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News to me. Shamefully hilarious, if true.

EDIT - not that I expect it to be. I'd expect someone's twitter feed to be receiving a legal notice, in fact.

100% with you on that - I think she (he?) is treading very dodgy ground, and I'm stunned that 24 hours or so later there are still retweets on her profile and her own posts were very dodgy tonight...

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Bit out of character for him if it were to be true though.

"She had a fantastic fanny; really tight. Absolutely terrific playing with the old balls and the wee todger; absolutely terrific spirit. She's not a real women though, kind of more like an inverted false-woman"

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Ray Parlour: the English lads were drinking, the French smoking and Arsenal still won the Double Former Arsenal greats Ray Parlour and Nigel Winterburn have told an online chat show about the extent of the drinking culture at the club and how it did not stop them from doing the Double

Ray Parlour has revealed the full extent of the once-notorious drinking culture at Arsenal and told how Steve Bould, who is now the club’s assistant manager, once ordered a mammoth 35-pint round for five team-mates during Arsène Wenger’s first summer as manager in 1997.

“I’ll always remember the first pre-season tour with Arsène Wenger,” Parlour said. “New French lads had come into the team like Patrick Vieira, Emmanuel Petit and Gilles Grimandi. We worked our socks off and at the end of the trip Wenger said we could all go out. You know what we were like, we went straight down to the pub and the French lads went to the coffee shop.

“I’ll always remember the moment Steve Bould went up to the bar and ordered 35 pints for five of us. After we left the bar we spotted all the French lads in the coffee shop and they were sitting around smoking.

“I thought, ’How are we going to win the league this year? We’re all drunk and they’re all smoking’. We ended up winning the double that year.”

During an appearance on Thursday on online sports chat show Sportlobster TV, Parlour and former team-mate Nigel Winterburn also described the antics of the old ‘Tuesday Club’ and how Wenger ended the drinking culture.

“On a Monday, Wednesday and Thursday people were dressed in tracksuits,” Parlour said. “On a Tuesday everyone turned up with their suits on. George [Graham] was trying to work out what was going on – but we were obviously going out on the town.”

Winterburn added: “It all stopped really when Arsène Wenger put a ban on drink being served in the lounge, and then Tony [Adams, the former captain] gave up drinking.”

Parlour defended Jack Wilshere following the Arsenal midfielder’s apology earlier this season for being photographed out smoking.

“Ten or 15 years ago that would never have happened,” Parlour said. “He probably didn’t even drink that night, he’s only had an odd cigarette and it won’t do him that much damage. I used to go down the pub with all the supporters when we won a game at Highbury. I loved it and it wasn’t a problem.”

Wenger is credited with revolutionising the preparation of players and their diet, not just at Arsenal, which are considered crucial as squads face increasingly demanding fixture schedules.

Arsenal travel to Manchester City tomorrow just three days after a tough Champions League fixture away to Napoli and Mikel Arteta, the Gunners midfielder, claims that he is baffled by the limited preparation time for a match that could conceivably decide the Premier League title.

Wenger’s team returned from Italy at 4am on Thursday morning and must now travel to Manchester on Friday ahead of the 12.45pm kick-off on Saturday for a match that is being screened live on BT Sport.

City, by contrast, had the advantage of playing on Tuesday against Bayern Munich and were also able to rotate seven of their first-team regulars, including Vincent Kompany, Yaya Touré, Sergio Agüero, Samir Nasri and Álvaro Negredo.

While those players have had a full week to rest and focus on the chance to cut Arsenal’s five-point lead at the top of the table, the preparations for Wenger’s team will simple revolve around trying to recover physically, although he will at least be boosted by the possible return from injury of Bacary Sagna.

“The mood is fine, the recovery time is very tight,” Arteta said. “I don’t understand why we play Sunday afternoon [against Everton], Wednesday evening, get back at 4am and then play again on Saturday morning in Manchester. It will just be about recovery. It’s not ideal.”

Wenger has complained regularly about the influence of television on kick-off times and argued for the Premier League to introduce an “ethics committee” that would oversee the schedule to ensure that no team receive an obvious advantage.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/arsenal/10514958/Ray-Parlour-the-English-lads-were-drinking-the-French-smoking-and-Arsenal-still-won-the-Double.html

Mate I'm not disputing the fact he was used as a marketing ploy at PSG, the whole giving up his salary to charity thing was clearly intended to do that. But at AC Milan, particularly in the first season there he was pretty much a fixture in the side while there and the same in his second season before he did his achillies tendon.

While he may not have been as good as he was at United and Madrid he was still motivated due to his desire to continuing playing for England and I really think both you and Len are underplaying what he did in the later years of his career, especially Len who is acting like Beckham was a spent force when he moved to Galaxy which was not the case. Pay attention here because I am not trying to claim he was the same player at United and Madrid but he was not to quote Len, "being led out to the glue factory".

Well he'd seen better days and weren't exactly much use, yeah he had loan spells...and did what, trotted out, had a few passes and thats it. Point being players that go over to America do so when their best days are behind em.

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Shattered mate, inconsolable :lol:

*Pulls on newly aquired Man City shirt in preparation for the match tomorrow* :lol:

Smelly Arab! :P (irony! :lol:)

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Paul Merson's prediction

I think it's a big ask for Arsenal to win this game. Man City got a great result midweek against Bayern Munich and were able to rest all their big players like Sergio Aguero, Samir Nasri and Alvaro Negredo - who only played for a short time.

Arsenal, though, had a tough game against Everton, and had to travel to Napoli and back - this is a bad fixture for the Gunners. They've had no rest time and a lot of travelling. They wouldn't have got back until early Thursday morning and then they've got to fly up to Manchester on Friday so they're not getting much time to do anything.

I think Man City are brilliant at home and I'm going to have to tip them to win. I was at the game at the Emirates against Everton last weekend, Steven Pienaar and Ross Barkley got so much space and I just think if people like Nasri, David Silva and Aguero drop off and get that much space they're another level.

I just don't see how Arsenal can cope with them and it will be a game too far for them if it opens up.

PAUL PREDICTS: 3-0

Fuck off Merse' you prick...like David Rocastle said remember who you are, remember what you are and who you represent.

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Dear Jesus, Dear Allah, Dear Buddha, Dear Jehovah, Dear all the saints and angels up in heaven, hello, I'm Len, you won't remember me because i've lived such a pure and blameless life but I come to you all today in my moment of need with but a single fervent prayer, please please, oh please...make us turn City the fuck over today, let it be an abject obliteration, let us turn it on Arsenal style, pass them off the pitch and walk the ball into the net, let us get an early lead and maintain it with resolve and dominance, let us once more cast a shadow over the premiership and show all these punk bitches whats REALLY goin' on...thank you Lord(s). :lol: I know we can do it, you all know we can do it, turn it on this lunch time please, let it be written and let it be done! :lol:

(not that i'm nervous or anything you understand :lol:)

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