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"Football fans were hoaxed on Twitter today (August 22) when reports emerged that English Premier League club Arsenal had bought Zef Kolombi. Kolombi was a Sarajevo-born Albanian painter who died in 1949, and whose name was used by pranksters last night. The reports started when Twitter user WengerBoy1 took issue with the manner in which rumours are given credence by simply citing foreign sources. &amp;quot;&amp;#039;Albanian sources&amp;#039; indicate Arsenal have a deal in place for Zef Kolombi,&amp;quot; he wrote. Asked if he was conducting a &amp;quot;social media experiment&amp;quot;, he replied: &amp;quot;Guess so. Perhaps not even. Just a comment on the ridiculousness of citing &amp;#039;French sources&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; He added soon after: &amp;quot;Zef Kolombi, just so you know, was an Albanian painter. His Wikipedia page isn&amp;#039;t in English so I don&amp;#039;t know more than that. &amp;quot;Last time I&amp;#039;m repeating that. Whatever happens after that is up to the collective imagination.&amp;quot; Within ten minutes, some Twitter accounts had started repeating the suggestion that Kolombi had been signed by Arsene Wenger for the North London club. &amp;quot;Zef Kolombi&amp;quot; swiftly became a top trending topic on Twitter, and although some fans fell for the prank, many joined in to mock the ease with which transfer rumours are believed. &amp;quot;Zef even needs his own possession stats,&amp;quot; quipped Another Arsenal Blog. &amp;quot;Normally both sides average around and about 30% between them, with Kolombi averaging about 70% possession by himself alone!&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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