The Pride of the North East

Pride of the North East is a richly deserved title given Middlesbrough Football Club’s recent results, sharing the spoils away to title contenders Arsenal and Manchester City.

Few people outside the north east expected Boro to make a fist of it amongst the big boys feasting at the top table of English football this season. Although the club might lack a glut of star players and expensive signings, what they do possess is one of the brightest young coaches in the game, having honed his coaching skills under the watchful eye of Jose Mourinho at Real Madrid, at a time when his star burnt brightly in the firmament. As you’ll discover later, Mourinho was linked with another famous Middlesbrough coach as he took his first tentative steps in his coaching career.

When Aitor Karanka was appointed as Boro’s first foreign manager in November 2013, the club may have appeared to be taking a gamble on raw talent, rather than playing it safe with a trustworthy pair of hands with extensive experience of the British game. A lack of success at the hands of Gordon Strachan and Tony Mowbray, may well have influenced their thinking.

This leads me to reflect on a period in Boro’s history, when the club’s hierarchy in their wisdom decided to turn towards Malcolm Allison, who at one time just like Karanka was considered to be one of the brightest young coaches of his generation. The difference being, that when Big Mal turned up at the old Ayresome Park stadium in October 1982, his star as a visionary coach was very much on the wane.

Ironically when Malcolm Allison was manager of Portuguese side Vitoria Setubal just before his dramatic arrival on Teesside, he was aided by former Boro conditioning coach Roger Spray and an ambitious young coach by the name of Jose Mourinho. While the special one’s stock might be currently on the decline, as was the case with Big Mal during his fateful spell with Boro, few would argue that in their heyday, they were the brightest coaches of their era. As a fitting tribute to Big Mal, who sadly departed from this world in October 2010, Roger Spray holds him in such high esteem as to consider him as influential as Mourinho and Arsene Venger!

The club being in dire financial straits further compounded the depression enveloping the Boro faithful. While neighbours Sunderland were given the tag of ‘Bank of England’ in the late 1950s due to their abundance of cash, the early 1980s was a time for drastic financial measures at Ayresome Park.

When you consider that the club is today valued at around £87 million and that the incumbent English manager by the name of Southgate opened the floodgates and splashed a whopping £13.6 million on the record breaking signing of Brazilian Afonso Alves during the 2007-08 season, Allison’s antics seems to belong in a long forgotten distant past!

When Big Mal was lured to Teesside by ambitious chairman Mike McCullagh, the club was bottom of the old second division, attracting gates of only 5,000, half a million pounds in debt and losing £12,000 a week!

Today the average attendance at the Riverside is an impressive 30,000 in stark contrast with the poorest crowd since the Second World War of only 5,435 that witnessed their home game against Fulham in March 1984. Almost inevitably this led to Allison being relieved of his managerial duties. With Middlesbrough having finished in sixteenth position in the old second division during his first season, the club’s heroic effort in holding Arsenal to a 1-1 draw in their F A Cup fifth round home tie, represented the zenith of his short stint with the club. Unfortunately time was not of the essence and Big Mal failed in his quest to revive the sleeping giant of the North East!

The manager’s antics and double standards were reminiscent of scenes familiar to viewers of the Carry On films of that period. In keeping with his reputation for an insatiable appetite for stunning birds and the high life, Allison was in his seventh heaven, entertaining his female companions courtesy of the finest champagne at the Baltimore Hotel, while running up a hefty bill of £3,500. In comical fashion, his answer to the required harsh financial measures was to sack the club’s tea man on £18 per week! Fortunately the man capable of a fine brew was reinstated following assurances that the players would pay his princely wage!

Big Mal, always one for the limelight, embarked on his mission to bring stars to the Teesside gloom, with ambitious efforts to sign George Best from San Jose Earthquakes and the Liverpool duo David Johnson and David Fairclough! He succeeded only in signing the ex- Ipswich Town star Kevin Beattie to bolster his defence, although by this time he was crocked by knee injuries! Indeed some would say that his best capture came off the field in the form of local beauty, 28 year old school teacher Lynn Salten, by far the classiest act on show!

Today the footballing landscape has changed beyond recognition with Middlesbrough plying their trade at the wonderful Riverside Stadium and recipients of the huge sums of money assured by entry to the top table of English football.

Whether Karanka and his charges can preserve their premier league status remains to be seen, but the Boro faithful will be encouraged by recent accomplished performances. Some would say that football has come a long way since the 1980s, but it seems that today’s global nature and rich trappings of the premier league, seems to have left our beautiful game void of true characters like Malcolm Allison, who despite failure on the field, certainly lit up the North East with rich experiences that will forever be a part of Middlesbrough Football Club’s folklore!

