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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

Fact and Friction at Middlesbrough

It has been suggested recently that in many respects all is not well behind the scenes at Middlesbrough F.C., with rumours of some senior players losing faith in manager Steve McClaren. But rumours are always rife in football and it is invariably wiser and safer to stick to the facts.

So what are the facts? To begin with, on 7th February 2006, the club languishes in 17th place in the Premiership, perilously close to the relegation zone and its not hard to see why. In the last seven premiership games, they have won only once, drawn twice and lost four times most spectacularly 7-0 to Arsenal at Highbury. During these games they have conceded 18 goals and scored only 7. One fan, driven beyond exasperation to despair, dumped his season ticket in the dug-out and others have taken to chanting McClaren for England for what appear to be entirely selfish reasons.

On a much broader scale there are, apparently, legions of England fans who are anxious that, following deliberations at Soho Square, they do not get their way.