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Hamburg 3-1 Villa – The harsh truth about Aston Villa

Villa had already qualified for the knockout stages of the UEFA Cup, so in some ways last night’s game was irrelevant, meaning the B-team was trawled out to Germany to face an impressive Hamburg at full strength. But then in other ways winning the game did have relevance, such as pride, morale and an easier…

What about now? Is Arsenal’s title push over?

A few weeks back I said (on Soccerlens) that people were being huge drama queens and writing off Arsenal way too early. The following Saturday they beat Manchester United and proved to their doubters that they were more than capable of beating the top teams and their title race was far from over… Then they…

Can Arsenal save their season by beating Manchester United?

Here we find ourselves, just over a quarter of the way through the season and the usual four-horse race seems to have already become a three-horse race. For the last few years, if a team had dropped behind this early it was usually Liverpool, but this time its Arsene’s Arsenal. Now, at a hugely pivotal…

Can a Scottish team ever win the Champions League?

Celtic’s home draw with Manchester United last night dumps them, all but mathematically, out of the Champions League for another year. They opened with, by Champions League standards, an easy home tie against Aalborg BK, but a disappointing 0-0 draw was all they managed to achieve in the game that held their best chance of…

Football writing competition? Easy! Easy! Easy! Easy!

Easy peasy, pudding and pie How hard can this be? I’ll just babble on about the game I love. Simple. Let’s start with the criteria; it’s writing, it’s about football and it needs to be a half-decent read. Piece of piss. Marge, get me my laptop, 4 beers and my writing hat. Here we go….