Gårdagen text:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/mar/06/george-elokobi-flex-muscles-wolverhampton-wanderers

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Hubertohearn på Twitter igår under Liverpool – Manchester United:

Honestly right now I’d take Suarez over Torres in a straight-up swap. Bet you 5-1 he out-scores him over next year.

Jag är beredd att hålla med. Vad tror ni?

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Det vore ju klart olyckligt om Birmingham skulle missa Europa på grund av finansproblemen. Samtidigt så är det ju så det är. Ser du inte efter dina finanser får det konsekvenser. Och det är ju helt rimligt.

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Sa jag att Liverpool skulle vinna? Inte? Okej, jag tänkte det i alla fall. Lovar.

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Harry Redknapp har respekt för AC Milan inför ondagens returmatch på White Hart Lane. Speciellt för Zlatans och han anfallskollegor:

- They have fantastic forward players – real match-winners – and they also have loads of players who’ve been there, seen it and done it, won everything there is to win in the game. They are also top of the Italian league.

Men Spurs har ju sitt eget farliga vapen – Peter Crouch.

- He’s had a great European campaign. He’s scored his goals and made others for Van der Vaart. They’ve been the pair that I’ve gone with in Europe and it’s worked well for us.

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Jag är förvånad att Phil Dowd inte kastade fram det röda framför Carraghers ansikte. Håller ni inte med så säg?´

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Lyckligtvis för Arsenal – Jack Wilshere ser ut att kunna spela returmatchen mot Barcelona. Trots de tuffa tacklingarna i lördagen match mot Sunderland. Så här skrev Wilshere på sin Twitter:

Just to let you know i am not injured and if selected will be fit to face Barca! Few kicks but nothing too bad.

Wilshere är en nyckelspelare för Arsenal.

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Bara för att förtydliga, så här en vecka i efterhand. Jag håller inte med Alex McLeish om att Jack Wilshere “internetmobbat” någon (McLeish: It’s not my world, Twitter and all that stuff. Cyber-bullying is not for me).

Min poäng var endast att Wilsheres svar inte var stort på samma sätt som Fergusons klapp – eller vad vi nu ska kalla det - inte var det.

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Arsenal kan kirra Barcelonamatchen:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/champions-league/8363491/Alan-Smith-Arsene-Wengers-Arsenal-can-beat-Barca-in-Champions-League-…-but-everyone-must-be-on-top-form.html

Jag är beredd att hålla med.

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Det här är kul läsning – samlade uttalanden om Andy Carroll:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/8364112/Liverpool-v-Manchester-United-What-they-say-about-Andy-Carroll.html

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Lite Twitterinfo från OptaJoe:

Dirk Kuyt is the third player to score a PL hat-trick against Man Utd, after Egil Ostenstad and David Bentley. Rarity.

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Förra veckan attackerade Sir Alex Ferguson Martin Atkinson. I lördags Arséne Wenger ilsken på Anthony Taylor:

- I’m too disgusted to speak about it. These things can have an impact on the Premier League. Justice has not been done. The decisions punished us severely, especially the offside that wasn’t offside. It is another disappointment, yes. That’s why today was the kind of game you want to win 1-0. You do not want things going against you, but it happened.

Och det är klart att Arsenal blev rånade. Väldigt mycket så.

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Jag håller med Roy Hodgson. Att förklara West Broms seger med att Birmingham hade en “league cup hangover” är inte riktigt rättvist.

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Roberto Mancini dedikerade 1 – 0-vinsten över Wigan till Kolo Toure.  

- This victory is for Kolo. It is a bad moment for him but we love him like a man, like a player. Kolo is a fantastic man. He is a serious professional player but he is not feeling good, sa italienaren.

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United förlorar efter att Arsenal tappat poäng dagen innan. Jag tror helt enkelt detta utvecklar sig till att bli Arsenals säsong.

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Can we play you every week, sjöng Liverpoolfansen.

Den måste gjort ganska ont.

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Det får vara allt för nu. Vi hörs snart!

