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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">TRANSFER NEWS: </span>Seamus Coleman, </b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Michy
Bastshuayi, Ilkay Gundogan, and Youssouf Mulumbu tipped for Arsenal</b></span><br />
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<b><i>Arsenal were left frustrated by Everton at the Emirates on
Sunday, but the Gunners could soon turn to one of their opponents’ top
performers to bolster their squad, according to reports.</i></b><br />
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Seamus Coleman
was a repeated threat going forward from right back as he has
increasingly become on a regular basis in an Everton shirt, and the <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/arsenal-plan-seamus-coleman-transfer-2903704" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sunday People</a> claims that Arsene Wenger will target the Republic of Ireland international if Bacary Sagna fails to sign a new contract.</div>
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Sagna’s deal is set to expire at the end of the season and there have
yet to be any signs that he will renew. With the 30-year-old returning
to form this campaign after two serious injuries, Wenger will doubtless
be loathed to lose him, especially on a free transfer. But Arsenal also
have a policy of not offering contracts longer than one year to players
over 30.<br />
Coleman could be a strong candidate to replace Sagna. The 25-year-old
has continued to improve after settling into the role as full-back
after being initially used at Everton on the wing, while retaining his
attacking instincts. Coleman is valued up to £10 million, according to
the People, but Everton will doubtless fight hard to keep him at the
club having done similar with left-back Leighton Baines.<br />
<br />Elsewhere, there has been further discussion about the future of
rumored Arsenal target, Ilkay Gundogan. The midfielder was exceptional
in Borussia Dortmund’s run to the Champions League final last season,
although he is yet to make an appearance this term due to injury.<br />
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Arsenal have also been linked to a more physical midfielder of late
in West Brom’s Youssouf Mulumbu. Recent quotes attributed to the
26-year-old suggested that he wanted out of his current club and was
keen on a move to the Emirates Stadium. However, the Congolese former
Paris Saint-Germain man has claimed that his words have been twisted.<br />
“I did an interview with a French journalist last week but I am not
very happy about how my answers have been reported,” he said, according
to the <a href="http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/youssouf-mulumbu-not-very-happy-6367160" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Birmingham Mail</a>. “The general point I was trying to make in the interview is that I want to play at the highest level possible.<br />
“I admitted there has been interest in me from other clubs during my
time here but I didn’t speak about Arsenal and I also didn’t say I would
be looking to move in January.”<br />
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With players returning to fitness and Nicklas Bendtner netting last
week, it remains to be seen whether Wenger is intent on bolstering his
striking ranks in January. A new name has been linked to Arsenal, with
Standard Liege claiming that the Gunners are keen on their starlet Michy
Bastshuayi. The 20-year-old has scored 12 goals in 17 league games in
Belgium this season and has revealed the two clubs that he would be <br />
keen
to join for the next phase of his career, which he hopes will begin
next summer.<br />
“I don't think I think will be playing in Belgium next season,” he told Het Laatste News, reports <a href="http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11095/9063148/transfer-news-michy-batshuayi-dreams-of-arsenal-and-borussia-dortmund" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sky Sports</a>.
“My parents, especially my dad, think I'm ready for the next step. This
summer there was some interest, but I decided I didn't want to leave
Standard without leaving a trace -- being champion or being top scorer.<br />
"I've two dreams clubs in Europe -- Arsenal and Borussia Dortmund.
Borussia because of their mix between quality and spirit, Arsenal
because they give opportunities to young and talented players."<br />
Standard president Roland Duchatelet also confirmed that January
would come too early for the player’s departure and that his suitors
stretch beyond Arsenal.<br />
"Arsenal are not the only club interested, but Michy isn't going anywhere next month,” he said.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8127619774052805995.post-79834088721740484732012-08-23T02:10:00.001-07:002012-08-23T02:11:23.642-07:00<h2>
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Man City line up £30m bid for Luiz as Chelsea star is fined for revealing injury on Twitter</h1>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Manchester City have turned their
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attempts to bring Daniel Agger to the Etihad Stadium.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">City boss Roberto Mancini has stepped up his search for a new defender after Micah Richards was ruled out for 10 weeks. </span><br />
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ankle injury at the Olympics, and after several bids for Agger were
rejected by Liverpool, they have now had a £30million bid turned down by