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When I was young I remember seeing pre season as a chance to watch my team shape up against the greatest side’s featuring the greatest players in the land. Supporting a lower league team (now sadly a non-league team) the opportunities to watch this calibre of player were few and far between, perhaps the odd run in a cup competition would lead to a draw against a top flight powerhouse, however there was more chance of spotting top players in the annual run of pre season games. The top sides warmed up for their season by trying out new players and new systems, as well as blooding youngsters and bringing established players back to full fitness against lower league opposition from within their shores. Not only were their the above mentioned benefits to the top clubs, but in addition the benefits to the lower league clubs was perhaps immeasurable, a chance for lesser players to perform against the best, also an opportunity for fans to watch top draw football as their hype for the new season grows amongst blind loyalty. I remember only too well the thoughts of «This is going to be our year, we looked against Manchester united for the last half hour» and «If we play like that every week we will walk this league, we created Liverpool some genuine problems today»

Sadly this pre season paints a different picture. Tonight Blue Square Premier leagues side Wrexham advertise a match against «a Liverpool XI», the giveaway as to the standard of team on show is in the naming of the «Liverpool XI» it is highly likely that this will be a scratch side made up of promising youngsters and foreign trialists, possibly none of which will be known names to the local crowd. The star studded Liverpool first team including Gerrard, Carragher, Torres and Cole is in Austria for their pre season training camp and early practice matches. Meanwhile with Manchester United having a similar trip in the United States and foreign ventures for Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester City among others it is clear that the direction of pre season for the top sides is to look abroad and not at home.

So why have the Premier League’s finest taken this approach to such an important part of their season preparations? Some may point to the benefits of training in warmer foreign climates, even at Altitude in some cases. Other muted benefits are the team morale gained by taking a squad away together so they are forced to live and entertain together not simply train together then go home. Surely the biggest benefit is financial. The popularity of the English Premier League all around the year is immense and the traditional pre season exhibition games all over Asia have proved economically rewarding to the top sides with big match fees being coupled with sales of club merchandise to the many fans of the game. Whilst current pre season schedules is a natural step for the modern game I can’t help missing the old style of pre season which pitched the top English sides against those in the lower leagues and gave us fans a chance to dream of what might be in the season ahead.

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Old Trafford Ticketing Problems

It is well known that it is difficult to get tickets to watch Manchester United, a problem which just seems to be increasing season on season. Demand outstrips supply on every major game with the possibility of buying tickets, for some fans, left to minor unfancied games in competition such as the League Cup when United are likely to field a weakened team.

The Premier League 2010/11 season kicks off on Saturday 14th August with Manchester United commencing on Monday 16th August at home to Newcastle United. It promises to be a competitive season with United facing tough competition from reigning champions Chelsea, a resurgent Manchester City as well as Arsenal and perhaps Liverpool, this all contrives to ensuring that the Newcastle game, as well as most if not all over Premier League games will be over subscribed for ticket requests and many fans will again miss out.

It is difficult to foresee events that may change this problem in a hurry. This time last year United lost two major assets in the form of Cristiano Ronaldo and Carlos Tevez, yet again last season proved to be one of United’s most popular with the fans with their average attendance well in excess of 70,000 fans through the season. When this is considered in context with the anti Glazer (Manchester United’s owners) «Green and Gold until we are sold» campaign where many fans allegedly refused to watch their team and gave up the rights to their season tickets and there quickly appears to be no end to the ticketing issues.

A main reason for the problem is their success, obviously a nice reason to create a problem, but with every passing season bringing more trophies to Old Trafford, so their fan base increases, not just around Old Trafford but worldwide as witnessed by their pre season tours of Asia.

Old Trafford has a capacity of 76,212 which is the largest club ground in Britain (only the national stadium, Wembley has a larger capacity). This large stadium is as a result of much reconstruction work. In the early 1990’s the Old Trafford capacity was at a low of 44,000 following the removal of all terracing, including the Stretford End. In readiness for Euro 1996, with The Manchester ground lined up to host five matches, the North End was demolished and replaced with an three tier stand that took the attendance up to 55,000. This exact style of stand was built on the East Stand and opened in January 2000 and on the West Stand shortly after which took the ground to it’s current standing. There are no current plans to develop the ground further so it looks unlikely that a new breed of fans will have access to tickets. It is believed that the cost of constructions work at the ground as well as the clubs large leveraged debts means that no plans are in place for the foreseeable future.

Manchester United have a large number of season ticket holders which guarantees those fans see every game but as a result decreases the number of tickets available to other fans, add to this the increased number of high value corporate seats in the ground and it is clear to see just why there are such ticketing problems. These problems are unlikely to go away while Champions League and Premiership titles are regularly brought to Old Trafford.

