And Arsenal fans around the world believe this time they will lay their hands on the coveted English Premier League Title and trophy. And when the time comes they will be there to take pleasure from the success in Arsenal Football Shirts.

EPL is undoubtedly the most popular league in the world with massive fan following even in remote areas of America, Asia, Africa and Australia. Also, the credit goes to major league teams like Man utd, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool.

Arsenal especially has made a name for itself in relation to their brand of attractive football. And although that hasn’t materialized into trophies like Manchester United and Chelsea, in recent memory, it could all change soon.

Unlike there is a dearth of trophies in Arsenal’s cabinet, after winning over a dozen English league trophies and a lot of other cups. Their illustrious coach Arsene Wenger has taken a degree of sophistication to not just his team but the way football happens to be perceived. And it’s his attacking brand of football with the likes of Fabregas, Walcott and Arshavin at the helm that has made Arsenal the new destination in the Beautiful Game.

Wearing an Arsenal Shirt is a matter of pride not just for the team but its fans across the world. A trip to their hallowed football ground of Emirates Stadium may not be over unless you are dressed in the famous Arsenal Shirt. And also the same spirit takes over you at an away game, in the local pub or watching the action on tv wherever you are in the modern world.
In case you haven’t got an Arsenal home Football Shirt yet, it could be the moment to do it now.

You can find high expectations within the renowned London club this season with the likes of Cesc Fabregas and Theo Walcott maturing into World class players and ready to carry the torch.
Arsenal are perennial contenders for the Champions League and having qualified for the coming season, things aren’t going to be any different.

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The football match started with a fast pace as both sides went out to win. We saw early chances come and go with no goals resulting. Paul Scholes may be getting old but he enjoyed a man of the match performance as he controlled the midfield and continually picked out passes with accuracy and preciseness. Manchester United gifts used the full width of the pitch through Antonio Valencia in attack while Chelsea’s Michael Essien and Florent Malouda were largely responsible for(p) for their positive forward moves.

Goals from Ecuadorian Antonio Valencia (41), Mexican Javier Hernandez (76) and Bulgarian Dimitar Berbatov (90) secured the Community Shield for Sir Alex Ferguson’s Manchester side, in front of 84,623 fans, with Chelsea getting a consolation goal scored by Ivory Coast forward Salomon Kalou. The Chelsea football score was disappointing.

A lot of substitutions were used throughout the match and Manchester fans got to see Javier ‘Chicharito’ Hernandez make his competitive debut and score a quite unbelievable goal that actually went off his face and in. It is a goal worth watching in slow motion, you don’t often see a goal “faced” in.

It was noticeable that from the beginning of the match large sections of fans from both sides were booing the England players when they touched the ball. The idea of Chelsea and Manchester United fans specifically targeting only England players with booing again brings the club v country debate to the forefront of football.  First it was Ashley Cole, then John Terry, Wayne Rooney and even Fabio Capello as the crowd let the underachieving players who failed to show their England  gifts know exactly how they felt concerning England’s poor World Cup display over the summer. The lackluster effort from the fans in their displays of disapproval were in the end washed out by a sort of ‘call and response’ cheering from the opposition fans. When United would boo, Chelsea would cheer. The gesture, although passionate and honest, was a waste of time and had little long-lasting effect on the game itself as it progressed. All England football fans were pretty miffed by the players poor performance at the world cup, but I am not sure that the way to express this is by booing them at a club match, particularly as there is an international friendly against Hungary coming up to boo them at.

Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City have emerged from their shadows to question their authority in English football. They have often flattered to deceive in the past due in no small part to having rich traditions but that may be about to change in the right direction. But they are sleeping no more as rippling new financial muscle is starting to fill the club with deep pockets. These are used to build foundations upon which they can compete on level ground with the Big Four. It could be that Spurs and City may go on to break new records and become bigger than any of the Big Four. No longer are they trapped in a position in which they have had to sell their best players to survive. The roles have reversed and signing other teams’ best players are on their agendas instead during each transfer window so that they can continue to rise to the top.