Chelsea for Brazilian international Luiz, </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">according to <span style="font-style: italic;">The Sun</span></span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">.</span><br />
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25-year-old was left out Chelsea's squad for Wednesday night's 4-2 win
over Reading, with the player citing a knee injury as the reason on his
Twitter account. </span><br />
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are reporting that Luiz - who arrived at Chelsea in January 2011 in a
£24million deal from Benfica - was in fact left out as the club were
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the defending Premier League champions are not overtaken by their rivals.</span><br />
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spending to £70m with the acquisition of right-back Cesar Azpilicueta
from Marseille, and Manchester United have already splashed the cash on Robin
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priority, with the ageing Kolo Toure and the error-prone Stevan Savic
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‘Our new signings can make the difference’</h1>
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By Chris Harris<br /><br /><a href="http://www.arsenal.com/first-team/players/mikel-arteta" title="Mikel Arteta (8) player profile">Mikel Arteta</a> is confident that Arsenal can thrive without Robin van Persie and Alex Song - especially once their new signings settle in.<br /><br />The
Spanish midfielder operated in a deeper midfield role against
Sunderland on Saturday in the absence of Song and his passing range and
positional awareness helped Arsenal dominate their opening Premier
League fixture.<br /><br />Arsène Wenger's side had to settle for a 0-0 draw
after squandering their chances but Arteta saw enough to suggest that
Arsenal's new-look side will compete for honours this season.<br /><br />"I
think we are looking good," he said. "We looked really organised on
Saturday, just maybe in the final third we didn't take the chances we
should have done. <br /><br />"It will take a while because there have been
some new players coming in and we are building a new team. We have lost
some important players too so we will need some time. But we wanted to
start with a win and that is why we are disappointed.<br /><br />"We know that our new players can make the difference as well. We will have to give them a chance to settle into a new place."<br /><br />Arteta was a regular alongside Song in his first season at Emirates Stadium but he linked up well with fellow Spaniard <a href="http://www.arsenal.com/first-team/players/santi-cazorla" title="Santi Cazorla (19) player profile">Santi Cazorla</a> and the fit-again <a href="http://www.arsenal.com/first-team/players/abou-diaby" title="Abou Diaby (2) player profile">Abou Diaby</a> at the weekend - with plenty of other midfield options waiting in the wings.<br /><br />"I
felt really comfortable when I played with Alex last year, he was a
terrific player," said Arteta. "But if he and the Club decided that the
best option was for him to leave we have to accept it. I think we are
good enough to carry on without him."Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8127619774052805995.post-56557978080257673202012-08-22T02:48:00.002-07:002012-08-22T02:48:09.163-07:00<div id="google_ads_div_Dn-article-lead-728x90_ad_container" style="display: inline-block;">
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Michel beat other top international coaches, among them Adel Amrouche,
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Former France coach Henri Michel will next week be named coach of the national football team, Harambee Stars.</div>
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Football Kenya Federation (FKF) chairman Sam Nyamweya confirmed to the <em>Nation</em>
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Michel, who was in the country last month for negotiations, <a href="http://www.nation.co.ke/sports/football/Ten+foreigners+make+shortlist+for+Kenya+coach/-/1102/1475734/-/7jc44w/-/index.html" target="_blank">beat more than 60 foreign coaches who had applied for the position</a> which became vacant after <a href="http://www.nation.co.ke/sports/football/Harambee+Stars+coach+Kimanzi+axed/-/1102/1430784/-/r5yjhnz/-/index.html" target="_blank">Francis Kimanzi was redeployed to become the technical director at FKF</a>.</div>
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“We have finalised negotiations,” Nyamweya said.
“We are working closely with the Prime Minister, who has played a big
role in helping us scout for a top coach.”</div>
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During the launch of Harambee Stars sponsorship
deal with East African Breweries Limited, the Premier suggested that the
government would consider picking up the bill of paying for a good
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The 64-year-old Michel beat other top international
coaches to the final line when, last week, FKF whittled down their
shortlist to four – Adel Amrouche, Tom Saintfiet, Raymond Domenech and
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“We need a qualified foreign coach who can turn around the country’s football,” Nyamweya added. </div>
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“You can see how Uganda and Tanzania have improved
over the years while Kenya cannot qualify for Africa Cup of Nations, let
alone even make it to the to the second round of the regional
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qualified, but you have seen where we are with the homegrown coaches who
have handled the team.</div>
