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This post has been edited by liez: May 5 2011, 01:20 PM

All matches in April:-

EPL 01/05/11 Arsenal v. Manchester United 1-0
EPL 08/05/11 Stoke City v. Arsenal
EPL 15/05/11 Arsenal v. Aston Villa
EPL 22/05/11 Fulham v. Arsenal

Fixtures:-




01/05/11 Arsenal v. Manchester United
08/05/11 Stoke City v. Arsenal
15/05/11 Arsenal v. Aston Villa
22/05/11 Fulham v. Arsenal










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The Emotional Highbury and The Grand Ashburton Grove

Highbury 1913-2006

For the majority of their time in south-east London, Arsenal played at the Manor Ground in Plumstead, a three-year period at the nearby Invicta Ground between 1890 and 1893 excepted. The Manor Ground was initially just a field, but the club installed stands and terracing in time for their first Football League match in September 1893. They played their home games there for the next twenty years (with two exceptions in 189495), until the move to north London in 1913.


Arsenal Stadium, widely referred to as Highbury, was Arsenal's home from September 1913 until May 2006. The original stadium was designed by the renowned football architect Archibald Leitch, and had a design common to many football grounds in the UK at the time, with a single covered stand and three open-air banks of terracing. In the 1930s, the entire stadium was given a massive overhaul, with new Art Deco West and East stands constructed, opening in 1932 and 1936 respectively; in addition, the North Bank terrace had a roof added, which was later bombed during World War II and not restored until 1956.

At its peak, Highbury could hold over 60,000 spectators, and had a capacity of 57,000 until the early 1990s. The Taylor Report and Premier League regulations forced Arsenal to convert Highbury into an all-seater in time for the 199394 season, reducing the capacity to 38,419 seated spectators. This capacity had to be reduced further during Champions League matches to accommodate additional advertising hoardings, so much so that for two seasons (199899 and 199900) Arsenal played Champions League home matches at Wembley, which could house more than 70,000 spectators.

Final moments - the emotions run high in Highbury



Ashburton Grove 2007-present

Expansion of Highbury was restricted because the East Stand had been designated as a Grade II listed building and the other three stands were close to residential properties. These limitations have prevented the club from maximising the revenue that their domestic form could have brought in recent seasons. After considering various options, in 2000 Arsenal proposed building a new 60,000-seater stadium at Ashburton Grove, since renamed the Emirates Stadium, about 500 metres south-west of Highbury. The project was initially delayed by red tape and rising costs, but construction was completed in July 2006, in time for the start of the 200607 season. The stadium is named after its sponsors, the airline company Emirates, with whom the club signed the largest sponsorship deal in English football history, worth approximately 100 million; however some fans refer to the ground as Ashburton Grove, or the Grove, as they do not agree with corporate sponsorship of stadium names.The stadium will be officially known as Emirates Stadium until at least 2012, and the airline will be the club's shirt sponsor until the end of the 201314 season.

Construction and completion of the Ashburton Grove




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The Trophy Cabinet

The players:



















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The LYN Gooners
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Last 8 post from previous thread

This post has been edited by liez: Apr 10 2011, 10:32 PM

1st 1st 1st =) ....good win by the way!

7point behind , 1game in hand.

nice win

hope they can make 4 point behind by next week

good win that hopefully can spur them back into the title race.we got several decisions on our way.pak leman was really lucky for not being sent off.kosci was really lucky for not giving away penalty.

WE ONLY COME TO SEE EBOUE,
TO SEE EBOUE,
TO SEE EBOUE!

It seem every team when facing Arsenal have same strategy when they're trailing: Right after 2nd half apply more pressure and keep attacking. Arsenal this time were very lucky just to conceded one goal and Blackpool start to fading away in 70 minutes. That is why they need to make their chances count, i can see they are taking matter lightly after they lead 2 goals before the break. And shortly after they got the goal number 3, they began take things lightly again. Clichy almost blew it. Who knows what might happen if Blackpool got 2 goals. That's why Arsene Wenger was visibly furious when his players keep wasting chances.

And btw, i heard to be a champion or successful you need a bit of luck. Luck doesn't come by itself, you need to earn it.

