Comments on: Arry charged with tax evasion; Untold predicts the exact score YET AGAIN

By: Valentin

Valentin — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:15:34 +0000

Bar a miracle of biblical proportion, Liverpool are f*cked.
In you assessment of the situation, you forget that the owner would want money to cover their own ‘investment’. Do not forget that according to their own account they borrowed at 19% to put the deposit to borrow to buy the club. It is like borrowing on your credit card to put the deposit on a mortgage that you cannot afford anyway. They still want £300 millions. You need to add that money to the expenditure.
Even without adding that extra money, you end up with number that do not add up. Unless somebody comes and build a stadium of 120,000 places and charge a fortune for the pleasure to watch their team play in the Europa league. They will not make it.
I can see a slow painful death before the big implosion.

By: Valentin

Valentin — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:08:13 +0000

How funny is that on Sunday morning when looking at all the Back Page headlines Sky completely ignored the ‘Harry Redknap going to be charged’ headlines.
Nobody want to upset the poor father of Jamie? The one who left all his previous club in such good situation they nearly all finished brankrupt.
How funny that some has been former player is dolled out to pontificate about the good old honest English player. Then advocate that Samir Nasri should be banned for his bastardly attack.
If you look at the picture of the incident a slightly different story emerge.
First Nasri approach the ball with Garcia and Hunt preventing a quick free-kick (which in itself is an offense), Nasri is then pushed away by Garcia, Nasri quietly trod on his feet as revenge. Garcia succombes to the terrible kick like Mike Tison just punched him. Barmby tried to punch Nasri. Hunt pretend to be horrified by Nasri’s dastardly act.
If you look at punishment, then Garcia should be charged for initiating the attack. Barmby should be banned for raising his hand (violent conduct). Hunt for also raising his hand.
I am afraid, Nasri act cannot be qualified as violent conduct (sneaky and uncalled for but not violent). Because he could only be charged for ungentlement conduct that carries just a yellow card, technically the FA cannot charge him with anything unless they use the catch all card of bringing the game into disrispute.
It is funny that only on French TV was it mentionned that at half time in the tunnel Nick Barmby try to confront Nasri and ended up in mild scuffle with a stewart and that it is the reason why he was substituted. If Nasri is charged, then Arsenal could then ask for Barmby to be charged for both incidents (raising hand to an Arsenal player, raising hadn to a stewart). That is also the reason why Tango tried to downplay the incident when still pretend to complaign about it.

By: Finsbury

Finsbury — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:17:31 +0000

Going a little back to the corruption/xenophobia conversations:

Does anyone else feel a discrepancy in the coverage towards Mark Hughes, the way the Arab owners of Man City are being compared to say the owners of Liverpool, Manure, the unknown banksters in charge of other clubs etc…It’s quite blatent in my opinion.

Some people commented on the Dubai situation, and how that might affect Abu Dhabi City. Well, the only effect it had was to get rid of the OOOOOOoooooooozzzzzzeee I think.

Abu Dhabi is a very wealthy Emirate, more then happy to keep the port that is Dubai in business, not keen to see it as an emerging rival financial center to the trade between Africa, Europe he Mid-East & Asia.
Many outside of Asia seem unaware that Dubai is the heart of Asia’s black economy, has been for decades. That most counterfeit goods manufactured in China pass through it’s ports & that many of those construction sites were never meant to be finished, just to lure gullible investors.
Dubai is a city that was being built in the desert, where the temp. can reach up to 50 degrees, but they never built or planned a sewage system. About as explicit a statement of intentions as you could find, architecturally speaking.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 07:55:29 +0000

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/arsenal/6851894/Arsenal-midfielder-Samir-Nasri-facing-FA-charge-after-clash-with-Hulls-Richard-Garcia.html

More shit from the BEPL. If Nasri is charged, why don’t all the other off the ball fouls get charged? We’ve got a list as long as your arm of off the ball violence. Shawcross last season, and the guy from Sheffield Wecnesday who assaulted Van Persie spring immediately to mind.
But then this is the BEPL, where Arsenal are to the football authorities what like to hunt and harry us for some reason.

On the subject of BEPL, Chelsea got a blatant non-penalty given in their favour, and by all accounts, escaped a second penalty against them when Carvallho took out Franco. And we got the lamest penalty ever against us when Silvestre was penalized for having a name that sounds like a vest, and so was incriminated for vest-tugging.

The question is not, “Can we win the league?” , but “can win the BEPL?”

I doubt even Tony knows.

By: Pete The First

Pete The First — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:20:20 +0000

What a great weekend of results!

Tony I noticed you got fan status in the Observer. Didn’t reference your blog though. Team of the week notched Zamora ahead of Arsenal’s team. Maybe he’s Wneger’s no 1 target?

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:11:58 +0000

Yup, Nasri is the main man, ‘nasty’ Nasri maybe? He’s understood that to get respect, you need to be twice as nasty as the opposition.

Diaby is unique, because he barrels through the inside centre channels, which causes central defenders grief.

By: Tony Attwood

Tony Attwood — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:25:03 +0000

In the Observer today I gave Diaby 9 – the only player to get that score.

