De Jong looks to push on as Ben Arfa calls for tougher punishment
Nigel De Jong believes Sunday’s five-goal romp was the perfect tonic as the Blues enter the home straight of the Premier League season.
Seven games now separate City from Champions League qualification and the Dutchman is sure that the collective spirit will push Roberto Mancini’s men over the finishing line.
“The win sent out an obvious message,” he declared after Sunderland were destroyed by a fluent City attacking unit, “There are seven games to go and anything can happen but Sunday’s win was a great confidence boost. If we perform as a …
De Jong proud to be playing for Holland
Nigel De Jong is pleased to have returned to the Holland squad after an exile following his tackle on Newcastle United’s Hatem Ben Arfa. The Dutch national manager Bert Van Marwijk took action at that point against the 26 year old, stating that he had “a problem with the way Nigel needlessly looks to push the limit.”
However Van Marwijk has brought De Jong back into the fold for their friendly against Australia in February and the player is delighted to be back, whilst also claiming that his tackle on Ben …
Hard but Fair: We need to see stricter punishments for reckless tackling.
They Think It’s All Over… wants to see harsher punishments handed out to players who tackled with needless recklessness in football.
Wishing Newcastle’s Ben Arfa a speedy recovery after another bad one…
’Kick Kicking out of Football’ We fans have seen our very own players get singled out for bad tackles, week in week out and it still continues. Sunday we saw a dreadful case of this on Diaby by Essien, still today I don’t know how he was able to carry on. I thought his ankle [...]
[Video] Ben Arfa vs Abou Diaby fight
Newcaste Utd new signing Hatem Ben Arfa has a long history with TWO Arsenal players. When Ben Arfa was at Lyon he got into a training session scuffle with Arsenal new boy Sébastien Squillaci. And while at Clairefontaine, Ben Arfa was the only undera…
Ben Arfa back on the radar but me, I’d have Taylor above the lot.
With Frimpong out for the season and Nasri out for a month, Wenger’s midfield plans have gone awry, so there is renewed talk of us having Ben Arfa, and to be fair he was on the cards before Samir Nasri, but if Squillaci, the longest transfer since Koscielny, who was the longest transfer since Nasri [...]
Start the Metro, Arsenal enter the race for Ben Arfa and Begovic!
The Metro have come up with two stories today: the first reporting Arsenal have made an approach to Marseille for midfielder Ben Arfa before he clinches a move to Newcastle. Perhaps Wenger could be wanting reinforcements in that area after Nasri an…
Arsenal rumours Aug 25th – Ben Arfa, Montolivo, Juan and the Squillaci saga
Entering the final week of the window at last, and there are lots of Arsenal transfer rumours flying about. The main one at the moment is asking why Sebastien Squllaci hasn’t signed yet, despite Sevilla announcing he was to have a medical at Arse…