If you haven’t heard already, Arsenal’s Aaron Ramsey suffered a horrific broken leg in yesterday’s match v. Sunderland. Ryan Shawcross, who was called into England’s squad shortly after the match, was sent off after a clumsy challenge that resulted in Ramsey’s injury. The tackle was extremely ill-timed, but if you take a close [...]
Lukasz Fabianski, pack your damn bags! A double dose of howler gifted FC Porto a vital win in today’s Champions League Round of 16 first leg. As if the first goal wasn’t bad enough, the second showed that Fabianski hasn’t quite mastered the rules of football. I can’t wait to hear the [...]
First off, Liverpool sucks. Second, Arsenal may have gotten a little lucky today, but Arshavin’s winner was nothing short of spectacular. Arsenal up to third, and Liverpool stay in seventh.
Is anybody else a getting a little tired of hearing Arsene Wenger’s bitching and moaning about Arsenal’s short comings? First off, he felt that shaking Mark Hughes’ hand after City destroyed his kids in the Carling Cup was too much for him last week, and then seemed a bit miffed that Hughes decided to play [...]
A new rumor has surfaced that Barcelona are prepared to offer Yaya Toure and Bojan Krkic in exchange for Cesc Fabregas next summer. Read more at goal.com.
This deal might actually make some sense. Fabregas is a product of the Barcelona youth academy, and a move to Barca would allow him to play with Spanish national [...]
UPDATE: Robin Van Persie does not need surgery on his injured ankle, but will still likely face months out of action to recover.
Robin Van Persie injured ankle ligaments yesterday playing for Holland in their international friendly v. Italy. The match ended 0-0, but it appears that Arsenal are the biggest losers on the day. Van [...]
In honor of tomorrow’s North London Derby, I figured I’d post some quality youtube clips about the first North London Derby from last season. If you remember, the match ended 4-4, with Spurs getting the equalizer right at the death, after being down 4-2 with little regular time remaining. David Bentley opened the scoring with [...]
Barcelona look to be preparing a January bid for Manchester City’s Robinho, and follow that up with a summer transfer-window bid for Arsenal’s Cesc Fabregas. Robinho would be a great pick-up for Barca in January, as he is not European cup tied, as City are not in the Champions League or Europa League. Barca coach, [...]
Arsenal CEO, Ivan Gazidis, has said that the club must win something this season. Arsenal haven’t won a trophy since 2005, while playing some of the most attractive football in all of Europe. Gazidis has said that finishing in the top 4 in England has been good enough, but it is no longer good enough. Read [...]
It’s an interesting question. Thomas Vermaelen was purchased from Ajax for a fee of $17.5 million, and during his ten matches in an Arsenal shirt, he has netted five times. That includes four league goals in seven appearances, and one goal in three Champions League matches. Now, Ronaldo has scored nine goals [...]
Olympiakos goalkeeper, Antonis Nikopolidis saved his side from total embarassment last night v. Arsenal. Nikopolidis is 38 years old, and played like a 20 year old yesterday, making 9 saves, many at point blank range. He was able to keep Arsenal off the scoresheet until the 78′, but the former European Champion could [...]
Robin Van Persie has come out in the media and said that he sometimes “exaggerates falls.” I’m not so sure that this is a good idea, because referees have access to the same websites and newspapers that we all have. I guarantee the next time that Van Persie goes down in the penalty box, the [...]
Vermaalen scores twice. Pretty good purchase Mr. Wenger.
1-0
2-0: This goal is just silly, and the guy is a defender:
Just yesterday, Eduardo da Silva won his appeal against his FIFA mandated two match ban for diving. If the ban reamined in place, Eduardo would have been forced to sit out today’s match v. Standard Liege in the Champions League group stage. Instead of sitting out, Eduardo put away the winner in a [...]
Martin Samuel has written a great piece about Emmanuel Adebayor’s reaction to the Arsenal fans on Saturday in the Daily Mail. After Adebayor’s goal in the 80th minute, he sprinted the entire length of the field to celebrate, or gloat, in front of the visiting Arsenal fans. The basis of Samuel’s article, who I think [...]
Eduardo da Silva has won his appeal against the two match ban he recieved after diving v. Arsenal a few weeks ago. It’s difficult to deny that Eduardo intentionally fell down in the penalty box. However, had UEFA upheld the deicision, it would have been extremely hypocritical. UEFA used video replay to determine the penalty [...]
UPDATE: I just came across this article in the London Times, and the FA are prepared to suspend Adebayor for four matches, including next week’s Manchester Derby. Bad news for City, as Carlos Tevez, Roque Santa Cruz, and Robinho are all out due to injury.
The English FA are going to investigate Emmanuel Adebayor’s two incidents [...]
Emmanuel Adebayor took the opportunity to stick it to the fans that he feels mistreated him while he was at Arsenal. Adebayor scored at one end, then made a Forrest Gump-esque run to the opposite end of the pitch to celebrate in front of a pocket of Arsenal fans. Adebayor was a dirty [...]
UPDATE: After fully watching the match, which I missed live yesterday, I think the English FA have to punish Adebayor. When he stepped on Van Persie, I thought he would be able to get away with it just by claiming pure ignorance. But, after seeing his reaction after scoring his goal, I’m pretty [...]
Well, I didn’t see this one coming, and City look legit. Here are the highlights.
Manchester City v Arsenalby leslery