Match Venue: UEFA Champions League, Celtic Park
Tuesday, August 18, 2009, 19:45
Arsenal have arrived in Glasgow for their first leg Champions League playoff against Celtic. It will decide which of the two British clubs will make it into the final.
Arsenal could be without up to four of their key players for the first-leg of their Champions League play-off game with Celtic.
Winger Theo Walcott is ruled out of the game with a back injury, whilst there are serious injury doubts over Bacary Sagna, Cesc Fabregas and Denilson.

Celtic have injury woes of their own with Dutch defender Glenn Loovens having limped out of Saturday’s 3-1 win at Aberdeen with a knee problem and winger Shaun Maloney picking up a knock. Both will be assessed on Tuesday after training on Monday.

Celtic: Boruc, Hinkel, Naylor, Caldwell, Fox, O’Dea, Loovens, Scott Brown, N’Guemo, Donati, McGeady, McDonald, Samaras, Fortune, Killen, Maloney, Zaluska, Crosas, Caddis, Ferry.

Arsenal : Almunia, Sagna, Vermaelen, Gallas, Clichy, Eboue, Song, Diaby, Fabregas, Arshavin, van Persie, Eduardo, Mannone, Bendtner, Denilson, Ramsey, Wilshere, Gibbs, Silvestre.

To start with it is rumoured that Wenger is about to sign hangland, vander vaat and may be chamakh, Song did an excellent job against Everton, so he would or shall delay the purchase of Defensive midfielder.

Steven Taylor (Newcastle) is being tracked by a number of clubs in the Prem. Everton looking like the favourites, but have been told Sunderland will make a surprise bid.

Everton will sell Lescott (£25mil plus add–ons) and will use £8mil for Steven Taylor (if it happens) or £6mil for Senderos.

Liverpool to make 2 new signings.

Javi Martinez (who didnt feature in the supercopa against barcelona almost confirming his sale to liverpool) will arrive for 12m. Along with Aquilani these 2 highly rated midfielders should more than fill the gap left by Xabi. Martinez will take Alonsos vacated number 14 jersey.
And taking the prestigiuos 7 shirt for the reds will be Alexis Sanchez, a skillful winger/forward.

With Roma eager to offload another player to provide funds for squad reinforcement, Inter is beginning to register an interest in Julio Baptista and the beast could be on his way to Nerazzurri.
Inter are ready to offer former Giallorossi winger Amantino Mancini and Portuguese flop Ricardo Quaresma moving in the opposite direction as a swap deal. Nicolas Burdisso could be another option.

Wesley Sneijder again tops the list of potential Real Madrid departures as the Dutchman is on the radar of Inter, who are seeking to supplement their attack.

The Italian capital club could also lose Phillipe Mexes to Chelsea, reportedly, Chelsea are preparing a €14m plus Ricardo Carvalho offer for the Frenchman.

West Ham United will not be selling Matthew Upson; Gianfranco Zola has not received any bids as yet.

Wigan Athletic are close to tying up a deal for Mohamed Diame, of Rayo Vallecano, while Liverpool are said to be interested in Fernando Amorebieta, who plays for Athletic Club.

Danny Murphy wants Brede Hangeland to stay with Fulham despite Arsenal’s interest and Sunderland are closing on a loan deal for Lyon’s John Mensah.

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I am sure you must be using google for searching anything/something on internet (What a foolish question). While doing that you must have noticed a new arrow button to each search result (1 shown in the above image). Yes that arrow up and arrow down button is called the google promote buttons. This is a new google gizmo which is introduced again to make user experience better on google.

It is rather simple button, when we click takes that search result on the top. But people (where I mean ‘I’) thought that is another SEO antic which Google might have introduced to help increase the page rank of that site and that so instantally. Hurray!! Isnt it? Hmm….Not quite so…the Google promote button is meant to be a personal button, a way to ensure that sites you like stay at the top of your search results. It does not mean a credit card affiliate can type “credit card” in Google, click their site, and think that this further optimizes the site for that search term. If anything, it’s just a way for webmasters to get a little ego boost seeing their results at the top of the page.

But does this promote button have any SEO value? Will it help increase the SERPS or SEO of a page? What if 1000 of people click the promote button for a site/page and increase their chance on google? There are so many black hat SEO techniques which already are doing it and this will engage people into a new SEO war.

Do you think Google thinks the way we do? Or has google already contemplated these point? Google must have already chalked out a solvent to all these problems. Google is not dump. Google just kept these buttons - promote and remove per-user. These are not yet digg or hot or not tools. They are just mean to organize your search results. The fav ones on the top and the less fav ones below.
Isnt it this a out of box feature or just a simple feature but affective one? Thats what google aims to - Make life simple. God! Please give me brains 1% as Google has.

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Chelsea have beaten Hull by 2-1 at Stamford Bridge. Hunt opened the scoring and became the first to score in this years Premier League. Didier Drogba scoring both goals to give his side their first win.
Mendy from Hull city became the first to get the Premier league Yellow card.

Wigan grabbed all 3 points with two goals as they claimed a first win under new manager Roberto Martinez.
Striker Hugo Rodallega bagged the first goal with a sensational strike in the first half before Jason Koumas doubled their lead after the break.