Mycket intressant text i gårdagens the Guardian när Pepe Reina pratade med Sid Lowe. Reina, den sista spanjoren på Anfield, berättar att han saknar Fernando Torres:

- Well (…) I have got 24 Liverpool team-mates, you know. But this is a sad time. I’m very good friends with Fernando and seeing him play against us in blue was strange. It made me feel a little nostalgic, sorry. When I got to Liverpool, there were five of us Spaniards plus the coaching staff and some of the physios. Now I’m the only one. I would have liked a lot of them to stay but it wasn’t to be and I’m not panicking. That’s the way football is. Liverpool is still Liverpool and always will be bigger than any player. The club belongs to its fans and the fans’ loyalty is to the club – not a player or a passport. Kenny Dalglish was absolutely right: anyone that doesn’t want to be at Liverpool can leave. Players will come and go.

Frågan blir då automatiskt – kommer Reina också att lämna?

- I am not announcing my departure – far from it. I’ve said lots of times I’m very happy in England and comfortable at Liverpool. But I’m not prepared to swear eternal love to anyone. That’s impossible. Any player who says that is lying. I can’t say much because I have a contract with Liverpool. But eternal love doesn’t exist. No one is master of his own destiny. When a player is at club he has to give everything – that is all you can ask of him.

Skulle jag vara Liverpoolsupporter skulle jag oroa mig over Reinas uttalanden.

Las hela Lowes text pa lanken nedan:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/mar/05/eternal-love-pepe-reina-liverpool

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Patrick Ekwalls inlagg om Anders Svensson var mycket bra och jag haller med om i stort sett varenda ord.

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Den hemlige fotbollsspelaren om Jean-Marc Bosman:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/mar/05/bosman-ruling

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Stor, stor, stor match idag. Goda nyheter för United är att Darren Fletcher har kritat på ett nytt kontrakt som sträcker sig fram till 2015.

- I take great pride in playing for Manchester United, sa mittfaltaren. I have won many trophies in my years playing here and I am looking forward to winning many more in the seasons to come.

Alex Ferguson var också nöjd:

- Darren has been at the club since he was 15. I am extremely proud that he came through the ranks of our youth academy and am delighted Darren has signed a new contract. He has developed into a top-class midfielder.

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Några lästips. 

David Hytners snack med Samir Nasri.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/mar/04/samir-nasri-premier-league-title

Daniel Taylors text är bästa uppladdningen for dagens match.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/mar/04/manchester-united-liverpool-19th-title

Och så gårdagens kanske mest intressanta text:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/news/8362953/Referee-Mark-Clattenburg-was-ready-to-walk-away-from-refereeing-over-Wayne-Rooney-incident.html

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En domare som uttalade sig om Clattenburg sa:

- You can see why Mark is feeling frustrated. Mark probably gets around £80,000 a year which Rooney gets in three days.

Men herregud. Clattenburg får en mille om året far att döma. Jag kan verkligen inte första hur det kommer in i ekvationen som en anledning för honom att sluta döma. Jag menar, visst ska domarna fa bra pengar for ett tufft jobb. Men det ar ingen som kommer till arenorna for att se dem. Inga pengar tillkommer till spelet tack vare domarna.

Eller?

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Vi hörs snart om helgens matcher!

Ha det bra!

Ha ha ha. Cole of Duty. Spela pa http://www.coleofduty.com/

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Eric Cantona har pratat med BBC om den attacken pa Matthew Simmons pa Selhurst Park 1995.

- When I did the kung fu kick on the hooligan, because these kind of people don’t have to be at the game … it’s like a dream for some, you know sometimes to kick these kind of people,” he said. So I did it for the fans. So they are happy. It’s a kind of freedom for them. So they speak about that because maybe they felt it. Because they felt something special physically. Maybe it was a different feeling. It’s a great feeling, but different. But I have seen so many players scoring goals, they know this kind of feeling.This one – a player jumping and kicking a hooligan – it’s not the kind of thing you see every day.

Anda erkande Canton att det var ett misstag:

- It was a mistake. But that’s life. That’s me. Take it or not. I’m strong enough to come back.

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Men jag att kalla Simmons ‘huligan’ ar nog inte ratt om man syftar till den grupp som organiserat stokar kring fotbollsmatcher.

Jag vet att jag har haft uppe den har storyn innan. Men jag tycker ni ska lasa den igen. Andra sidan av myntet:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2004/oct/31/newsstory.sport2

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Vad sa Simmons?

- Well, unbelievably, not much at all. It was so trivial I can’t even remember. It was nothing offensive or rude that’s for sure. And nothing to justify anything that’s happened to me since.

