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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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Bleh. After my vaguely optimistic preview the natural order of things returned. Good strikers always score against their old clubs, Arsenal can only beat Man U if all the best players are fit and firing, and Ferguson always manages to get his selection of players and officials spot on against us. I’m not particularly keen [...]

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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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Admit it. Go on, admit it… You’re like a kid on Christmas Eve, aren’t you? I know I am.   Yes, all jokes about Santi Claus aside, confirmation that Arsenal have completed the signing of the Spain midfielder Santi Cazorla for Malaga probably comes as welcome relief for us all. But it also means that, for [...]

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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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I posted this earlier as part of the blog I wrote posing the question ‘Is Robin van Persie worth £10m per year‘ and people seemed to be more interested in the injury list which was included at the bottom so I thought it perhaps deserved a post on its own with some extra information. We [...]

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They say a player is worth as much as someone is willing to pay him and pay for him but according to the Sun Robin van Persie believes he is worth £10.1 million a year. He’s 29, he’s managed one season without a long term injury and completed one season where he was the best [...]

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Well, it’s been another few days of more of the same. Van Persie still wants to go, Arsenal still want him to stay and the fans are tearing their hair out just wanting a resolution one way or the other.  The gossip mill has been working overtime as it tends to do every summer, linking [...]

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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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  Is he going? Is he staying? If he’s going, where’s he going? Questions, questions, questions, that’s all we seem to have.  Will RvP go? Will Theo sign on or ship out?  Will we buy to replace? What does Wenger think about it all? Summer brings more questions than we can ever expect to get [...]

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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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It was the news that many Arsenal fans had feared but it was delivered in a manner that none expected, not even Arsenal.  A large majority of Arsenal fans, myself included, really thought that Robin would sign a new deal and when faced with the awkward questions of ‘well if that’s the case why hasn’t [...]

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We loved you Robin. It’s true, we did. Didn’t we? I have just deleted one and half paragraphs, or 245 words of Robin van Persie back story at the beginning of this article. What’s the point in retelling it? You all know the stories and won’t get much pleasure in reliving them in the aftermath [...]

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