Lanky Dane to wear pointlessly high shirt number this season
Alleged Arsenal striker Nicklas Bendtner has announced his decision to double his squad number this season on the official Arsenal website:
“Before [the season] starts I wanted to change my squad number from 26 which I’ve obviously had for a number of seasons now. I chose to move to 52 because it’s a special number to me personally, and I hope that it brings me good luck for the new season.
“I appreciate that a good number of fans have bought their kits for 2009/10 already with names and numbers printed up so I’d like to personally cover the cost of replacing anyone’s shirt that has my previous number. It means a lot to see supporters wearing your name and number, and I want to ensure people aren’t inconvenienced by the change.”
The refund is expected to cost Bendtner £10,000, which means that 250 people have already decided to splash out on a shirt bearing his name. It seems like a low amount, but that’s approximately 250 times greater than the amount of Michael Owen shirts that Manchester utd have sold.
The Spoiler is quite puzzled by the decision to double the squad number. Does he think he will be twice the player next season? Is he intending to dramatically cut the amount of decent chances he fluffs to 52 per cent?
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19 responses so far
1 djsosumi // Aug 13, 2009 at 12:00 pm
shots per goal
2 JT // Aug 13, 2009 at 12:46 pm
It’s Adebayor’s old number -25- backwards.
3 nik // Aug 13, 2009 at 12:53 pm
he changed his number whats your point? hes a young player who is getting better and will be better than adebayor ever will be
4 jsp // Aug 13, 2009 at 1:42 pm
His IQ??????
5 AP // Aug 13, 2009 at 2:01 pm
How about giving him credit for personally covering the cost to fans.
6 Raph88 // Aug 13, 2009 at 3:26 pm
This is how it’s gone in Nicky’s head:
“You are awesome. You are a god. You are… the Batman. Now change the number from 26 to 52 to prove you are twice the player you were before…”
7 Toby 4 // Aug 13, 2009 at 3:44 pm
Give him credit for covering the costs!!
Maybe his parents are born in ‘52?
8 Danny // Aug 13, 2009 at 6:00 pm
Apparently his nan died aged 52, not sure though.
9 Ash18 // Aug 14, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Its his old squad number (26) x2 = 52…
10 we r the people // Aug 14, 2009 at 4:12 pm
He is a rangers fan and we have just won our 52nd league title=)
11 JT // Aug 14, 2009 at 10:05 pm
Like I said before, it’s the opposite of Greedybayor’s old number.
Or, it’s 5 +2 = 7, Liam Brady.
Or, it’s twice his old number (ugh.)
Or, he’s a big twat. I hate seeing players with American Football numbers on their shirts.
Or, he likes the number 52 and his fat wallet was burning a new hole in his arse.
12 David // Aug 16, 2009 at 8:32 pm
lol why does some people still hate him? I hated him to at the beginning, but he got better, and scored alot of goals, he was the most scorring player, pr. Minute played last season, give him some credit for crying out loud
13 Faiz // Aug 17, 2009 at 5:57 am
It is reverse number of Adebayor. He hates adebayor, that’s why he choose to wear that number. will bring him luck.
14 Antonio Gomez // Aug 17, 2009 at 7:45 pm
Who gives a rats ass? Get over it and stop hating because your not as good as he is.
15 Jono-man // Aug 18, 2009 at 3:21 pm
Because once he gets dropped into the reserve side his new number will fit in much better.
16 Johan // Aug 18, 2009 at 8:40 pm
Niels Poul “Tist” Nielsen, all time top Danish goal scorer in the national team, scored 52 goals in all for the white and red. Also he played for Kjøbenhavns Boldklub during his entire club career, the club for which Bendtner played 2002-04.
17 janka // Aug 24, 2009 at 12:53 pm
i know why change his number-i don’t know :D write me only-arsenal my skype
18 janka // Aug 24, 2009 at 12:55 pm
i know why change hos number-i don’t know :D write me to only-arsenal
19 janka // Aug 24, 2009 at 1:01 pm
so why change the number