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Arsenal Beat Udinese Photos – But Gareth Southgate Gave Us This Highlight

ARSENAL march on in the Champions’ League and prove that coming fourth in the Premier League year after year can be more exciting than coming fifth, or even third. The highlights of the match were the goals and the saves, natch., and this exchange between Matt Smith, of ITV, and Gareth Southgate of the pundit classes:

Matt Smith: “So Rosicky’s coming on for Arsenal – injury or tactical change?”
Gareth Southgate: “Possibly.”

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Udinese's striker Antonio Di Natale celebrates after scoring against Arsenal during a Champions League qualifying playoff second leg soccer match in Udine, Italy, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Paolo Giovannini)

Posted: 24th, August 2011 | In: Sports | Comment


Bald Imogen Thomas Shags Jermain Defoe As Ryan Giggs Loses Champions League

IMOGEN Thomas… What news? The News of The World tells us:

The beauty snuggled up to old flame Spurs striker Jermain Defoe on a romantic break at luxury health resort Champneys. She is rekindling her romance with him after he supported her through the scandal.

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Posted: 29th, May 2011 | In: Celebrities | Comments (2)


Barcelona Outplay Manchester United To Win Champions League: 50 Photos

BARCELONA win the Champions League. Manchesdter United were outplayed. It wasn’t even close:

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Barcelona's manager Josep Guardiola (centre) and the rest of the squad celebrate after the game

 

Posted: 28th, May 2011 | In: Sports | Comment


Manchester United Bury Rich Man’s Plaything Chelsea In Champions League

WHEN Fernando Torres finally scores for Chelsea it will either be a goal of outstanding brilliance or a messy one. What it will almost definitely not be is an important goal.

Carlos Ancelotti started the Champions’ League quarter-final with the £50m misfit in place of Didier Drogba, the striker who has done more than any player to make Chelsea a force to content with.

It was a bad move.

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Posted: 12th, April 2011 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)


The Genius Of Wayne Rooney: Manchester United’s Champions League Legend Undoes Chelsea (Photos)

WAYNE Rooney: you know all about his faults. We know that he might not be true to his wife, swears, spits and is not an international male model. What you might have overlooked is that he is a genius.

A season marked by allegations of paid-for sex with Jennifer Thompson and a contract dispute is also a season marked by a brilliant goal in the Manchester United derby match with Manchester City, the ability to outplay 95% of any opposing team on an average day and the scorer of a crucial goal in the white heat of a Champions’ League quarter final against Chelsea.

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Posted: 6th, April 2011 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (6)


Real Madrid Beat Spurs In Photos (Arsenal Fans Breathe Again)

OF course – of course – Emmanuel Adebayor, a former Arsenal player, would score for Real Madrid against Spurs in the Champions League. If anyone wants to compile a list of players who have scored in a big game against their former team’s local rivals, we’ll pay. For Spurs fans licking wounds, we offer them the solace of Nayim.

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Real Madrid's Emmanuel Adebayor (left) celebrates after scoring the first goal of the game

Posted: 5th, April 2011 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comment


Spurs Go Marching On: Champions League Photos

SPURS go marching on the Champions League. Harry Redknapp, never known to talk down his own magic hat, tells media:

“This is an impossible dream that we have achieved so far.”

His team have done well. AC Milan are no mugs. But is it impossible to think a team that cost just shy of £200milion to assemble – Harry’s minnows are the fourth most expinsive squad in the Premier League – would make the last eight of a big cup contest?

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Posted: 10th, March 2011 | In: Sports | Comment (1)


Barcelona V Arsenal In Photos: Fabregas Shirt Watch

BARCELONA are seeking to overturn a 1-2 scoreline and advance to the later stages of the Champions League at the expense of Arsenal. Barca want the Gunners’ captain Cesc Fabregas. Anorak will watch tonight to see how long it is before a fan runs onto the pitch and presents Cesc with a Barca shirt.

Barcelona play good football. But they are praised beyond their worth. They are not more than club. They are a club who like to win. They are not morally superior. They can put the boot in.

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Posted: 8th, March 2011 | In: Sports | Comment (1)


Champions League Hijack: Arsenal Beat Barcelona In Brilliant Photos

ARSENAL have beaten Barcelona 2-1 in the Champions League. And Anorak can contain its bias no more. This was brilliant. (I went nuts.) Arsenal fans – the only ones likely to be reading this – will enjoy the great photos of night that throbbed like a Justin Bieber mosh pit…

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Arsenal's Andrey Arshavin (right) celebrates with team-mate Nicklas Bendtner (centre) after scoring their second goal.

Posted: 16th, February 2011 | In: Sports | Comments (9)


Champions’ League Photos: Spurs Thrash Inter Milan 3-1

IN the Champions League Spurs beat Inter Milan – the Cup holders – 3-1. We took photos. Spurs fans believed. Harry Redknapp managed to string a sentence together – sort of – for the post-match interview on the telly. And you fans get to relive the glamour…

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Tottenham Hotspur's Rafael Van der Vaart (right) scores the first goal past Inter Milan goalkeeper Luca Castellazzi (left)

Posted: 2nd, November 2010 | In: Sports | Comment


Manchester United Lose To Bayern Munich And English Football Fans Rejoice: Pictures

MANCHESTER United lost to Bayern Munich in the Champions League. In 1999, when last the teams played in the biggest club competition in European football, Bayern were winning as the game moved into its death throes. Your writer was in a bar in Madrid with a few drunk United fans, a few more Spanish football hacks and Mario Basler. Not that “Super Mario” was there in person. But he was there in spirit, when the German player as taken off before the final whistle to milk the applause for his winning goal. I laughed, Ha! United were losing. Ha! Ha! Ha!

