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Loan Watch: Week 16 – Campbell Shows His Class

Jeremy — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:00:31 +0000

After an unsuccessful time at Levante, Wellington Silva has switched his loan to Segunda Division side CD Alcoyano where he will remain for the rest of the season. Hopefully he will have a better time than he did in La … Continue reading →

Man City subsidize Tottenham top four challenge

Tim — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:27:59 +0000

Just spent the morning researching tomorrow’s blog on the Swansea match and watching Tottenham v. Wolves on the computer while simultaneously watching Chelsea Sunderland on the TV. I also did a little more research into the topic of second halves and how Arsenal struggle in them.

But first! Did you know that Adebayor is making £225,000 a [...]

Loan Watch: Week 15 – Frimpong’s a Wanderer

Jeremy — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 07:00:56 +0000

Samuel Galindo was an unused substitute for Gimnastic de Tarragona as they lost 2-0 at home to Murcia, leaving them rooted to the bottom of the Segunda Division. Wellington Silva was left out for Levante again and there is little … Continue reading →

Frimpong ready to fight against Chelsea today

The Arsenal Blog — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 05:49:59 +0000

The Arsenal midfielder Emmanuel Frimpong Has joined Wolves on a six month loan from yesterday, and he can immediately do the Gunners a favour by helping his new team inflict some more damage to Chelsea’s title hopes by taking some … Continu…

Happy New Year for loanees

Just Arsenal Blogs — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:24:00 +0000

2012 has come, and the window is open. Emmanuel Frimpong is already wearing orange. Thierry Henry is but details away from an emotional return. And the number of injured Arsenal full backs are now five and counting.Henry’s suggested arrival – as good a…

Frimpong joins Wolves in time to face Chelsea tomorrow

Arsenal Banter — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:35:38 +0000

The Arsenal midfielder Emmanuel Frimpong has completed his loan move to Wolves today and will be thrust straight into the limelight tomorrow as Wolves face the Gunners London rivals Chelsea at home. Wolves boss Mick McCarthy is thrilled to have the Ars…

Thierry short-term solution | Park long-term problem? | Frimgone | QPR preview

Pedro — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:47:07 +0000

Happy new years eve to everyone! What’s your new years resolutions for next year? Lay off the booze? Cut down on the cigarettes? Swap kebabs for low carb healthy alternatives? Indulge in more Arsenal goodness? I hope so… after all, fit and healthy readers of the site is what we crave most! So, this is [...]

Igwe Returns, Frimpong to Wolves and a must win game

Phatye — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:17:34 +0000

Arsenal take on QPR in what is now close to a must win game following Liverpool’s victory over Newcastle. No doubt the whole pre-match talk is about return of King Henry or Igwe (igbo word also meaning king) as he’s affectionately called in…

Wolves win the race to sign Emmanuel Frimpong from Arsenal

The Arsenal Blog — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:48:30 +0000

It was reported a few weeks ago that Wolverhampton Wanderers were trying to persude Arsene Wenger to allow Emmanuel Frimpong to move to Molineaux in January, and although Aston Villa also showed interest in taking the young Arsenal midfielder it &#8230…

Wolves win the race to sign Emmanuel Frimpong from Arsenal

The Arsenal Blog — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:48:30 +0000

Frimpong Close To Wolves Loan Deal

Richard (online) — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:45:27 +0000

Arsenal’s young defensive midfielder Emmanuel Frimpong is close to agreeing a loan deal with fellow Premier League side Wolverhampton Wanderers. Confirmation of the loan that will see the Ghanaian ply his trade at Molineux until the end of the of…

Merry Christmas! Is Santa a Gooner?

jonbran — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 18:59:00 +0000

Dear reader, let me wish you all the best for the holidays and the new year. This Christmas Day, we can sense the January window is just about to creak open.But ho! Is that a scraping sound in the chimney? Ho, ho! Are the Arsenal socks safely in place,…

