A PHP script to check whether the Mesut Ozil signing has been announced on the Arsenal.com RSS feed.

check.php

<?php
while (true) {
    $contents = file_get_contents('http://feeds.arsenal.com/arsenal-news');
    if (stripos($contents, 'mesut') !== FALSE) {
        echo date(DATE_RFC822) . ": It's official!\n";
        mail('[email protected]', 'Arsenal signed Ozil', '');
        exit(0);
    } else {
        echo date(DATE_RFC822) . ": Nothing doing.\n";
        sleep(10);
    }
}
?>