Det kan val nastan inte stamma?

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Dagens skamt ar inte fotbollsrelaterat. Men anda enkelt och smakul:

I was chatting to a girl in a club last night.

She said to me, “Can I have your mobile number?”

I said, “No way, I’ve had that number for years”.

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Intressant artikel om vad som hander kring Chelsea:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/chelsea/8360421/Chelsea-considering-move-for-West-Ham-manager-Avram-Grant-as-new-director-of-football.html

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Jag forstar Barry Hearns oro fullstandigt. Det ar klart att det kommer att bli tufft for Orient nar West Hambiljetterna kostar noll och ingenting.

… samtidigt kan jag ju inte lata bli att ge tummen upp for billigare biljetter.

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Carson Yeung belanar sina privata fastigheter for att halla Birmingham flytande.

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Intressant:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/mar/04/football-league-premier-league-payments

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Q: How can you tell ET is a Bolton fan?

A: Because he looks like one.

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He has been suspended from participating in all first team and non-first team matches pending the outcome of the legal process.

Stackars Kolo Toure.

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Arsene Wengers uttalande var skojigt:

- He wants to control his weight a little bit because that’s where he has some problems and he took the product of his wife. Never trust your wife! That is how he was caught.

Wenger fortsatte med att saga foljande till the Telegraph:

- I think it is a mistake. He was not cautious enough. I don’t think there’s a desire there to do something wrong and hide it. It is a complete surprise because I had Kolo Toure here for years, I brought him here. He is a boy who has a clean life. He’s very honest living, always at home, a family man, and I don’t suspect him at all to have taken drugs to enhance his performances. I just think it is a mistake by forgetting to ask, ‘Can I take that?’

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Det far vara allt for idag!

Ha det bra – vi hors snart!

Frank Lampard har kanske inte varit sitt vanliga sjalv den har sasongen. Kanske pa grund av skador. Kanske pa grund av alder. Eller pa grund en komination av bada. Men han fortsatter att vara en av de spelare jag helst hade sett i mitt eget lag. Han ar en hedersman. Det bevisar inte minst hans uttalande om Didier Drogba och hans reaktion efter att ha blivit hanvisad till banken:

- It’s absolute nonsense to say he’s been sulking. His reaction’s been brilliant. It’s a load of nonsense when people say he doesn’t warm up or he’s got the hump in the dressing room. He’s been far from that. He’s been a mouthpiece in the dressing room saying: ‘Come on, lads!’  He’s come out and played with commitment.

Och pa samma vardiga satt har han uttalat sig om anledningen till att Drogba sitter pa banken – Fernando Torres (“Fernando’s movement is absolutely unbelievable”).

Som sagt. Lampard ar en hedersman.

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Det verkar som att Andy Carroll kommer att vara reda for United:

- We’re hopeful most of will be fit. We don’t really know it’s (…) a wee bit away from the game, sager Kenny. (…) Whether he’s involved on Sunday or not – I’m sure Fergie would love to know but we don’t know. He might not even be a substitute – he might be going to see Boyzone!

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He might be going to see Boyzone.

Hahaha.

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Leyton Orient var ingen match for Arsenal. Och nu ar alltsa supermotet United mot Arsenal verklighet. Det ser jag verkligen fram emot!

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Henry Winter oppnade matchrapporten med att pa ett skickligt satt beskriva matchbilden. Utan att egentlign namna den:

At times this felt an audition between Marouane Chamakh and Nicklas Bendtner over who would be Arsenal’s leading man in the Nou Camp next week.

Las hela pa lanken nedan:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/fa-cup/8356113/Arsenal-5-Leyton-Orient-0-match-report.html

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Jag ska inte sticka under stol med att jag holl pa Orient. Pa grund av motsandet? Jovisst. Men ocksa for att Orient ar en harlig klubb.

Jag har en god van som ar stor Arsenalsupporter. Men min van vaxte upp i Leyton Orientland och stod infor ett svart val.

- Arsenal har alltid varit min favoritklubb. Men jag brukade alltid ga pa Orient. Fredagkvallar inann vi gick ut. Det var varldens basta forfest. Sa i en idealvarld hade bada klubbarna gatt vidare.

Han fortsatte:

- Men i och for sig. Orient har andrats. Var forfest har nu blivit ett hyreshus inne i arenan. Stor skillnad mot vad det en gang var.

