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Juicy Gobbets

Monday, December 29th, 2008

While trawling the net tirelessly in search of the sharpest Arsenal-related news, rumours and analysis, we occasionally come across other stuff that we want to share with our readers.

Here’s a selection of stuff that caught our eye:

Manu Chao sings about Diego Maradona in his new song ‘La Vida Tombola’.

You know when you suddenly remember how much you enjoyed watching an old football star? Well that just happened to me with Juan Sebastian Veron. It’s a shame he played for United, but by gum the lad could play. Wouldn’t mind us making a cheeky loan move for him in January. Just in case he’s still got it.

Tiny Malawi’s national team, The Flames, sensationally beat African Champions Egypt and DR Congo on their way to reaching the next phase of qualifying for the 2010 World Cup and African Cup of Nations (it’s a combined qualification system). Here are some grainy highlights of their crunch winner-takes-all game against DRC (Malawi are in Red). That’s the biggest attendance in Malawian football history right there and the place goes absolutely berserk as Chiukepo Msowoya (no. 4) bags the winner right at the death after Malawi had replied to Lomana Lua-Lua’s stunning strike early on. For me Msowoya’s cheeky victory dance is the joy of football in its purest form.