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Spurs did beat Arsenal to land Woodgate

9:21am Friday 9th May 2008

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WHILE Spurs may have lived in the shadows of their bitter north London rivals Arsenal for years they still managed to beat them to the signing of Jonathan Woodgate.

Media reports suggest the Gunners attempted to hijack the England defenders move from Middlesbrough in January, but in the end he choose to stick with Spurs.

The Independent says it will not help the mood of Arsenal supporters that it has now emerged that Arsene Wenger did indeed attempt to sign Woodgate only to find he was wrapping up talks with Tottenham.

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Digger, says...
9:55am Fri 9 May 08

...and the award for the most pointless article ever goes to.....

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sofuckinwhat, indonesia says...
10:13am Fri 9 May 08

SO FCKIN WHAT? we don't need him anyway... this article is SHT ...

WENGER KNOWS!!!!!

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3 euro trophies to 2, LONDON says...
10:42am Fri 9 May 08

HAHAHA the empire is crumbling, no-one wants to play there anymore. Seems like the gooners are sweating now Spurs are making all the big moves and their best players are leaving.

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what a joke, 330 222 says...
11:03am Fri 9 May 08

arsenal are sweating are you mad mate, you won the carling cup, getting hyper like your going to win the league start winning games first. what moves are you making in 12th place you tell me?
spurs kick arsenal out of top four the biggest joke of my life, wenger made it clear that he didnt want jonathan woodgate, we buy talented players unlike you kaboul, malbranque, huddlestone, i could go on, the shittest player in our team is eboue!

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Dan Mac, says...
11:11am Fri 9 May 08

You buy all the quality players?? Like Hleb and Flamini who have decided to leave now... like henry did last year - yeah, I agree that he hasn't exactly gone on to better things, but it was still HIS choice to leave... that's 3 of your first team players in the last yr now that have decided they don't want to stay at Arsenal...

without bringing this into Spurs v Arsenal and just keeping it about football - it doesn't look good for you lot.

by the way... Malbranque...??? what do you know about football... he's been **** awesome!

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Sean, Wales says...
11:16am Fri 9 May 08

sofuckinwhat wrote:
SO FCKIN WHAT? we don't need him anyway... this article is SHT ... WENGER KNOWS!!!!!

:-O

In the name of God - some folk are truly dense; the whole point of the story is that WENGER ACTUALLY WANTED HIM AND FAILED IN AN ATTEMPT TO SIGN HIM.
This is, presumably, a fact, it can therefore be deduced that Arsene Wenger, who you go on to claim 'knows' knew that he wanted to sign Woodgate, thus negating your assertion that you don't need him.

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the last stand?, bigsmoke says...
11:17am Fri 9 May 08

Hleb,has gone up in my expectations. Maybe not such a pleb after all!!

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Al, london says...
11:37am Fri 9 May 08

To all you supporters of a so called club on the up.... can i just remind you that you have won 1 "meaningless" Cup in 9 years... and so how is that a club on the up ??
for years you have said "This is our year" and everytime you prove that your nothing more than a mid table team that can still attract over the hill and injury prone players.. Woodgate is a two bob racist mug that im sure wenger would not be intrest in purchasing, so well done... im sure he will fit well down at **** hart lane...

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Al, london says...
11:37am Fri 9 May 08

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William H, London says...
12:09pm Fri 9 May 08

Look at all the Arsenal fans getting on the defensive and jealous!! So Spurs have only won a cr@ppy trophy... what have you won in the last 3 years? Arsen Wenger should go IMO.

We may not win anything next year, but neither will you.

You should be ashamed, no English players and all your quality is leaving... the quality is coming to the Lane!!!

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sam, london says...
12:11pm Fri 9 May 08

Well we clearly are a team on the up, as we have won a cup this year mate.Whereas your a team on the down as when was the last time you won a cup? No one wants to join you now because you dont win things, whereas wiv spurs they join 2 win things, ie woodgate he chose to join a team that won a cup this year and not one that didnt.

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NEO, Dubai says...
12:22pm Fri 9 May 08

Oh,by the way,what club is berbatov joining again???:))

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Dan, Essex says...
12:28pm Fri 9 May 08

When Wenger tried to bid for Woodgate he was already having his medical at the Lane. I think that Woodgate would be on more money at Spurs anyway than Arsenal.

I don't care about Flamini and Hleb leaving, Flamini can be replaced with a more physically strong player and Hleb is awful, can't shoot, won't shoot and no assists. Even if Wenger doesn't buy I'm confident the youngsters would do better than Hleb. To put it simply, these players leaving are a blessing in disguise.

Spurs need to show their quality rather than spending power before I chuck anything at them.

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William H, London says...
12:39pm Fri 9 May 08

Arsenal youth.... I've only heard about that for about the last 5 years!! When will they come in to fruition exactly?

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g, ldn says...
12:39pm Fri 9 May 08

wenger has already said he did not go for woodgate this is just more crap. all you dumb spurs fans going on about you have won a cup this year well done but thats like us arsenal fans saying look at the last 9 years and who has won more its pathatic a mid table finish is not something to be proud of i remember being told at the start of the season you would finish above us by every spurs fan i know now look. All the star are coming to spurs how can you even say that when your best player is leaving berbatov knows he has to go else where to achive anything

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TrueYid, says...
1:06pm Fri 9 May 08

our best player leaving to acheive something?? isnt that exactly what Henry did??

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sam, london says...
1:37pm Fri 9 May 08

i am a tottenham fan, and to those gooners hu dont agree he would be a great signing do not have a clue. he is top class, and clearly your back 4 is too small for the premiership. can u think of a better tall english centre half that was available?? i cant

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g, london says...
3:40pm Fri 9 May 08

Sam its not about agreeing wenger came out and said he did not bid for woodgate so it is a pointless article. As for henry if thats what he moved for don't you think he would have gone to a different team cos every one know barca ain'nt winning nothing

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Crossy, London says...
4:55pm Fri 9 May 08

g from London...Everyone knows Barca aint winning nothing...Is this the same Barca that beat you in the Chaampions League Final? The same year they won the Spanish League Title, the same year you won nothing?
I would look at your facts before putting more succesful teams down both recently and historically!!

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arun, london says...
5:09pm Fri 9 May 08

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Yaa if we are willing to spend stupid money ( 16 mils for whats his name.. aa .. darren bent) like spurs.. may be we'll attract so called english players..

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Floyd, san francisco says...
9:25pm Fri 9 May 08

The season ends, and with it the end of Spurs' failures on the field, and now the fantasists come out from under their rocks. Arsenal improved 12-15 points this year over last; how did Spurs do? They won the supporter's cupand then tanked, rather than push forward. Woodgate makes their defense even more iffy, right. How many games did he play?

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norfbank, says...
4:07am Sat 10 May 08

we cant keep our players lets see where berbatov goes haha spurs are and will always be ****

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Homjit, Leytonstone says...
6:33pm Thu 15 May 08

ply feetball they shout england i not engalnd why shout at me?

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