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So much gold in this article.

Supporters want to see football over Christmas and throughout January - a month otherwise filled with nothingness.

Yeah, nothing except for Christmas and New Year's.

If you don't like it then there are plenty of jobs that afford you two months off in the winter - cricket for example. Or selling drugs.

Ha ha ha.

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sure is... Chelsea was the same at the start of last season. Keep in my there is a whole bunch of new egos to get used to on each team.

Rangers finally hit their stride yesterday with a 4-0 drubbing of Falkirk and in good time too because the first Olf Firm match is sept.23.

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What a whiny bastard. I can't believe this even made it into the news.

from F365

COLE TREATED 'LIKE INVISIBLE MAN'

England full-back Ashley Cole has revealed how Arsenal's favourable treatment of Thierry Henry was one of the reasons why he wanted to leave the club for Premiership champions Chelsea.

Henry, Arsenal's captain and talisman, eventually agreed to stay at the club but Cole felt like the "invisible man" as he had not been treated in the same way by Gunners officials or fans.

The 25-year-old left-back also revealed how he 'haggled' over £5,000 after Arsenal had dropped from their original weekly salary offer, and had his loyalty questioned by the club's backroom staff.

However, in an extract from his book serialised in The Times, the difference in how he was treated compared to Henry appeared to be one of the main reasons for him to seek a transfer.

He said: "The club made Thierry feel wanted and special, wooing him, wining and dining him, speaking in public about how much they want him to stay, going on a deliberate charm offensive.

"But me? I didn't have one dinner, one meeting or one phone call from anyone. That's not sour grapes, it's just a sad truth. The truth is that the Gunners had done nothing all season to hold on to me."

He added: My worst fears were confirmed when, as Thierry and I sat in the centre circle after the final whistle, his name was sung from the rooftops while my contribution was recognised by a deafening silence.

"As his chants faded away we waited for mine. And we waited. And there was nothing. 'They're not bothered about me', I said, resigned to the fact. It was like I was the invisible man."

Cole was offered a new £60,000-a-week deal in 2004 but when negotiations opened, the figure had dropped by £5,000, with the defender adding: "At a board meeting held two days before our 1-0 away defeat at Bolton in January, it was decided the maximum offer should be £55,000 a week.

"I don't believe the board gave a damn about keeping me. It preferred to haggle over a difference of £5,000."

Cole's relationship with the club deteriorated to the point of fitness coach Tony Colbert questioned whether he was telling the truth about a thigh injury.

He added: "That's when he said it, 'what do you expect me to do, Ash, when you tell me you're okay and then come in here like you've just been shot? Be honest with me, are you just making out that it's worse than it actually is because you've got an eye on the World Cup?'

"That was it. I blew my lid. 'What!' I shouted, barely able to keep a lid on it, 'I need to play for Arsenal to go to the World Cup, so why would I hold back? The more I hold back, the less chance I've got of going to Germany! And you are insulting me'."

"For me it was one more person at the club doubting my loyalty. And it was the final straw."

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Im not a United fan by any stretch but I can appreciate what Ole Gunner Solksjaer has done. It's a long road back when you have fucked up knees, I can attest to that.

Can't wait for tommorow morning. I can't wait to see what Rafa pulls together for a team this week. Player rotation belongs in novie hockey with 3 minute buzzers, not in the EPL or any other professional sport for that matter.

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I'd like to think that the proposed take-over of West Ham, a great old English club, by some faceless wealthy group, is a step too far on this road and that the faux 'signing' of the Argentinean duo will, in time, be seen as the apex of the insanity and as the perfect illustration of everything that is stripping the very soul out of the game.

I saw a note on the BBC rumours page about these two Argentinians possibly being released in January. And now this. What's the deal with that signing?

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Watch out Peter Crouch... I might have a new favourite.
Bolton Wanderers have taken 6ft 9in Chinese striker [color:red]Yang Chagpeng on trial at the Reebok Stadium. (The Sun)

Friday's football gossip

With a name like [color:red]Yang Chagpeng I would be making Vivid or gonzo movies Dave Chapelle style Bitch; I mean Booche. Ollie maybe you and your Hotspurs can go make some hot gay porn ya fuckin cowboy wankers.

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i cannot believe that FSW isn't showing ManUre-Lpool this coming sunday. gob-facking-smacked in fact.

Instead they're showing Arse-Reading and this:

Sun Oct 22 01:00PM Eastern

Sun Oct 22 02:00PM Atlantic

Sun Oct 22 02:30PM Newfoundland

Length: 2 hr SDD

FOX Sports World Canada

English Premier League

Tottenham Hotspur vs West Ham United

I just wrote them voicing my concerns...argh!

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whoa

I meant all that in the nicest way. I just need some action ;)

ManU-Liverpool is on PPV no?? This new Sentana tv deal is fucking football right up. I thought Sky was a bad deal but this is worse.

I wonder how many Arsenal skulls, the Reading boys can fracture. I still can't believe that Chelsea had to keepers knocked out cold in one game. That shit never ever happens.

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fyi, ollie

Roy Keane hits out at sections of United's support in the wake of what he felt was a dire atmosphere in the club's Champions League clash with Dynamo Kiev in 2000. "Sometimes you wonder, do they understand the game of football?" he splutters. "We're 1-0 up, then there are one or two stray passes and they're getting on players' backs. It's just not on. At the end of the day they need to get behind the team. Away from home our fans are fantastic, I'd call them the hardcore fans. But at home they have a few drinks and probably the prawn sandwiches, and they don't realise what's going on out on the pitch. I don't think some of the people who come to Old Trafford can spell 'football', never mind understand it."
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I'll tape the sound of my snoring as I try to watch the game if that's any consolation, ollie

you might even hear me yelping and grunting as i sleep as i try to figure out why it's not the sound of people munching on prawn sandwiches that i hear as a background soundtrack to my sawing logs

I'm listening to a Yonder Mountain String Band show right now, and I can easily imagine the above text being sung to bluegrass accompaniment...

Aloha,

Brad

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