Atkinson’s month long suspension from premier league games, Jones’ 1 month suspension from ALL PROFESSIONAL games), the comments from ex referee Jeff Winter, the fact that 18% of Howard Webb’s career penalties have gone to Manchester United,the retirement of Alain Wiley after being called unfit by Alex Ferguson and, of course, the presence of David Gill inside the FA and surely there’s enough there for some investigative journalist in the UK to actually look more into this.

If only to put the millions of football fans’ across the world’s minds at ease.

Because we could all be wrong and all of this may just be a set of freakish coincidences. Maybe English football is squeaky clean like they make us believe and the referee selection process is completely unbiased.

Maybe we’re just paranoid…

Or maybe not… Chris Foy failed to give Manchester United a penalty in their 3-2 loss to Spurs last month. The PGMOB did not handed Foy a Premier League game to referee the next weekend: instead, officiated in League 2 for the first time in more than 4 years.

Mike Jones meanwhile, who missed a blatant penalty on Luis Suarez at Norwich the same weekend, took charge of West Brom vs QPR in the Premier League. Finally, Howard Webb (who sent off Jordi Gomez on Saturday; a red card today rescinded by the FA) took charge of Newcastle’s home game against Manchester United.

Why did Foy’s errors on last month lead to his demotion to the lowest professional league in England while Webb’s and Jones’ mistakes didn’t cost them?

I guess we all know the answer to that question…