Santi Carzola! - The Hedgehog!

So excited!

Papers in the UK are confirming that Arsenal will announce the signing of Malaga Forward Santi Carzola this week.

I like this player. His technique at set-pieces and also his incisive cut-in runs are like superb!

Now where did i put my WCCF 08-09 World Wing Forward Foil of him?

Now we going places.

FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS TO KNOW OUR LIKELY FORMATIONS THIS YR.

                                                              Giroud / Podolski
                                              Chamakh / Park Chu Yong / Sanchez Watt

Gervinho / Podolski /                                                                                     Walcott / Carzola
Ryo Miyachi / A. Santos                     Wilshere / Rosicky / Diaby                Alex Ox C / Rosicky 
  / Ramsey                                          Ramsey / Lansbury / Eisfeld                     / Ryo Miyaichi

                                         Arteta / Ramsey / Diaby            Song / Coquelin / Frimpong
                                           Lansbury

K. Gibbs / A. Santos /                                                                                  Sagna / Jenkinson / Djourou
Vermaelen                                                                                                         / Coquelin

                     Vermaelen / Koscielny / Miquel            Koscielny / Mertesacker / Djourou
                         / Song                                                                         / Song

                                                            Szecsny / Fabianski / Mannone

Sigh. Barca with 1xMessi is scary. 2-3 of them 10yrs from now?

Just saw Barca have pipped spurs to the Irish 9-yr old dubbed "The Irish Messi".

Kids bloody talented for his age. Top 90 youths left in the trials and the top 16 played 8 vs 8. Guess what he scores single-handedly 7 goals that match.

Add this to the youTube jap child messi - Takefusa Kubo they signed earlier.

No wonder they lead the race to find another Messi / Ronaldinho skill player all the time.

Lets pray the two kids grow well and Takefusa take the world by storm with Barca youth's best poacher - Arsenal FC.

CHANGED MY MIND! - Buying the NEW Arsenal Away 12-13 Kit direct from AFC - London

Thinking again, i decided to go for the NEW Purple Reign.

Really like the new modern hoops design. Plus this time i going to pay a bit more and order direct from Arsenal. They have a exclusive Arsenal Official Red Font. Goes even better with the away kit!

K i am a gooner for life! Glad darling likes the new purple jersey!

My super hero Kos6 !! Hang in there and you will get your reward with France set-up. Super-Kos6 going to start this season with Adams fighting desire burning in him.

EMVP Drogba for WCCF?

Wow, what can you say.

A semi-pro Welsh footballer for Bangor City inside the list of nominations.

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/news/unknown-welshman-uefa-player-year-160519265.html

But seriously, if you look at the nominations for the UEFA awards, i feel that in my mind, the winner should be either of the following:

1st: Drogba, 2nd: Xavi, 3rd C. Ronaldo, 4th: A. Pirlo

Well hey, sounds like new foil to me though. EMVP Drogba or Pirlo for me please.

Sorry for taking a dig at the Spuds! - I seldom do...(Honest! Really!)

Was reading Soccernet's articles on the recent transfer activities of the spurs players both coming in and going out.

I wasn't so mean as to laugh at the Spuds directly, (In case you didn't know, any fair British and Arsenal-supporting bloke would call Spurs as the Spuds-Potatoes. Go figure.) but hearing some of the players transfer comments made me all giggly inside.

Firstly, we have a Mr. Gylfi Sigurdsson (Hope it spelt right) who just wanted to make it clear on his view that he joined the "right" club over Liverpool in order to have a better shot at the BPL.

Haha (there you have it, the first time i laughed at the Spuds and its players). Seriously? Surely he must know more about his former boss to know that there really is something good and ideal about the way Rodgers expects the club to play and can transform the ordinary to extraordinary.

In this case, it is fair to say that he is the most ideal candidate bar Wenger to bring Anfield's glory days of quick passing and direct passing to feet back to modern day Liverpool. And boy do they need that revival fast.

Noticed that even Gylfi himself wanted to keep between themselves the details of the chat between him and his former boss. My guess is he wanted assurances that he is going to be the star player of the Liverpool team if he was to join Rodgers. Are you kidding me? Let's see we have Gerard, Aquilani, Maxi Rodriguez, Charlie Adams, Jay Spearing, Jonjo Shelvey and Henderson. Other than the last 3 names, i am confident the other 4 names will contribute well this year in a more fluid Liverpool attack. (Yes, even Adams whose notriously inconsistent season the last campaign would surely come good this time. But mark my words, keep an eye out for Aquilani. Fluidity and guile has always been his game.)

So there we have it again folks - players with mediocrity on their minds. Gylfi struck with sour-grapes syndrome after a lack of re-assurance from Rodgers. And guess what they like to congregate in a small club in North London up Seven Sisters Road.

