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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL4AW...eature=related

One of the best footballing moments I've ever seen. Haven't even got to support Chelsea for me to have jumped all over the place. reminded me of Liverpool in 2005.

Along with this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9JyCzbBACw

Truly a remarkable end to the season for Chelsea and City which will be forever remembered worldwide. Greatest EPL season ever, You couldn't write the script for the ending, It was just sensational. Unlikely that we'll ever see something like that again :(

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I was jumping all over the place for the Chelsea one, and not because I was happy for them winning. And the City ending was great, although I was getting quite nervous towards the end. And I'll never forget those blissful 10 minutes in which I thought Bolton had managed to avoid relegation then finding out they had missed it thanks to Stoke.

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Pompey again

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18816436

I feel for the fans to be fair. The club has been ripped apart by not just one poor decision but many. Crap businessmen that have quickly disappeared.

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Same happened to Southampton, deducted points at the end of the season & the beginning of the next.

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From what I can make out all the owners since gaydamak have been his stooges, how they can be adjudged to be fit and proper is beyond me.

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Spurs continue their trend of collecting rejects from top London clubs:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18827137

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Spurs are creating a good side, if they get Lloris I would have to concede that they'll move ahead of us....

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A reject that would probably walk into Arsenals first eleven right now ;)

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Probably all he would do though. Spurs should have him on a one-year rolling contract....

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17 goals in 33 appearances for Spurs last season, something Arsenal fans will be praying for from any one of their strikers without Van Persie...

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Similar to the stats he had in his first season with us and similar to the stats he had in the first few months with City. No one has ever doubted his talent just his work rate and motivation long-term.

Arsenal won't have a striker to match RVP but hopefully we can have more goals coming from across the team next year. We need to get a defensive midfielder and, imo, one more striker.

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Rangers: SFL clubs vote new club into Division Three.

Rangers have been voted into Division Three following a meeting of Scottish Football League clubs, BBC Scotland understands.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18813407

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John Terry cleared of racism against Anton Ferdinand

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-18827915

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Still don't see it happening. SFA will pull some stunt...

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With Rangers in div 3, you might as well give Celtic the SPL cup now.

When the Scottish leagues lose TV money they'll regret not letting Ranger "Newco" in the SPL.

The English clubs should now say if Celtic want in the PL they start at the bottom as well.

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wonder if Rangers will now look at going into the lower leagues in England instead

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They can look all they want, they ain't coming in, end of.

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I doubt it. Wenger has year after year had superior performing strikers despite the doom and gloom around the club. In fact once up on a time people cried RVP was not good enough to replace Adebayor ;)

If you would have said Fabregas or Nasri or Flamini etc then yes I would have held my hands up. But for strikers Wenger might sign some terrible strikers but barely a year goes by when at least one of ours isn't a superstar.

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Despite popular belief, scottish football is more than celtic and rangers, except if you ask old firm fans

I'd rather see my club struggle, then allow a club to cheat and benefit because they consider they are too big to be punished.

And as far as the rangers fans are concerned, instead of throwing toys out of the pram, recognise that your club was in the wrong, and accept the punishment. Tired of hearing "yah, put us in 3, hope you are all jealous of our money"
(The quote was a representation of comments, and is not in any way meant to be an exact quote of various supporters)

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LFC have signed Fabio Borini from Roma, just waiting for the official word to come out.

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He could be a great signing, sturridge next. Still shocked gyfi turned you down he could've made a real difference imo

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Its true, you might as well give the league title each season to Celtic as there isn't a club big enough to take Celtic on.

SFA have shot themself in the foot, without the Old Firm games to bring in the Tv money Scottish football is dead, and Rangers playing in the third division don't make me laugh, some of there grounds are not big enough for the Rangers fans.

Sky and ESPN will pull out of tv or re talk there contracts and l guarantee it won't be a lot of money now.

Bye By Scottish football:(

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Slight exaggeration

Less money, yes. Death of scottish football?

