Shame about the weather for this one, especially after Cesc had clearly taken so much time over his hair – pretty boy. Arsenal had the better start and plenty of possession in the first twent minutes, whilst Mikel was found wanting in the concentration department and was pushed off the ball a little too easily. [...]
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Venue: Emirates Stadium Date: Sunday, 29 November Kick-off 1600 GMT A win for United yesterday put them just two points behind us so we need a result today to make that gap a little bit more respectable again – and it’s Arsenal at the Emirates. We go into the game eight points ahead of [...]
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You have to laugh at Wenger really, he always tries to give mind games a go before big games and never quite gets it right. Bearing in mind we haven’t done much wrong in terms of our football so far this season, the sour-faced Arsenal manager has had a scrabble round and come up with [...]
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Well, it weren’t pretty but seeing as we’ve clinched top spot in the group, you’d have to say it was effective. I suppose with us both having qualified for the knockout stages already, the sort of game we got was the sort of game we expected. We started off ok with efforts from Malouda, Drogba [...]
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What we won’t see this season: What we will see this season: Yep, that’s right, ickle Stevie Me could spend the rest of this season burying his head and pretending Liverpool’s failure to qualify for the knockout stages of the Champions League isn’t such a bad thing. After the game, the Liverpool captain tried to dress [...]
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Venue: Estadio do Dragao Date: Wednesday 25 November Kick-off: 1945 GMT We kicked off this season’s Champions League campaign with a 1-0 win at home to Porto and whilst we’ve now both qualified for the knockout stages, a win in the return match tonight will secure us top spot in the group and a [...]
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Very often during football, there is an opinion that seems to be mutually accepted regardless of how valid it is. The view Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard can’t play together for England is one example and the view that the Serie A is boring is another. Stretching this to beyond football, in this year’s X [...]
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Venue: Stamford Bridge Date: Saturday, 21 November 2009 Kick-off: 1500 It’s been a while since we played Wolves in the Premier League and the last time we did do that at Stamford Bridge, we battered them 5-2 courtesy of a Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink hat-trick. Mind you, that was back in 2004 and Jimmy Floyd [...]
Oh dear, looks like Michael Essien is in a spot of bother with his national team. Apparently, the Chelsea midfielder went walkabout with Inter’s Sulley Muntari and Rennais’ striker Asamoah Gyan for Ghana’s trip to Angola and it looks like he could get the boot, with Ghana FA chairman Dr Nyaho Tamakloe insisting “No European [...]
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