It is impossible to argue with the scoreline, so let’s make one thing clear from the start - Arsenal played poorly at Anfield today, and Liverpool were deserved 4-1 winners.
But to draw any conclusions from this match is futile - we learned nothing new today, it just served to drive home a few truths for Arsenal and push Liverpool up to 3rd place.
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Premiership weekend (finally!) and a quick look at what you should be reading right now:
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Manchester United are 6 points clear with 8 games to go and some pessimists are worried that our league form and injuries mean that we still might fall over and gift the Premiership to Chelsea.
With such concerns in mind, and the fact that the Premiership is restarting today, let’s look at Manchester United’s injury list and how that shapes up for us.
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Arsene Wenger and Rafael Benitez have both spoken out against the current system of qualification for Euro 2008 (I’m sure they’ll say the same when World Cup 2010 comes along), and both are completely right in their arguments.
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Roy Keane. Mark Hughes. Marcello Lippi. Carlos Queiroz.
Who would you pick (in two years) as your next Manchester United manager?
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For the first time in a long time Glenn Roeder has all but two (Owen and Ameobi) of his first team squad fit for the visit of Manchester City to St James’ Park on Saturday.
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Forbes business magazine has placed Manchester United at the top of the wealthy clubs pile (740m), with Arsenal (466m) in 3rd spot and Chelsea (274m) way back in 8th place.
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Today’s best news as the Premiership season gears for the final leg of the season:
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What the Czech players did last Saturday was nothing new - sad as it may seem to the hypocritical, self-righteous media, it is something that happens every night, wherever there are people with money.
What bothers me though, is this:
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Wenger’s recent interview (in which he talks about how he would have done things differently with Arsenal this season) has been doing the rounds today, so I thought we’d take a look at it here. Interesting stuff.
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Here’s a question for Tottenham fans? Do you think Torsten Frings - the Werder Bremen midfielder and German international - would be a good addition to the current Tottenham squad?
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Glenn Roeder has talked about removing the deadwood from the current Newcastle squad and has said that he has identified a few players who are definitely not part of his footballing plans.
Who do you think should leave Newcastle this summer?
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A look at the more interesting headlines this morning:
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We’ve spent so long criticising and whinging about the England team and the players that we now take it as our god-given right to attack the national team at every turn.
It sucks, it’s weak, it’s gone too far and it must stop.
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After serious grilling by the English media, the English team has finally stepped up it’s game and won it’s first match in 6 games. However, I for one am less than impressed, here’s why.
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So yes, England beat Andorra by 3 goals (should we be ashamed?), and now we can watch the rest of the Premiership season in peace without fretting over bad England performances.
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A look at today’s headlines, plus a summary of all of today’s Soccerlens news:
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Ramon Calderon, Real Madrid’s president, has said that he’s interested in signing Ronaldo, Kaka and Metzelder for next season.
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Ruud van Nistelrooy has had his share of taunting by opposition players for missing penalties.
He rarely gets the chance to avenge it in the same match though.
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The new Newcastle United 2007/2009 home kit was out in March - it’s an inverted version of the 07 strip, with the badge in the center and less stripes.
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I’m not a big fan of Glenn Roeder, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t appreciate a man telling the truth.
And when Roeder says that Newcastle have ‘underachieving’ stitched on their badges, and that the current team isn’t his, he’s bang on the spot.
It doesn’t mean that he’s a good manager though.
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Oh, this is absolutely priceless.
To have Glenn Roeder come out and categorically reject transfer rumors that were linking Newcastle to Manchester City’s Sylvain Distin and Manchester United’s Mikael Silvestre - well - just about made my day and took my mind off the funk that England had put me in.
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While there have been many things that have made the season at Newcastle another disappointment for their loyal fans - there are some positive things that hopefully will auger well for next season.
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Disclaimer: This is personal opinion, so keep that in mind before you go off on a rant.
We know that the English media are a soulless, immoral, self-righteous and hypocritical bunch.
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He hasn’t scored for Manchester United in the Champions League since September 2004. He hasn’t scored for England in a competitive match since Euro 2004.
The tongues are wagging - what’s wrong with Wayne Rooney?
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A roundup of the key football news this morning (27th March, 2007):
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There’s one word that describes the England performance against Israel on Saturday – depressing. It all looked like a Sunday afternoon stroll around with no bite or passion and a casual observer would never have realized this game was important to England.
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Okay, so I wake up this morning to find out that the ’slow’ international week has sprung a handful of transfer rumours, including a juicy bit about Ferguson looking to bringing Micah Richards from Manchester City to Manchester United.
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The Bale rumours have started again (god help us), as have the Klose rumours.
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A handful of transfer rumors involving Manchester United have made the rounds this morning. I’ve listed a few of them here, the rest I’ll be posting individually (as they involve other clubs as well).
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