[Shaun]

I know Bulgaria aren't exactly top-flight opposition, but why couldn't we play like this 3 months ago?

[bbfan1991]

Glad we won, nice play however the international thing is getting on my nerves now..

[30stone]

Great win for England.

They done very well last night.

Could tell walcott was trying to hard, thinking about what that tit hansen said, looked like he was distracted by it.

[30stone]

Serdar Tasci has not given up on a dream move to Arsenal in January.
The Germany defender was a summer target for the Gunners and north London rivals Tottenham, but Arsene Wenger was put off by Stuttgart’s £10m price tag.
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger instead signed Lorient defender Laurent Koscielny and Sebastien Squillaci from Spanish side Sevilla.
But highly rated Tasci, 23, is still hoping to attract a bid from the Londoners in January and his representatives have made it known he would welcome the challenge of playing in the Premier League.



According to the agent of Marco Borriello, Real Madrid tried to sign the Italian international prior to Tuesday’s transfer deadline day, but were scuppered because Karim Benzema refused a transfer to Marseille. Jose Mourinho recently expressed his disappointment at failing to bring a striker to Madrid this summer, not least because he harbours concerns about Benzema, who has been strongly linked with a move to Manchester United for the last two years.



Theo Walcott was delighted to see Jermain Defoe steal his mantle of the last player to score a hat-trick for England on Friday night, hailing his team-mate's complete performance against Bulgaria.
Defoe plundered three of his country's goals in yesterday's 4-0 win at Wembley as their European Championship qualifying campaign got off to a flying start.
http://www.sportinglife.com/football...&TEAMHD=soccer


"Outrage at Arsene Wenger as he cheats the homegrown rules."
What??? Really how did he cheat it, FA made the rules and he followed them accordingly..

[bbfan1991]

Soccer AM is funny, not seen it for a while. The Soccerettes are delicious too LOL.

[30stone]

Arsenal are reportedly set to face stiff competition from Serie A outfit Fiorentina as they attempt to complete the signing of highly-rated midfielder Ibrahim Afellay.
http://www.goal.com/en/news/11/trans...ential-signing




Underated yet great player.

Youtube video

[30stone]

Alan Hansen outed lol.


BEfore the world cup..

Before the World Cup, he wrote a column in which he said that Walcott had no natural instincts to play football. That if he was given time on the ball he was fine but that he had no clue how to play the ball instinctively.

It is no slight on a player to accuse them of not having a football brain. You either have one or you don’t. It is about natural instinct, the innate ability to see things before they happen. Wayne Rooney has it and Kenny Dalglish had it. When Bob Paisley used to say at Liverpool that, at the highest level, the first two yards were in the head, he was spot-on.

If Theo Walcott had that ability to see the picture opening up, that football brain, he would be a world-beater, but he has a long way to go and we still don’t know how he will ultimately turn out.


This season..

I had to go back and look it up because when I watched the video of Hansen on Match of the Day I swore that he said just the opposite: that his instincts were just fine, but that Theo struggled when given too much time.

What you’re always going to judge him on is not what he does well and what he does instinctively, it’s when he’s got time to think about it. That’s the big criticism, when he’s got time to think about what’s happening I think he struggles a bit.



Completely contradicted himself lol!

[30stone]

Arsenal name Champions League Squad.


Goalkeepers : Manuel Almunia, Lucasz Fabianski, Vito Mannone, Wojciech Szczęsny, James Shea.

Defenders : Bacary Sagna, Thomas Vermaelen, Laurent Koscielny, Sébastien Squillaci, Johan Djourou, Gael Clichy, Emmanuel Eboué, Kieran Gibbs, Daniel Boateng, Tom Cruise, Craig Eastmond, Jay Emmanuel-Thomas, Cedric Evina, Gavin Hoyte, Havard Nordtveit.

Midfielders : Abou Diaby, Cesc Fabregas, Thomas Rosicky, Samir Nasri, Denilson, Aaron Ramsey, Alex Song, Jack Wilshire, Chukwuemeka Aneke, Emmanuel Frimpong, Conor Henderson, Henri Lansbury, Mark Randall, Nicholas Yennaris.

Forwards : Robin Van Persie, Carlos Vela, Theo Walcott, Andrei Arshavin, Marouane Chamakh, Benik Afobe, Roarie Deacon, Rhys Murphy, Nicklas Bendtner, Gilles Sunu.


44 man squad whats the max?

