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Arsenal are heading to Africa!

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Arsenal are heading south to Abuja in Nigeria. They will be visiting the former capital to give outstanding fans in the continent (apparently Arsenal are the most popular team there) a chance to see their heroes in person. Now, this brings up two questions. Why on earth is one country representing a huge continent? Since when has one state represented the whole of the United States? That brings me to my second point. WHY CAN'T YOU JUST COME TO THE STATES????

FA Womens' Cup semifinal preview at Arsenal official site

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Arsenal Ladies, who defeated Chelsea 3-1 in a Super League match last week, face the same team again this evening in the semifinal. Read all about it!

ESPN's Global Salary Survey - El Futbol es muy costoso

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Some lunchtime numbers for you. Your usual suspects, Barca and Real Madrid, are ranked numbers 1 and 2 respectively in average annual pay. Arsenal are 16th in both average annual pay and total payroll. Most shocking? Aussie Rules football salaries are really low. I'm surprised, didn't think they paid them MLS level salaries.

Gus Johnson is calling MLS games now?

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Indeed he is, but exclusively for the San Jose Earthquakes. Honestly, I'd rather have Gus do the play by play for matches than Martin Tyler, Ian Darke, Clive Tyldesley, basically anybody out there now. It sounds like Fox has him in their plans though for 2018, so we can already look forward to that. If your at work or somewhere quiet, throw in some headphones or turn the volume way down, because the video is quite loud.

Barca won't try to buy RvP

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Which is good because we don't want to sell him.

Denilson to return to Arsenal

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It's reported he couldn't strike a deal with sao paulo to stay longer. He'll be back with us next season.

DT: Barca petition FIFA for making possession more important than goals

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Found this over at Dirty Tackle, it was a good laugh. If this actually was true, we'd probably be Invincible for the better part of the last four years...

Possession Regained

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Graham's done a little more work on possession stats. Required reading. There will be a test. And then probably floggings.

If anyone know where Vladimir Titov ees, please let him know I call and he do not do zee answer!

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VHAT. ZEE. HELL! My khuy stand in air permanent with grin on face for long time. I will stay seated at desk for hours now. I change plan. New plan ees to send he and space monkey armed to zee teeth with C4 and fishing net to blow up like bad Chinese firework and collect remain to bring back to Zee Fantastic! Then sell pieces to buy more players like Messi, Ronaldo, Goetz, Hazard, Ganso, Tevez and Neymar! Maybe buy back Cesc! Hehe! I am the most excite right now! Already claim jewel planet as mine!