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Samtidigt som lagenheterna i arenan kanske inte ar en supporters drom – om man nu inte har turen att kunna kopa, vill saga – sa ska Orient vara mer an en forfest.

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Det ar ganska tydligt hur skillnad det ar pa Aston Villa och Manchester City nu.

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Det gar val inte att klaga pa att Sir Alex Ferguson nu lar fa betala for vad han sa. Samtidigt hade han ju viss poang.

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Litet lastips!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/mar/03/football-should-be-about-glory

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Det far vara allt for idag .

Ha det bra – vi hors snart!

Sa jag till er att Chelsea skulle vinna? Jag tankte det atminstone. 
 
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Sir Alex attackerade verkligen Martin Atkinson efter matchen:
 
- You hope you get a really strong referee in games like this. It was a major game for both clubs and you want a fair referee. You want a strong referee anyway and we didn’t get that. I don’t know why he’s got the game. I must say that when I saw who was refereeing it, I feared the worst.
 
Skotten fortsatte:
 
- It’s hard to take – we didn’t deserve that. That’s three years in a row where the referee’s decisions have changed the game. Luis has done Rooney, clear as day, and he is six yards from him. Straight in front of him, no obstruction whatsoever. Doesn’t do anything. It was incredible. Even before that, Luiz had done Chicarito off the ball. He’d done him late. Nothing’s done and the referee’s in front of it. I don’t know how he’s on the pitch.That changes the game in the second half. These decisions change the game, and he’s going to be refereeing every week.

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Frankie Lampard var, av forklarliga anledningar, positiv efter matchen:
 
- I don’t know about firmly back in it, that’s still a lot of points but all we could do was try and win the game, try and show a bit of a signal that we’re trying to get back in it and close that gap. There’s still a long way to go and Man United are deservedly top of the league at the moment but we’ve still got some fight as we showed. It was a bit of a signal today, especially going 1-0 down. The front three we’ve got to give credit to, Fernando has come in and is working his socks off, and when you throw him into the mix with Didier, when he came on he showed 20 minutes hard work and what he can do, and the rest of us know with those three up top we know we have a chance.
 

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Jag tror ju inte att Chelsea har nagon chans pa titeln. Det star mellanManchester United och, mina favoriter, Arsenal.

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Det var ingen latt kvall for United igar:

To be fair to United, they did have some major injuries tonight, no Rio Ferdinand, no Anderson, no Owen Hargreaves….. and no Howard Webb.

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Torres har ju problem med siktet. Kanske borde han be Ashley Cole om hjalp?

Eller som nagon smsade:

BREAKING NEWS! Ashley Cole shoots fan from 5 feet away. Torres had a go but missed!

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Som ni ser ar skamten kvar eftersom majoriteten rostade for det.

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Lite lastips.

Paul Hayward skriver lasvart:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/mar/02/manchester-united-sir-alex-ferguson

Richard Williams likasa:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/mar/02/chelsea-carlo-ancelotti-manchester-united

Och Paul Wilson:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/mar/02/everton-david-moyes-reading-defeat

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Kul att lasa the Guardians rapporteringen kring Jonas Olssons ursakt och citaten hamtats fran Expressen.

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Olsson visade aterigen att han ar en hedersman.

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Den som vill lasa nagot positivt om Arsenal (vilket i och for sig inte hor till ovanligheterna har): Jag sag idag ett sammandrag fran cupfinalen i sondags. Herregud vilket mal van Persie gor. Tekniskt haller jag nog det fore Wayne Rooneys nagra veckor tillbaka. Det var dock snyggare.

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God natt – vi hors!

Det var varst vad det upprorde Arsenalfolket nar jag skrev att Ferguson “klappat” Koscielny. Och jag forstar er faktiskt till viss del. Lat mig erkanna det. Jag hade sakert ocksa ogillat klappen – som jag faktiskt tycker det var fraga om – om det hade hant en Tottenhamspelare. Men samtidigt vidhaller jag att Wilshere tog ut sin frustration pa ett ungefar lika vardigt satt.

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Kildo har ratt i att klappens hardhet inte horde till saken. Helt ratt. Men det gor det anda inte till en orfil.

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En del kommenterar kring gardagens inlagg forstod jag inte. Som Guests:

Jack Wilshere skrev pa Twitter igar morse:

Well done to the BCFC player who slapped Koscielny on the head when they scored, very big of you.

