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Everything Under Control

FA Justice in Action

Three for Sorrow

England

Arsenal

Did Arsene Get His Sums Wrong?

Arsenal Star Milton Dies

Soho Square Farce

Ashley and a Heavy Dose of the Blues

Arsenal and the Future

Clean Sweep for Arsenal

Blackburn Rovers

Blackburn's European Ambitions Dented

Bolton Wanderers

Bolton Wise, Pound Foolish

Downsizing at Bolton

Chelsea

It's Thumbs Up for Lampard

How Chelsea Blew it in Geordieland

Another Fine Mess, Mourinho

Chelsea's Big Mistake

Sideways is Best for Chelsea

Chelsea on the Slide

Chelsea - Play or Pose?

Chelsea Fail Again

All Quiet in the Chelsea Midfield

The Price of Failure

Chelsea Lose Their Title

Liverpool

The Nation Backs Liverpool

Liverpool Make it Big

Liverpool Should Be Cautious

Manchester City

Manchester Teams Worlds Apart

Manchester United

United Narrow Favourites

The Art of Being Bullish

Alex Gets Arsene's Vote

Crying in the Rain

Champions United Make Their Point

Newcastle United

Portsmouth

Record for Portsmouth Keeper

Your Round, Harry

Tottenham Hotspur

Tottenham, Envy and the Price of Silver

Arsenal Expose Underachieving Spurs

Tottenham Hotspur - You Have to Laugh

Referees

Not Always Right - But Never Wrong

As a football manager, you reckon to know a bit about the game. You tend to notice, for instance, when an opposing striker is clearly offside even if your view isnt as good as that of the linesman (sorry referees assistant) who is supposed to put his flag up on these occasions.

So when, unaccountably, he doesnt and youve taken the trouble to check out the replay of the incident on a convenient television monitor, you cant help but get cross at the injustice of it all. And your reward is to be banished to the stand for daring to question the linesmans incompetent decision which is, of course, inviolable and for which, remarkably, he is paid.

On this occasion, the aggrieved manager was Fulhams Chris Coleman. The offside player was Ruud Van Nistelrooy (is he ever really offside?). His shot was parried by Niemi, only for Saha to run in the rebound.

As for the referee and linesman, their parts could have been played by actors.