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*taps mic* "Is this thing on?" Looks like it is. No thanks to Amazon's hosting. This cloud bollocks is not all it's cracked up to be. 12 hours+ of downtime in one day. As someone who used to have a crappy little hosting business myself that'...
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So yesterday evening's 4-0 win over SC Strudel's collection of postmen, trainee architects and bus drivers really didn't tell us a great deal we didn't already know. Stand out players on the evening for me were Nasri, who's contuining a fine pre-season...
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My good old chums at Arsenal Brasil were lucky enough to track down former Gunner Edu to ask him some questions about his Arsenal career. On the agenda were his arrival at Arsenal, his favourite players, the Invincibles why he left, his thoughts on Ars...
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We know the Spanish press are, at the best of times, transfer crazy. Especially in the summer. There are four newspapers dedicated to sport, the majority of the pages are filled with football stories, and there really are no stones left unturned for th...
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This weekend sees the pre-season begin in earnest as Arsenal look to defend their Emirates Cup title.Arseblog, in association with Emirates, the award-winning international airline, is giving you the chance to win tickets and more. This year’s ...
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As United, Sp*rs and Man City combine their pre-season preparations with some US based money spinning, Arsenal remain in their training camp in Austria, pretty much well away from prying eyes and media coverage. Which is probably why there's precisely ...
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Morning, a quick Sunday round-up for you. Johan Djourou spoke yesterday about how Arsenal, as a team, need to be more aggressive in light of our defensive record, the official description of which is 'utterly poxy'. He says:I think sometimes we are m...
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Morning, it's very, very quiet, to be honest. There's nothing new from the training camp and some quotes from Arsene in the new Arsenal magazine lay out the ambition for the new season. He says:The aim is to continue to progress as we have been doing...
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Righto, a few bits and pieces this Friday morning. First up, it looks as if Sol Campbell is going to sign a new one year deal with the club. After Sunderland signed Titus Bramble instead, Newcastle withdrew their interest and Celtic remain in Scotland ...
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Morning all, got my first look at Arsenal 2010-11 last night as we beat Sturm Graz 3-0. There's not a great deal you can really take from these training games, they're more about fitness than anything else, but some observations in bullet point form....
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You would think after winning the World Cup the Spanish players would toddle off on their holidays, put their feet up and bask in the glory of their famous triumph. Most of them have, it seems, but one man, the one with the mouth, is always ready with ...
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So the team are in Austria right now at the traditional training camp. There was no squad list published, I shall endeavour to find out exactly who went today, but Arsene spoke about what was on the agenda, saying:We have six players coming back to j...
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Morning all, hope you had a good weekend. There was a nice Arsenal flavour to it as well with a 4-0 win over Barnet in that new kit which really does look the business. Thanks to Tom for his top notch blogging. Not only did he get an Arsenal win, for a...
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Yesterday saw the first game of pre-season as we visited Underhill for the traditional match against Barnet. We got our first view of new boys Koscielny and Chamakh, and it was an altogether comfortable run out against the league 2 side. ...
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Good morning, purveyors of Arse. On the occasions I've had the dubious pleasure of writing the blog over this balmy and World Cup filled summer, like Arseblogger, I've wanted to write about anything - anything...
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Some people have, over the last little while, expressed the notion that I shouldn't write anything more about Barcelona and their wicked pursuit of Cesc Fabregas. Which I understand. This is an Arsenal blog after all, but the reality is that if I didn'...
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FC Barcelona Internal Memo - FAO all players. Estimados jugadores de FC Barcelona, por favor, find attached el schedule por el talking jibber-jabber de Cesc Fabregas. Wednesday July 15th - Lionel Messi: Please mention the fact you played with Cesc in ...
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Morning, despite the fact it still dominates the headlines and the fact that Ghostface McDivey has become the latest Barcelona player to speak out about how much they want to sign Cesc, I shall try and keep this blog relatively Cesc free. Cesc's dad ha...
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If there's anything worse that people who think they're funny when they're clearly not I don't know what is is. Yeah yeah, famine, murder, war, oppressive regimes and all that, but thankfully most of us don't have to deal with those things. Unfunny cun...
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So the World Cup is over and it's congratulations to Cesc and commiserations to Robin. Spain won 1-0, as they did their previous three games in the tournament - "one nil to the Es-pan-ya" - and have added the world crown to the European one t...
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