Att kalla klappen for en slap ar enligt mig en overdrivt. Och att ta ut frustrationen sa ar lite lojligt. Very big of you, Jack.

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Wayne Rooney kommer, som vantat, inte att bli straffad for armbagen i segermatchen mot Wigan. Och de tva tranarna, Sir Alex Ferguson och Roberto Martinez, var oense om situationen efterat:

- There is nothing in it, sa Ferguson. You have asked the question because it is Wayne Rooney. The press will raise a campaign to get him hung by Tuesday or electrocuted or something like that. It is unbelievable. Watch the press. It will be interesting to see it.”

Wiganmanagern Roberto Martinez tyckte annorlunda. Sa har sa han till the Telegraph:

- If my player had done that, he would have been very, very lucky to stay on the pitch,” Martinez said. It’s clearly a red card, Rooney was very fortunate. If you see it on the television, it is clear.

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Jag ar radd att Martinez har en poang. Aven om jag inte ar mycket for de har konsperationsteorierna och sadar.

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Ganska bra lasning kring vad vi lart oss i helgen:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/feb/28/five-things-learned-premier-league

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This evening a thief walked into Arsene Wenger’s house and stole £50,000 from his safe.

Fortunately he didn’t see him doing it as he was wearing an Arsenal shirt at the time.

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Kevin McCarra om Ashley Colegrejen:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/feb/27/ashley-cole-chelsea-airgun-stunt

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Om vi ska vara arliga sa ar det ju inte slutet pa varlden eller hur? Att skjuta nagon med ett luftgevar alltsa. Skulle han ha blivit sparkad hade jag sett det som att ta saker och ting lite for langt.

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Carling will be well pleased that they’ve spent all this money on sponsoring the League Cup, and then the final comes and Foster’s the best player…

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Hade Birmingham haft en chans om Arsenal hade haft Cesc Fabregas? Jag tror inte det.

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Wilshere skrev ocksa pa Twitter igar:

Morning every1.still feels like a bad dream but have to move on…this will make us more hungry to win the Prem and bring it to the emirates

Vad tror ni forlusten kommer att gora med Arsenals fortsatta sasong? Kommer det motivera eller sanka?

- We will face a lot of questions after that mistake, but we have to be strong enough to stand up. It is a good opportunity to show that we have the mental strength to respond to the situation, sa Arsene Wenger till the Telegraph.

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Stor match ikvall. Jag tror pa Chelsea. Vad tror ni?

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Sa har skrev Robin van Persie, Arsenals kapten, om forlusten:

I’m very sorry that we didn’t bring CC back to north london! Thanks for ur support today! Sorry again.

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Standigt detta Twitter.

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Stor skillnad pa Arsenals finansiella resultat fran forra aret till i ar. Sa har sa Ivan Gazidis om det hela till klubbens hemsida:

- We are all desperately disappointed because we were hoping to do better yesterday. The important thing is how we react to this and every setback. But we continue to be in a healthy financial position and the club is run on a self-sustaining basis.The numbers last year were pushed by property sales and the sales of a couple of big players. This year we don’t have those one-offs. This is a very young team; the average age against Barcelona was 23 years old. We try to keep them with the team by signing them to long-term contracts. We had investment in that with renewing a number of contracts last summer.

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Dagens Henry Winter:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/manchester-united/8349515/Henry-Winter-Chelsea-v-Manchester-United-battle-has-lost-its-edge.html

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Ha det sa bra – vi hors snart!

Bra text med Sebastian Larsson:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/feb/26/birmingham-arsenal-sebastian-larsson

En av dagens absolut basta.

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Som texten borjar – en speciell match for Sebastian Larsson:

Sebastian Larsson cannot help but be a little defensive. Arms folded, a concerned look on his brow, the Birmingham City midfielder attempts to circumnavigate the extraordinary situation he finds himself in – a player who just weeks ago was desperate to leave the club, now about to play for them in their first major Wembley cup final in 55 years. He will be facing his former side, Arsenal, in what also happens to be the biggest game of his career. It is quite some turnaround.