You don't think it was struggling now? Best thing in the world would be both old firm teams leaving, or accepting they do not own the game in Scotland

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Yeah it's a shame about Gylfi but as a player with no connection to the club (reportedly a Man U fan) it's no surprise that he would jump at the opportunity to double his money or whatever the real figures happen to be.

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Good!

Rangers are members of the FA. They were given honorary membership many, many years ago and it was never removed or revoked...

But yeah it'll never happen so let's move on.

Already being worked on. At least three SPL clubs have had 'chats' with their banks about revised budgets and plans for repaying their debts.
At the SPL meeting on Monday I fully expect some form of compromise to be offered to get Rangers back into the SPL this season or next.

Hopefully they get told to shove it where the sun don't shine and Rangers rebuilt and grow on the way back up.

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Colin 25, Scottish football had some great clubs, Motherwell, Aberdeen etc, but these have all fallen on bad times.

With Rangers playing in the third division, the only one who will benefit is the small clubs, and good luck to them, but Ranegsr will get back in the big time, but l think that Scottish football will struggle big time, and it would not surprise me if Tv pulled out all together, you can't have Celtic on each week can you.

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Sigh..whilst i appreciate some think that laying before the God of mammon is the only way that football can survive, I disagree

Perhaps some clubs will struggle, some might go down, I can't predict that

But for far too long football clubs have been leaving debt all over the place, it is about time they paid..if that means clubs close..so be it

At the moment, the last few years have not been good for scottish clubs, partly fueled by Rangers spending other peoples money...which not paying tax etc was

Rangers have not been punished yet, they have only been treated like any other club.

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Great news.:tu:

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For those that follow WWE, this is done in the style of Daniel Bryan....

"Yes!!!! Yes!!!! Yes!!! Yes!!!! Yes!!! Yes!!!"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18851169

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Dundee to replace Rangers in SPL.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18850864

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Sounds more like When Harry met sally. :)

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Chelsea 'agree Oscar deal'.

http://www.sportinglife.com/football...ree-oscar-deal

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...will they be awarded them for best simulation....? ;)

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Expect Andy Carroll back on Tyneside soon, having him on Loan is Brilliant business before having the option to purchase for the sum of between £15-20 million at the end of the season.

Mike Ashley bent King Kenny over and slapped him all the way to the bank, Brendan Rodgers is now set for the same treatment.

Is Ashley lucky or just a brilliant businessman?

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We are just glad to get rid of such a vastly over-rated player adzii.:)

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He was only ever over-rated by Liverpool, the rest of us knew he was **** :)

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l suppose you can put one of yours in that bracket as well Shadow but l will let you guess the name.:)

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We are confident he will score goals. No club has had the bottle to activate Ba's release clause yet and with Carroll, Ba and Cisse running around on the pitch we'll be happy.

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Big Andy's supposed to be flying out to Boston next week to meet up with the rest of the group so I expect something will be announced over the next two days if anything is happening.

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Indeed I don't think Carroll will be on the plane as if true the talks are commencing tonight in hope Carroll will be arriving in Newcastle this week for a medical.

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BREAKING NEWS VAN PERSIE SIGNS NEW 2 YEAR DEAL!

£30 per month with 2000 mins + unlimited texts and internet with 02

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Luke Shaw is due for a medical at Arsenal tomorrow

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Who is he.

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Lionel Messi....Cristiano Ronaldo.....Les Davies?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18864565

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A left-back from our youth team.

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:LOL:

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Tottenham Hotspur defender Ledley King announces retirement.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18902734

Very sad to see that his career had to end so early.:(

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3 offers received for RVP:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18922208

Hopefully he can leave ASAP

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Give RVP to Man City,and arsenal can have Adebayor and Dzeko, :mad:

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Thats loyalty for you Lex when these players say one thing and then do another.:td:

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Seems to happen alot at Arsenal :(

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he could have been one of thee best defenders in world football had those injuries not occured. Thierry Henry said he was one of the best defender to take the ball off you without fouling at all.

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Would anyone be interested in a free Fantasy Football league for this season? If so, I can set a league up.

