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Transfer Balls: Fabregas Rejoins Arsenal Who Then Sell Him To Liverpool To Spite Manchester City
TRANSFER Balls looks at Barcelona’s Cesc Fabregas’ summer in the news media. Can he fill space to deadline? What utter balls can he news media say of the player?
Fabregas’ suitors have already been told that it will take £45million to get him…
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Posted: 1st, June 2014 | In: Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, manchester united, Sports | Comments (2)
Transfer Balls: Manchester United, Arsenal Get Juve’s Alexis Sanchez As Liverpool Prepare Bid
TRANSFER Balls: The contest in the national Press is to link every big English team with Barcelona’s Alexis Sanchez.
Chelsea, Liverpool and Man Utd target Alexis Sanchez
SNAPPED: Barcelona ace Alexis Sanchez dons a Manchester United shirt! ALEXIS SANCHEZ is pictured for the first time in a Manchester United shirt – but it’s only a Starsport impression!
May 10, Daily Mirror:
Wenger has been tipped off the Chile international will be sold this summer and is set for a £20million tug-of-war with Juventus
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Posted: 30th, May 2014 | In: Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, manchester united, Sports | Comment
Transfer Balls: Manchester United And Arsenal Make Fabregas Hungry
TRANSFER Balls: Today we look at how the Press have been talking about Cesc Fabregas.
Fabregas’ suitors have already been told that it will take £45million to get him…
Speculation over midfielder leaving Barcelona fuelled as star is left out of club’s kit launch
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Posted: 27th, May 2014 | In: Arsenal, manchester united, Sports | Comment
Arsenal Balls: It’s 25 Years Ago Since The Catharsis At Anfield (And I Was There. Were You?)
ON May 26, 1989, Arsenal did it. After years of nothingness but huff and puff and plod and dreariness and disappointment and hope, they won the league. On the last day of the season. With pretty much the last kick of the last game. On a Friday night. In Liverpool. And I was there.
Nothing beats watching your team win against all the odds and then remembering “I was there”.
It’s up for grabs now…!
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Transfer Balls: Arsenal Buy Benzema On A Wenger Whisper
THE Daily Star’s Colin Harvey says “Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger drops MASSIVE hint about imminent Karim Benzema bid”.
Because if there is one thing we know about Wenger it is that always hints about players he is going to buy. This is the man who told us:
“I read some transfer rumours in the newspapers and they are all wrong. All of them. So you do not even need to ask me one name – they are all wrong.”
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Arsenal Balls: Sagna Takes The Silver And Runs To The Manchester City Cashpoint
HAS Arsenal’s Bacary Sagna left the club?
All these headlines are from today:
Daily Mail: “Bacary Sagna on brink of signing for Man City after agreeing £150,000-a-week deal at the champions from rivals Arsenal
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Arsenal Balls: Wenger Sings For 1 Year, Two Years And 3 Years, Say The Experts
SO. Arsene Wenger is signing up for more Arsenal. What do we know about the contract? Well, noting. The club and their trusty manager are in private negotiations. Still, the papers do like to get a march on the facts. Some even make them up:
Years: 3
Money: £22.5m
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Transfer Balls: Arsenal, Spurs And Everton Are All Favourites To Sign James Milner
SO. How are Arsenal going to kick on from FA Cup glory? The Telegraph and Mail says the Gunners have £100m to invest in new players. And the Times identifies the first name though the door. It’s… Manchester City’s James Milner.
The Times says the Gunners are to offer around £10m for the blond Ray Parlour.
The Guardian says this is true:
Arsenal lead race as James Milner tells Manchester City he wants to leave
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Posted: 19th, May 2014 | In: Arsenal, Manchester City, Sports, Spurs | Comment
When Arsenal Broke Hull City Hearts In The 1930 FA Cup
ON the way to their first FA Cup win in 1930, Arsenal defeated Hull City.
The first semi-final at Elland Road, Leeds, finished 2–2. The Gunners had been two down at half-time. An upset was on. Arsenal were to emerge as the country’s top side; Hull were bottom of the second division.The replay at Villa Park, Birmingham, ended 1-0 to the Arsenal. David Jack scored the winner after a red card had reduced Hull to ten men.