Aston Villa 1-2 Arsenal: Winners & Losers

arse 2 mouse — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:25:00 +0000

Last night Arsenal looked so ineffective in the 2nd half that I’d already decided to subtitle this post ‘we really need two Songs’. Before the game I was worried that we’d miss his ability to glue the midfield together, but didn’t think the …

Aston Villa 1-2 Arsenal: Analysis

clockendview — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:00:34 +0000

After a disappointing but hard-fought loss away at City on Sunday, Arsenal compensated for the suspended Song and injured Djourou by playing Szczesny; Coquelin, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Vermaelen; Frimpong, Arteta; Walcott, Ramsey, Gervinho; van Persie (C); which saw a surprising defensive … Continue reading →

Team News: Song suspended for Villa clash

mjw — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:30:42 +0000

It has been confirmed by Arsenal’s official website that defensive midfielder Alex Song will serve a one-match suspension when the Gunners face Aston Villa on Wednesday night after collecting his fifth yellow card of the season on the weekend. The Cameroon international has become a driving force in the midfield for Arsenal not just defensively [...]

Time for Frimpong to step up at Arsenal?

Arsenal Banter — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 03:37:44 +0000

Emmanuel Frimpong has been at Arsenal since 2001 when he was only aged 9. He played in the youth academy with his good friend and now Arsenal regular Jack Wilshere and has progressed through the Arsenal ranks swiftly. With much training and polishing u…

Arsenal 1-0 Everton: Analysis

Jeremy — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:58:16 +0000

After unveiling three new statues yesterday, Arsenal continued the celebration of their 125th anniversary pre-match with a variety of events; the Royal Artillery and Orchesta performed and a wide range of Gunners legends from yesteryear ranging from Frank McLintock to … Continue reading →

DESERT DISPATCH – DECEMBER

Simon Curtis — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 10:58:00 +0000

Those avoiding the new wave of modernism will have had the opportunity to read this in the latest star-spangled issue of King of the Kippax, the best read this side of heaven

“Riding the warm winds of change”

NICE HOUSES GOES UP IN SMOKE

The Chelsea manager, Andrew Nice Houses, suddenly exploded last night in a large shower of ashes and dust. It is not thought anybody was hurt during the incident but a large part of the press room was shrouded in thick purple smoke for twenty minutes or so. It is believed that the fire may have been started inside a deep complex about Smouldering Buggery Manchester City, as is quite usual in these circumstances. “We have been severely victimised,” he squeaked in a wretched tiny voice, which sounded like it was coming from the end of a very long dusty corridor late at night.

Mr. LEWIS HARRIS: A STUDY IN SPORTSMANSHIP

Harris appeals politely

Liverpool’s Corinthian attacker Lewis Feltham Harris, the son of an aristocratic Uruguayan horse breeder and an elegant polo playing countess from Abyssinia, has been in sparkling form so far this season. For a man of such slight frame and delicate disposition to stay so steadfastly on his feet throughout the terrible thumpings aimed at him on the fields of Albion is a testament to his brick-solid thoroughbred attitude to sports and games. Brought up to take a good bashing and turn the other cheek, young Lewis soon learned that skulduggery and foul play, bleating and arm-waving were not the only ways to win at soccer. One didn’t have to cheat to prevail. In his cosy, well-looked after upbringing Lewis learned that Corinthian spirit and a love of one’s fellow man brings the kind of deep respect that everybody is now showing towards him. “To all those snivelling, arm-waving, little jerkers that perennially fall over then bleat to the referee,” he said last week, “I laugh and say, Do it the Lewis Way. Stay on your feet, play to the whistle and never look at the referee with big baby eyes”.