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I think CF have one already or someone did mention one a while back. ive never found it though.. might not even exist :o:

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It does exist as l am in it but l think you have to enter a reference code to enter at the start of each season but the mods would know more then l do on the subject.

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I heard several rumours that Abebeyor will not accept a pay cut at Tottenham and won't sign, and that Danile is blowing a blood vessel at signing a player for 30 million quid.

Is is the same Daniel Levy that won't break the wage barrier at Spurs.

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John Terry is so lucky, he wouldn't have got near the England team had king and woodgate stayed fit.

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I think we (new 606 site in my sig) are going to be doing a really good fantasy league competition this season, all teams in all leagues and all here are obviously welcome to have a go at it.

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He'll make up his wages with a massive signing fee and a low transfer fee from city.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/mobile/football/18935349

Not only do Juventus want RVP, they also want Liverpool's Suarez to partner him.

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They have not got a chance of enticing him to the old lady of Italy.:nono:

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I am not sure

Suarez isn't in love with english game, partly as a result of his incident with raciest comments

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l think the most important thing Colin is never listen to the exaggerated comments of the media as most of it is not true.:)

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Manchester United defender Chris Smalling out for 10 weeks.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18939363

Not good news for United supporters.

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most of its true, if Suarez doesn't move this window he'll get a new deal at least, machiavellian shenanigans played out in public by managers, agents and representatives.

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I'm not sure it is that exaggerated. Granted papers will print almost anything about football, as the basis of fact seems to be a lower standard on that subject (papers inventing rumours is not unheard of)

But equally I though Suarez has said (in paper but quoted) that he was unhappy, and that he felt Liverpool made him the scapegoat (though in Uruguay, that might be scapepigeon)

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Wenger rules out M'Vila.

http://www1.skysports.com/football/n...rfeed_football

It seems things are going from bad to worse with RVP leaving as well and in some ways Arsenal have not learnt the lessons from lasst season where we had the Nasri and Fabregas fiasco's which played out throughout the summer.

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Ruling out M'Vila doesn't mean ruling out all players. Also I wouldn't pay attention to what Wenger ever says about transfers, he ruled out Podoski earlier this year. Arsenal have learnt anyway, they've already brought two strikers and the main window hasn't kicked off yet.

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Saw on SSN today that Portsmouth are apparently days away from being liquidated. I hope that doesn't happen. What would happen to the League structure if they did liquidate? Would they promote teams to juggle the structure, or leave League 1 with 23 clubs and promote one more team next season, or what?

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l know lets hope this does not happen as my brothers will be distraught if that happens.

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I hope it doesn't happen although with tal Ben haim trousering 35k per week its hardly surprising, leave now tal you've done well out of the club, better than your talent deserved and take kanu with you. Poor old pompy never got out from gaydamak and his stooges shadows.

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The top team that missed out on promotion all the way down the leagues goes up I guess.

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He doesn't really rule him out. But things are not too bad anyway. We will have Wilshere available at some point for the box to box role and AOC will probably have more game this year and (a big) maybe Diaby can play more than an hour this term.

Things are no where near as bad as last year. This time they want to get rid of RVP too so no big fiasco like Fabregas and Nasri.

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Not if the fixture list is out iirc, they just play with a team less in div 1, I think

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Koscielny agrees new long-term contract

http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-arc...-term-contract

:D

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Shocking...theres an Arsenal player that doesn't want to leave!

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and a very good one too

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Some good news for Arsenal for once.:)

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Manchester City's Vincent Kompany signs new six-year deal.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18994638

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Good news too :)

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West Ham make record bid for Liverpool striker Andy Carroll.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18995674

Yippee.:hyper::cleader:

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If this happens I would find it amazing that two clubs paid 50m between them for him

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Yes clubs do tend to throw away money like confetti in these days of austerity.

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John Terry charged by the FA over Anton Ferdinand clash.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19021184

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I am delighted about this, for the simple reason is that players no matter who they cannot get away from doing this.

