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THE CROW - By CATHERINE ETOE & RICHARD OSLEY

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God has signed for the Gunners – but don’t expect any miracles

I SAW a Gooner in an Arsenal shirt bearing the words ‘Vieira 4 Ever’ the other day.
Seemed a bit daft seeing as forever arrived in July, when your captain left your team for one that might actually win something. In fact, it’s the sporting

equivalent of having your ex-boyfriend’s moniker tattooed across your backside, where it could be hidden, but insisting on dropping your drawers to show it off every time you leave the house.
Then I realised the shirt in question was that mucky gold coloured rag from Arsenal’s double winning days of 2002.
Nothing like living in the past is there?
Which is a rather silly given that you’ve spent the dosh you got for Paddy on sure fire winners like Michael Owen, Jermaine Jenas and Michael Essien.
Oh sorry, that was someone else. Still if it paid for a couple of patio doors and a U-bend for that new garage you’re having built over the road, success is bound to come.
But I wouldn’t bet my shirt on it.

THOSE crummy Tottenham fans are bragging that Paul Robinson is the best goalkeeper in the world after his great save against Wales on Saturday.
It’s a boast I can take on the chin. It WAS a great save and I was happy that a team which features John Hartson and Rob Earnshaw didn’t beat England.
Robbo can play as well as that for England for as long as he wants – makes no odds to me.

Just as long as when Arsenal visit White Hart Lane he lets five goals slip through his greasy Tottenham palms. Again.
I will never ever, ever, tire of reviving last season’s 4-5 derby win and, hey, it’s always worth bringing up in slow weeks when Arsenal aren’t playing.
Talking of goalkeepers, Gunners fans should smile that Estonian magician Mart Poom has arrived at Highbury.
In these idle weeks without a fixture, I checked out the new keeper’s merchandise being sold on eBay, the internet auction website. Have a look yourself. A trader is selling a ‘Mart Poom is God’ pin-badge. You can’t get a bigger name signing that.

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