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Wayne Rooney’s video game out now: Pre-Evolution Soccer

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Larsson uttalade sig klokt om fansen och hur det var att bli utbuad av sina egna:

- Yeah of course it hurt but that’s football. I can understand why, I read the papers just like everyone else and some of the things didn’t look good. The fans can get angry and have their opinions, that’s not a problem, I like the fans here and will always give my best for them.

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Del Piero bryr sig inte om lonen.

It’s alright for some.

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Inget Ferdinand pa tisdag heller, alltsa.

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Mindre an fifty-fifty att West Ham stannar uppe , om du fragar David Sullivan.

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Ratt kul text:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/feb/26/john-terry-chelsea-man-up

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Den hemliga spelaren om Sepp Blatter och Fifa:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/feb/26/the-secret-footballer-ifab-snoods

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Jag tror inte att United vinner titeln. For mig kanns Arsenal som det hetare namnet. Jag tror toppfyra kommer se ut sa har i maj:

1. Arsenal

2. Manchester United

3. Chelsea

4. Manchester City

… fast det ar fanimej omojligt att saga.

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Wojciech Szczesny (ja, jag klipper och klistrar hans namn) ar ratt skon profil. Bra text i gardagens the Telegraph:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/arsenal/8346245/Arsenal-v-Birmingham-Wojciech-Szczesny-plans-to-be-the-new-Peter-Schmeichel-and-help-end-trophy-drought.html

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Fast om United kommer ut fran Chelsea och Liverpool med 4 poang+ blir det kanske svart att forneka dem.

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Det far vara allt for nu!

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… resultatet, just det. Arsenal vinner med 3 – 0.

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Ha det bra – vi hors!

David Beckham forsvarar sitt beslut att trana med Tottenham (vilket han har kritiserats for kraftigt i USA):

- I think at this stage in my career, especially after the injury that I had, I realised that it was more important for me to train than to sit on a beach. It was just important for my fitness and for my level that I continued there and come back fitter than I obviously was last season.

Men Spurs forsokte signa Beckham aven for spel. Sa har sa Beckham om det:

- If obviously there was an option to play then I was going to take it. But without doubt, 100 per cent, I wanted to go somewhere and train and not take the three months and just sit around doing nothing. My main objective was to get fit for the Galaxy and for the MLS season. That was my main objective. My main objective wasn’t to play for a Premier League team. I was thankful to Spurs and to Harry for the way they looked after me.

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Beckham sa ocksa att hans fokus hela tiden var att atervanda i tid till Galaxy:

- Even if I had been on loan, even if I had played the games, this is the time I was always coming back. You know that was agreed. You know nothing was going to change that  

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Malcolm Glazer ser ju helt sjuk ut. Sjuk.

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Bra jobbat City och Liverpool!

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Som ni vet blir det ingen Cesc Fabregas i morgondagens ligacupfinal:

- It is a very small injury but certainly Cesc will be out for Sunday. For how long I don’t know, but definitely for Sunday. He is disappointed. We all feel sorry and sad for him. The only way we help him now is to win the Carling Cup as he contributed a lot in this competition, sa Arsene Wenger.

Om Theo Wallcott sa fransmannen till the Telegraph:

- He has a classic ankle sprain. We don’t think there is any more damage to it, but it is still a sprain. We are sad for him too. He is out for Sunday and maybe one or two weeks more.

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Meddelandet fran Glazers som bekraftar att Manchester United inte ar till salu:

The board notes recent press speculation regarding a possible bid for Manchester United. The owners remain fully committed to their long-term ownership of the club. No discussions have taken place, Manchester United is not for sale and the owners will not entertain any offers.

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Barry Hearn ar skojig nar han berattar om planerna pa en ny stadium: 

- For the first time I actually felt a glimmer of hope, sa Hearn efter motet med Chris Robbins fran Waltham Council.It was totally their idea. They don’t want to lose us. In a way the benefits of this FA Cup run have crystallised their thinking on what’s important to their community. At the moment I’m keeping all my options open – and threatening to sue everybody.

Ta det till ratten! Vi gillar drama.

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Ta en kik:

http://www.thefootyblog.net/?p=2759

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van Persie kaptenar Arsenal imorgon.

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Las:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/feb/24/arsenal-carlingcup

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Dagens skamt (som far sagas vara hyfsat, som bast):

BREAKING NEWS’
Arsenal fans are taking flares to wembley! They are the same ones they wore the last time they were there!

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Vi hors imorgon – ha det bra!