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If you are a devoted supporter of the Manchester United Football Club then you are a member of a group that is spread all over the world. This club is more than just a football team because of the passion which it is able to generate in the hearts of its supporters. There is a very close association between this football club and its supporters and both of them derive strength from each other. The fans of this club invariably turn out in full strength in order to cheer the Red Devils on, irrespective of whether they are playing a home or away match.

One of the most interesting things associated with the Manchester United Football Club is the number and variety of chants it inspires. All football clubs have their own chants which are shouted out with great enthusiasm by their supporters, but nothing can compare with the ones that are shouted out by Manyoo supporters. Some of them are old favourites whereas others are devised on an almost weekly basis depending on what the team is doing at that time. As a matter of fact, many of them are copied by supporters of other teams. In 1994, «C’mon You Reds» actually reached the top of the charts in the UK, and surprisingly, some other European countries as well.

If you are a supporter of this glorious football club then you should never be found lacking when it comes to your knowledge of these cheers and chants. You will never be able to integrate yourself fully into a group of other Man Utd supporters unless you know all the songs there are to know, complete with the tunes and the words.

Luckily, you don’t have to put in too much effort to find out the old songs and keep track of the new songs. There are plenty of websites where you can find all the information you need in the form of excellent compilations of chants as well as the words to them. Make sure that you visit a site that maintains the most comprehensive collection of Manchester United Football Club songs, and which keeps updating them as and when the fans come up with a new one. You will have a great deal of fun with these songs and will be able to enjoy matches much more than usual if you can get to sing them along with all the other fans you are sitting with.

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Chelsea’s last campaign offered a telling commentary on the high stakes of modern top-flight football and the narrowness of the margin between success and perceived failure. For the Blues it was a season dominated by a generally unloved manager’s attempt to take the team beyond where his adored predecessor had led them.

Following Jose Mourinho at Stamford Bridge was always going to be the tallest of orders but anyone other than Avram Grant, with any boss other than Roman Abramovich, would probably have been lauded for taking Chelsea so close to treble glory. Beaten in extra-time of the Carling Cup final; edged out by two points in the Premier League title race despite accumulating 85 points (the first time a team had gathered so many without securing the title); and beaten in a penalty shoot-out after extra-time in the Champions League final – Grant’s stab at footballing immortality with the Blues was heroic.

But it was failure nonetheless, and his reward – after being doubted, derided, and damned with faint praise – was the sack, within a couple of days of John Terry’s kick hitting the post in the Moscow shoot-out to hand Manchester United the coveted European crown.

Chelsea had lost only two Premier League games out of 32 under Grant – his first, against United at Old Trafford, and then against Arsenal at Ashburton Grove. In the critical later stages of the season the Blues beat both the Gunners and United at Stamford Bridge – and indeed they kept the title race against Sir Alex Ferguson’s side alive until the final day of the campaign, which said much for their determination and consistency.

They were relentless in their pursuit of the title, overhauling Arsenal at the end of March to go second and coming within a whisker of overtaking the defending champions. But two dropped points in a home draw against Wigan, for whom Emile Heskey scored a 91st minute equaliser on 14th April, proved costly, although United’s significantly better goal difference was always worth an extra point if push had come to shove.

That reflected the Achilles’ heel of Grant’s side: they played without the attacking flair and panache of United or Arsenal, and in fact scored fewest goals among the top four. Although they kept a remarkable 21 clean sheets at the other end, Abramovich had demanded ‘expansive’ football after Mourinho, but got more of the same prosaic, pragmatic stuff under Grant. Without being able to lace that with silverware, or to win over a sceptical home crowd, Grant was always on borrowed time. Speculation about his future, which reached fever pitch after the Carling Cup final defeat by London rivals Tottenham and an embarrassing FA Cup quarter-final defeat by Barnsley, was a constant accompaniment to Grant’s reign.

His team showed character and resilience, especially defensively, but often struggled for creativity and goals, with Didier Drogba netting only eight in the League, and January import Nicolas Anelka managing only one, though he was mostly played out of position. Dynamic central midfielder Michael Essien also spent too much time filling in at right-back, while the manager failed to get anything like the best out of expensive summer buy Florent Malouda. There was a consequent over-reliance on midfielders Frank Lampard (who had his own injury and personal problems last season) and Michael Ballack (who emerged as the Blues’ most influential player in the final third of the campaign). Their goals and dynamism helped take Chelsea so close to the glittering prizes, though it was symptomatic that pundits and many fans felt their contribution was despite rather than because of Grant’s leadership. That was the burden the Israeli’s perceived lack of charisma saddled him with.