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Manchester United's Luis Nani scores his sides second goal of the game

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Posted: 7th, April 2010 | In: Sports | Comment


Champions League In Pictures: Messi-lona Thrashes Arsenal 4-1

CHAMPIONS League in pictures: Barcelona v Arsenal. Nicklas Bendtner scores. 1-0. Messi scores. 1-1. All the pictures from the match. Messi. Messi. 3-1. Messi. 4-1. Gamre over. Wenger will leave Arsenal at season’s end.

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Barcelona Lionel Messi runs away to celebrate scoring his and his sides second goal of the game

Posted: 7th, April 2010 | In: Sports | Comment


In 28 Pictures: Arsenal And Barcelona Set Up A Champions League Classic

WE interrupt this website to bring news that your writer is having a seizure. Arsenal v Barcelona in the Champions League. Pictures:

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Arsenal's Theo Walcott scores his sides first goal

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Posted: 31st, March 2010 | In: Sports | Comment


Burnley Football Hooligan Escapes Jail Because He Loves His Dog

deeIS that you in the “DEE 38” top biting off part of a fan’s ear at the Champions League final in Rome?

Football hooliganism was once the media’s favourite topic. One of your writer’s first jobs in sports journalism was to compile a “Year Of Shame” list. It turned out that the archives had one for each year and all that was needed was to look for any game in the past 12 months featuring two of Leeds, Chelsea or Millwall to keep it up to date.

The media loves talking of and talking up crowd trouble. You do get lunatics like “Dee 38” and one Michael Lewis, who breached his Football Banning Order for the third time when he went to a match at Blackpool.

Lewis’s case show that banning orders can work. But are they effective?

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Posted: 29th, October 2009 | In: Sports | Comments (2)


Chelsea unveil new shirt sponsor

prd_maxzoom_cfc-59942-thumb-425x326-88750SORRY to all Chelsea fans, but even in defeat you have to see the funny side. What’s that? You don’t. Er, OK. We laughed though.

[Via Who Ate All the Pies]

Posted: 7th, May 2009 | In: Sports | Comment


Spot the Man Utd fan who’s scared of swine flu

swine1SPOTTED at Old Trafford during last night’s Champions League semi final between Man Utd and Arsenal. He must be a terrified Daily Mail reader.

United won 1-0, by the way, thanks to a John O’Shea goal from close range.

Bonus video! Watch Ronaldo throw his dummy out during the game, below…

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Posted: 30th, April 2009 | In: Sports | Comment (1)


Ryan Giggs threatens to flash hairy chest (again)

austinpowersus4ANORAK has still not recovered from the sight of Ryan Giggs with his shirt off.

After scoring perhaps the greatest goal in FA Cup history, against Arsenal at Villa Park in 1999 (Man Utd’s treble-winning season), the Welsh winger whipped off his shirt and streaked like a crazed Neanderthal.

The sight of Giggsy’s luxuriant, penis-shaped chest hair, burned itself onto the retinas of Mr Anorak, and can be recalled a decade later.

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Posted: 28th, April 2009 | In: Sports | Comment


Cristiano Ronaldo scores THE BEST GOAL OF ALL TIME

AGAINST Porto last night in the Champions League, Cristiano Ronaldo scored a wonder goal that has, predictably, been hailed & hyped as the best goal of all time. indeed, the Portuguese winker hailed it as his best ever goal.

It was a quite brilliant goal, no doubt, but is it the greatest? Watch it below and judge for yourself:

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Posted: 16th, April 2009 | In: Sports | Comment


Champions League quarter final draw

Here’s how the balls came out, so to speak:

Villarreal v Arsenal
Manchester United v FC Porto
Liverpool v Chelsea
Barcelona v Bayern Munich

(The winner of Villarreal v Arsenal will play the winner of Man Utd v Porto in one semi final, which means you don’t have to be a genius to guess what happens in the other side of the draw).

The Anorak verdict:

Not Liverpool v Chelsea again, please! – that was about the only requisite for this draw, and Uefa f**ked it up. We all know from previous experience that when those two teams meet in Europe they cancel each other out and you end up with football that no one wants to watch, not even some fans of the two clubs. What is this, like the 50th time they’ve met in the CL in the last few seasons. Almost, or that’s how it feels. For the record, Chelsea will pull off a minor shock by knocking out Liverpool.

The other English teams, Man Utd and Arsenal, must be very content to have drawn the so-called weaker teams left. United will surely be too strong for Porto, and Arsenal – who are getting stronger as the season goes on, albeit too late for their league chances – have more than a fighting chance of getting past Villarreal.

Posted: 20th, March 2009 | In: Sports | Comments (2)


Liverpool crush the meringues of Madrid (with video evidence)

LIVERPOOL made Real Madrid look like a non-league outfit last night. Anorak has never seen the mighty meringues of Real take such a beating.

Fair play to Rafa Benitez for switching up his tactics. Liverpool didn’t have to attack after the first leg win in Spain but his team simply blitzed Real from the first minute. Were it not for Iker Casillas, Liverpool might have won by six or seven goals.

Full video highlights after the jump (Juventus v Chelsea too)

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Posted: 11th, March 2009 | In: Sports | Comment (1)


Carly Zucker’s naked bottom is more interesting than the Champions League

Last night’s Champions League action = meh.

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Posted: 27th, November 2008 | In: Sports | Comment (1)