What will happen to Hleb if/when he goes? Posted By Tony Attwood On 24/06/2008 @ 08:12 pm In Uncategorized | 11 Comments Or put another way, will he too suffer the Curse of Arsenal? Just to refresh your memory in case you have gone beyond the age of 18 and thus have started to lose…
Straight in at number 12 is Carlos Vela, Mexican superstar centre forward who plays like Eduardo. Aaron Ramsey is also straight in at number 16. But the big mystery is what has happened to Fran Merida. He’s… nowhere. Almunia shoots up to number 1 as expected, and Fabianski takes up place 21. There are gaps…
Here’s a couple of key points: First Barca are not rolling in money. They have to sell their stars before they can move on and start buying. Yes they have some cash, but not the billions that might be imagined. Second, the President and the club need to combat the wild statements of Real Madrid. …
Stanley Matthews, the wizard of the wing, so good he once had an entire FA Cup Final all to himself, is “set to” sign for Arsenal. Clubs across the world are “braced” for an annoucement. The World Player of 1958 (whose catchphrase was “Football: because it is”) was put on standby for Robin Van Persie,…
When I gather with a few mates at the Auld Triangle (or whatever it chooses to be called this season), prior to another stunning Arsenal victory, we stand in the road (in contravention of the 2004 Road Traffic Act), drink (ditto) and talk (probably ditto under the Terrorism Act, and now punishable by 42 days…
This is not a post from the past, but very much one for today. It wasn’t just that the Middlesborough game played chez Highbury was so good (which it was) or that the Boro were so bad (they were fairly rough) it was that they were managed by a certain nutcase known as the McClaren. …
To the north of London, past the dim and forbidding landscapes of Luton, there is a modest sized town with a pub which is known as the Toppled Bollard. That’s not its real name – it is just the name given to it by locals who noticed that all the keep left signs in the…
What journalists refuse to say about Euro 2008 Posted By Tony Attwood On 18/06/2008 @ 11:50 am In Uncategorized | 1 Comment The injury list from Euro 2008 is getting massive. But is it the biggest set of injuries ever? Given that supporters of their clubs won’t be able to watch them at full fitness…
In footballing terms Holland doesn’t have much going for it. It’s not very big – 16 million people which is about 30% the size of England. The league is very poor, compared to the EPL, and virtually all top players play outside of the country. So how come they can play so well – and…
For weeks the journalists have been telling us that Hleb is going to buy out his contract. Wenger said no, that wasn’t on, but the journos ran the story on and on. Now Nikolai Shpilevski the agent for Hleb has also said that Hleb is not buying out his contract. Some of the journalists have…
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