The revolution in English football is best represented by Manchester City. Since the moment Sheikh Mansour took over the club, City have been in virtually every major transfer rumour making the rounds in European football. The club is determined to not just be a force in English football, but also on the greater stage of Europe. There was a flurry of major transfer activity in the club’s first season under Mansour as City went on to snap up no less than five star players in preseason. Emmanuel Adebayor and Carlos Tevez were some of the famous players that decided to make the switch to Eastlands. These players are not driven solely by the financial rewards of joining the oil rich club, but also the prospect of being part of a new revolution that could see City become English Premier League and European champions in the near future.

Spurs may not be as rich as City, but the North London giants do not shy away from spending on quality talent. Tottenham Hotspur may not have the millions in pounds to attract every top player but they are proving to be a spotter of young talent. They also have a coach in Harry Redknapp who has a proven track record of moulding these young players into top stars on the world stage. Redknapp also relies on such an approach to build a team that shines on team unity and spirit without being threatened by egos. That continues to be their driving force as they emerge as City’s main challengers to a place amongst the Premier League elite.

Fans who watch Premiership live football online would have noted that the Big Four’s hold on the Premier League could cease sooner rather than later from the two clubs’ challenge. It has already started with Liverpool’s place in the Champions League now usurped by Spurs who were pushed all the way by City. If both teams continue to build earnestly in the off season, there is no doubt that their progress will gather pace. They may even surpass the rest eventually. With debt continuing to plague members of the Big Four, it is in contrast to the decidedly better futures that await both Spurs and City.

This encounter was not as easy as the Red Devils thought it would be, due to the strong fight the Hammers gave them and also to the fact that they could not count with the participation of the forward, Wayne Rooney, who was out due to an injury. However Manchester began taking charge with the assistance of Cristiano Ronaldo, Ryan Giggs, Carlos Tevez and Dimitar Berbatov in the field.

Regardless of the domain Manchester had during the first part, could not reach the box contrary, limiting the game to constant shots lacking of menace towards West Ham, which figured out how to repel them.

At the minute 20, the Reds saw the opportunity to score coming along, which was captured by the Bulgarian Berbatov, but unfortunately for him, it happened during an offside action, which meant the goal was disallowed. Manchester continued with its hits straight to the goalpost, causing anxiety in the West Ham, that at a minute before finishing the first period was close to make its first mark, but the red defense stopped them.

For the second half were the 11 from Upton Park the ones that hold the sphere. Trying to reach the rival zone with some long distance strikes that –although could almost reach their purpose– did not cause much impression on Sir Alex Ferguson club, who in a good football explosion achieve their triumphal mark.

Thanks to a good pass from Scholes to the precise Giggs, who with impressive moves managed to evade two adversaries until reaching the contrary area, where at the 62’ and with a powerful kick crossed the frame protected by Robert Green.

Right after Manchester United grab the lead in the scoreboard, the hosts tried to even the situation, but despite all efforts they couldn’t accomplish it, since Edwin Van der Sar, goalie of the Reds, never lost the calm, not even with ingress of Diego Tristán –who did not had much time to stand out, as he entered at the 87th minute.

With this victory, the eighth uninterruptedly, the leaders demonstrated their capacity and playing high level by not falling under the pressure Liverpool put on them the day before. Besides, with this triumph the Red Devils reach already thirteen Premier encounters without receiving a goal against; which also helped Van der Sar impose a new record of 1.312 minutes goals-free.

This triumph allowed Manchester United continue in the crest of the English league with 56 points, follow by Liverpool, their toughest enemies, that after this match-day sum 54 points; meanwhile, Aston Villa ascends to the third spot with 51 points, thanks to its conquest before Blackburn (2-0) and the draw 0-0 between Hull City and Chelsea, that descended to the fourth position.

Manchester City had plenty of possession, but did very little to threaten the home goal. First, it was Wayne Bridge who curled over a shot from the left flank but Nemanja Vidic headed clear, then Robinho fired wide after shrugging Rafael Da Silva off the ball.

Play quickly switched to the other end where a piece of impudence from Patrice Evra offered Tevez the chance to run into space and curl a shot towards the City goal which came crashing back off the angle of post and crossbar. Just before the break, Fletcher’s long ball was controlled by Berbatov. He square the ball to Tevez, whose precision shot bounced in off the post.

