Jun 09
A lot of rumors going around about a variety of things, and I haven’t seen much of it being very positive, thats for sure. I figured I’d give my 2 cents on a few hot topics, and give us all an area to debate the Summer Silly Season that we all loathe annually.
(at least I dread it, because our top names are constantly rumored to be going elsewhere)
1. Thierry Henry:
I believe the man is frustrated with our lack of success, and lack of experience in the squad. He wants to win now, as he’s at the peak of his career, and doesn’t have time to wait for...
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Jun 06
That’s the image that’s been making its’ way around the various Arsenal forums the last two days. While there are many people claiming that it’s a Photoshopped fake, Blogger on Arseblog.com swears up and down that it’s legit. I tend to believe him, as he’s usually right about these kind of things.
As for the kit itself, I have a few questions. White? Seriously, who thought it was a good idea to wear the same color as the Scum? I have to admit though, I do quite like the shorts, and the hooped...
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Jun 05
So, stories abound this morning about Frank Ribery being close to a deal that would take him from Marseilles to Bayern Munich for some 17 million pounds?? Can this be true?? The one player who if you spoke to (or his agent… or his current club… or Mr. Wenger) would tell you that he has been determined to set up a move to the Emirates for almost 2 years now!!?
I’m confused. Weren’t we supposed to be on the look out for “talented players who play the Arsenal style”? Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not suggesting for one minute that 17 million...
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Jun 03
AC Milan win the Champions League. Yay.
As much as I didn’t want Liverpool, United or Chelsea to win the Champion’s League, while we were not invited to the party… I found it ridiculous that AC Milan were even IN the tournament, let alone winning it.
We are talking MATCH FIXING here. Its not some financial irregularity, although that is bad enough… they were involved in fixing the outcome of matches… in 2007. Its not the Black Sox scandal in baseball, when some players colluded to throw the World Series, because they were making little money and the...
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Jun 02
We’ve let quite a bit of talent slip thru our hands. Perhaps it could be said of some other teams, but the team below could contend for Europe!
Manninger / Stack (OK, Keeper isn’t so strong)
Lauren Campbell Upson Cole (Silvinho)
Bentley Vieira Sidwell Pires (Pennant, Reyes)
Anelka Kanu (Wiltord, Baptista)
This is some very impressive talent. Yes many are older players, but we lacked experience
last season. It was one of our biggest problems. Players that knew how to win.
They showed some coverage of the last game at Highbury on Fox...
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Jun 01
Do the stats lie?
Or do you prefer to go with the “eyeball test”, that you believe what you saw?
There is this perception that Henry had a poor year, RVP was very good, Adebayor was very good, and Baptista was awful. At least thats what I’ve read.
The Stats say: Henry 12 Goals in 27 Appearances
RVP 13 Goals in 31 Appearances
Ade 12 Goals in 44 Appearances
Beast 10 Goals in 35 Appearances
Looks to me like Henry didn’t play too badly when he played. He was playing injured and fatigued and still managed to score 12 in far...
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Jun 01
“…so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside.”
So, one horrendous database hack, several hours of stress, and an on-going negotiation of a domain name transfer later, and we’re back!
Thanks to my good friend Dave who still had his backup of the site from when he helped do the upgrade back in April (THANK GOD). Add in the fact that I pretty much double post all of my ArsenalAmerica entries on my personal blog, (adventuresofmike.net) and some hard work by Steve Rossen grabbing a bunch of cached articles from Google, and we’re almost back to...
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