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“We now need to try elsewhere.”</div>
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Michel’s papers speak volumes about his ability to
bring success to Harambee Stars but whether Kenya will manage to pay him
also raises questions.</div>
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He guided the French national team to the Olympic gold medal in 1984 and the third place at the 1986 World Cup.</div>
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The Frenchman knows the rugged terrain of African
football, having been in the continent for two decades since he first
coached Cameroon in 1994.</div>
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Having also had two stints with Morocco – in 1995
and 2000, in 2001 to 2002 Michel took Tunisia to the World Cup, the same
result he registered with Cote d’Ivoire in 2006. He also coached
Zamalek of Egypt, Mamelodi Sundowns (South Africa) and Morocco’s Raja
Casablanca.</div>
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His last job was as coach of the Equatorial Guinean national team.</div>
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Michel however faces a Herculean task. Kenya lies
at position 126 in the global football ranking, the country’s worst
ever, and the team’s fortunes continue to dwindle.</div>
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Already out of the race to the 2013 Nations Cup,
Kenya’s chances of making it to the 2014 World Cup Finals in Brazil look
bleak following their loss to Namibia and a draw with Malawi.<br />
Two weeks ago, Nyamweya said part of the work of the new coach would be
to help in youth development and work with the FKF technical department
to identify areas to set up youth centres.</div>
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by jacko kimz<br />
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the short-skirts-for-schoolgirls brouhaha, Mr Kilonzo has now raised an
important policy issue that must be addressed for the sake of our
children. <br />
The minister’s directive banning holiday classes has
been opposed by the Kenya National Union of Teachers and generally
defied or ignored by both public and private schools. <br />
The show of
defiance illustrates just how officialdom has become impotent in the
brave new dispensation, yet he raised an issue that must be taken up at
official government policy level rather than be seen as just the
roadside policy declarations of an individual minister.<br />
Many, many
years ago, when schoolchildren were being overworked with the new 8-4-4
system, then Vice-President Mwai Kibaki broke ranks with the official
line and openly declared support for a more relaxed curriculum. <br />
I still recall the memorable words he issued to the effect that children must be allowed to be children. <br />
That remains true today as it was all those years ago. Children must have time for play, leisure, and relaxation.<br />
That
is a fact widely acknowledged, but even in the Kibaki era, we have seen
only half-hearted efforts to reform the education system.<br />
It is
still focused inordinately on information overload and the mad and
ruinous competition to pass examinations and place your school atop the
primary or secondary league tables.<br />
I must declare that I have a
personal interest in this matter because I have a Standard Eight child
who is today constrained to break her holidays and go back to class. <br />
I
have attended meetings at the school where the issue of children being
overburdened has come up, and usually left with the impression that both
parents and teachers have forgotten the needs of the little ones. <br />
In many places, school administrators are obsessed with securing good results for the prestige of the institutions.<br />
The parents, in turn, want to realise their own dreams , and satisfy their own egos in examination success for their young ones.<br />
The
end result is maddening workload that beats slavery. Little children
are being forced to start classes at 6.30 in the morning and study
continuously up to 6pm, with only an hour’s break for lunch. They will
go to school also on Saturdays.<br />
And even after leaving class so
late every day, and making an allowance for an hour or more to reach
home, they will still have mountains of homework to get through. <br />
Pre-teen children are being forced to stay up to 10 or 11pm every night, buried in schoolbooks. <br />
That
is criminal. As a journalist I work long and unconventional hours,
which often are way above those recommended by the Ministry of Labour
and our own human resource — formerly “personnel” — managers. <br />
But I am an adult, and it cannot be right that little children are being condemned to put in such crazy hours.<br />
Not
too long ago, during a visit to our alma mater, Lenana School, many of
us were shocked to learn that many of the intensive sporting and other
extra-curricular clubs and activities had been abandoned. <br />
The explanation from staff was lack of time because of the need for evening and Saturday classes.<br />
The
irony was that when Lenana placed such a high premium on compulsory
sports and other activities outside the classroom, it ranked high in
examination rankings, often in the top five nationally. <br />
Now all
the time is spent in the classroom, and the academic performance has
plummeted to push the once prestigious school way outside the premier
league.<br />
The excuse offered by teachers, and parents, for the
workload is the need to complete the syllabus. What seems beyond their
comprehension is that academic excellence is achieved through quality.
