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Yesterday, as Robin van Persie returned to the Emirates for the first time since his acrimonious move to Manchester United, if you were to bet on Premier League goalscorers, you would have got short odds on the Dutchman netting against his former side. Awarded a clear penalty after a foul by Bacary Sagna, van Persie [...]

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As the Guardian run a piece today about the guard of honour Arsenal will display for newly crowned champions Manchester United at the Emirates on Sunday, many players are concerned about how the fans will react when Robin van Persie takes to the pitch. Guard of honours have become a tradition and it was never [...]

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“I don’t know if United will go for us from the start, as they did at Chelsea last week, or whether they will sit back, defend in numbers and wait for the inevitable Magnum 45 into our Adidas Predators.” “I’m all for Arsenal showing United respect today, but would also like to see us try [...]

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I’ve said many times on this blog that, in the grand scheme of things, I can swallow losing. It happens, teams are outplayed, other teams are better and results don’t go your way. I have also, frequently, qualified that with ‘as long as we’ve given everything.’ In my preview of Arsenal’s trip to Manchester United [...]

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The game we played out (it wasn’t a match, not really) at Old Trafford last season has gone done as one of the most infamous episodes in Arsenal’s history. It was a match as memorable as our four visits there between 2001-04. Obviously it was memorable, from our perspective at least, for all the wrong reasons. [...]

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It is, of course, always a massive game when Arsenal play Manchester United, but with it being the first time the sides have played since our captain left to join them the amount of feeling surrounding this game for Gooners has intensified significantly. This is no bad thing, due to recent performances by Arsenal over [...]

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There are few things in football that top gloating.  Your side winning is about the only one, your side winning against a rival another. But seeing a player that you once loved and thought loved you leave for a club you hate and then have a shit match while his new side loses is right [...]

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When it comes to judging a player, not as a talent, but as a person, I like to think that I have a fairly good idea about what is what.  I am aware that when they pull on that Arsenal shirt I might pop on my Gooner-tinted glasses, but when it comes down to it, [...]

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There has been a lot of talk over recent seasons about the mega money which has been injected in to the game though Sky TV and the oil barons who have been buying up clubs and then stockpiling players as if they are expecting some sort of apocalypse.  You’d be forgiven, then, for thinking that [...]

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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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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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It’s almost as if the BITS-Pilani internet connection foresaw it with mystic eyes. As soon as the Arsenal-Manchester United match shuffled to its conclusion, after all three goals, missed chances, TheSubstitution™ and ‘You don’t know what you’re doing’, the World Wide Web gave notice and discreetly left the premises of my college for days on [...]

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This blog was giggling like like a little schoolgirl about an hour ago, if it knew what is was like to be reunited with a former lover, it would say it felt a bit like that, but it doesn’t know. So… So. With no football to look forward to until Monday night, today’s confirmation that [...]

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