Morning all.
No doubt you all know that Santi Cazorla is a patron of the London-based youth charity Football Beyond Borders (FBB). He agreed to support FBB, which delivers a combination of football training sessions and education programmes to support young people in some of London’s most deprived estates and schools.
To celebrate Cazorla joining FBB as a patron, the charity will hosted a fundraising dinner with our little midfielder and fellow patron Guillem Balague on the 9th April at the Cafe Football restaurant in London and thanks to Football Fancast, here’s a snippet of that very night.
In it’s five year history, the charity has worked in 12 countries and delivered projects which have used football to bring hundreds of people from more than 30 nationalities together.
Guillem Balague spoke about his fellow Spaniard joining FBB:
I am delighted that Santi has agreed to join the team. His journey towards football stardom is an inspiration to our young people and a clear example of the merits of hard work and commitment. He is already looking forward to getting involved in the charity’s hugely worthwhile projects.
Always good to see footballers doing something worthwhile away from the game, especially ours…
Squad news ahead of Sunday from the manager:
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Mathieu Debuchy and Mikel Arteta are not ready. Danny Welbeck has a little possibility to be fit. Aaron Ramsey is not in training yet but he should be better tomorrow. I don’t think we have any big injuries, maybe Welbeck will be available but at the moment he looks short.
Fingers crossed for Ramsey but all doesn’t seem quite so good for Welbeck, unless Arsene Wenger is being cagey, after all, he did score that important winner at the old toilet in the FA Cup….
As for the others, the manager says he’s unsure when they’ll be back, if at all this season.
Todays gossip:
- Arsenal are among the clubs monitoring Leicester goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel.
- However they are also considering a £13 million move for Bayer Leverkusen’s Bernd Leno.
- Arsenal attacker Tomas Rosicky wants to leave the club on a free transfer this summer, despite holding talks over a new 12-month contract.
- Arsenal have signed an 11-year-old – The Gunners have picked up Luton’s Charlie Patino, who had also been offered deals by Chelsea, Tottenham and Manchester City.
I can see the Tomas Rosicky story being true. He’s fit but not being played and he’s not even getting on from the bench which must be frustrating. At his age, he’ll want to be playing as much football as he can and although it would be sad to see him go, that’s football. Who leaves this summer is irrelevant, it’s who comes in which is more important..
Have a good Friday guys…
New post up now.
Morning Adam.
Morning Rico and all.
By the time he’s ready to play, Terry will be long retired so I shouldn’t worry too much… lol
Draw would do me too but a victory would be oh so sweet…
Morning all…
Ridiculous! Eleven years old, just imagine him going in for a 50/50 with John Terry. It isn’t what we needed. Wenger is losing it and must go. I am so angry.
Me too Kev but wouldn’t it be great to stuff those wankers in their shithole of a stadium?
As it stands, I would happily take s draw at Old Bog
Can’t beat a bit of pizza-gate rico, must be United up this weekend.
Nite folks.
Night Rico…..
Catch up tomorrow..
Night all..
Think you’ll find it was a pizza…
You know we are going to be in trouble for that Micko? Lol
So I can wiggle out I was referring to quorn steak.
The kind your need for your black eye tsgh lol.
Enjoy…; what kinda steak is it? 😛
Dinner calls..
My speciality is kicking a man when he’s down Ts, it’s a woman thing…. 🙂
watch it Rico… don’t know a man when he is down. lol
ha ha Micko; I wouldn’t even try knocking it; NASA losing the Mars orbiter due to conversion errors a few years back.
That could have signed 10 Gervinho’s; 1 for each position. 🙂
That should be easy with your hidden talents Ts… Lol
I know Rico;
always trying to hide the page whilst blogging at work…
There’s a lot to be said for converting fahrenheit into centigrade tsgh, I wouldn’t knock it.
It sure was Bt lol
I think that with many of your comments Ts… Lol
😀 Micko… isn’t that a bit too suave?
Bt- are you the weatherman now? 🙂
I know Rico, re spelling… I read back and think what the F… 😛
Penalty shot stopping, isn’t that what keepers are paid to do !
I can’t keep up with these pesky kids tsgh, I just ask for a Tony Curtis when I go for my hair cut.
Rico, was the sun out when you were out earlier?
Ts, you really need to check your spelling when c&p lol
I did Ts, what an idiot!
best news re. Wooney being out.
Rico, did you read about livermore drug news?
veneer=Vermeer
Rooney is out for Sunday…
… my bad; should say aside from handanovic and veneer of Ajax
Hi Ts
Rico, Leno is arguably the best penalty stopper in world football…
apart from that his distribution is better than what we have…
Goonie, did you supply Livermore the white stuff to snort? 😛
Ha ha Micko..
Is Leno good?