Not quantity.<br />
You can only hammer so much information into a tired
brain. If completing the syllabus is too taxing, then Mr Kilonzo must
move with speed to have it reviewed. <br />
We all want our young ones
to get quality education, but we do not want to create mindless
automatons drilled just to pass examinations. Neither must we condemn
them to premature stress, burnout, and worse. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8127619774052805995.post-87449107192837978202012-08-22T02:41:00.000-07:002012-08-22T02:41:59.453-07:00<div id="google_ads_div_Dn-article-lead-728x90_ad_container" style="display: inline-block;">
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Michuki widow Josephine Watiri dies in Nairobi</h1>
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<li>Mrs Michuki died at the Nairobi Hospital Wednesday morning where she was undergoing treatment.</li>
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Josephine Watiri Michuki, the widow of former Environment minister John Michuki, has died.</div>
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Mrs Michuki died at the Nairobi Hospital Wednesday morning where she was undergoing treatment.</div>
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<span class="userContent">"Very, very painful. Our
mother-in law, Mrs Josephine Michuki, died early today at Nairobi
hospital," said former Information minister Mutahi Kagwe on his Facebook
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Mr Kagwe is a son-in-law of the Michukis.</div>
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Prime Minister Raila Odinga said Mrs Michuki's death was "a double blow to the family of the late honourable Michuki".</div>
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"She was a strong and courageous woman who had
shown she was capable of stepping into her late husband's shoes and
provide guidance to our people on development and political issues,"
mourned Mr Odinga.</div>
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"I pray for the family and friends at this time of grief."</div>
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Her death comes months after Mr Michuki passed on. The minister died in February, aged 80.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8127619774052805995.post-34092559432784216072012-08-22T02:36:00.001-07:002012-08-22T02:36:11.865-07:00<h2 class="contentheading">
Sahin update, Arsenal's €10m man set to leave</h2>
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<img alt="sahin" border="0" height="132" src="http://www.sportnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/141596273-276x184.jpg" style="border: 0pt none; float: left; margin-right: 10px;" title="sahin" width="198" />Arsenal fans were rather expecting an announcement of the loan signing of Nuri Sahin today. He’s <a href="http://arsenallatest.com/news/558-sahin-afc-rvp-fellaini.html" target="_blank">supposedly had a photoshoot and medical</a> at Arsenal’s training ground, but no move has materialised. The deal appears to have stalled.<br />
Then
again there was a day of silence after Cazorla’s medical when everyone
started panicking, but there seems to be more substance to the talk this
time.<br />
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Mourinho is haggling</h3>
It’s documented that Jose
Mourinho was loathe to allow Sahin to go to Arsenal, partially because
they were offering a smaller loan fee, and he dislikes Wenger and didn’t
want to help him. Which is dreadfully unprofessional.<br />
Having
allowed him to, it seems he’s stepped in and increased the price Arsenal
must pay if they want him permanently after the loan. The<a href="https://twitter.com/northbanklower/status/237905227376885760" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> new fee is believed to be around 14m</a>, which hasn’t impressed Arsenal, as that’s almost twice as much as he was signed for in the first place.<br />
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This has led to reports that Arsenal are prepared to back out of the deal and <a href="https://twitter.com/garyjacob/status/237666910081269760" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">pursue other replacements</a>. It’s unknown whether this is true, but we’ll operate on the assumption that it is.<br />
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Is Yann the Man?</h3>
The Rennes general manager <a href="http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/1138506/rennes-general-manager:-m%27vila-could-join-arsenal" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">has admitted that Yann M’Vila could move to Arsenal after all</a>. His quote was “Arsenal? I don’t know, you’d have to ask Wenger.” That suggests he either doesn’t know, or is being coy.<br />
This
is a deal that’s been on and off all summer, and it’s difficult to tell
if it will ever come off. It seems possible that he’s the first
alternative to Sahin if that deal doesn’t come off, or that he’ll be
bought regardless. It seems more likely it’s one or the other, however.<br />
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One midfielder, one defender: That’s yer lot.</h3>
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Continuing on his trend of being unusually forthcoming regarding transfers, Arsene Wenger told an interviewer that he wished <a href="http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/1138527/arsene-wenger-wants-two-more-new-faces-at-arsenal" rel="nofollow">to bring in a midfielder and a defender</a>
before the end of the transfer window. Amusingly, the last time he
admitted he wished to bring in X player in x position, he signed
Squillaci. Not to say that will be repeated.<br />
One thing he hasn’t
mentioned at all is an attacker, which continues to suggest that rumours
of Fernando Llorente are unfounded, unless he’s being Arsene. Which he
doesn’t seem to be, as he’s not denied working on deals at all.<br />
Still,
there’s nothing to suggest the midfielder couldn’t be a creative
player, which was the main issue against Sunderland. And of course, a
defender who could cover the full-back positions would help as well.
With that said, Arsenal were in talks with Mirallas before he signed for
Everton, so it’s possible Wenger is on the lookout for a striker.<br />
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Goodbye Andrey?</h3>
Andrey Arshavin arrived in St Petersburg today for what is <a href="http://arshavin.eu/news.php?id=782" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">described as a “business visit”</a>, along with rumours that his old club Zenit, who he was at loan with the latter half of last season, <a href="https://twitter.com/jamesappell/status/237857140704940032" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">have made a €10m bid for him</a>.
His time at Arsenal does seem to have come to an end, and that’s the
best price Arsenal could get for him, so it seems very possible that’s
him gone. He’s provided some great moments, and some equally frustrating
ones. So it’s with mixed feelings he departs, though taking 80k off our
wage bill.<br />
Those are the stories that have emerged during today,
and I’m sure as the window draws to a close there will be many more.
Until tomorrow.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8127619774052805995.post-6091528254998282752012-08-22T02:32:00.002-07:002012-08-22T02:32:31.581-07:00<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">
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Robin played his first match yesterday and just like any other true
Arsenal fan, It would be cool to see him end as the lowest goal scorer
with no trophy.<br />
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Well, I got a pix of him crying in the game yesterday. Koscielny and
Vermaelen enjoying themselves. Hope it ends this way when the season is
over<br />
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