THEY LEFT TOO SOON

One is inclined in these days of spit and feather, bluster and blunder to forget that – amongst all the terrific nonsensical hyperbole – footballers are just flesh and bones, very much like the rest of us in fact. This era, let us not forget, where we worship the likes of Kevin Prince Boating–Accident with his 550 leather jackets and his toe to cranium body art, and Steven Daddy Dick Ireland with his pink furnished Humdinger Chevrolet Space Buggy, plus any number of vacuous television accidents, who judge themselves personalities on the grounds that they have broken wind on camera. Amongst the many others, who left the football fraternity way before we were ready for them to depart. Socrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira de Oliveira and Gary Speed, we salute your efforts and feel deeply glum that you have gone to join the likes of Neil Young, Mike Doyle, Emlyn Hughes, Alan Ball, Jimmy Neighbour, Bobby Stokes, Alan Davies, George Armstrong, Brian Clough, George Heslop, Derek Dougan, Peter Osgood, Brian Labone in God’s celestial five-a-side tournament. You will both. at least, shore up the midfield very nicely indeed.

FA CUP: THE MANCHESTER DERBY IS BACK

By Shaun Custard still in the Fox and Firkin

With a blink of an eye and a quick exhalation of stale air, it was done. The Dirty Deed. The Revenge Derby is on. Sir Fergus will bring his vengeful but nevertheless world-beating troops to the Elaborately-Sponsored Etihad Stadium to face up to Moneybags Bastard Manchester City for the third time this season and the world can only hope that the old maestro can cook up a more appealing broth than the toad soup and evans dumplings that we were force fed at Old Trafford last month. For Fergus’s side still has merit, oh yes. The thunderous thighs of goal man Rooney and the delicate agility of Donny Wellbred do not suddenly count for nothing, you know. The two little hobbits, Pippy and Prawny, do not suddenly become bad players overnight. Johnny SixesandEvans cannot surely be any worse than last time? Berbatov can still recite poetry like no other Vulgarian I know. These are all reasons for the massive red majority in Manchester to be positive. The Men In Black can sleep easily alongside their teddies tonight. Silly City, as many people like to call them, are foolish in the extreme to underestimate them. Their fans, full of cockiness and Boddingtons, delivered a clear message to the roving Sky cameras yesterday, brimming with froth and frothing with brim, little snot-nosed kiddies trying to get six fingers counted for the cameras. It is this bravado and self-centred behaviour that makes these people so ugly to look at, so painful to listen to, with their prawn kebabs and their Balotelli hats shaped like a waving hand. For, sure enough, class still counts and history is not counted on the fingers of one hand. It takes time to tip a tea pot and class doesn’t just pop out of the other end. With the derby scores absolutely level so far this season, one win each, by the narrowest of margins, City and their unwashed hordes are about to find this out the hard way come derby day in the Cup.

Mark Organ is on holiday in Salford all this week. Brian Granville was unavailable to comment owing to his putty pen melting and Bob Rodent of The Star was too busy looking up womens’ dresses.

THAT EURO 2012 DRAW IN FULL

Group of Absynthe: Poland (host nation, go easy on them), Chicken Republic, Guatemala and Crete

Grupo da Morte: Germans, Danes, Dutch, Portuguese all at it, all at the same time. Furious, eye-scratchingly horrendous, cards flying, people getting the full hump with each other, wide starey eyes and finger pointing and and and that’s just the Portuguese).

Group of Meth: Pope, Gaudi, Archbishop of Cork and Monseignor Dubrovnik

Group of Meh: Ukraine (home nation, go easy), Svennis, Ingles, The other Ones

NOMINATIONS CLOSE TODAY

By Jamie Redknapp (no relation honest) Best buy of the season: Scot(tie) Parker, hands down. Id the lad Silva could do half the things our Scot(tie) can do, he’d be half the player Sco(tie) is today. A full on Lionel Messi of the Tottenham High Road. Manager of the season so far: Harry Redcap. Don’t Write Him Off yet Award: Frank Lampard (go, cuz!). League Champions come May? Difficult one with all the talent around, but I’m going for…erm… Tottenham.

