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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

Bolton Edged Out of UEFA Cup

When Marseilles keeper Fabien Barthes obligingly spilled a routine right flank cross in the 24th minute to allow Stelios Giannakopoulos to nip in and put Bolton 1-0 up, it seemed that the game which Chairman Phil Gartside had described as the biggest in Boltons history might end in triumph.

But it was not to be. In first half stoppage time, Franck Ribery headed a dramatic equaliser and in the 67th minute Israeli centre back Tal Ben Haim deflected a brilliant cross past his keeper to complete Boltons misery.

The Premiership side fought back and pressed hard but the Marseilles defence held out and in the end it was the passionate French crowd at the Stade Velodrome who went home happy, after a fiercely contested and sometimes bad tempered encounter that was full of aggression and endeavour but disappointingly low on both technical merit and artistic impression.