This post has been edited by Angel of Deth: Apr 10 2011, 10:38 PM

Match Highlights

http://footballocks.net/index.php/3810/bla...nal-highlights/

a win at last...diaby changed to someone else tonite..

good win! altho it could be 6-1 :/
and Diaby,im gonna extent my longggg faith towards him. hes great! need to control his temper tho

This post has been edited by leymar7: Apr 10 2011, 10:41 PM

nex week very critical to arsenal..againts toter n liberpool

good win but damn wasteful as usual. D:

not satisfy with Clichy. again he almost cost us a goal. don't understand what in the world he is trying to prove.

this kids really doesn't have a mindset to be a champion.

yeah clichy,very stupid..remember vs Shakhtar? similar..and that game,cost us..meeting barca

arsenal must improve on thier defence, if the same stupid mistakes being done again next match im not surprised if liverfool beat us kaw2

A good win. Playing Blackpool at their home is never easy. AW definitely made a very effective changes today by bringing in Diaby.

diaby is very unpredictable.
he can play like a pro today and then turns out like a schoolboy the next.
wenger's gamble paid off today.

should sell diaby. eboue too. ..


hahahaha

the whole team were very slopp, giving damn a lot of ball away..i watch until heart terkeluar le
a scrappy win, we missed a lot of very good chances!
their penalty claim wise, lets not ArsenalBias
the first one,
i've seen referee not given those penalty before
that guy was definitely playing the penalty, he was dropping even before the contact and im not sure how much of a contact there is
(i gotta see the replay again)
and besides that he was never getting the ball on a clear shot, nor was his pass to the other pool player reaches a clear cut chance
so maybe that's how the referee sees it

i don't remember the 2nd penalty claim
i was actually working while streaming the footy, so kinda missed a fair part of the game
looking forward to MOTD

nevertheless its a good result, this means we got another week to play for and still in for a call to press MU

the second appeal for penalty was also right like u said..koescielny (i guess) clearly tackled blackpool player n didnt get the ball... seriously it was damn lucky for not conceding a penalty

how was today's game?

good to see we are winning again

wilshere still has a spirit to win..kena tackle a lot today but still playing..our future now with him..
hope our team learn a lot from this physical game..

1 interesting moment for me was when Abou stupidly getting yellow card for kicking the ball away after the foul had been given against us. Cesc physically pushed him away to prevent him from creating further damage to him and us as a whole (see Newcastle away for reference). i never Cesc did that before, he was never the vocal type of captain ala Paddy where he can be vocal against the opponents or against his own players whenever the needs arise. honestly i never thought Cesc had it in him, until tonight that is

i'm not sure if this change can benefit the team, but i do know i like what i'm seeing

Remember Birmingham? He costed us a season.
This is why I like EBOUE!!

But remember he also contribute lots in the past and today too. Lets not totally forget someone contributions when they did something wrong.

i actually don't like to remember that game for the obvious reason, but then when someone come out with this statement i can't resist to reply

Gael did not cost us anything, the stupid referee cost us that match and our weak mentality cost us the season afterward. the penalty given against Gael was the wrong decision, Gael never touch the B'ham player as he cleanly get the ball. yes he did give the ball away which leads to the incident but how can you fault him when the decision to award the penalty was wrong?

just for the record, i think we can do better than Gael but we have more pressing matter on hand other than him right now

Clichy is still miles ahead of Gibbs in terms of positioning and defending but weaker in crossing and attacking style.

What Arsenal really need is stronger defending and not doing a Barca-style where RB and LB are the real winger which are easily caught off guard.

Anyway MOTD pls

I doubt this based on the past couples of games. Gibbs looks quite promising before his injury but not so sure at the moment since there's not much 1st team play time for him.

Didnt catch the 1st half, but based on his(Clichy) 2nd half performance, he's only as good as 2nd string player. Made a very naive schoolboy mistake and luckily pak Lehman saved his ass. What kind of mentality was that? AW really needs to address this kind of mistake seriously. Same goes to Nasri & Cesc. Everyone knows that EPL ref most of the time does not protect ball holding players but yet they still think the other way round.

Without Song, the defence really out of sort. Almost heart attack inducing everytime Blackpool counter-attack. It's like there's no organization & communication between the back 4. What are our defence coaches doing? Such defence wont win us anything.

AA almost look-likes a 'dead-man walking' case. Being subbed at 60th min tells all.

nope, based on this season display Gael is miles ahead of Kieran for the LB position. Kieran never justifies his hype this season for me

I also agree that Clichy is still the best LB in Arsenal. Maybe Gibbs does not get enough games to prove.


I am one of the Eboue's fans. Happy that he's on the scoresheet

bayar bayar bayar!!!

Come on, Gael losses his focus. You want to blame the refree? He is clumsy but his tackle is good and pacey too.
To sell him away is a very bad idea unless Wenger got him a darn good LB.

gibbs againts MU is a disaster..but i like when AW played both of them,clichy and gibbo..they can exchange place and makes it harder to penetrate the flanks..

And wow..El Capitan should score..300th games for Arsenal at 23..salute. But...guys,checked out his tweet, sounds like new hope or, a goodbye to me

haizzzzzzzzzz 830 pm matche also overslept

congrats

http://www.soccer-blogger.com/2011/04/10/b...hts-2011-video/

a 3 goals compilation

8.30pm u sleep liao? so early...

I think Cesc was masterclass last night, his pass, his vision were brilliant..

Other than the BIR match, remember Ars 4 -Tot 4 game?
his slip that led to Jenas goal.

