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Cosmic_Guru

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I see that a number of bloggers including Arseblogger and Le Grove were invited to tour the new Shenley medical / rehab centre which was a decent and open response to the ill-informed criticism of the medical / physio set up on the interweb. It makes interesting reading.

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Dude Ranch

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I see that a number of bloggers including Arseblogger and Le Grove were invited to tour the new Shenley medical / rehab centre which was a decent and open response to the ill-informed criticism of the medical / physio set up on the interweb. It makes interesting reading.

Yeah, saw that and fair play to them. It doesn't wipe out the horrendous injury list and prolonged recovery times we've experienced in recent years though. You say ill-informed and no-one knows exactly what could have been done differently, if anything, but the facts are that people rightly question the number of injuries we have queued up on a weekly basis. New facilities are all well and good but it's what you do with them.

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http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Borussia-Monchengladbach-boss-Lucien-Favre-urges-Marco-Reus-to-snub-Arsenal-interest-article828748.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Borussia Monchengladbach coach Lucien Favre has advised midfielder Marco Reus to snub interest from Arsenal and stay where he is.
"[Former Arsenal goalkeeper] Jens Lehmann gave him [Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger] a tip to keep an eye on Marco and Arsene then called me," revealed the Swiss coach.

"I know Arsene very well and I just told him the truth: that Marco is a very, very interesting player.

Reus is reported to have a clause in his contract that enables him to switch clubs for a fee of 18 million euros, but Favre says his side does not necessarily have to sell the talented midfielder - nor does Reus have to accept the riches offered elsewhere.

Anyone know anything about him?

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Top player, who has vision and pace, he scored another brace last weekend:

http://www.101greatgoals.com/videodisplay/hertha-berlin-borussia-monchengladbach-15652237/

He is more or less everything that Marko Marin was supposed to be. The press thinks he is destined for Munich on their annual talent german talent hunt next summer and their people have already been noisy enough to substantiate those romours.

Interestingly enough he used to be on Dortmunds books, but they let him go when he was 17, I think.

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Daley

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Top player, who has vision and pace, he scored another brace last weekend:

http://www.101greatgoals.com/videodisplay/hertha-berlin-borussia-monchengladbach-15652237/

He is more or less everything that Marko Marin was supposed to be. The press thinks he is destined for Munich on their annual talent german talent hunt next summer and their people have already been noisy enough to substantiate those romours.

Interestingly enough he used to be on Dortmunds books, but they let him go when he was 17, I think.

Sounds good.

His second goal is :blink:

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Dude Ranch

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Just saw this on football365.com, Nasri in their 'weekends losers' section..

Another sign of the times: had he stayed at Arsenal this season then Nasri would have been their pivot. Instead, lured north for more silverware and more likely silverware, he has joined City to be just another spare part.

In total, the Frenchman has spent 150 more minutes on City's bench watching Premier League football than he has actually played since his deadline-day transfer, perhaps making him the most dispensable £24m signing in football's inflating history.

Not sure what to make of that, to be honest.

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Dude Ranch

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I would pride myself on knowing at least as many Arsenal players over the past 30 odd years as the next fan. Adrian Clarke's hair rings the slightest of bells but I would say that I wouldn't have picked his name out in a million years. I do remember the 3-1 loss he mentions though, sadly. Nice piece that. And to supplement it Carl Jenkinson has been speaking about how it feels as a fan to represent the Club, something I cannot even begin to imagine. See also, among others, Charlie George and that lad (Nico Yennaris) from the wonderful photo Daley posted a week or two back. More power to them, living possibly the greatest dream imaginable.

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Art Vandelay

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Adrian Clarke was a quality player. I remember seeing him a few times, usually off the bench, and he tore it up everytime. Some guy behind me kept screaming 'come on Giggsy!' whenever he picked up the ball and it wasn't a terrible comparison. What probably let him down was that he was a properly traditional winger and by the time he came on the scene they were pretty put of vogue and Overmars couldn't have been too far off by then. It's a shame because he was really exciting to watch. I even drew a lovely pencil rendering of him for the now defunct Gunners magazine. I think I won a pencil case or something.

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Art Vandelay

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I set my brother on a task to retrieve my Adrian Clarke masterpiece but it's apparently been lost in the fogs of time. He did however send me this early hint of my prodigious talent. My brother couldn't decide if he looks like a 'Caution: Wet Floor' sign or this was in the moments after Wrighty had been fatally struck by a bus. He's doing an overhead kick, obviously.

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I like it. Mainly because it makes me glad that most of my childhood scribblings are probably long gone.

"...and here we have an early Vandelay, showing the former Arsenal & England striker Ian Wright immediately after being hit hard in the face by a football, but before he'd finished shitting out his own name in surprise."

Incidentally, while I remember, I've managed two games so far this season, first Swansea and then West Brom, and if the level of improvement from the last game I attended to the next is the same as it was between those two then I'm looking forward to attending the first Premier League game where a team* gets into double figures. Completely unrecognisable from the tentative mess that played against that (admittedly superior to WBA) Swansea side.

Arsenal are a less cavalier team now than in recent times, but also a much more balanced one. There's less hanging on to the ball and trying to play intricate passes and more pace and purpose, and quite frankly I think I prefer it. The Barcelona-lite tag no longer applies, but the play still has more craft than most, just with more drive and more direct than previously.

Okay, it was only a mediocre West Brom team shorn of Odemwingie and Long (and that only presented any kind of threat when the unpredictable Tchoyi came on), and defensive lapses continue, but it was a heartening performance nonetheless, and I'm looking forward to the weekend's football and seeing how we do against a tricky/feisty/other slightly patronising half-compliments Norwich side.

* I mean Arsenal, obviously, before anyone says it.

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Art Vandelay

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Did David Seaman wear a blue jersey? I must be getting it confused with that.

Yeah he did. My brother had one I think. It was navy with a red trim and was quite tasteful from memory. He also had a proper amazing one that was canary yellow with a black broken glass effect up the arms. I had the blue away kit with the lightning bolt and had Adams 6 pressed on. In those days you could get the Nike numbers and letters from the Finsbury Park shop.

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