Arsenal back on top, Disaster for Dowie
- March 20th, 2010
- By Ben
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Ten-man Arsenal went back on top of the Premier League as they saw off West Ham 2-0 in a battling performance at the Emirates Stadium.
An early goal from Denilson – after he hammered the ball into the bottom corner from outside the box – gave Arsenal the lead, but they were given a disadvantage when Thomas Vermaelen was sent off for bringing down Guillermo Franco in the box just before the break. @ESPN
Striker Nicolas Anelka has given the broadest hint yet that he is ready to pledge his future to Chelsea.
Leonardo hit back at Jose Mourinho’s jibes about Milan closing the gap to one point. “There’s controversy around everything.”
Bayern Munich have hit out at France’s national team for their treatment of Franck Ribery, and are set to lodge an official complaint with football’s world ruling body FIFA.
Sir Alex Ferguson is not surprised that Liverpool have fallen out of the Premier League title race this season.
Arsène Wenger will always have Paris, yet his memories hold a haunting quality. When his Arsenal team pulled Barcelona yesterday in the draw for the Champions League quarter-finals, the manager was carried back, inevitably, to that spring evening in the French capital four years ago, when glory in Europe’s showpiece final beckoned only to be cruelly dashed.
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told Owen Hargreaves to forget about the World Cup and concentrate solely on club matters at Old Trafford, after the midfielder admitted earlier this week that he dreams of playing for England at this summer’s finals.
It is the fixture Sir Alex Ferguson still looks forward to more than any other. Manchester United versus Liverpool at Old Trafford.
Barcelona’s fight for the title with Real Madrid depends more than ever on the form of superstar Lionel Messi who has scored eight of their last ten goals.
Wayne Rooney is fast becoming the irresistible choice for footballer of the year. He already has 32 goals for the season and anyone who wants to pick holes in him should do so knowing he did not get to the top of his profession without having the ability to swat away criticism in the way the rest of us deal with a troublesome fly. But there is still one anomaly when it comes to recognising him as the “complete striker” – and it is nothing to do with the argument about what he can or cannot do with his left foot.
