It is with great sadness, that we have to announce the imminent closure of Online Arsenal.com

On January 1st 2008 OA received notice from Legal representatives of Mr Edward (Teddy) Sheringham.

They had noted numerous comments on the site relating to their client, and had considered many of them to be subject to libel and defemation of character.

Considering this action to be overly heavy handed and completely unreasonable, not to mention beyond the statute of limitations (as some of the comments were over 4 years old ) OA decided to stand firm and Fight the good fight on behalf of all our members.

This we have done over the last 3 months, with countless solicitors letters (and Fees!) between the two parties, and even warnings from our own Hosting site, who so far have been excellent in keeping us open during these events.

Unfortunately our finances are not on a par with Mr Sheringham and as such our legal advisors have suggested that to continue fighting this action is very much beyond our means, and with heavy heart and massive regret, we have had to face facts and accept this situation.

We have been given an option to either close the site completely, or face extreme financial difficulties defending our case further.  Unfortuantely we have had to decide to close OA to prevent further legal and financial losses.

As part of the agreement to cease legal procedings, we also have to apologise to Mr Sheringham for any harm caused by our numerous false comments. 

As such, at Midnight on Thursday 3rd April 2008, OA will be removed from its hosting service, and will not return.

Its been a great 5 year run, and we would like to thank all our loyal members for making this site what it is.

Keep The Faith.....Arsenal for the Premiership...and Moscow here we come!

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Happy April Fools Day Suckers!!!

The Draw for the CL Quarter (and Semi) Finals has been made...and surprise surprise, Chavski get another easy tie while The Gooners face the Scousers.

FULL DRAW

Champions League quarter-final draw:
Arsenal v Liverpool (First leg 2 Apr/Second leg 8 Apr)
AS Roma v Man Utd (First leg 1 Apr/Second leg 9 Apr)
Schalke 04 v FC Barcelona (First leg 1 Apr/Second leg 9 Apr)
Fenerbahce v Chelsea (First leg 2 Apr/Second leg 8 Apr)

Champions League semi-final draw:
Arsenal/Liverpool v Fenerbahce/Chelsea
Schalke/Barcelona v AS Roma/Man Utd

Ray of hope appeal - appeal launch


A worthy cause for a great player...

January Transfer Window

It's been a quiet transfer window for The Gunners, the only incoming transfer was the long expected arrival of 15 year old Luke Freeman from Gillingham on a two-year deal to become part of Arsenal's youth set-up in our schoolboy/scholar scheme in a deal believed to be worth 200k.

There were two loan exits, as follows;

Mark Randall - Burnley - remainder of season

Kieran Gibbs - Norwich - until 28th April

Arsenal will have to travel to Prawn Sarnie Central to face Man Ure in the FA Cup 5th Round....while  Chavski face a lower league team.....

5th Round Draw:-

Bristol Rovers v Southampton

Cardiff City v Wolves

Sheffield United v Middlesbrough

Loserpool v Barnsley

Man Ure v Arsenal

Preston v Portsmouth

Coventry City v West Brom

Chavski v Huddersfield Town

The ties are scheduled to take place on 16 and 17 February.

Arsenal have been given a home tie for this seasons FA Cup 4th round draw, and the victims...sorry, opponents will either be Stoke City or Fat Sam's Underperforming Newcastle...

Full draw for the fourth round of the FA Cup

Arsenal v Stoke City/Newcastle
Coventry v Walsall/Millwall
Oldham v Huddersfield Town
Swindon/Barnet v Fulham/Bristol Rovers
Wigan v Chelsea
Luton/Liverpool v Swansea/Havant & Waterlooville
Southend v Barnsley
Southampton v Norwich/Bury
Man Utd v Tottenham/Reading
Portsmouth v Plymouth
Derby/Sheff Wed v Preston
Watford v Wolves
Peterborough v Charlton/West Brom
Sheff Utd v West Ham/Man City
Mansfield v Middlesbrough
Tranmere/Hereford v Cardiff

Ties to be played on 26 & 27 Jan

Arsene Wengers Red and White Army will be marching on Burnley's Turf Moor Ground in the 3rd round of the FA Cup 07/08.

***UPDATE***

The tie will be played Live on BBC1 at 2pm on Sunday January 6

Emmanual Adebayor has Triple the reason to celebrate his goal against Reading on Monday Night....Firstly and more importantly, it helped overcome a 10 man Defence that Boring Reading had put out against the league leaders.... secondly it saw the end of his goal drought....and thirdly it marked Arsenal's 1000th Premeirship Goal!!!

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has won the Premier League's manager of the month award for September, with midfielder Cesc Fabregas named best player.

Wenger picks up his ninth monthly award as Gunners boss after leading his side to four wins out of four in the month.

Spaniard Fabregas, 20, scored three times in that period as Arsenal beat Portsmouth, Tottenham, Derby and West Ham to go top of the Premier League.

Fabregas wins his second award after also claiming the prize in January.

The Board of Arsenal Holdings plc have agreed a revision of the ‘lock-down agreement’ over any potential sale of their shares.

At Thursday’s AGM, chairman Peter Hill-Wood announced that Club directors would only sell their stake to “permitted persons” before April 2009 and had to give fellow board members ‘first-option’ until October 2012.