[seanraff07]

Originally Posted by 30stone

Arsenal name Champions League Squad.


Goalkeepers : Manuel Almunia, Lucasz Fabianski, Vito Mannone, Wojciech Szczęsny, James Shea.

Defenders : Bacary Sagna, Thomas Vermaelen, Laurent Koscielny, Sébastien Squillaci, Johan Djourou, Gael Clichy, Emmanuel Eboué, Kieran Gibbs, Daniel Boateng, Tom Cruise, Craig Eastmond, Jay Emmanuel-Thomas, Cedric Evina, Gavin Hoyte, Havard Nordtveit.

Midfielders : Abou Diaby, Cesc Fabregas, Thomas Rosicky, Samir Nasri, Denilson, Aaron Ramsey, Alex Song, Jack Wilshire, Chukwuemeka Aneke, Emmanuel Frimpong, Conor Henderson, Henri Lansbury, Mark Randall, Nicholas Yennaris.

Forwards : Robin Van Persie, Carlos Vela, Theo Walcott, Andrei Arshavin, Marouane Chamakh, Benik Afobe, Roarie Deacon, Rhys Murphy, Nicklas Bendtner, Gilles Sunu.


44 man squad whats the max?

I thought it was 23 max, i think they will just start of with they players and will get rid of half that squad in the coming weeks once they decide who deserves to be in the final 23.

[30stone]

Thomas Rosicky is like having a new signing.



People have been praising rosicky after his first 3 games, where he has been great in all 3.

[30stone]

Originally Posted by seanraff07

I thought it was 23 max, i think they will just start of with they players and will get rid of half that squad in the coming weeks once they decide who deserves to be in the final 23.

I dont know if there is something like a b - team it says.

Like when we had already qualified we played loads of youngsters last year.

[bbfan1991]

Kanchelskis said that Arshavin is overrated.. I disagree.

[Chels]

Toshack out. Please. Or we'll kill him.

[Boothy]

Urgh. Woke up this morning thinking Albion were at home to Spurs so I got all excited for that, then realised Premier League games aren't being played this week

Nothing to do now.

[alc09]

Chels, Mourinho couldn't get that shower of ****e to play well - your team is ****ing wank bar two.

Walcott was wank last night, has no end product.

[alc09]

Originally Posted by Boothy

Urgh. Woke up this morning thinking Albion were at home to Spurs so I got all excited for that, then realised Premier League games aren't being played this week

Nothing to do now.

Simon Cox - football genius.

Agree?

[30stone]

Originally Posted by bbfan1991

Kanchelskis said that Arshavin is overrated.. I disagree.

Yeah i saw that.

A lot of people saying hes jealous because Arshavin is hugely popular in Russia now.
And overated when you score 4 against liverpool at anfield? and score crucial goals? Right lol..

[bbfan1991]

I'm more hopeful the Baggies can try and stay up this time, the yoyo stuff is crazy LOL.

Want it to hurry up for club football again already..

[30stone]

Im happy for them to stay up so long as Arsenal beat them..

[King Gizzard]

Thank the heavens James collins is alright

Got kippered most of the night vs Montenegro but for Villa he's amazing

[Chels]

Originally Posted by alc09

Chels, Mourinho couldn't get that shower of ****e to play well - your team is ****ing wank bar two.

Walcott was wank last night, has no end product.

We're not shyte. The individuals who play for us are great, we have the likes of Bellamy, Bale, Collins, Church, Earnie, Williams (can't believe I just admitted that, but he's the scum's only good player), Morison who's one for the future along with Blake and Matthews... the U21 side look awesome and they'll be pushing to get in the first team, and don't forget we have Rambo and Collison to come back from injury.

The problem is that clueless, tactically inept, fat horrible jack **** can't get these players to play as a team. We need someone in who can fire-up the boys, not some lard arsed tosser who couldn't inspire jesus and select some of the ****tiest players possible like Ledley and Ricketts. Look at some of the quality players who's retired because of him: Koumas, Simon Davies, Parry. Get Tosh out and get Flynn in, he might take us somewhere.

/rant

[bbfan1991]

From a selfish Man United fan point of view Ryan Giggs made the best decision by retiring from Wales.

Wales have some promising young talent, however it will take a lot of time for it to develop. Northern Ireland seem to be doing good..

[30stone]

Aaron Ramsey, cannot wait until he is back.

[King Gizzard]

[King Gizzard]

There was actually reports that his career could of been over