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This match had a Man City win written all over it beforehand. – Their title rivals had won, meaning the visitors would be fighting from the kick off against this notoriously slow starting Arsenal side. – Arteta, last season’s matchwinner, and the team’s tactically most important player picked up a last minute calf strain, resulting [...]

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This statistical comparison will look at the 2012/13 EPL form of both Olivier Giroud and Edin Dzeko. These players were chosen as they both play for top 4 clubs in the league and are both known for being ‘big, strong players who are good in the air’. Whilst, Giroud has played many more minutes this [...]

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Having been to watch Killing Them Softly with Jo, Jen and Chris yesterday lunchtime, we arrived in The Lost Hour in Greenwich in the 6th minute of 5 minutes of the injury time scheduled at Anfield. The pub, needless to say, was rather busy. One of the first things I saw was Judas embracing Patrice [...]

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Man City – Arsenal Goals   1 – 1 Assists 1 – 1 Shots 16 – 12 Shots on goal 6 – 5 Saves 4 – 5 Crosses 11 – 18 Fouls  11 – 8 Offsides 2 – 1 Yellow 1 – 0 Red 0 – 0 Possession 41% – 59% Touches total 539 – 675 [...]

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Manchester City.  Hhmmm. Once a team that I think many of us had a soft side for, a family club that seemed to have the humour and humility that their big red brothers lack in abundance, now a team we have all come to resent copiously.  As if it wasn’t enough that our players were [...]

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The days after Tuesday night’s slightly backs to the wall, slightly lucky win against Montpellier have passed slowly. We’ve waited for this weekend’s visit to Eastlands with nothing but the sound of tumbleweed blowing across the training ground at London Colney…. Oh, alright then, it’s not been like that at all. This week, Arsenal fans got the [...]

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By guest writer @ClockEnd5 On February 1979 the entire football world turned its eyes to the City Ground in Nottingham where Brian Clough, nonchalantly announced the signing of Trevor Francis from Birmingham City for a fee of £1,150,000.  The first million pound footballer had arrived. Most commentators at the time were of the opinion that [...]

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28 days ago he broke Arsenal hearts across the globe with his statement that he would not be signing a new deal with the club and while he didn’t ask to leave (transfer requests cost money you know as a player loses his loyalty bonus) he put himself in a position where he hoped the [...]

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Teams never really like to lose but it is seen as acceptable in pre-season and perhaps at less than full strength and trying out new players and systems that results aren’t really that important and it’s all about getting the fitness levels right ahead of the new season.  And that’s true. To a point. When Arsenal take [...]

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It’s just the story that will not die. We thought we could be in for a summer free of this sort of nonsense, after all, for the first time in living memory Barcelona had shut the hell up.  Then van Persie issued his statement and the world went mental.  So, as of today, what exactly [...]

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Sod it all, I’m not expected to give an introduction to this post, am I? We’ve all known that Robin van Persie’s future lay in the balance this summer; and while we all beat our intrepid chests on twitter with regards to him being a true and loyal captain, we knew there was a serious [...]

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The feeling is as sudden as it is long-drawn. One morning, after wiping the Sandman-goo from your bleary eyes, you move towards your study desk to find out which new subject is going to go clickety-click with its pincers in dangerous vicinity of your genital area, when you realize that you’ve already burnt all books [...]

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