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Thursday, 28 April 2011

Top Ten Football Divers In the World Today

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A list of those who find it hard to stay on their feet!

Saturday, 26 March 2011

Gunners Play Today in Euro Qualifiers; RvP Has Some Things To Say

By: Sairax | March 25th, 2011
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It’s getting a bit boring and quiet around here during international break. That must be why I started a giant argument on twitter yesterday. Checking the twitter timeline from last night, I also see that Martin has safely landed in Las Vegas for a few days of debauchery completely unrelated to the Arsenal. All I have to say is, we better have a drunken, ranting post from him within the next few days that he doesn’t remember writing. Just for my own amusement.

I’ll start with news on Internationals, since that’s what you all really want to hear about. The England U21 team beat the Danish U21s 4-0, but neither Lansbury nor Gibbs were included in the squad. I knew Lansbury had pulled out with a minor injury, but I didn’t hear anything about why Gibbs pulled out and I still haven’t heard anything. I hope it’s nothing serious, but when are we ever that lucky?

If you want to catch some of our Gunners in action, RvP will be playing for the Netherlands against Hungary at 3:30pm ET. Clichy, Kos, Sagna, and Na-na-na-na-Nasri are part of the France squad that will face Luxembourg at 4:00pm ET. Cesc is mercifully not in the Spain team that will be playing today. He also seems to be on track to return to first team action for us very soon, possibly right after the break is over. In the meantime, he’s been busy on twitter giving away awesome prizes like tickets to watch the Arsenal in his private box! If you missed his twitcam action, then check it out here. Cesc will be watching his team face Czech Republic today who will be captained by his friend and teammate, Tomas Rosicky. Rosicky has actually looked pretty good in the games I’ve seen him play for Czech Republic this past year, so hopefully a run out for him today can help him find some form and confidence. We need all of our players to be doing well until the end of the season. If you want to see him in action, find yourself a dodgy stream on the internet around 5:00pm ET.

Looking to tomorrow’s games, it seems Bendtner’s injury is not as bad as it seemed. He could even be fit for the game against Norway tomorrow and will be undergoing a late fitness test. I have to say, I really do not want to see him play. During the World Cup he was nursing an injury and Olsson still decided to play him in all three of Denmark’s games. He then missed the start of our season because of that injury. To risk him again when he is not fully fit would be irresponsible, but I suspect we’ll see him on the pitch anyway. I really hope he doesn’t get re-injured because we will need him for the rest of our campaign.

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Young Jack Wilshere will feature in England’s clash v Wales tomorrow. Wales will take to the pitch with our very own Aaron Ramsey, who will be making his first appearance back for the Welsh since his injury. He has also been named captain of the Wales National Team, so congratulations Rambo and good luck. Finally, Arshavin will be captaining Russia tomorrow in their qualifier against Armenia. We have a lot of national team captains from Arsenal don’t we? Yet, apparently we have no leaders. Make of that what you will.

Obviously when there are no league games being played that’s when people usually start talking and creating all sorts of stories in the media. Legendary Arsenal goalkeeper, Bob Wilson, has come out and revealed that Wenger aggressively went after Pepe Reina in the summer and offered a lot of money. Wait, what’s that? Wenger tried to sign one of the best keepers in the country? Sacre bleu! But I thought he was a penny-pinching miser who is too stubborn to make changes to his team! You see why I got in an argument on twitter yesterday. Anyway, Bob goes on to say that Szczesny might have left if the Reina deal had gone through, and he is fully backing Szczesny to become a great Arsenal goalkeeper. Very kind words, and I think we all see that Szczesny really could be great for us.

Speaking of Szczesny, he speaks a bit here about his twitter exploits. I think he’s awesome on twitter, especially when he makes digs about Cashley and such. He probably needs to watch his words sometimes to make sure he doesn’t get in trouble, which he acknowledges in the interview, but I likes it! Jack also talks a bit about being on twitter and how he enjoys interacting with the fans. I appreciate his effort and he always posts little pics of himself and the team, which are fun. He says that he and RvP are trying to outdo each other with the number of followers they have. If Robin keeps posting pics of our lads sleeping on the bus, then he’ll probably see his numbers overtake Jack’s soon.

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In other RvP news, he’s been having a bit of a dig at some other teams, namely Chelsea and Man City:

“A club like Manchester City change their philosophy every year and Chelsea spent about €80m this season, two clubs who had a big mouth before the season, thinking that Arsenal wouldn’t play a role in the title race but we are still ahead of them. And just by playing our own game, through our own philosophy.”

Sure, if we don’t win anything, he’ll look a bit silly with his proclamations, but that’s his problem. I enjoy the banter. It’s refreshing. And hilarious. Oh, did I mention he had a go at Barcelona as well?

“Barcelona’s players have the habit of whingeing about everything, and that is disappointing. In England, Chelsea’s players behave in the same way. Barca are a great team, but they shouldn’t overdo the moaning as they become b****y annoying. They dispute every decision, with five players confronting the referee. I like their style of play, but find them unsporting as well. They behaved like this in their two games against Arsenal. It was not so clever and rather unsportsmanlike.”

Oh, Robin, never change. Except for being crocked all the time. That you can change. He does do some introspection as well. Basically, he admits that we have not done well enough to get results at times this season, which was disappointing for everyone. He still believes we can win the title, but it is up to us and we cannot blame anyone but ourselves if we come away empty-handed. Very candid and honest. I really hope he keeps scoring goals for us for the rest of the season.

