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Some titbits from the Spanish daily Marca:
Barca and the Police have classified the match as "high-risk".
They are expecting over 1500 Arsenal fans of which 200 are said to be known trouble-makers (their claim not ours!). Around 500 officers will be in
attendance at the Nou Camp with horses, dogs, etc. Good luck
to all you travelling Gooners. Let's hope these police don't
find any excuses for aggression.
They also say that Dani, who scored a hattrick at
the weekend, will start up front for Barca. This could mean
Kluivert being on the bench. But let's face it, either
way there are class strikers on the field and on the bench for both sides.
And they carry an interview with Suker in which he
comments on what a great team he's returning to Spain with, and on how after a bad challenge
on him in his first game the ref came over to tell him to get up!
(it's different in Spain).
Also, in AS (official voice of Real Madrid), Wenger is quoted as saying
that Barca should let us win because we need the
points more than they do! They also mention the name of
Luzhny, who played for Dynamo when they beat Barca 4-0
(although we're not necessarily expecting Oleg to start tonight).
You can get amusing but not completely inaccurate translatations
of these Spanish articles by going to
babelfish and feeding it the URLs. We're described as "ugly but brave" (it
doesn't specifically say "Martin Keown"...).
More on the match preview page.
come on you Gunners!
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