Kroenke makes Gunners move


more..

I don't know whether this will turn good / bad for Arsenal...

First unbeaten game for pak lehman..

This post has been edited by Lowyat: Apr 11 2011, 09:29 AM

Yup. Cesc was excellent that night. A lot good high ball he gave. Particularly to RVP.
But too bad RVP fail to score more than 1.

i think pak lehmann will play all the remaining games and almunia will sit on the bench

yea man. Fabregas kept on using L1+Through Pass
If it was PES, RVP would have scored a hat-trick liao

Great win for Arsenal. For a moment i thought we were gonna bottle it up somewhere the middle of 2nd half.

Anyways, if the news that Almunia is injured during warm up is true, it makes us the only team in the premiership to have the first 3 GK injured. Great to see mad Jens back in action, minus the madness. It's just so not Jens. Nevertheless, he looks abit nervous and gingerly prepared for the game but he's slowly getting back in the groove.

As for the team, AW made quite a fair bit of changes. RAther surprised Eboue played over Sagna and i must say Eboue looked far more lively than Sagna altho Sagna has far better defending abilities. Diaby was alright but i think fatigue kinda got into him towards the end of the game.

Having said that, the win over Blackpool was alright but we need to kick up a few more gears if we were to win the EPL. We must defend better and take the chances.

i think fab was brilliant last night.
btw, this is his last tweet. create suspense liao







and finally he completed it with this

his last sentence summed it all up.

LET'S FIGHT UNTIL THE END!

Sagna was injured.

So seems Kroenke is on the verge of securing Fiszman's and Nina's combine total of 16% which would mean that he has to bid for a takeover and The Arsenal Supporters' Trust have been surprisingly pretty receptive albeit cautious over the news. Would be interesting to see what happens over the next few days.

27 minutes

http://www.fileserve.com/file/XQBpQjD/EPL%...%2010-04-11.avi

Arsenal will be much better with good cb, why Wenger didn't bid for Luiz before

Last night's game was amazing. Probably one of the best the Gunner's have played in recent days.

Watch the Arsenal fans go mad right here at Eckywoobee the cafe @ The Plaza

+10000

lehmann still miles better than almunia in term of confident and commanding

and positioning as well.he sweeps all the crosses easily.

+1. Way way better

agreed with a post here, if almunia play, we may lost

the nex 3 Arsenal games will be important...
v Liverpool
v Spurs
v MU

hope for a magic from AW and his team...
go gunners!!!!

Taking those teams means RVP and our forwards need to make each of the chances count as if their life depend on it . Because chances will be much rarer now , compared to Blackpool's horrendous defend .

Good win last nite though .

This post has been edited by Breaktru: Apr 11 2011, 02:42 PM

fuuu saw the sliding tackle after fab cleared the ball on the line

potential leg break tackle

fffuuu its official d take over bid, the way i see it, very likely he will attain full ownership
i have to say id take stan kroenke any time over alishnov guy, stan more handsome....the other guy like some mafia mang

but i dont know much about what will happen if the takes over,
you guys forsee what happening?

hehehehe

But if mafia guy mayb can secretly hire hitman all to take out rooney et al ? =P

Anyway it seems like a rather prudent way to do it, seems pretty inevitable. I just hope that this means lotsa $ in as opposed to $ out with man utd's take over.

Yesterday's win was more of a relief that we finally won. I still find it really unconvincing but the lads did work hard although concentration once again was suspect. I had the feeling that the lads wanted the season over with and look for the next season already. 2nd place if we can consolidate is not too bad. But not winning the league is really our own downfall. Bad decisions/injuries or not. We had enough games to negate all this - Newcastle, Spurs, West Brom and our draws come to mind. Everyone including the fans need to take a good hard look at ourselves. Management and players need to step it up, but so do the fans - yes we deserve something - but being a supporter should it be conditional (you win then i support?) or we support unconditionally ? That is something a lot of the so called "corporate fans" that we're often accused of having need to look at ourselves. The debate of high ticket prices = merited performance is not really valid here although i would have went into it if it wasnt for the fact that it would be too long and tedious.

Takeover Official

http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/i...l-football-club

I prefer Russian (Chelsea) over American owners (MU and Liverpool) from experience of course.

Lets hope it will bring more positive to Arsenal instead.

well,based on what has been published in the official site,i think we won't be expecting any change of direction in where the club will go.kroenke looks like he'll just continue what the club already have.

welkam to the american invasion club!

A much needed win over the weekend. Much have been said about the game hence there's no need for me to elaborate more; but in short we were pretty good in the first half but could have easily lost it in the second half.