VESUVIUS ERUPTS, SPEWING PHLEGM AND SPITTLE IN ALL DIRECTIONS

Side profile, high profile

Aurelio de Laurentiis: here is a man with very attractive slick hair, a way with melancholic drama and very definitely something of the night, it has to be said. The great man of the people, orator profundo, shake-a-leg-Sandy and Billy Big Noise hath spoken: “The kind Sheik will tire of his toy. He will see football is not only about money, but also glory and oil, funny faces and wolf masks. It is about the sunrise over Vesuvius, the leopard print panties that my girlfriends wear. It is smoke and laughter, laughter and smoke, painting your name on fountains and reducing the toilet block to rubble. All of these things are the football that the Sheik does not get. It is Polly Pocket and Thomas the Tank engine, Brian Deane and Emily Heskey. It is flares, rockets and guns, it is giant heaps of refuse in all directions, steaming grouplets of hooligans on scooters, knife wielding charlatans and pickpockets. It is the glory of Naples, a city drowning in its own detritus. This all is football, this all is what we are, what makes us, what defines us. Tell that to your little Sheik with big pockets.” Afterwards he needed to lie down.

COLIN GETS AN EIFFEL

Ivorian powerhouse and Bastard Manchester City dietician Colin Tory has complained BITTERLY about his lack of opportunities in the first team. Team Manager Bob Mancini has also explained the reasons behind his frequent exclusion: “Eeer, these ees becoz ee eez not so very good” explained the erudite and confused-looking manager, sweeping an errant lock of grey hair back behind his well-sculpted ear. “Eee theenks ee eez good but in fact, Kompany ees better, Lescott ee eez better, even Steve Savage ee eez better. How can I tell eem these, he will keel over.”

Tory meanwhile has stated that Savage is, in fact, not better, but quite a lot worse than himself. He said: “In fact the new fellow is rubbish isn’t he? I mean look at him! I watch him in training and think to myself “big bugger, he’s so useless this is a deathly insult to Colin Tory.”

PINGPONG

Look at me

Emmanuel Frimpong. Even the name itself shouts “look at me!”. The hair bellows “I am a peacock”. The demeanour says, “look at all I am become, swanky and so sure”. Here is a young footballer just making his way, learning his trade, picking up juicy titbits here and there to make him a better player, perhaps even a better person. It appears, however, that some lessons have already arrived bang on time at Platform One of Mr Frimpong’s well organised Central Cortex: a) take off your shirt whilst still leaving the pitch to allow full air time for the company slogan (your company slogan!) to your adoring public. b) act the big wedge with other professionals such as Samir Nasri, to show them, even though you are still only thirteen years old, “you don’t take grief from no one”. Here, quite literally, quite splendidly, is a footballer of our times, for our times. I am sure we all deserve him.

MONSIEUR PLATINI: A PROPER GENTILLEHOMME

Michel Platini was a graceful artist in his playing days for Nancy (stop that), St Etienne and Juventus, where he is still treated as a deity to this day. It is fascinating to see that he has brought all of this grace and balance, pomp and circumstance to his current role as Prince of Football, High Chancellor of UEFA, Cadillac Cruiser and The Knowledge of Switzerland. Having quite rightly LAMBASTED Big Bugger Manchester City for their THOUGHTLESS DESTRUCTION OF OUR BELOVED WORLD GAME, he rightly praised Paris St Germain for bringing some colour, verve, competition and MONEY to the dowdy and down-at-heel French league scene. This, you see, is where PROPER SIZED BRAINS make the difference between a Platini and a mere mortal, who perhaps is concerning himself with the whereabouts of his car keys or whether it might just be Miniature Chicken Kievs again for tea. Platini is not concerned with Chicken Kiev, miniature or otherwise. He is rebuilding the CITY OF KIEV, although there might not be too many hotels, or in fact trains or planes. “It will be a complicated success” he regaled. How jolly marvelous. How complicated exactly will it be to be a football follower in these places, Monsieur Platini? Very complicated, extremely complicated, really bloody complicated, or sod it I’m off to Marbella complicated? We love a challenge, so we must thank you for this one. Merci!