Just some parting shots, i couldn't help it. The frustrated 30-yr old Rafael Van Der Vaart comes out publicly to say he is probably going to stay with spurs anyway. This despite a whole flurry of clubs come wanting him....wait....it's one club and is his former employers Hamburg SV. No disrespect to Hamburg, but wouldn't that be a step-down from his current playing club? Didn't his mother ever teach him "When counting money in your wallet, you don't take all notes out and count out aloud. It's like if i took out my wallet and counted 2-4-6 and shouted Yay! $6 dollars!

Alright, we will leave it at that. I have aired my opinions on the spuds and to all spuds fans who disagree, please focus your frustration on supporting your new manager AVB instead. Because simply, the guy's too emotional for football management stress. Whether the spuds players will support him fully remains to be seen.

Looking forward to an enigmatic BPL season this year. But Spuds for the title push in AVBs first try? I think Arsenal even with Wenger a stable manager, bigger squad, replacement players cant claim we going to win the title. Haha.

Let's just all drink beer and be merry you Gooners.

The sun sure looks brighter on this part of north london.

Jartemlove
Long-time Arsenal fan in sunny Singapore

My newest WCCF team! 16 Different Countries - 16 Different Clubs - No Repeats

Had fun forming this. Hope to play any of you guys with this really interesting A-D-F grouping team.

FIRST XI:
WGK Sancti Canizarez
A. cole
T. Vermaelen
EMVP Cannavaro
Song Chong Gug
J. Mascherano
D. Zokora
BAN Giggs
T. Henry
WST Adriano (05-06)
ATLE R. Gullit

SUBS:
Calcio Ibrahimovic
WSK Mizuno
B. Schweisteiger
M. Jankulovski
D. Chrygysky

NEW WCCF 10-years Annivessary Ofiicial Goods

Lol. I like the old-skool card case. But i really have too many cases.

Maybe go for the IC card design stickers.

NEW Arsenal Away Kit 12-13

Yes, they named it PURPLE REIGN for a reason.

Time for the Arsenal doubters (And i also mean the Arsenal Fans themselves) to EAT their words and cry out loud when we WIN something this year.

1. Underdogs starting the season - CHECK
2. Talismanic player and captain leaves the club - CHECK
3. Every form of the media WISHING and DYING to brand you to fail - CHECK
4. Wenger's reign as manager questioned again - CHECK
5. Players brought in or comeback from injury to take over the departed - CHECK
(This is the only reason i can see why we really felt the loss of Cesc and Samir in one-go. Wilshere was injured season-long and this is not an over-statement)

HEY! HEY! Calling all Arsenal True fans!

Get back to reality and immunize yourself from the negative press.

We ARE better than they say and we will do better than that!

I personally like the colour mix and how the hoop stands out from the purple. Genius is Herbert Chapman.

But agreed not ALL fans going to like the radical colour scheme change.

Going to get me my No.6 Kos Home Kit next month. Can't wait for the season to start actually.

Cheers

Jartemlove

NEW Requirements in WCCF 11-12

The new AIME Tap Card readers:

In case you guys didnt know, AIME is an IC card that has the support of a FREE online account. This card is currently used for games like Mahjong 4 / ZanGuo (The Jap history SanGuo) / Project Diva Music Game / And soon...WCCF.

The idea is simple same as Konami's E-Amusement Pass. Where if you create a free account with Sega / Aime, and register your AIME card, you can view your played data online, even change tactics online in future. More importantly, since you registered your card already online. If you physically lost the AIME card, you can use the FREE service on your account to just transfer all existing data from the old card to a new card (Just buy a brand new AIME card and register). You can also register more than one AIME card to your FREE account. (At point of pre-test 11-12, there are slots for 3 AIME cards in WCCF NET - Hey with each card able hold 10-teams, thats 30 possible active or even old teams!)

THINGS YOU CAN DO BEFORE WCCF 11-12 hits Singapore.

1. Buy a new AIME card. - The last i checked Singapore arcades don't sell. There is an alternative though. - If you buy the Project Diva IC Card (Blue card with Hakuna Miku pic on it), you can in theory update it as an AIME card by registering this card online to my--aime.net.

As SG now no have, maybe wait a while.

2. OK THIS IS IMPORTANT - Since WCCF is SEGA right? There is a transition period that is in play now that allows SEGA ID users to log-in onto AIME website (my-aime.net) using purely SEGA ID and password. There is a disclaimer on website of AIME that says that this option of doing so may be taken away at any time.

SO, firstly go and create your SEGA ID first. You may do so at here: https://iway.isao.net/sega/mail_in.cgi

Yes- In Japanese, but transalte the page and fill in details. Get the ID sent to the E-mail address.

3. When you have the ID you need to go to AIME website here: https://my-aime.net/aime/jp/p/login.html

Log-in using the newly created SEGA ID and password. Then click register new AIME card here: https://my-aime.net/aime/jp/p/user/card/regist.html

4.When you have done so, then log into the WCCF website specially created for us WCCF players to see ALL data related to WCCF online: wccfnet.jp

When nearer to time, i will try explain more.

