Blimey, a post! Clones

Michel Platini.... what a waste of space. A disgrace to football. At least.. that's what we all thought. But maybe he was on to something after all......

See, midweek, Arsene decided what we really needed to do, was ditch the tired old legs of our first team, giving old pensioners Cesc Fabregas and Theo Walcott a break, and throw on to the pitch some fearless youth. They duly stepped up to the metaphorical plate and thumped Sheffield United into the next galaxy. Which made you wonder where on earth Arsene finds all these kids.....

Obviously at some point over the past two seasons, with Oligarchs hoovering up teams like Elton John and Lily Allen in a cocaine snorting contest, Arsene thought to himself, I can either pay Alex Hleb 120K a week to stay, and buy in some Russian geezer called Arseshaving for 30 million Eurogambles, OR I can spend the summer in Germany, working with the greatest scientists on earth, developing my cloning machine. So he worked hard and managed to create the worlds first footballer creation machine. In the past he had dabbled with this from his laboratory deep in the Alasace region, but initial problems with the prototype known as 'Jermaine Pennant' left him with an improperly formed player, one with great skill and potential but without self awareness, intellect or driving ability. But this time he got the elements just right, and out popped Fran Merida, a part Nasri, part Fabregas clone, Aaron Ramsey, who possessed the dribbling skills of Hleb without the inability to shoot, and of course Carlos Vela, which he made directly from the DNA of Eduardo.

And what a performance it was... Vela scoring a hat trick on debut, Bendtner leading the lines like the old pro he is (in that team) and Fabianski.. ummm.... yeah.. well he got to stand on the pitch. Poor old Gary 'the most ironically named player on earth' Speed, who was left looking like, well, a 39yr old footballer well past his prime.

The real problem for Wenger now, it seems, is what to do with all these kids. It's one thing to integrate single players like Fabregas or Walcott over the course of a few seasons, but now he is faced with a full team (plus subs) of players who are already capable of beating fairly good Championship quality teams.... imagine what they would do then against the Geordies, or Sp*rs!

Michel Platini has criticised Wenger of being a business man, and I suppose that much is true. He is clearly developing a factory of unbelievably talented young footballers. We all know Arsene spent significant time working in Japan prior to joining Arsenal, and clearly he was thinking long term. They have the mass production capacity, he has the football clone technology,.... the future, and the immense wealth is his for the taking! So fair play to Platini for calling Wenger out on this.....

Either that or Wenger just just really likes football and Michel Platini is a w*nker. Could go either way....

'Thomas - it's up for grabs now' - Where was you?

As part of this season and trying to tie in with all the 20th anniversary shenanigans of that famous last minute championship win, allgoonerdup.com is doing a 'JFK where was you moment'. But obviously the moment we're doing is - 'Thomas - it's up for grabs now' moment. Every Gooner knows where they were when that goal went in and we're going to publish your tales. The idea is to do one Gooner's piece a day, so get amongst it and send your emails in via the contacts page and mark the subject line 'Thomas - it's up for grabs moment'. I'll be doing some sort of fancy graphic and that just to give the piece some 'air play'. Get your emails in and we'll get the ball rolling with your 'Thomas - where was you moment'. Hopefully your tales of that wonderful night will get other people sharing their 'Thomas - it's up for grabs now moment'!

Girl in a shirt

Allgoonerdup is looking to give the Goonerbabe page a bit of a boost and we're going for a 'Girl in the Shirt' approach. Do you have any pictures of your girl in the shirt or girls get yourself seen on the Goonerbabe wall and send in your own pictures. Lets get this party started right. Send your pictures in and tell us your name, favourite player, favourite all time player, favourite drink and if you have anything else to declare to babe@allgoonerdup.com

Win a new tee...

That's right you can be the owner of this spanking brand new bit of kit 'The Joy of Cesc' from our Online Shop.

All you need to do is tell us, and keep those eyes peeled people because we're changed the question, on what famous 1970's book is the tee 'The Joy of Cesc' based on? Simple? Great - now get involved and let us know your your answer, name, address and t-shirt size via the contact form and mark it 'T-shirt competition'. Lovely, job done.

Competition ends 6 October 2008.

Goof luck Gooners.

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