But that is to digress and to deflect attention away from this GREAT MAN’S grand oeuvres and manoeuvres. Just this week, he asked the oh-so-pertinent question “How shall we play a world cup in Qatar?” These truly are questions on every poor man’s wet and quivering LIPS. Lips that will be so dry and parched in the 50 degree heat of Doha, they might just as well be removed and used as espadrilles. Luckily there is a font of information, a source of wisdom that will help us garner the correct answer to this latest conundrum: MICHEL PLATINI himself, for it is he who voted for the wretched place in the first place.

TEVEZ MOVE CLOSER TO HOME AT LAST GETTING CLOSER

Charles Tevez’s burning wish to leave Buggery Battery Brutally Manchester City to be closer to his beloved family, half family, inlaws, outlaws, inbreds, invertebrates and assorted ex’s has moved a tiny little bit closer with the news that he may, might, could, should, would if he could, is set to sign for Milan in the window. This knocks an INCREDIBLE one mile off the journey home and should make just about everybody weep tears of joy, including Kia Joorabchian, who lives next door to wherever Tevez is. Those figures in greater detail: Manchester-Buenos Aires – 6935 miles. Milan-Buenos Aires – 6934 miles.

Jack Wilshere Risks Suspension After Olympiakos Betting Accusation

Andrei — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 20:00:21 +0000

Injured Gunner Jack Wilshere might be facing a tough suspension if UEFA will find him guilty of placing a bet on the club’s match against Olympiakos in the Champions League group stage. The English midfielder posted a weird statement on his Twitter a…

Arsenal midfield duo set for loan move?

Just Arsenal News — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:47:20 +0000

It is being reported that Premiership side Wolverhampton Wanderers are keen on taking Arsenal youngsters Emmanuel Frimpong and Francis Coquelin to the Molineux on loan deals until the end of the season. Wolves manager Mick McCarthy has confirmed his in…

Olympiakos 3-1 Arsenal: Analysis

clockendview — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:00:46 +0000

This was a night to remember for Arsene Wenger days before the club’s 125th anniversary game as the Frenchman took charge of his 200th match in European competition – however, due to the fact that we’d already won our group, … Continue reading →

Wolverhampton Boss Admits Interest For Arsenal’s Midfielders

Andrei — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:20:08 +0000

After reports of a possible loan move from Arsenal to Wolverhampton for midfielders Emmanuel Frimpong and Francis Coquelin, Wolves manager McCarthy admitted that there is some interest in Arsenal’s young stars, but that he can’t say more until Janu…

Wenger – I would want Frimpong beside me in a war!

The Arsenal Blog — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 08:50:11 +0000

Arsene Wenger has taken Emmanuel Frimpong to Greece with him for the Champions League match against Olympiakos, and he says he would love to have him beside him if he went to war! But the Frenchman believes that the Ghanaian … Continue reading &#…

January Quick Approaching and Changes Expected For Tomorrow

andersonaa07 — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 04:43:57 +0000

A game of pretty high unimportance for Arsenal tomorrow but of significance to the Greek Champions who will want to be playing on Thursday nights at least now that the Group stages are just about over. We should see almost all 11 players that started against Wigan getting some rest and I wouldn’t be surprise [...]

Arsenal’s Carling Cup Success?

Charles — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:30:31 +0000

The exit from the Carling Cup might seem bad on first blush, but deep down Gooners should have an inappropriate giggle. After this season’s debacle of a beginning, Arsenal are becoming something special. And, it’s not just Arsenal fans that see that. Sure ManCiteh won, but watching the ManCiteh game, even the biggest haters were [...]