Arsenal F.C. - Flying With The Emirates!

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Arsenal F.C.

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Arsenal F.C. - Information
Full Club Name: Arsenal Football Club
Nicknames: The Gunners
Founded: 1886 as Dial Square
Owner: Arsenal Holdings plc
Chairman: Peter Hill-Wood

Manager: Arsène Wenger
Rivals: Tottenham Hotspur
League: Barclays Premier League
Last Season Finish: 3rd
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Stadium Information
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Full Stadium Name: Ashburton Grove
Current Name: Emirates Stadium
Ground Capacity: 60,355
Opened: July 22, 2006
Owner: Arsenal FC
Tenants: Arsenal Football Club
Playing Surface: Grass
Pitch Dimensions: 105x68 metres
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Arsenal lalalaits
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Arsenal F.C. Trophy Cabinet
League:
Division 1: 1931, 1934, 1938, 1948, 1953, 1971, 1989, 1991

Premier League: 1998, 2002, 2004

Domestic Cups:
FA Cup Winners: 1930, 1936, 1950, 1971, 1979, 1993, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2005
Runners-up: 1927, 1932, 1952, 1972, 1978, 1980, 2001

League Cup Winners: 1987, 1993
Runners-up: 1968, 1969, 1988

European Honours:
UEFA Champions League Runners-up: 2006

Inter-Cities Fairs Cup: 1970

UEFA Cup Runners-up: 2000

European Cup Winners' Cup: 1994
Runners-up: 1980, 1995

Other Trophies:
FA Charity/Community Shield Winners: 1930, 1931, 1933, 1934, 1938, 1948, 1953, 1991 (Shared), 1998, 1999, 2002, 2004

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The Squad

Goalkeepers:
1. Manuel Almunia

21. Łukasz Fabiański
24. Vito Mannone

Defenders:
3. Bacary Sagna
27. Emmanuel Eboué
5. Kolo Touré
10. William Gallas (C)
20. Johan Djourou

18. Mikaël Silvestre
22. Gael Clichy

Midfielders:
2. Abou Diaby
4. Cesc Fabregas

7. Tomáš Rosický

8. Samir Nasri
14. Theo Walcott

15. Denílson
16. Aaron Ramsey
17. Alexandre Song
19. Jack Wilshere
28. Amaury Bischoff
40. Kieran Gibbs

Forwards:
9. Eduardo
11. Robin Van Persie
12. Carlos Vela
25. Emmanuel Adebayor
26. Nicklas Bendtner
TBA. Obafemi Martins
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Current Starting XI:
--- Almunia ---
-- Sagna -- Touré -- Gallas -- Clichy --

-- Nasri -- Fabregas -- Denílson -- Rosický --
--- Van Persie --- Adebayor ---

[Scene Kid Oli]

absolutley fantastic start, and great title

couldnt have thought of a better one myself

[J3529Tal]

Nice pun in the title. Great start!

[NikeT90Aero]

Thanks for the positive comments guys!

Updated the second post.

[Mercurial]

Im glad theres not a West Ham one with "Flying With XL" as their title.

Great start lad.

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Originally Posted by Madcon

Im glad theres not a West Ham one with "Flying With XL" as their title.

Great start lad.

Haha yeah that would be funny! Thanks for the comment lad.

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Arsenal Settle For 3rd Place

2007/2008 Season Summary:
Arsenal endured an eventful season in which they ended up finishing third in the Barclays Premier League, getting knocked out of the Champions League in the quarter final stage, loosing to Manchester United in the FA Cup fifth round and getting hammered by Tottenham in the League Cup semi finals.

Fellow Premier League side Liverpool knocked out arsenal of the UEFA Champions League at the quarter final stage. The Gunners were defeated 4-2 by the Liverpool thanks to late goals by Fernando Torres and Ryan Babel.

In the League Cup Arsenal made it all the way to the semi finals only to be thumped by rivals Tottenham Hotspur who ended up beating Chelsea in the final. Their FA Cup run also ended with a crushing 4-0 defeat to Manchester United in the fifth round.

Arsenal started last season's Premier League campaign in style and rose to the top of the Premier League table. The Gunners were playing some terrific football at times which saw them earn plaudits all across the globe.

Before the season football pundits questioned Arsenal's ability to last the whole season and win the league. They were right as from the end of February until May the Gunners season took a turn for the worst. Wenger didn't strengthen his squad during the January transfer window as he felt his bunch of players had enough quality and strength in depth to go the whole way.

The wheels came off Arsenal's bandwagon at St. Andrews where 3 minutes into the game their young Croatian striker Eduardo suffered a horrific tackle by Birmingham defender Martin Taylor that left the striker with a broken leg. Taylor was sent off however the Blues managed to salvage a point from the game with a last minute penalty from James McFadden. Wenger launched an outrageous attack on Martin Taylor saying that he should never play football again. Wenger later retracted these comments. The same game say captain William Gallas sit in the middle of the field sulking as McFadden scored the spot kick to draw the game.

Midfielder Tomáš Rosický was the next to suffer an injury as the Gunners' title hopes were surrendered to Manchester United who went on to overtake Arsenal and win the Premier League trophy. Chelsea finished in second place and Arsenal eventually settled for third place and Liverpool rounded off the top 4 by beating Everton to the last Champions League spot.

[Scene Kid Oli]

great round up, nice start overall

[NikeT90Aero]

Originally Posted by Roonaldo

great round up, nice start overall

Cheers mate. There could be more updates later today.

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Arsenal Launch TV Station!

To mark the start of the 2008/2009 Barclays Premier League season, Arsenal F.C. have launched a new TV station which will cover a number of Arsenal games this season as well as rumours from around the Emirates Stadium.

The package will also allow viewers to catch goals from both league and cup games. The club are considering uploading videos of goals so the views can get even more detail however this feature is yet to get the go ahead from the Arsenal board.

Arsenal's new TV station will be available soon and is looking very promising. The TV station is also aiming to deliver some live games via live text commentry however Sky Sports are also trying to buy right for this service.

[Scene Kid Oli]

nice update mate, keep it up

[NikeT90Aero]

Thanks, I couldn't write all that much about the TV station though.

[Dean16efc]

Nice mate, i like the title. and there is so much effort put into this

[Reece]

nice new television channel

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Originally Posted by Dean16efc

Nice mate, i like the title. and there is so much effort put into this

Thanks mate, I'll put plenty of effort in.

Originally Posted by ReeceMarkKirk

nice new television channel

Cheers, I thought it would be a cool feature to have!

[r0000ney]

He would be a great signing, especially after selling Hleb to barca.

[Reece]

yer he would be good signing nice holding player

[Scene Kid Oli]

and very realistic, well done

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Originally Posted by r0000ney

He would be a great signing, especially after selling Hleb to barca.

Yeah I'll probably get him, very realistic aswell because he nearly joined Arsenal before moving to Barca.

Originally Posted by ReeceMarkKirk

yer he would be good signing nice holding player

I'm hoping to get a defensive midfielder in (Touré) and let him sit deep and allow Fabregas and the wingers to attack but we'll see.

[VillaTillIDie]

Originally Posted by r0000ney

He would be a great signing, especially after selling Hleb to barca.

Your sig is well funny.

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Originally Posted by Roonaldo

and very realistic, well done

Thank you.

By the way for those of you who don't know, click on the newspaper article to view it in focus.

[VillaTillIDie]

This is really good so far mate.
KIU and it will be a great thread.

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Originally Posted by VillaTillIDie

This is really good so far mate.
KIU and it will be a great thread.

Thanks man! I really hope it can be a quality thread. Any suggestions or pointers for me?