By: jazbo

jazbo — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:51:00 +0000

Another great piece Tony, and three points gained with out Cesc and in some style, Hughes getting the sack, Manu U and Liverpool loosing, Chelsea only getting a draw, what a great weekend!!
My MoM was Diaby followed by Denilson, Song and Nasri well played boys, my only gripe is that they never play this way with Cesc in the team, what’s the problem???
Loved all the chants during the match it was great to hear so many of our supporters giving Tango man a hard time.
Well done to Nasri for waking up the team and getting them going, the boys a bit nasty which is what we need in our team because we are just too nice.
Next prediction please Tony, this time i’ll go down to the bookies and have a flutter!!!

By: Tony Attwood

Tony Attwood — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:23:43 +0000

Look if you guys are going to start covering the article I have just spent half an hour writing about John Terry and his tax situation I am not going to play any more.

It is wonderful that the KGB, Manchester IOU, and Liverpool Insolvency all lose points, and it really puts into perspective our draws with Burnley and West Iceland. We draw with Burnley and someone writes in to say everyone is rubbish and should go. Manchester lose to them, and that is forgotten. We draw with Iceland and its the end, but now we can see the KGB had the same problem.

This will be seen as the season when it all changes – the top four which has been fixed since Chelsea went KGB, is now all over. What is it replaced with? A top 3 + 1 rotating outsider. A top 5 with one team rotating out into the Europa league. A genuinely rotating top 6 or 7 seems a bit far fetched.

But as I write the history of Arsenal 100 years ago each day on the Woolwich Arsenal blog I am constantly struck by the fact that through most league history clubs moved very rapidly from success to failure and the reverse.

I am going to guess we will move to a top 3 plus a rotating outer ring of 3 who are constantly on the edge of getting into the top 3, but don’t. So the outer three play a little league of their own, the winning getting the 4th spot in the Champs, the runner up gets Europa, and possibly the 6th team in the league might get a Europa too.

Complex eh?

By: IndianGooner

IndianGooner — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:00:33 +0000

2 points dropped by Chelsea.. So, its just 6 points from the top with a game in hand!!! Great week for a Gooner!!!

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:50:46 +0000

Forget the injury prone Torres, I think if Eduardo gets his scoring boots on, he could be very prolific in our set-up. His dragged back which narrowly went wide was almost spectualar, add to that the tap-in……

………for the last 10 years we’ve wantted a tap-in merchant.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:41:35 +0000

“The papers won’t say it, but Manchester Arab got rid of the OOOOOOoooooze because he was a total embarrassment to them.”

You never know, Tony. Hughes’ display of bad behaviour against Wenger might have truly irked the Arab owners. Arab culture might take a much dimmer view of that kind of reprobate beaviour than does our fawning press.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:30:18 +0000

The BEPL strikes again……….another bent penalty for the Chavs.

By: paul

paul — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:01:47 +0000

Great article Tony. Better than reading the rubbish in the Sunday papers anytime.
You reap what you sow or so the saying goes. As far as I am concerned we are lead by an upstanding gentleman who will always do the right thing for our club. No wonder he is coveted by so many other clubs. Our whole team was outstanding yesterday and even under great pressure and under hands tactics.Even Sylvestre defended well ( penalty aside???? ) and got forward at every opportunity. So looking forward to the Villa game and I do thknk it is going to be a cracker! Pun intended.
Walter I’m in Caanda at present and we had over a foot of snow over the weekend and it’s currently -15 outside ( 10am ). Nothing stops for snow here. Maybe Europe is getting the wrong “type” of snow?

By: walter

walter — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:18:59 +0000

Our disgracefull match commentator hadn’t a clue what happened. I heard a whistle and everybode stopped playing but no one really knew what the ref had given. Ridiculous.

By: walter

walter — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:16:15 +0000

another food for thought: Played three games this week. The two with Denilson on the pitch we won and the one without him on the pitch not…

By: diceman1984

diceman1984 — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:14:25 +0000

Nice one Tony,

Brown was as ever a disgrace. In fact the whole Hull team represented Brown’s personalities very well.

2 unbelievable dives in a match was ridiculous to watch. The poor old Silvestre looked like he might get a heart attack when that whistle blew.

By: LRV

LRV — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:58:43 +0000

Here is some food-for-thought for you guys:

Has anyone noticed how Diaby seems to play masterfully well in matches whenever Fabregas is out – A la Roma last season et al?

Think about it guys.

By: walter

walter — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:24:31 +0000

That is when Eurostar is working normally again. When I look out side my window I see some 10 inch snow and this is really unprecedented for ages I must say. I never have witnessed it in my life and as I am nearing the half century mark in a few years this means something I think.
I feel like in Siberia or so.

By: walter

walter — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:19:13 +0000

Great article once again. And was it Tony again who first revealed that there could be something wrong with Harry ? Long before others ? Really great job.
And those predictions I’m curious for the next week. Maybe I should visit a bookmaker when I leave Kings Chross next week ? Better not say it’s the Untold prediction then.