Chelsea cemented their position at the top of Group E after matching their record Champions League win, while there were also home victories for AC Milan and Barcelona as the group stage reached the halfway point on Wednesday night. Fernando Torres struck twice for Chelsea as they maintained their one-point lead over Bayer Leverkusen. Both […]
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Arsenal suffered its fourth loss of the season at Tottenham while Frank Lampard’s hat trick helped Chelsea rout Bolton on Sunday. Rafael van der Vaart and Kyle Walker secured Tottenham’s 2-1 derby victory over Arsenal, which is just two points above the relegation zone after seven matches. Chelsea is third in the standings after Lampard […]
Barcelona and Arsenal picked up their first Champions League victories of the season while Marseille made it two wins out of two after thrashing Dortmund. Winners of the competition in three of the last six seasons, Barcelona were held to a 2-2 draw by AC Milan on matchday one, but turned in a clinical performance […]
Manchester City joined Manchester United at the top of the Premier League table, beating Everton in the day’s early game, with Sir Alex Ferguson’s men held to a 1-1 draw at Stoke City later on. Roberto Mancini’s side put the pressure on as second half substitutes Mario Balotelli and James Milner gave the blue half […]
Ayegbeni Yakubu scored twice on his Blackburn Rovers debut as Steve Kean’s team shocked Arsenal 4-3 to win their first league match of the season. Arsenal have now won just 1 of their last 11 away league games and have conceded 12 goals on their last two Premier League away games. But the Gunners should […]
AC Milan got the new season off to a dramatic start with a thrilling draw at Barcelona but there were opening victories for Marseille, Chelsea, Porto and APOEL. Pato struck for AC Milan inside 25 seconds at Camp Nou, the fifth fastest in Champions League history and the earliest on any matchday one. Pedro Rodríguez […]
Inter Milan kicked off the new Serie A season with a defeat and there was frustration elsewhere for European champions FC Barcelona, but the goals continue to flow for Mario Gomez and Wayne Rooney as the duo helped respective sides Bayern Munich and Manchester United record big wins. Italy Inter were hoping to make the […]
Made my first trip to see a match at the Emirates today to watch Arsenal play Swansea. Luckily I saw Arsenal win 1-0. But it was far from an impressive performance by the Gunners. Yes they won via an Arshavin goal, but Swansea really should have equalized late in aded time when Danny Graham shot […]
In London for the Swansea match tomorrow and decided to take my daughter on a tour of the Emirates Stadium today. Arsenal offers two tours. A general tour and one led by an Arsenal legend. Today that legend was Charlie George and I could not turn down the opportunity to meet the person who scored […]