Enjoy your games!

Arsenal will move on without the Oranje Master

Little can be said of Van Persie's latest condemning statement released.

Forget the hate mob, forget loyalty, more or less forget his captaincy.

It is just sad that many little Arsenal boys will be missing their RVP hero. But thats that, life goes on.

No man is bigger than the club. If you want to test this statement, romp into your director's office now and ask for twice your salary and insist or else you say Arriverderci! I'd bet SGD50 your boss will fire you if you insisted on this. lol.

Legacies are built over time. Unfortunately, legends are too...much heralded over time and unlike Bergkamp, this Dutch Hot-Shot decided enough is enough. He has succumbed to the "Awww, we didnt win a trophy again. Like the kid in the park who goes on crying asking mum why his other friends have RC controlled toys and he only has a kite. Continue buying your way into his heart and you gonna have a super spoilt child growing up in his teens."

Sometimes, "Mum - Like the club, knows best."

I know many Man Utd fans will hate me, but i would just like to get some perspective on things. Take Rooney for instance, his form ever since he signed that "Bumper" contract right after Alex and even the board of Man Utd had held their stance against his indiscretion against the club saga; is erratic, and poor overall.

Yes, i acknowledge that he has still scored freely in few games where opposition defences were apalling. But when it mattered last year and the season before that, he hasnt been consistently been finding the net. Touch your heart and question why? Nothing motivates him anymore. To be honest and i think even Rooney agrees. He is Ballon D'or material, but has regressed in achieving world's best. Simply, even when he held the club at knifepoint with his threat then, the saga ended with the club offering the largest contract to date for him. Admit it, something surely must be wrong there. At all costs? Man Utd are still winning things so you cant see how lack of trophies can cause huge cracks. By then, you think all the "Top" players would stay?

I'd even reckon you can forget about ever seeing Rooney's best ever again because when the next time his contract is nearing, he will turn contract rebel again.

Don't believe the whole open letter from Red & White though, the supposed we support but question Kroenke ownership. To be frank, even if you had Ferguson as manager here and still spent millions and not winning, it would still spell the same. Top players leaving. This is not just an Arsenal trend, it is a footballing trend. To take Arsenal as the most obvious scapegoat is for the convenience of those daming football writers.

Lets take some things in consideration, the supposed "Worst Arsenal Team in a century" last season climbed from a bloody well with EVERYONE, i mean it, EVERYONE taking the chance to kick us in the side and mocking us; to a respectable finish that showed fighting spirit i haven't seen in a while.

If one thing last season showed, without Fabregas, some players stepped up to take more responsibility in MF. They were primarily Song, Arteta, Rosicky, and yes even Ramsey even if he did fade out at the end but he started well in the first half. Because of this, the Arsenal MF actually had more resolve and bite to it as compared to when Fab4 was here. However last season also showed what we miss when Fab4 was here, off the ball running, availability to take a pass and pass and move forwards rather than sideways. This year it was obvious at times, we lacked a willing box-to-box man with the guile to sweep in between MF and take passes to release others into space. But hey, we have just the man, Wilshere and an improvingly consistent Rosicky.

So enough the doom and gloom gunners fans. It is good RVP mentioned it in early July that he will leave. Gives us time to see who we want to buy. And trust me this time, Wenger is different in the market, he has learnt from the past and is not stubborn anymore, he is buying into experience more and more. Enough of those fans with negative jibes and claiming they know better than Arsene. I say let the man work his wonders with 2 months to go. You will be surprised.

Lets expect a good season and look forward with anticipation. Who else is Le Boss going to buy?

By the way, to be honest with you, i always respected and admired RVP's technique and passing play. But never ever felt inspired by him like i was with Henry and Bergkamp. In fact in the current team, i am inspired by Kos6 who has in my opinion been the best player we had last season. You should see his gritty face when as usual his last ditch effort saves Arsenal again. So many times he saved the tactical mistakes of his partnering CBs and it is seldom the other way round. Watch carefully this year and you will see what i mean. I am going to be buying the new home jersey with his name on it this year.

So off to start work and all ya gooner fans, keep the faith. The world isn't always just abut Red & White.

Arsenal - Forward 126years.

James Chan
Long-time Arsenal fan in sunny Singapore

WCCF 11-12 Team with INIESTA's KP ILLUSION-ESTA

Some first looks into WCCF 11-12.

Thought the name was cool. Iniesta's specific and unique KP skill reads in Jap as ILLUSION-ESTA.

With the new system having all 3 types of KP, there seems to be many possible new pre-sets.

Wonder if we can change the 3 KP's during a match at halftime or something?

The team includes (From bottom up and left to right): Dida / Carvalho / Nesta / Puyol / Diarra / Pepe / Busquets / Ronaldinho / Xavi / Iniesta / Messi

Cheers!