Wenger receives Arsenal backing over foreign issue (fansfc.com)
Arsenal Football Club chairman Peter Hill-Wood has fully backed Arsene Wenger over his foreign policy. The Gunners have come in for some criticism this week after Wenger picked an entire sixteen-man squad devoid of a single British player for the 5-1 hammering of Crystal Palace on Monday night.
Wenger: Foreign policy not damaging (Evening Standard)
Arsene Wenger today hit back at Jose Mourinho after the Chelsea manager said he would never turn his back on English players. The Arsenal manager has been under fire all week after fielding a 16-man squad without a single Englishman in the 5-1 win over Crystal Palace on Monday night.
HOME GROWN PLAYERS - THE LMA VIEW (League Managers Association)
As a result of the controversy following Monday evening s match with Crystal Palace, when Arsenal s 16 man squad did not contain a single British player, the LMA Chairman Howard Wilkinson has issued the following statement.
Reported new HIV 'superstrain' concerns public health officials (The Morning Journal)
As New York City public health officials on Tuesday attempted to track down the sexual contacts of a man with what has been termed a ''superstrain'' of HIV, other AIDS experts questioned why the officials created such a public uproar over a single case.
Arsenal boss backs his foreign legion (fansfc.com)
Arsene Wenger has backed his decision to filed an Arsenal Football Club squad without a single British player. The Gunners boss named the 16-man-squad for the 5-1 hammering of Crystal Palace on Monday evening, due mainly to an illness to Ashley Cole and injury to Sol Campbell.
Merson blasts Arsenal (Soccer365)
Former Arsenal star Paul Merson has hit out at the Gunners for failing to bring through homegrown players. Arsene Wenger failed to include a single British player in his squad for Monday night's 5-1 Barclays Premiership win over Crystal Palace.
Papers show government authorised arms bribes (Guardian Unlimited)
Papers released under freedom of information laws reveal with startling frankness how the British government secretly authorised bribery on arms sales.
The Guardian profile: Ken Livingstone (Guardian Unlimited)
The mayor sat amid a scene of high drama at City Hall and sank back into his chair, as if someone had knocked the wind out of him. Behind Ken Livingstone were Holocaust survivors, a golden-haired woman, her tearful eyes blazing, and a stocky man, mouth tightly pursed, cheeks reddened by fury.
Arsene Wenger (U.TV)
Wenger has been criticised in some quarters for not including a single British player in the team or on the substitutes` bench in Monday`s 5-1 win.
Jock rock (Sydney Morning Herald)
British band Athlete are training to become bigger than Coldplay. 'I'm feeling a little bit rough this morning," says Joel Pott, singer-guitarist with England's latest chart-conquering indie band, Athlete.