Manchester City needed a break and it should have arrived when Elano picked out Robinho with a deft right-wing cross. But Robinho blast his shot wide after he managed to control the ball. The striker again got ahead of Rafael and seemed destined to test Edwin van der Sar, only to inexplicably fire well wide.

On the hour mark, Ji-Sung Park and Ronaldo were substituted with Paul Scholes and Wayne Rooney respectively. Ronaldo look unhappy and not impressed at the decision and was still shaking his head after he had taken his place in the dug-out. Sir Alex Ferguson might have the Champions League Final on his mind and do not want to his squad to be over strech.

Manchester United almost struck their 3rd-goal if not for Richard Dunne, who had made a last-ditch tackle to deny Scholes. Darren Fletcher rose to meet the corner, only for Tevez to strike the post with his header as he dived in and made contact less than half a yard out.

The points were scored by South American Roque Santa Cruz who opened the scoreboard in the 21st minute and Manchester’s goal came from the Argentinean Carlos Tevez in the 88th minute with a shooting to the net in combination with offensive midfielder Paul Scholes.

But the hero of the day was Chelsea’s goalkeeper Brad Friedel who played an exceptional game stopping some eminent goal shots above all when the visitors were hunting the draw desperately in the second half.

During the 79th minute Friedel stopped Tévez and later on Wayne Rooney as well as the Irish defense John O’Shea (86th) before the goal arrived. Before the 64th minute the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo threw a ball against a post. This unexpected result holds back Manchester’s run for the title, which previously seemed to be an easy task for the “Red Devils.”

On Thursday Chelsea won over Everton 0-1 and now had 78 points only three points shy of the current leader. The only goal of the game was that of Ghanaian Michael Essien during the first half of the game at the 41st minute.

On the other hand, Arsenal was left out of the competition for the title after being overrun by Reading 2-0. This game put an end to Arsenal’s five games without winning at the Emirates Stadium.

At last the Londoners managed to offer a victory to their supporters thanks to the good work of the Spaniard Cesc Fábregas who was defending the center of the field as well as Togolese Emmanuel Adebayor and of the Brazilian Gilberto; the ‘Gunners’, third in the general classification are situated seven points behind of the leader.

Liverpool achieved a new victory, this time against Fulham (0-2), with a total of eight points from Everton which is in fifth position in the battle for the title; situation which is not completely obscure as this allows them a pot for the next Champions League edition

Lastly; there is Bolton, which recently won over Middlesbrough 0-1 and was able to take a breath. Meantime, the Derby County continues in bad shape after losing to West Ham 2-1.

This Sunday, Aston Village sixth place of the classification board, sank even further down after losing to Birmingham (5-1), while Newcastle took air after winning 2-0 over Sunderland.

Australian Football Players is pleased to announce a unique partnership with Italy’s Ascoli Soccer Academy. This partnership will not only forge relationships between Australian Football Players and Italian football clubs like Ascoli Calcio 1898 but we are now able to offer Australian players and teams the opportunity to travel to Italy and participate in Camps, Trials and Year Long Soccer Courses. Ascoli Soccer Academy and Ascoli Calcio 1898 technical staff conduct trials both in Italy and abroad. We hope to bring both Academy and Club to Australia in the near future to conduct trials. 

The Italian Football Academy (IFA)- Ascoli Soccer Academy has brought together the experience of its’ own technical staff and the experience acquired from the Perugia Football Club’s coaching staff to create a unique developmental institution. Australian Football Players has now joined Ascoli Soccer Academy in a consolidated effort to bring advanced player and coach education to local Australian clubs. Australian Football Players and Ascoli Soccer Academy have identical philosophies which clearly put an emphasis on structured and methodical football education. Australian Football Players, as the Australian based affiliate, will work closely on a yearly basis with the academy to identify quality players and possibly fill its’ ranks in the Italian professional league. Australian Football Players will also provide learning opportunities for youth coaches as the demand for “higher learning” continuous to increase. The Ascoli Soccer Academy technical organization chart consists of 80 observers and 20 supervisors distributed along the national territory, all of them coming from multi-year professional experiences.  

Every football season Ascoli Soccer Academy staff are required to attend affiliated team games and try-outs as part of a monitoring process impacting over 16000 young players per year. The goal is to identify and assess qualified players to possibly join other professional youth players in the Italian 1st Division (Serie “A”, “B” or C).  

