10 Reasons why we will beat Fulham + Starting 11

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1.. We are playing Fulham, they have lost 14 of the 21 Prem games so far this season.

2.. The BFG and Kos have not lost a game they have both played for 90mins since 1905.

3%. Diaby is ready to make a come back, rumours are he serves up a cracking halftime pie.

4.. We have never lost a home game to Fulham in any competition.

5.. Fulham have the worst goal difference in the Prem an amazing -24 managing only 3 clean sheets this season.

6.. Rosicky is borrowing one of David Pleats sexcase mask’s and is ready to score.

7.. We have let in 1 goal in the last 5 games, Fulham have let in 12.

8.. Wilshere looks like he could be picking up from where Ramsey left things.

9.. Teams that have scored 3 or more goals in one game against Fulham this season…Leicester, Man Utd, Liverpool, West Ham, Everton, Man City, Hull city and Sunderland…could be a landslide..

10.. Wenger Knows, who needs a world class striker, my grandma (87) could bag a brace against this lot.

Starting 11 – Chesney, Sagna, BFG, Kos, Gibbs, Flamini, Wilshere, Santi, Gnarby, Ozil, Giroud (or my nan)

rosicky

Arsenal break China with 16th commercial deal

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At the back end of 2013, we discussed how hard the Arsenal commercial side had been working to increase our commercial deals, in an attempt to close the gap between ourselves and Manchester United, who at 34 deals and £153mill generated from said deals were by far and away the Premier League leaders.

10 new deals signed in 2013 saw us reduce this gap and should (hopefully) see a boost in revenue that will hopefully offset future ticket prices (we can dream, hey?)

It seems the commercial department of Arsenal, led by Tom Fox, have not rested on their laurels, and are already agreeing deals with new firms in 2014.

Arsenal have just signed a deal with Chinese telecoms giant Huawei as its official smartphone partner until the end of the 2015/16 season. The deal will benefit both sides, as it should make the ‘Arsenal brand’ more accessible in the growing Chinese market, whilst also assisting the smartphone developer in breaking into the UK market.

Mesut Özil, Aaron Ramsey, Mark Mitchinson, executive vice president at Huawei Technologies UK and Lukas Podolski

” This is the first global deal we have signed with a Chinese brand, demonstrating our long-term commitment to the market through pre-season tours and sustained digital fan engagement. Huawei is a genuine leader in its field serving more than a third of the world’s population with its information and communications technology. We are delighted to be partnering with Huawei at such an exciting time in the development of its brand globally, and in particular in the UK and Europe.” – Tom Fox

Having just travelled Thailand, where Manchester United and Barcelona players appear on every other billboard advertising various products, hopefully this deal will see a similar response in China, and see us increase our ‘fan base’ in the region.

Whilst 16 partners is still a long way from Manchester United’s 34, if the commercial team continue their good work from 2013, this gap should close further in 2014, seeing our revenue spike, allowing us more money to invest in the playing side.

Keenos

 

8 Years and We’ve Won Nothing – Season 2

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2006-07
Ok, so we have had 1 season of no trophies, 1 season with an empty trophy cabinet, I think we were all ok with that. We were moving to a new ground and knew that things were going to be tough for a spell. Transfers would be difficult and sales would be more high profile than purchases. We wanted to compete still and were told that the move to the stadium would help us to allow this, maybe not straight away but it would come again.
Transfer wise we had swapped Cashley for Gallas and £5million, Alex Song came in, Tom Rosicky joined from Dortmund and Julio Baptista came in on loan from Madrid which saw Jose Reyes go the other way. We lost some important players in the summer with Bergkamp retiring, Pires leaving for Spain (Should never have been allowed) and Sol Campbell left for Portsmouth when we all thought he was going abroad.

The first competitive game in our new stadium, Emirates, was against Villa where we could only manage a draw after going 0-1 down, Arsenals first ever competitive goalscorere in the Emirates Stadium? Anyone? Answer was Gilberto Silva. Villa`s goal came from Olof Mellberg who will forever be the first ever competitive goalscorer in our ground.
We qualified for the Champions League by beating Dinamo Zagreb home and away, our group for the competition was Porto, Hamburg and CSKA Moscow.
We started the season well enough, we again lost our second game of the season as we did in 2005-06, this time it was away to Man City. We had 5 wins in our first 10 games losing only twice to City and West Ham, one of the wins came against United at Old Trafford with a late Adebayor goal.
November was a horrible month, out of 5 games we lost 3 times against West Ham, Bolton and Fulham all away from home, the 1 game we won was against Liverpool at home and we drew at home to Newcastle.
3 defeats in a row, just like last season pretty much confirmed we would not be anywhere near the title, away at Everton, away at Liverpool and home to West Ham all coming in March. We had also slipped up at Sheffield United over the Xmas period.

Emmanuel Adebayor scores the winner at Old Trafford

Scanning through the results I can see we drastically improved our results against the big teams, only losing once to Liverpool away. We beat United home and away and drew against Chelsea home and away, we beat Liverpool at home to give our record against the other top 4 teams a much needed boost. The problems are again the same as the season before, consistency, beating the small teams. West Ham did the double over us!,we also lost to Sheffield United, Bolton and Fulham which is not the sign of the title winners. We were comfortably 4th and tied on points with 3rd place Liverpool. We were not making any progress in being able to challenge for the league but were having small improvements, for example against the top 4.

We went out of the Champions League in the first knockout round to PSV after an 83rd minute header from Alex put us 1-2 down on aggregate. We managed to top our group and still went out in the qualifying round! Who would have thought that could happen, especially with so many opinons flying around about finishing 1st or 2nd in the group stage lately!

Nightmare: Alex rises to score the goal that meant PSV knocked Arsenal out of the Champions League in 2007

We went out in the FA Cup in the 5th round to Blackburn in a reply after we could only draw 0-0 with them at home in the first game. In the 3rd round we played Liverpool away, the game where Rosicky scored 2, one of them being an absolute peach! Im sure you remember it.

The Carling Cup was the year we got to the final and played Chelsea. We had managed to put out Liverpool where Baptista scored 4 at Anfield, WBA, Everton and Spurs in the semi final.
The final I went to and Theo scored one of my favourite ever Arsenal goals. We were not fancied as winners at all, we started a team of youngsters and reserves amongst a couple of first teamers. We managed to go 1-0 up but that man Drogba scored twice meaning we lost another final we had reached. Im sure you remember it all kicked off as well with both managers having to go onto the pitch to calm things down, Kolo and Adebayor were sent off in the late stages. Diaby did kick John Terry in the head though and knocked him out cold, every cloud and that!

In summary we had reached another final giving ourselves another chance to win a trophy. We were not close to finishing top of the league but results had improved and consistency was the missing ingredient. We went out of the Champions League too early I think, and didn’t do anything of note in the FA Cup. Being up against Chelsea in the final made it difficult to win the Carling Cup but we have to take that as being in with a chance of winning another trophy.

2 seasons with no trophy and counting!

Cheers for reading
Norby

*You can read part 1 here
https://shewore.com/2014/01/16/8-years-and-weve-won-fk-all/