Hope that’s enough for you to chew on for a while. I’ll try and come up with some more random nonsense for you to consume this weekend. Until then!

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Friday, 4 March 2011

The Adjustment Bureau In Cinemas Today

The Adjustment Bureau is now showing in UK cinemas. The film, written and directed by George Nolfi, stars Matt Damon and Emily Blunt.

On the brink of winning a seat in the U.S. Senate, ambitious politician David Norris (Matt Damon) meets beautiful contemporary ballet dancer Elise Sellas (Emily Blunt). Just as he realises he’s falling for her, mysterious men conspire to keep the two apart. David learns he is up against the agents of Fate itself-the men of The Adjustment Bureau-who will do everything in their considerable power to prevent David and Elise from being together.

The Adjustment Bureau cinema listings are available to view online now.

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Unknown Starring Liam Neeson In Cinemas Today

Liam Neeson stars in the brand new sci-fi thriller, Unknown, which has made its debut in cinemas across the UK today. The film is based on the 2003 French novel published Out of My Head, and is directed by Jaume Collet-Serra.

Dr Martin Harris travels to Berlin with his beautiful wife Elizabeth to attend a biotech conference. En route, there is a freak accident and Martin slips into a coma, waking four days later in hospital with fractured memories. Discharging himself from hospital, he races back to the hotel and is delighted to find his wife… except Liz doesn’t recognise him and another man with the same name is on her arm.

Unknown cinema times are now available to view online.

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Saturday, 19 February 2011

A classic David vs Goliath tie at Old Trafford today

Non-League Crawley head to Old Trafford to face Manchester United in the FA Cup fifth round for the biggest game in the history of their club later today.

It’s a classic David vs Goliath clash, the giant vs the minnow. The Blue Square Premier side couldn’t have wished for a bigger or better draw.

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The non-league outfit are set to take 9,000 fans to the theatre of dreams and it will be a fantastic day out for the Crawley fans, no matter how the game goes. Even if Town are heavily beaten I’m sure the Crawley fans will enjoy their day out.

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This is the sort of tie that has made the FA Cup down the years. A lower league team gets their chance to impress at one of the biggest stadiums in the world. The FA Cup is famous for being a competition that inspires shocks and performances.

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On paper this game should be a sure-fire Manchester United victory but this is the FA Cup and shocks do happen. Manchester United are certainly not underestimating their non-league opponents though.

United midfielder Michael Carrick told Sky Sports: “It’s a classic draw and one that a lot of people probably wanted to see. It’s one of those great things the FA Cup is capable of throwing up.

“A lot of people are going to have a great day, but for us it is about getting through to the next round.

A classic David vs Goliath tie at Old Trafford today

Non-League Crawley head to Old Trafford to face Manchester United in the FA Cup fifth round for the biggest game in the history of their club later today.

It’s a classic David vs Goliath clash, the giant vs the minnow. The Blue Square Premier side couldn’t have wished for a bigger or better draw.

Supporters

Romance

Complacent

On paper this game should be a sure-fire Manchester United victory but this is the FA Cup and shocks do happen. Manchester United are certainly not underestimating their non-league opponents though.

United midfielder Michael Carrick told Sky Sports: “It’s a classic draw and one that a lot of people probably wanted to see. It’s one of those great things the FA Cup is capable of throwing up.

“A lot of people are going to have a great day, but for us it is about getting through to the next round.

Thursday, 6 January 2011

Some good results today

By: Shaun | January 5th, 2011
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At least from United’s perspective anyway. After a less than convincing win against Stoke yesterday, our position at the top was further solidified by the results from today’s games.

Arsenal and City battled it out to a 0-0 draw at the Emirates while Chelsea and Spurs were defeated away from home.

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After this round of games, the table stands as below: (plus we still have our game in hand)
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Enjoy!Utd4allStrange as it sounds, I find it amazing that we ( Utd ) are in such a comfortable position. Perhaps the Prem Lge has declined a bit? Utd with Gibson, O'shea, Park, Evans, Bebe, Obertan t el are at the top. Hmm. Then again, Chelski are a bunch of over-aged over paid has-beens, Arsenal a hodge podge of over-grown "young" players and City are just what they are: plain mercenaries. So Viva Utd.ahmad_hi don't think that the EPL has declined that much, i actually see that this is happening because the weaker teams have significantly became stronger, especially when they play at home, looks like they finally understood how to make benefit of playing at your own soil .... and they somehow managed to close the gap with the big guns in the league... we might be comfortable at the top but that is after having to withstand 8 nerve-wrecking draws and a few irritating wins as well, so we're not having the easiest season... but the difference between UTD and the other 19 teams is that we never surrender, we have that champion mentality, we simply love to win, and that showed perfectly in the aston villa game, where we were dominated, and yet came up with a point, with this mentality i find it hard for united to lose more than 2 matches in the entire season :)ahmad_hi actually enjoyed liverpool's loss, more than any other result today :) we are 19 points away, and streaming ahead towards our 19th title :)
hopefully, if we focus on each game by itself, we can finish the league undefeated :)
tottenham and chelsea are of no concern to me, it's arsenal and man city's decision to decide if they want to catch up with us :) GGMUblog comments powered by Disqus