Kenny Dalglish Won't Be Delivering the Module: English Premiership 2011-12

http://www.mcfc.co.uk/News/Team-news/2011/September/~/media/Images/Home/News/Club%20news/2011/September/BHS%20player%20of%20the%20year%20awards/Joe%20spots%20the%20camera.ashx?h=281&w=500&as=1

Every time Tevez does something objectively indefensible something ends up making me feel sorry for him, like this picture.

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Good thing he has all that time off

mancini out
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/sep/29/robin-van-persie-carlos-tevez-manchester-city?CMP=twt_gu

de gea is shit... at stealing
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3845162/Man-United-goalie-David-de-Gea-caught-nicking-119-doughnut.htm

loooooool

Unbelievable:

Sir Alex is fully behind his star signing. He said of de Gea earlier this month: "He's 20 years of age and doesn't know the culture of the country.

"That's a lot to deal with but he has shown great composure about the whole thing.

"He's not got himself flapping about the goalmouth. I think he's absolutely outstanding. The boy is tremendous."

Oh, missed the "earlier this month" bit of that.

ffs

Former Aston Villa Manager David O'Leary: Jose Mourinho Rates Me

David O'Leary, the former Arsenal defender who went on to enjoy success as a manager with Leeds United and Aston Villa, has revealed that Inter boss Jose Mourinho is a significant ally in his search for a return to management.

O'Leary has stated that he is keen to make a return to top-level management as soon as possible, and Mourinho might be only to happy to provide him with a reference."I’ve had requests to go back into football and it’s not me bigging myself up or thinking I deserve a bigger job but I just felt that the jobs weren’t right in any way," the Irishman explained to The Daily Mail.

"I’ve had lots of offers mainly from abroad and I think that can only come from people remembering Leeds in the Champions League.

"Some with loads and loads of dollars. Jose Mourinho was very good and recommended me for a really big job but I just felt I couldn’t live where it was with the family really. That was about six or seven months ago.

"We’re not friends but Jose has always kind of rated me if you know what I mean. He was asked a question to recommend somebody for something or put them up and I was very grateful that he did it.

"When I thanked him he said, 'David, I wasn’t doing you a favour even though I like you, it’s because I rate you' and that’s his attitude.

‘I saw (Fabio) Capello at the soccer writers’ function the other week and he came down from the top table and said 'when are you bloody getting back in the game'?

"It was nice getting that from Capello. A lot of them know that you’re too good to be out of it. That’s not me trying to big myself up. People in the game know how difficult Doug Ellis and Aston Villa was."

Some with loads and loads of dollars

Come on, who talks like this? You don't say "I'm going to the cashpoint to take out some pounds", do you?

Jose Mourinho was very good and recommended me for a really big job but I just felt I couldn’t live where it was with the family really.

ha, would love to know where this was - Jan Mayen FC or Kerguelen national team boss, I'm thinking

"When I thanked him he said, 'David, I wasn’t doing you a favour even though I like you, it’s because I rate you' and that’s his attitude.

‘I saw (Fabio) Capello at the soccer writers’ function the other week and he came down from the top table and said 'when are you bloody getting back in the game'?

This genuinely reads like a quote from The Office

Terek Grozny, maybe.

Did he have any excuses for being shockingly poor as manager of Al-Ahli?

Get the feeling Jose wrote a letter recommending O'Leary for an assistant manager's job with Tony at Gabala, but Tony would only talk to his dog.

What's with The Guardian liveblogging Fridays now?!

that's hilarious

we have (temp) got rid of Almunia! wooooooooooooooooooo! drinks for all!

nb that O'Leary thing was two years ago

Shit, it was up as news on some site or other

Arsenal financial guff shows overall level of group net debt reduced by £40mn-odd despite less property revenue.

SELF-SUSTAINING MODEL, WHOOOOOAHHH
SELF-SUSTAINING MODEL, WHOOOOOAHHH
IT COMES FROM ARSENAL
NO ONE ELSE GIVES A FUCK

The Group's property business continues to be debt free and generating surplus cash for the Group. The overall level of Group net debt had been reduced to £97.8 million (2010 - £135.6 million) at the balance sheet date.

so we are only about 3 or 4 years away from paying off the debt? In which we'll be looking at 40m more than now a season to throw around the team? :D

oh wait, we still made money off the property stuff, just not as much.

Arsenal also don't smoke, drink, or take drugs, and believe in the value of having a good breakfast. Never put off til tomorrow what you can do today!

In a few years' time the club will probably have to spend that extra £40mn a season on bailing out the failed NAMING RIGHTS supermarket development up the road.

Arsenal also don't smoke, drink, or take drugs, and believe in the value of having a good breakfast. Never put off til tomorrow what you can do today!

― Matt DC, Friday, 30 September 2011 16:10 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

"First, I have to speak to Gallas," said Wenger, before his own previous as a smoker came out. "I did smoke but never a lot and never when I played. After, when I became a young coach, I sometimes had one [cigarette] because my assistant was smoking at three o'clock in the morning, when we had lost a big game.

"In France, we all smoke. I have seen buses in France that you would not believe, you do not see each other. When I was a player, nobody would ever tell you that you should not smoke. We were driving home in coaches. You had to open the windows in winter to see each other."

did we ever get round to discussing that arsenal rap track w/ that one witeboi as dioufy would call him

Official site:

Last season was Almunia’s seventh as an Arsenal player and despite making just 14 appearances during the campaign, he left no doubt as to his ability when called upon.

top five worst post 2k5 arsenal players pls

The Group's property business continues to be debt free and generating surplus cash for the Group. The overall level of Group net debt had been reduced to £97.8 million (2010 - £135.6 million) at the balance sheet date.
so we are only about 3 or 4 years away from paying off the debt? In which we'll be looking at 40m more than now a season to throw around the team? :D

― Ravaging Rick Rude (a hoy hoy), Friday, 30 September 2011 15:07 (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

run out of fabregases to sell though.

that doesn't include the cesc and nasri sale, it is for 2010.

worst-
al
big phil
cygan
bischoff
hoyte

oh shiii forgot silvestre.

senderos was part of the astonishingly successful 2k6 european cup decence tbfttl

so were hoyte, flamini, cygan and eboue

imo arsenal went to shit when they failed to sign baptista permanently

i remember remarking at the time that his barnstorming proto-phil jones runs would be befitting of an epithet such as 'the beast', but instead arsenal fans scorned his bigness and insisted on 'craptista'

significance of including flamini in with that other dross?

Also, if your worst five players have since left, how comes yer shit now?

hoyte wasnt even playing for arsenal that season, cygan hardly played in the cl knockout phase

flam isn't a defender, thats why i included him

wasnt baptista complete pony apart from that one time he pwned liverpool

baps looked so unfit and overweight when he was with us. he'd try making those beast runs and get out of breath before reaching the box!

West Ham are ready to offer Carlos Tevez an escape route from Manchester City by taking him back to Upton Park on loan.

the snack box

julie baps was destroyed by the scorn of the arsenal bloggerati, literally drove him to to an early death from comfort eating

baptista would have done alright if they didn't make powerbomb a red card offence.

Baptista got 9 in 11 for Malaga last year

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/1699782.stm

*wipes brow*

http://i.imgur.com/QlxaJ.png

Good opening this.

that was crazy from distin

Yes, enjoying it so far

Christ, wtf

ref otm