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Hot Topics

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

Boro Still In With A Shout

For Roma, the transition from Tiber to Tees proved too much of a culture shock, thanks to a rain lashed patchwork playing surface that was part paddy field, part pitch and putt course and a Middlesbrough team that is acquiring a reputation for beating top sides and disappointing against mediocre ones.

As a result, Roma had most of the possession but Boro controlled the game, restricting the opposition largely to long range efforts and finding time to create one or two chances of their own.

Unfortunately, all they had to show for their impressive performance was a single goal from a penalty engineered skilfully by the experienced Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink and converted nonchalantly by Yakubu and when they go to Rome for the second leg, the narrowest of leads may not prove a firm enough foundation upon which to extend their European adventure.