The Hull local paper was noble in defeat.
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Posted: 17th, May 2014 | In: Arsenal, Flashback, Sports | Comment
Arsenal Balls: You’ll Never Guess Who Else Is Planning An FA Cup Victory Parade
THE Sun picks up on the Yorkshire Post’s story that Arsenal have already prepared for victory in the FA Cup Final.
It says that the “Gunners are so very sure they will beat Hull…. a victory parade is planned.”
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Arsenal Balls: Hull Plan To Copy Gunners Victory Parade
THOSE arrogant Southern sods at Arsenal have only gone and planned an FA Cup victory parade before the match has even kicked off.
The Yorkshire Post says this cockiness will inspire plucky Hull:
Tigers ready to snarl as Arsenal plan victory parade before final
ARSENAL have had to wait almost ten years since they last celebrated winning a major trophy. But now the Gunners have caused a stir by planning a party for an FA Cup final triumph – before the match against Hull City has even been played.
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Transfer Balls: Chelsea Sell Luiz To Barcelona But Bayern Munich Sign Him
TRANSFER Balls: Compare and contrast the scoops on Chelsea’s David Luiz:
ESPN, May 13, 2014:
Luiz agrees deal with Barcelona
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Transfer Balls: Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester United And Maybe Man City And Chelsea All Get Benzema
TRANSFER Balls, with Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema.
The Telegraph, May 14:
Arsenal to launch £30m move for Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema
Will they get him? No!
Daily Star, May 14:
Liverpool favourites to land Karim Benzema as Arsenal prepare to re-sign £3.2m Carlos Vela
So. He’s off to Liverpool.
Daily Mirror, May 14:
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Posted: 15th, May 2014 | In: Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, manchester united, Sports | Comment
Manchester City And Arsenal Balls: Richard Wright Is The Luckiest Man In Football
Arsenal’s 3 goalkeepers Richard Wright, David Seaman and Stuart Taylor celebrate with the FA Barclaycard Premiership Trophy
Date: 11/05/2002
RICHARD Wright has won two more Premier League winners’ medals than Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard. Surely a future career as media pundit sat by illuminated coffee tables is on the horizon for an English champion.
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Posted: 12th, May 2014 | In: Arsenal, Manchester City, Sports | Comment
Arsenal Balls: Wenger And The Monaco Exclusive That Isn’t
ARSENAL were last night rocked as Arsene Wenger was offered the Monaco job. The Gunners boss is out of contract at the end of the season but has still not signed a new deal.
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Transfer Balls: Arsenal Want Gundogan, Court Matinez But Bid For Stay-At-Home Bender
ARE Arsenal set to buy Bayern Munich’s Javi Martinez?
The Telegraph says they could be:
“Arsenal make approach to Bayern Munich for transfer of Javi Martinez”
But maybe the Gunners will invest that “£100m” transfer budget in Lars Bender? Big money, eh. Or as the Irish Indy notes: “Arsene Wenger warns Arsenal fans not to expect big money signings.” So lots of little signings, then, for that £100m? Er, no. The Mirror says:
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger says he will only make ‘two or three’ signings this summer
Back to the Tele, which continues:
Bender is another Germany-based player who interests Wenger and, although he might be slightly cheaper than Martinez, would still cost around £25 million.
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Transfer Balls: Arsenal Sign Diego Costa For Less Than Chelsea Paid For Him
STEVE Stammers has news for all Arsenal fans reading his Daily Mirror column. The Gunners are all set to buy Atletico Madrid’s Diego Costa transfer for £31m.
Arsenal are set to make an audacious move for Diego Costa.
The 25-year-old Atletico Madrid star has a £31million release clause in his contract…
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Posted: 4th, May 2014 | In: Arsenal, Chelsea, Sports | Comment
Arsenal Balls: One Man’s Decade-Long Search For David Seaman’s Retina-Burning Euro ’96 Kit
DID you look at the kit Arsenal and England’s David Seaman wore at Euro ’96 and think ‘I want me one of those’?
His second kit was little better.
