This one is for the dedicated fans of football and twitter, so a huge thank you to those who got in touch and suggested their favourites of the week! After going through many names, I whittled it down to the three who cropped up the most. Now, with a week of football which saw some absolutely dreadful behavior from players (Milans Gennaro Gattuso, AS Roma's Jeremy Menez, Tomas Repka of Sparta Prague - clearly all these never got the loving they thought they were due for Valentines), these three Twitter faves were the ones who shone for all the right reasons.
Andrei Arshavin - Arsenal
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| Arshavin - Image courtesy of Telegraph.co.uk |
With a much needed equaliser from Robin Van Persie going down a real treat against Barcelona, it took less than 5 minutes for 29 year old Arshavin to score the winner in an absolutely stunning performance from the moment he skipped onto the pitch in exchange for Alex Song. And boy did he keep himself composed for the remaining seven minutes before the final whistle.
There was something undeniably cool about our favourite Russian, he carried on playing as though he hadn't scored yet, still pushing himself further, his feet were articulate and he kept focused. He didnt carry himself like the messiah who saved the day for Arsenal, instead he kept his eyes on the prize. And there's nothing we like better than a superb finisher who's feet are firmly on ground.
Jack Wilshere - Arsenal
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| Keeping composed - Wishere v Xavi courtesy of Telegraph.co.uk |
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Jack, at an enviable age of 19, is one of those guys who along with a handful of teenage upcoming stars, reignites the hope that England really can win the world cup in years to come. The younger players in England are fast becoming better than we thought possible at their age, and for Wilshere his performance is never hampered by his youth and vulnerability, which echoed throughout his 90 minutes against Barcelona. Even when Arsenal were not up to scratch in the first half, he most certainly was, and as one lovely blonde tweeter put it, he didn't look at all out of place against the likes of superstars Iniesta and Xavi. In fact he seemed to have dazzled them with his cool head and fresh skill. And
they have won the world cup. Need I say more?
Christian Eriksen - Ajax
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| Great Dane - Erikson scores v Anderlecht Image courtesy of Varzesh90.com |
Having only turned 19 on valentines, the Danish youngster stunned the world over with his peformance two days ago against the Belgian Pro League leaders Anderlecht. Ajax are notorious for bringing out some truly talented stars over the years within their ranks, (Van der Sar, Marco Van Basten, Wesley Sneijder and legend Johan Cruyff ) and Eriksen is already set to follow in those footsteps. In his full 90 minutes of play, he not only scored one goal, he set up two more scored by teammates Alderweireld and El Hamdaoui. His energy made the Energizer bunny turn green with envy with the amount of times he outran his opponents. Nothing could have annoyed them more. To think only a week earlier he was also man of the match for Denmark in their friendly against England. Who knows, this youngster may well become the one who changes Cruyff's mind about the treasured number 14 shirt...Eriksen might just be the one who get's the legendary shirt reinstated into Ajax, just for himself.
God I love football!
With extra thanks to the following tweeters, this ones for you!
Love4LFC, DummyBlonde, Liam_LFC, Rowles_43, rafa23, tmamoojee, Waynelittlewood and hurricane_h and my 2 brothers :-)
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