Anyway, Stanny's finally made his move... Thoughts are as below:

What it means:
1. Nothing much, really. It was already ominous since the day Stanny was invited into the board - more of a 'when' rather than 'will or will not'.
2. Drastic changes to the management of the club are very unlikely, given that Stanny has agreed to keep the current board and pledged full support for Arsene.
3. Even less influence from Usmanov, if he had any to begin with. He pretty much alienated himself by publicly declaring an entire different philosophy of management, and the GFC hit him hard that he didn't have enough financial firepower to battle with Stan.

What I hope to see:
1. Continuation of our traditions and philosophy - no worries here given it's still pretty much the same blokes that run the club.
2. Stanny bringing his experience and expertise in running sporting franchises to Arsenal. It'll benefit us if Stanny plays an active role in marketing the Arsenal brand, and hopefully with his (and Gazi's) influence in US we'll be able to establish a stable fanbase over there, and hopefully it'll mean more publicity, more revenue, potentially more scouting networks and acquisition of starlets.
3. More financial strength to compete with rival clubs who have sugar daddies. Stan is a businessman, and I certainly hope he increases the income of Arsenal using commercial ways. It's very unlikely that he'll inject his own fortune into the club (Roman, Sheikh), and he has agreed not to pile debts onto the club (Glazers, Gillett-Hicks).
4. Stanny not meddling with the footballing side of things - leave it to the manager and his staff. Many managers at rival clubs have bad experiences where the club owner insists on his favourite player being bought/fielded without considering the suitability, or have vital players sold for profit without consulting the manager and coaches. So Stan, stick to the business.
5. Stanny being more vocal and actually telling people about his directions and ambitions for the club; and at the same time tell Peter HillWood to shut up!

This post has been edited by StarGhazzer: Apr 11 2011, 05:53 PM

That's what exactly what AW and Arsenal want? An unpredictable outcome, it tested alot on our defense but in the end what really matter was that it grind result. It is not like the previous draw game which AW claimed it to be flat. Flat is actually a softer word for "predictable".

The thing is , it's Diaby mentality that is in complete mess . 1 second he looks like a hero , another one he goes nuts .

i think one of the mutual agreement before takeover is don't sack AW

clichy had one of his stupid/crazy episodes yesterday ...thank god blackpool failed to capitalized on it...

hoo it appears that gunners are also moving towards the yank ownership, what say you??

btw currently who holds the majority stake??english or yanks?

Who is Stan Kroenke?

Age: 63

Lives: Columbia, Missouri.

Wife: Anne Walton Kroenke, is daughter of the Wal-Mart founder Bud Walton.

Education: Masters degree in Business Administration, BA and a BSc from University of Missouri.

Estimated value: $3bn (£1.8bn). Bought into Arsenal in April 2007 and joined the board of directors in September 2008. Has been steadily increasing his stake since.

What he owns...

Sports teams: Denver Nuggets (basketball), Colorado Rapids (soccer), Colorado Avalanche (ice hockey), St Louis Rams (American football) and Colorado Mammoth (lacrosse).

Sport and entertainment: Pepsi Center, Denver d***’s Sporting Goods Park, the Paramount Theatre, Odeum Colorado concert hall.

Others: A television company, Arsenal Broadband Ltd (50 per cent), a ticket company, hotels, ranches, wineries, real estate and houses across North America.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/...l#ixzz1JDQa0C2v

Kranky with 63% for now. Kranky is more or less like AW with prudent spending. Not someone like City & Chelsea.

Other words is true businessman. He won't let deficit in his business management.

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/football/ear...article/325792/

fffuuuu kronky soo rich..anytime can ask money from daughter of walmart founder mehh..good2! If he have the same vision,it'll be OK.

i much worry about the middle sentence, thanks for making me feel so special in those years...

wah...wal-mart gonna sell cheap arsenal stuff liao...

I hope the takeover won't stop Arsenal from the possible visit to Malaysia for the match against Malaysia team with this takeover.

Anyway, i guess Arsenal have to at least wait until end of the season to know how powerful is this new owner.

the offer is official, however the full takeover is yet to be completed right? that's my understanding of the situation anyway

oo so where is the remaining stakes are??another privateer or with the public?i wonder what the english pp, think about all these yanks coming in.my club, pool, now gunners...their heritage is being bought by yanks wch the english themselves are always competing with.

This post has been edited by mhyug: Apr 11 2011, 10:57 PM

down to usmanov now,either let kronkae buy his stake orrr~~

Stan-Kroenke-urges-Arsene-Wenger-to-spend-40million

This post has been edited by vandetta_10: Apr 12 2011, 08:08 AM

Robin,Diaby bust up
Time's up for Diaby?

I will like him to clear the debts and upgrade the stadium first. I am kinda sure our stadium had always been full and clearly more seats are needed. And what Szczesny is coming back for Liverpool.

if the fight bcos of the yellow card then not only rvp, everyone shud be angry as well.that stupid yellow card may cost us the game

time to buy 8 five million pound players. The future looks bright.