Goals from the debutant Emmanuel Adebayor and Stephen Ireland at Blackburn Rovers ensured a winning start for mega-rich outfit, Manchester City in the Premier League. Mark Hughes makes a victorious return to Ewood Park as City keep their first away clean-sheet in a year.

Arsenal got their season off to a great start as they tore poor Everton apart at Goodison Park with a stunning display.

The visitors were three ahead at the break through Denilson - from the edge of the box - and two headed goals from Thomas Vermaelen and William Gallas.

The young gunners of Arsne Wenger got to a season best start as their tore apart the Everton backyard with a stunning 6 goal dispaly.

The visitors hit 3 goals in the first half and 3 in the second half to win 6-1 against Everton in Goodison park.
Denilson, Vermaelen, Gallas, Fabregas (2) and Eduardo scored.

Last season’s Coca-Cola Championship winners Wolves went down 2-0 at home to West Ham.

Mark Noble (22) put the Irons ahead midway through the first half, and following a string of good saves by England goalkeeper Robert Green as the hosts pressed for an equaliser, defender Matthew Upson (69) headed in a second from a corner to put the game beyond Wolves.

Darren Bent marked his debut for Sunderland with a fifth-minute winner against Bolton at the Reebok Stadium.

Fulham have already been in Europa League qualifying action and continued their early-season momentum as they beat Portsmouth 1-0 at Fratton Park.

Clint Dempsey’s shot deflected off striker Bobby Zamora (13) and past England keeper David James, which was enough to collect all three points.

Play-off winners Burnley were handed a tough welcome back to the top flight as Stoke won 2-0 at Britannia Stadium.

Ryan Shawcross (19) nodded in a free-kick from Liam Lawrence, before an own goal by Stephen Jordan (33) doubled the home side’s advantage and there was no way back for the Clarets.
Full-time scores:

Aston Villa 0-2 Wigan

Blackburn 0-2 Man City

Bolton 0-1 Sunderland

Chelsea 2-1 Hull

Portsmouth 0-1 Fulham

Stoke 2-0 Burnley

Wolves 0-2 West Ham

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Thursdays gossip column includes, Real Madrid striker Alvaro Negredo closing on Hull city, Real Madrid could relaunch their bid to sign Bayern Munich’s French midfielder Franck Ribery, Manchester United to hijack FC Schalke keeper Manuel Neuer and many more….

To start with Arsenal long wished target Marouane Chamakh is now chased by another Premier League club West Ham after Arsenal dropped their intrest in signing the Bordeaux striker. West Ham are ready to offer 50 per cent sell-on clause for the tall striker.

spendthrifts spanish giants, Real Madrid are again in the market to bid French wizard and Bayern Munich’s midfielder Franck Ribery. Sources in spain suggest, Real are ready to offer 30m euros and Dutch entire battalion which includes Wesley Sneijder, Arjen Robben, Royston Drenthe and Rafael Van der Vaart.

ALEX FERGUSON is trying to wrap up a £5million deal for keeper Manuel Neuer before Bayern Munich increase their bid.
The Manchester United manager has received rave reports about the FC Schalke stopper, 23, who is being dubbed the new Peter Schmeichel.

Chelsea boss Carlo Ancelotti is keen to make 20-year-old Serbian striker Nemanja Matic his fourth signing since taking the reins at Stamford Bridge in a £4million deal.

Chelsea defender Michael Mancienne is set to sign a new four-year deal at Stamford Bridge before then joining Premier League newcomers Wolves on loan for the season.

Thanks and C ya tomorrow !!!

Good Evening!
Today’s gossip revolves mostly around English clubs. Strange part is that in each gossip atleast 1 English club or player is involved. Dont bellieve it? Lets prove it!

First, Los Angeles Galaxy want away midfielder David Beckham to return to the San Siro in January for a second loan spell, which would keep alive the England player’s World Cup hopes.

Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti has failed in his bid to make Roma midfielder Daniele de Rossi his first big-name signing at Stamford Bridge.

Bayern Munich have stepped up their pursuit of Chelsea defender Jose Bosingwa and urged the Blues to keep their word over allowing him to join them for about £15m.

Chelsea striker Andriy Shevchenko will see out the final year of his contract at Stamford Bridge after rejecting a move to former club Dynamo Kiev.

Redknapp is set to up his offer for Toulouse midfielder Moussa Sissoko from £12m to £15.5m, although the French club want £25m.

Sunderland boss Steve Bruce has gone back to his former club Wigan with a £10m offer for midfielder Lee Cattermole.

Arsenal are on the trail of 6ft 4in Borussia Dortmund centre-back Neven Subotic, with chief executive Ivan Gazidis ready to make a £12m offer for the 20-year-old Serb who is also attracting interest from Everton.

Former Liverpool, Chelsea and Middlesbrough midfielder Boudewijn Zenden claims he is in talks with Hull, Blackburn and Portsmouth over a return to the Premier League.

Liverpool goalkeeper Pepe Reina has warned boss Rafael Benitez that Xabi Alonso will be virtually irreplaceable after the midfielder was sold to Real Madrid.

Thanks for reading!


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