The Italian Football Academy (IFA) has consolidated the experience developed by its own technical staff and the experience acquired from the Perugia Football Club’s technical staff in the nearly 10 year long co-operation.In IFA we like to stress the idea of making football scouting, education and player’s improvement as a unique and whole concept of the company mission. Further to this we have created a wide network of affiliated teams, both national and international, plus many observers coordinated by local areas and all coming from direct past experiences in the world of soccer.The results of this complex and organized activity takes us to identifying the best players who can then be selected to join professional youth players of Italian Serie A, B or C championships. Moreover, at the end of each sport season, players chosen by IFA are primarily selected to join IFA’s junior national teams main partner such as Ascoli Calcio 1898.The IFA project was born on the wake of Perugia soccer Club which, even if excluded last 2005 from the professional chanpionship, have left talented sport managers heritage to increase new teams fortunes. And this is what our staff does right today.IFA and Ascoli Calcio 1898 co-share the mentality and carried out the idea of Ascoli Soccer Academy. Ascoli Soccer Academy unique target is to enrich Ascoli’s youth teams and, possibly after a while, the main professional team.Inside Ascoli Soccer Academy project a great importance is given to international aspects. In fact our management is continuously “on the road” monitoring and analyzing the practise of the game even in those countries where football is still not very popular. Activities such as Camps or Year Long Soccer Course normally host multi-cultural applicants, but we invite you to take a look to the proper web section for these.IFA has its main headquarter in Perugia, where we benefit of qualified and experienced structures such as the Convitto Nazionale “Principe di Napoli” in Assisi, the prestigious “University for Foreigners of Perugia” and all the sport partners we work with since many years so far. Since last year we have settled also into Ascoli Calcio’s main headquarter in Ascoli. This new branch and the IFA’s staff operating by there work in order to facilitate co-operation and fulfil any technical and organizational requirement. By creating this new branch we will also be able to maximize the co-operation with all national and international affiliated clubs.  

For further information for Australian players, clubs and teams, please contact Australian Football Players through our website www.australianfootballplayers.com.au or call Sergio Garcia direct on +61 2 414 997 205.

Robihno’s professional career began early in 2002 when he played for three consecutive years for the Brazilian team Santos totalling 44 goals in the 104 game participations. As of 2005 Robihno was transferred to the Real Madrid where he became an important part of the team’s success especially during the 2007-08 Liga Season when Real Madrid won the championship. 

In order for the footballer to be able to be part of Chelsea’s roster he will need to come to an agreement in terms of money with the Real Madrid as his contract is valid until 2010; the amount in question could be around 150m Euros  or 119m British Pounds.  It is well known the Brazilian has repeatedly stated his wish to play in England and leave the Spanish club as soon as possible. 

On the other hand, the Liga club has announced that “the Real Madrid would never want to retain a player against his wishes and as a result they have no alternative but to accept his unilateral decision to rescind his contract – if that is what the player wants.”

Two of the major reasons for Robihno’s discomfort and deep wish to leave the Real Madrid are the facts that he recently became aware the club was negotiating his sell to another club in order to gather all the required funds to buy Cristiano Ronaldo’s contract before the starting of the season and that he could not participate as part of his Brazilian National Squad neither help them as his request to participate in the Olympic Games was refused.

Chelsea’s coach Luiz Felipe Scolari was the first to contact Robihno during the first days of the month of August and to his surprise he received very positive feedback from the Brazilian forward and from that point on the transfer saga has become the daily news in the football world. It is very clear Robihno does not want to be part of the Real Madrid anymore and he should be able to freely move to another club where he feels his game and efforts are more appreciated.

There have been reports that Chelsea’s bid could be around 19m to 30m British Pounds to get Real Madrid’s permission release signed.  But now another issue has awaken which is to whether the Spaniard club should let go of the player or not, as the player is known for his exception skills and capability on the football field. The acquirement of Robihno would certainly be a gain for Chelsea as he will make an excellent pair with Deco who is already part of the Chelsea’s players list while for the Real Madrid will be an open spot – a very difficult to be replaced within only a few days time.