On the pitch it is down to the authority who control football and the 'respect' campaign, players should note that there are many different cultures out there and they should show respect to each other, fans can lip read what is said between players.

When l used to ref games and also play the game, we all called each other names, but we never question a persons birth.

No well done FA.

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? I can not believe you were never called a person whose mother was unmarried. Isn't that questioning your birth (unless it is true, then it is a fact) :)

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Colin25, l have been many names in my life, but l have never question a persons colour - that to me is disrepectful, you are what you are in my view.

When l was called a certain name on the pitch - l sent him a red card. I have also been been called the B and C word.

You name it l have been called it- it goes in one ear and out the other.

In my present job, l get called various names but l have been trained to let it ride over my head.

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Never thought you called anyone anything. I was merely remarking surprise that your birth wasn't questioned (re quote "but we never question a persons birth."), as I am almost positive it was a popular chant at football at one time. But maybe football is different where you were a referee

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:confused: Isn't the B word the one that questions your legitimacy?... or did some foul mouth soccer player compare you to a female dog?

Edit: reread what you said, by questioning their birth you mean questioning their ethnicity rather than the blank space on a birth certificate where a father's name appears.

You're absolutely correct... soz.

Although using the B word on it's own as an insult could also be offensive.

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Anyway fellow dogs, back on thread.

I am wondering who Man City will get.

They need a defender (maybe 2), a midfielder, and a striker if they lose one. Not convinced we absolutely need van persie. (I would love Hulk, platonic of course, not the love we can not say :))

On signings so far, impressed with Chelsea's signings. If they got hulk, I would put them as joint favourites. Man Utd, if they got van persie and a midfielder..ditto.

Arsenal, they still need at least three signings, defense, midfield and striker if van persie leaves, before I would rate their chances

Sorry Den, liverpool I think will be playing for 6th

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Thank you very much young Colin for you Mystic Meg predictions.:D

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Read on the back page of The People that Ashley Cole is apparently going to run down his contract at Chelski and go to United on a free transfer next summer.

Thought there was a rule that a player could buy their contract out and leave up to 2 years early?

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Wilshere out until October.

http://www1.skysports.com/football/n...rfeed_football

Not good news for Arsenal with the RVP fiasco still rumbling on as well.

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Wilshere ought to think about retiring, he's out injured more than he plays these days. May as well give up.

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I was thinking more about the physios and doctors at Arsenal giving up.

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they suck. like-wise Wenger whom burns decent players out by playing them too much due to depth being useless. anyway we're linked with a midfield trio. Cazorla and Sahin would be really good buys. plus a DM, the latest name being Celtics Wanyama anyone have knowledge on Wanyama?

Robin will in my opinion leave for Juve or stays if Wenger buys or because no one coughs up.

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I'd say Wanyama is a good prospect rather than the finished article. He looked excellent in some games last season but also was inconsistent in others. He has played in various positions, midfield and defence, but I reckon he's best as a defensive midfielder.

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thanks LR. who would you compare him with right now? and who could he possibly be? ability wise.

M'Vila links are either dead due to behavior or money.

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He's like a young Neil Lennon with some of Vieras attributes. Not as good as either yet though. Reads the game well and breaks up play. Not as good as Lennon because he does sometimes lose concentration and plays silly passes. Better pace than Lennon and he can get forward and chip in with the odd goal and assist.

I think Lennon has brought him on a bit and think Wenger could improve him further. I'd be happier to see him stay at Celtic for another season at least because I do rate him.

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thanks again LR. 'he does sometimes lose concentration and plays silly passes' :( we already have that although we need a fine tuning as a whole. may be this guy can improve within the overall improvement needed at Arsenal?

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Rio to be charged by the FA over his 'choc ice' tweet.....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19052103

Yet they brought no charges against Liverpool's Daniel Pacheco in June when he referred to Glen Johnson as 'negrito' on twitter.

Who does Rio play for again? :rolleyes:

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Hammers agree a seventeen million fee for Carroll...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19056545