Up For Grabs Now has exciting news: we’ve teamed up with our favourite purveyors of high-quality and innovative football t-shirts, Philosophy Football to provide an extra-special competition for you lucky readers.
Philosophy Football have franglaised ’Arsenal’ in tribute to Monsieur Wenger who has brought so much joie de vivre to the red half of North London. The design is inspired by the superb book Arsènal by Alex Fynn and Kevin Whichter, which is strongly recommended to anyone who prefers their Arsenal media to be high-quality and printed rather than low-quality and online.
The shirt is available from www.philosophyfootball.com we have 5 to be won in our February competition. To enter simply answer the following question:
What club was Arsène Wenger managing when he was appointed Arsenal Manager?
Send your answer to admin@philosophyfootball.com with full name, address and T-shirt size, with the subject heading ‘Up For Grabs Now competition’. Entries close 28 February. The site also has a host of good t-shirts, both Arsenal and general, perfect for the discerning football fan (i.e. all of you lot who read our superior guff).
In other news, we’re becoming increasingly erratic. Whilst before Up For Grabs Now was a haven of daily rubbish, we now concentrate the rubbish into gobbets every other day. As we get back into the football proper this will change. But for a while I hope you’ve enjoyed this little rest as much as Arsene seems to have.
This is all the more true since at the moment there is basically nothing going on to talk about, particularly since I refuse to discuss Andrei Arshavin until something happens for sure or not. I’ve already said I’m not sure what he’ll bring to the table, and from that point of view I’m happy the club seems unprepared to pay over and above the odds for him.
I’m more surprised that we haven’t brought in someone to shore up the middle, but then again the existing players aren’t as far off as people seem to think, and there hasn’t been much in the transfer window (aside from Man City and their comedy purchases).
Speaking of which, given that they’ve bought him I’m amazed that nobody, to my knowledge, ever mentioned Nigel de Jong as a prospective Arsenal target. About the right price and pedigree. Anyone know anything about this? Would he have been a good Arsenal player?
To continue our ‘laugh at Tottenham’ trend I found this little nugget of brilliance from ‘Onest ‘Arry on MSN:
Redknapp added: “He’s the only goalkeeper I’ve got and this is a football club that has been put together by I don’t know who and I don’t know how.It’s a mish-mash of players with people playing where they want to play. It’s scary.
Our love of Tottenham Hotspur condenses in the final sentence: ‘It’s scary’. Quite right ‘Arry, and we’re all delighted you’re on board to escort this mish-mash all the way into the Championship. Harharhar.
Now for Kung-Fu Panda. Come on the Arsenal for Cardiff tomorrow – we’ll have a full preview later, but I’m hoping there are some opportunities for the youngsters, and fingers crossed a returning certain E. da Silva…
Tags: Andrei Arshavin, Arsenal, harry redknapp, philosophy football
January 24th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
I thought de jong went for quite a lot of money
ive only seen him a few times but technically hes superb
hes definitely an arsenal-style player, kinda like lassana diarrra i suppose
I havent seen him play in a while but he did strike me as quite small for a DM, so im not sure if he would have been perfect for arsenal in its current state, we really need some more power in the midfield
he may have bulked up a bit since i last saw him tho
I expect hel be really good for man city
January 24th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
Vincent Kompany would have been better, assuming hes over his injury problems (?)
January 24th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
nah de jong is definitely not what arsenal is in need of, we have technical abilities enough and he’s overrated imo, kompany is the kind of player we need, great vision, great defending, always all over the place and superb delivering..
January 24th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
Various respectable media outlets have reported that De Jong would have been 2.3 million in the summer, not the 17 million paid by City last week. I think that — more than a lack of respect for the player — would explain the lack of interest.
January 24th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
i haven;t been watching city, but aren’t i right in saying kompany joined them in the summer and hasn’t been especially good?
January 26th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
common guys we still need arshavin but just accept we are offering him less than he wants. gooner4lyf