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Arsenal beaten, Wenger did not see the incident

'If I don't see it, it didn't happen'

Arsenal have been knocked out of the UEFA Champions’ League by the tournament favourites, Barcelona. In an overwhelmingly predictable turn of events, Arsenal’s slender 2-1 lead from the first leg of the tie was comfortably overturned by Barca, which left Arsenal disappointed, demoralised, and needing some Sudocrem for their arses.

The lord and saviour, Lionel Messi, opened the scoring with a deft flick and cool finish, before waving his left foot around in a circle in order to cure tuberculosis. Commentator Ray Houghton remarked that Messi is “the best in the world, bar none” and that he’d “probably wank him off if push came to shove”

Arsenal have since, in most uncharacteristic manner, whinged and moaned to the media, complaining that the Catalan side’s talent “isn’t fair” and that “they’re a big bunch of meanies”
Despite Barcelona’s dominance being reflected in a shots-on-goal comparison of 19-0, Arsene Wenger feels his side were hard done by.

“Robin van Persie should not have been sent off. That’s all I know. If he’d still been on the pitch, we’d have won”. When quizzed about the rest of the match and Barcelona’s stupidly high possession rate, Wenger responded that he “did not see the rest of the game” and that it wasn’t what he was there to talk about.

The Frenchman caused trouble in the tunnel immediately after the game, reportedly kicking Xavi in the shins and calling him “ugly and fat” and telling Andres Iniesta that he was “a baldy bastard” who “doesn’t have any mates”

Cesc Fabregas has expressed his delight at the result, and his hopes that his loan spell at Arsenal will come to an end soon, so he can “actually win something at club level for a fucking change”

 

 
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Topless Ukraine activist grabs Euro Cup

(Reuters) - A Ukrainian women's rights activist stripped to the waist and seized the Euro-2012 soccer trophy while it was on public display in Kiev on Saturday in a protest against the forthcoming month-long championship.

 
The young woman, 23-year-old Yulia Kovpachik, is a member of the Kiev-based Femen women's rights group which believes the Euro-2012 soccer tournament being played in Ukraine next month will encourage sex tourism.
 
Kovpachik strode up to the silver, 60 centimeter (two feet) high trophy, which was on display as a tourist attraction in an open air exhibition in central Kiev, ostensibly to be photographed alongside it like hundreds of other sightseers.
 
But she then pulled down her red T-shirt to reveal the words "Fuck Euro 2012" scrawled on her torso. As she grabbed hold of the cup with both hands, she was seized by security guards, who appeared to have had advanced warning of the protest.
 
They covered her with a sheet and took her off to a waiting police car.
 
The protest appeared to be the first action in a campaign against the championship by Femen which regularly stages bare-breast protests in Ukraine - and sometimes beyond - to highlight what it sees as political injustice, social abuse and the exploitation of women in Ukraine.
 
Femen says Euro-2012, which Ukraine is co-hosting with Poland next month with the final in Kiev on July 1, will be a magnet for sex tourists - one of the group's main targets - and will feed a booming sex industry.
 
About one million foreign tourists are expected in Ukraine for the Euros.
 
Organisers said the 8 kg (17 lbs) Henri Delaunay cup was undamaged though Kovpachik appeared to topple back under its weight as security guards seized her. It was still on show in late evening.
 
Femen's spokeswoman, Anna Gutsol, said Kovpachik, who staged the protest on her 23rd birthday, was released after being told she would have to appear in court on Monday on a charge of hooliganism. The charge carries a maximum fine of 800 hryvnias ($100) and 15 days detention.
 
Conscious of Ukraine's growing reputation as a new destination for sex tourism, Euro-2012 organisers say they are taking steps to curb prostitution during the month-long tournament.
 
After Kovpachik's protest, Femen activist Olexandra Shevchenko told reporters: "We came here today to stop this Euro fan low-life from making a bordello out of Ukraine."
 
City authorities have mounted the trophy in a temporary exhibition area on Kiev's Independence Square.
 
Hundreds of sightseers were queuing up under the blazing sun for souvenir photographs alongside it when Kovpachik staged her demonstration.
 
Independence Square itself will be the centre of a huge 'fan-zone' during Euro-2012, capable of holding tens of thousands of football supporters.

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