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Listed below are comments made by antgel between Saturday, 8th November 2008 and Tuesday, 16th December 2008.

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Is it safe to Explore? 9:12pm on 16 Dec 2008 >This could be the moment when the minnows in the browser wars finally score a significant victory.

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What? More sensationalist claptrap from the BBC. This is one of many similar vulnerabilities in Microsoft software over the last 10 years and more. Why should this issue mean a mass migration more than any others?

The commercial software companies are onto a loser these days, as all they have going for them is their marketing. When will people smell the coffee? Their motivation is not to produce good software, their motivation is to make profit.
Wenger satisfied as critics silenced 01:21am on 10 Nov 2008 Phil:

>Fabregas going downhill? I like that. I am
> sure every major club in the world would
> love him to be going downhill with them.

You'll note that I'm not the only one here whispering that he was under par. He wasn't exactly an automatic starting choice for Spain in the Euros, so someone else thinks he's not the greatest, although he was good when he came on for them - frustratingly better than he was for Arsenal in the season.

He's a great natural talent, but his form over the last 1-2 years has been patchy at best, and I've been at the games, home and away. There is too much respect given to reputation, and not enough to form.

> Maybe he is not at his best, but he was
> still involved in Arsenal's two goals
> today and made a significant
> contribution.

Involved in the goals, yes. But his position in the team is too important to just pop up every now and again - in centre midfield you're responsible for bossing the game. I do think that if he had a great tough-tackler next to him (and I don't mean the over-rated Flamini), then he might loosen up a bit and play how he used to. But his body language suggests he wants to be elsewhere.

> By the way, Wenger told us afterwards
> that he thought Bendtner was
> "outstanding."

I'm not a BBC sports writer, but even I know that like politicians, football managers don't always blurt out their innermost feelings to the media and public. They have to be more subtle than that - it doesn't look good to slate your own players. I reckon behind closed doors Wenger was fuming.
Wenger satisfied as critics silenced 9:00pm on 08 Nov 2008 Fabregas was the joint-worst Arsenal player on the pitch, tying with the hapless Bendtner. I don't know what game you were watching, but your Fabregas-fawning is so 2006. I have been saying for a while that he is going downhill, and now most people are starting to see it (I tend to see trends quickly).

Of course, he may just be jaded, and suffering from having no great midfield partner, but he is a shadow of the player he was two years ago, and he is certainly not improving with time.

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