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Archive for July, 2007

Reyes Gets His Move

Anybody who was present when Jose Antonio Reyes introduced himself to the Highbury faithful with a spectacular double strike against Chelsea must be a little bit sorry to see his Arsenal career end, despite the circumstances of his departure. Arsenal have been well and truly shafted by his unconcealed determination to return to his homeland […]

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The weather has been kind as Arsenal hosted their stadium sponsor’s first pre-season tournament and everybody has gone home happy as the hosts have claimed the trophy. In all honesty I think it’s been a very good weekend for the Gunners although you have to say we are still yet to see the likely starting […]

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The third of the pre-season friendlies has ended in the first defeat for Arsenal. The purveyors of doom will be feeling justified, but there were clearly mitigating circumstances. Jens Lehmann and William Gallas both made the start, along with Kolo Toure who was originally scheduled to make way for Johan Djourou. The absence of the […]

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Freddie Goes, And Danny Stays

Well it was six months in the completion but Freddie Ljungberg has finally ended up at the East London retirement home that previously housed the likes of Bobby Gould, John Radford, Stewart Robson, Liam Brady, Nigel Winterburn, and Ian Wright. I posted my thoughts on Freddie back in January when the ‘West Ham Repository for […]

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Played Two – Won Two

What more can you ask for? Yes, it’s only pre-season and these matches are just stepping-stones to where we want to be in around three weeks time. There is still something to be drawn from the first couple of matches. Most players have had a run out of some sorts although William Gallas was again […]

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Fortress Ashburton?

There was an interesting piece on Arsenal.com yesterday as Arsene Wenger looked back at the first season at the Grove. We have all I’m sure noticed a change in style that Wenger tried to explain. “The pitch is bigger so we needed to show more patience. We were used to getting from one end of […]

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ATVO Dear

So the pre-season friendlies are under way. It’s good to see some football again after a long summer of invention and counter invention in the popular press. Perhaps ‘see’ was not the right word to use. Unable to make it to Barnet I opted to try and follow the action on ATVO. Half an hour […]

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The least surprising of the summer transfers was confirmed today by Arsenal as Bacary Sagna completed his move from Auxerre. The Gunners have been linked with the French international defender for some weeks now, but his arrival has prompted a mixed reaction. Already the stories of the impending departure of Justin Hoyte have started. Well […]

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Well there’s a surprise, Real Madrid covet Cesc Fabregas and are set to ‘test Arsenal’s resolve’ to keep him. I’ll let you into a little secret senors. Barcelona want him too, and Milan, and Juve, and Chelsea, and, and, and. I could go on. When Cesc and his agent have confirmed that he is staying […]

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Over the last decade we have rather enjoyed putting one over Real Madrid both on and off the pitch. The Spanish giants kindly paid for our state of the art training complex at Shenley when they took the young Anelka off our hands for £25 million. Probably out of spite they then attempted each summer […]

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