Joel did. He looked at strip of man-made vomit fibres and thought it a good look.
But when Joel looked for “Euro 96 England goalkeeper kit” on the web, he found nothing.
And then – a mere ten years of searching later – Joel posted the following photo to his Facebook page.
Now Joel never leaves home without it:
Arsenal Balls: On The 19th Annual St. Totteringham’s Day We Recall Who Said Spurs Would Top The Gunners
ON the 19th annual St. Totteringham’s Day – when Arsenal finish above Spurs in the Premier League – Lukas Podolski identified himself as a fan favourite:
Let’s review what the experts said:
Gary Lineker: “I think they’ll probably finish above Arsenal. Well, the interesting thing is that normally clubs… if they sell a huge player, they always say, oh, we’ll spend the money, we’ll put it back in the team but they invariably don’t, whereas at least you can say for Spurs they’ve had a plan and they’ve spent that money – and they’ve spent it actually before they got it really – so I think actually they’ve bought pretty well on the whole.”
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Posted: 29th, April 2014 | In: Arsenal, Sports, Spurs | Comment
Arsenal Balls: Podolski Is The Third Most Prolific Striker In Premier League History
LUKAS Podolski’s 19 goals and 11 assists in his Arsenal career give him the third best minutes per goals ratio in Premier Leauge history, bettered only by Thierry Henry and Kun Aguero.
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Arsenal Balls: Mesut Ozil Is Remade As A Chocolate Egg
GARY Lineker flogs fatty food crisps to sports fans. And in Germany, the budding sport stars can tuck into World Cup 2014 Kinder Surprise eggs, such as this one featuring Arsenal star Mesut Ozil.
This is his face on the Kinder Überraschung.
This is what you get inside:
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Posted: 25th, April 2014 | In: Arsenal, Sports, The Consumer | Comment
Arsenal Balls: Lukas Podolski Instigates A New Kind Of Handshake
ARSENAL’S Lukas Podolski yesterday enacted one of the best pre-game handshakes of the season, greeting referee Jonathan Moss with rare affection.
The pre-match handshake has been mired on controversy. We’ve wondered whether or not Anton Ferdinand would shake John Terry’s hand before or after wiping his nose on his own palm? Would Rio Ferdinand shake Ashley Cole’s hand, or simply hand him a choc-ice? Would Luis Suarez eat the hand of Patrice Evra; would Evra, wise to the possibility of cannibalism, coat it in hot mustard or black boot polish? Would Wayne Bridge be invited to sniff a smirking John Terry’s fingers?
The handshake had become so complex, so political, that we had led calls for the pre-game handshake to go.
But then along comes Poldi to remind us that more handshakes are what are required.
Arsenal Balls: World Cup Striker Stickers Shocker
IS the Sun turning into Viz?
The Arsenal “ace” is “FOOTIE ace Joel Campbell”, on loan from the Gunners to Olympiacos.
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Arsenal Balls: If Not Diarra Then Who Is The ‘Former Arsenal Star Fighting Jihad In Syria’?
WHO is the former “Arsenal “star fighting as a jihad warrior in Syria”, as “The Sun can reveal”?
We’d like to take a look at his shooting accuracy before making a guess.
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Arsenal Seek New Bobby Charlton: Arsène Wenger Says Injuries May Be Down To Hair Loss Treatments
ARSENAL’S list of injuries is a running sore for Gunners fans. Theo Walcott, Aaron Ramsey, Abou Diaby, Lucas Podolski, Mesut Özil, Jack Wilshere, Laurent Koscielny and others have endured lengthy lay-offs this season. Who to blame?
Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger has an idea.
“Some of them [muscle injuries] are down to the medication that the players take that you don’t even know about. Then you realise afterwards that they took this medication but that’s not prudent… If you lose your hair and you’ve taken something to make your hair grow, it might not be good, especially for the rest of your body. Medication always pushes a part of your body and is sometimes detrimental to other parts of your body.
“At the moment, we have not come to any conclusion … every case can be very different and you need to analyse very deeply why things happen. I’m surrounded by people who want to enhance their performances because they have another problem in their life and it’s not always necessarily a good thing to do.”
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