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All posts tagged "Champions League"

  • Is Arsene Wenger NOT Speaking English?

    A foreigner challenging traditional notions of English football is not going to win many friends in a footballing nation that is a bit xenophobic and a bit stubbornly insular in its thinking about the game. It is...

    • Posted March 2, 2010
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  • Boredom and Dealing with Delap

    For the life of me, I can’t remember such a boring February, news-wise. With so many weeks in between the legs of the Champions League knockout round and us being out of the FA Cup, there just...

    • Posted February 25, 2010
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  • Keeping the Faith

    I believe that the Boss needs to find a balance wherein we can continue to play our style of football without sacrificing our defensive well-being to do it. There has to be a tactical and stylistic compromise...

    • Posted February 11, 2010
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  • The Date with United and O’Neill’s Problem

    Villa are a quick young side with some power, but if O'Neill thinks he has an English version of Barcelona on his hands and that Villa are a pure footballing side, then he is the "ridiculous" one....

    • Posted January 29, 2010
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  • Some Thoughts on our Draw with Bolton… I mean, Villa

    From here on out, every draw will have us considering one of football's most philosophical questions: Was it two points lost, or a point gained?

    • Posted January 28, 2010
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  • Why I Don’t Feel Bad For Philippe Senderos

    Had Senderos not bullied his way to a loan move to Milan, where he played infrequently and with no distinction, he would have been the one to step into Kolo Toure's spot.

    • Posted January 23, 2010
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  • Ted Harwood Remembers the 2000s

    I see football as an aesthetic and humanistic undertaking, and there is absolutely no finer team that typifies athleticism, struggle, triumph, and hope for the 2010s than Arsenal.

    • Posted January 5, 2010
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  • Arsenal End 2009 In Style

    It was a cold, mid-week December evening on the south coast, yet an Arsenal side shorn of their two most important players still came away with a very convincing win.

    • Posted December 31, 2009
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  • Arsenal Station’s Decade in Review

    It was a decade full of dozens of magical moments-the kind of moments that are the reason anyone watches football or follows a club.

    • Posted December 30, 2009
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  • Someone Needs to Teach Arsene about Respect

    While his critics have shown themselves to be highly disrespectful time and time again, Arsene Wenger has always respected the game of football and those in it whom deserved that respect.

    • Posted December 12, 2009
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