Micko, ‘word’ is you are Paul Pogba’s hairstylist? Do you have a similar hair style too? 🙂
Goonie, get a life… 😉
Evening Rico and all…
Bayern “Neverkusens” Bernd Leno for 13 mill……yeah right !
Happens about once every 100 years rico, we’ll all be pushing up daisies !
Ancelotti will be the new City manager then according to reports..
I’m not convinced any club will go unbeaten in the PL again, let alone 49 matches. So i’m just glad we did, even though it was a few years ago…
3/4 signings in the summer and we won’t be far off repeating 2003/04 imo of course… 😉
Afternoon…
I know, we are so far away from that Brudder……
Blimey Brudder. Where has that time gone?
On this day in 2004 Arsenal completed a season undefeated in the PL #TheInvincibles!
Alright maam time to give the baby a bath then. Later mama bear.
🙂 Goonie, let’s hope AW does just that…
Walk time for me so catch you later goonie…
It’s so quiet around these parts. Where is everyone?? Even leshite is deserted. Am I missing something? ?
I really hope we ll get a dm. Everyone ll strengthen thus summer even the scummers. Arsene needs to quit playing games with us and get me kondogbia or Morgan(kondogbia preferably )we can’t afford to be left behind early in the season again. That’s what cost us this year’s title. We need to be in the mix from the kick off. We have a good squad just a few additions and we ll smash it. A keeper and a dm. I ll take a striker if theo and poldi leaves. Come on arsene pull out your finger.
Steeplechase I meant to say…lol
Are you serious? Hahahah he ll make a mean pole vaulter(spelling ) he’s in the wrong sports. Lol
Think he may have got one from a deflection… lol
Sanogo haven’t scored for palace yet has he?? Lol I love that kid.
Tell me about it. Oh well he’s not so we re stuck with sanogo 😀
Agree there – he’d be awesome in our side..
How we could do with a player like hin in front of ozil.
Neither do I goonie, one of the best in the Pl he is..
Lol alright maam but I doubt shitty ll relinquish their hold on that second position. Plus I don’t think they ll lose to Swansea. Aguero don’t shot directly at a keeper. He picks his spot and hammers it in. What a player. Still don’t understand why he didn’t make the pl team of the season.
We’ll have to agree to differ goonie.. 😉
2nd is still on if City lose and we win on Sunday, but as long as we get 3rd, I think AW will be happy..
I think the lads know they let the fans down. They ll be up for this. Win this and we definitely have finished above them. We can rest easy while we prepare for villa.
I don’t care about swans vs shitty maam. Second is beyond us now. Let’s focus on finishing above the manscum. Set up not to lose. Play for a win but keep it tight at the back. We should get something out of it. A draw ll keep a 2 points gap between us a win 5.
Rico the first half was dire but we did turn up after the hour and played some wonderful stuff. I ll repeat had alexis left the creative work to ozil and rambo we could have won the match easy. He needs not to get on the ball rhat often.
Hope Swansea can beat City on Sunday too, I’ll forgive them for beating us then… 😉
I thought we were quite average against Swansea…
Yes, Carrick being out is good news, shame Fellaini isn’t!
Oh well Carrick should be missing so the omens are looking good. Come on you gunners
He’s hasn’t really been playing on the wings maam have he?? Even when he was fit wenger still stuck with rambo. We didn’t really play that bad against the swans. He just conspired to make Fabianski look world class. All the shots on target were direct at him. That game bear a semblance to the yanited game at home. We could have smashed those cnuts at the emirates but somehow made de gea look like a brick wall. So many times we picked them off only for the final ball to hit him on the chest. It’s really annoying when a professional footballer can’t beat a keeper from 6 yards.
We have to do a lot better than the last game to get anything up there Goonie. Think it’s a shame re DW because he’s better on the wing than Ramsey imo..
Begovic has had a Topsy turvy season. He’s still a good goal keeper. Better than what we currently have. I ll take him off stoke.
Rico welbeck being out is a huge blow but I won’t worry much about him. Giroud is due a big game. He should have a stormer against them thus weekend. I really fancy us. That defeat against Swansea has set them straight. Manure ll come at us with everything they ve got to get a goal the first 20 minutes if we don’t concede then we ll beat them.
welbeck will be fit on sunday
AW has confirmed Welbeck is out for Sunday…
Perhaps we need to forget about Cech, and we have no chance of getting Lloris from the Totts and is Begovic really that good right now?
Morning goonie…
Well I ve not seen many leverkusen games this season so can’t really give a detailed assessment on him. He’s a good keeper with huge potential. He’s 23 and a shot stopper. He claims well too when coming out for crosses. Is he what we need now??? I don’t think so. A cech lloris or begovic imho.
Lol rico you crack me up. Morning maam.
First 😀
What’s Bernd Leno like, any good?
Morning again all..