Summer Activity

The managerial soap opera at Stamford Bridge was ended when Grant was unceremoniously sacked, and his successor announced during Euro 2008 as Portugal boss Luiz Felipe Scolari. The Brazilian comes in with everything Grant lacked: gravitas, a hugely impressive CV, charisma, the authority that accompanies a reputation as a disciplinarian, and the respect of the players. Scolari is, after all, a World Cup winner who also won the Copa Libertadores twice.

If there are reservations because he has been out of club football for seven years, the risk seems a small one. The 59-year-old has been there and done it before, and if dealing with the English tabloid press is an aspect of his new job that probably won’t appeal, he is unlikely to find it more uncomfortable than dealing with the media in his native Brazil.

Scolari is the fourth Chelsea manager of the Abrasmovich era; the previous three – Claudio Ranieri, Mourinho and Grant – were all sacked despite delivering what at most clubs would pass for relative success. So Scolari knows what to expect, and what is expected: to recapture the Premier League title from United and to win the Champions League for the first time in Chelsea’s history. The other imperative is to achieve both through an exhilarating brand of entertaining, attacking football. Simple really. The key question is: can Scolari adjust to the demands of club football quickly and effectively enough to deliver what’s required in his first season back at the coal-face?

He has got off to a decent start. Drogba and Lampard, both widely tipped to join Mourinho at Inter Milan, are still at the Bridge and seem likely to stat for at least the next season. Portugal full-back Jose Bosingwa, well-known to Scolari, was recruited and waiting for him, and another familiar face, the creative and motivated Deco, has since arrived. Speculation persists that Robinho could yet join them, and that would certainly strengthen their attacking options and sharpen the goal threat, where the Blues were deficient last season. The fans would probably feel happier to have an additional quality striker on board, unless the form of Andriy Shevchenko and Claudio Pizarro has undergone a dramatic transformation over the summer.

As for the departures, Claude Makelele’s return to France should be adequately covered by the emergence of John Obi Mikel in the holding midfield role, while Steve Sidwell, good player though he is, was never really used so won’t be missed. Nor will the transfers of Tal Ben Haim (Manchester City) and Khalid Boulahrouz (Stuttgart) leave gaping holes in Scolari’s forces.

Pre-season has been useful if tiring: the goodwill trip to China and Malaysia was excellent PR but possibly of only limited value to Scolari in terms of preparation. But going on to Moscow for the Railways Cup offered a more pertinent test and, losing another shoot-out in the Russian capital aside, Chelsea can reflect on last weekend with satisfaction. The emphatic 5-0 demolition of AC Milan will have caused many to sit up and take notice, as will Anelka’s four-goal salvo in the rout.

Scolari has said he is more or less clear now in his head about what his starting XI will be for the Premier League opener against Portsmouth, so at least one of the main objectives of pre-season has been accomplished.

Analysis & Prognosis

There will be huge interest in how well and how quickly Scolari fits into his new job. He will have the benefit of the doubt, something Grant never enjoyed; but there will still be the spectre of Mourinho, who won the Premier League and the League Cup in his first season at the Bridge after arriving from Portugal. The parallels are there for direct comparison. His press conferences promise to be entertaining, but it is on the pitch where the entertainment quotient will be most under scrutiny.

The addition of Bosingwa should add genuine right-sided quality to an already formidable defence, behind which Petr Cech is due a bit of luck after a miserable spell, so Chelsea will again be one of the hardest teams to score against.

And in midfield they have a veritable cornucopia of riches. With Essien restored to the centre where he is at his best, Ballack in the sort of form he showed during the latter stages of last season and at Euro 2008, Deco’s vision adding a new creative dimension to Chelsea’s game and Lampard fit and focused, Mikel offering running power and muscle, plus the likes of Joe Cole, Shaun Wright-Phillips and Malouda to provide pace and width on the flanks, Scolari’s challenge will be to find the right blend and balance while keeping all his stars happy.

Anelka fired a warning in Moscow and Scolari may be prepared to play to his strengths, through the middle, at Drogba’s expense in a way Grant hesitated to do. The fact that Drogba is likely to miss the start of the campaign through injury could facilitate that decision. Salomon Kalkou impressed last season but too often chose the wrong option with his final ball, so we can expect an improvement there.

Scolari has indicated that Shevchenko will not be in the starting line-up, at least initially, but the Ukrainian has said he is determined to make an impact at Chelsea and if he is fired up rather than diffident when coming off the bench then he’ll give his manager a useful option.

Chelsea are certain to challenge hard for the title, and with their squad strength in depth and seemingly impregnable home record they are likely to be in the top few places for most of the campaign. They have the playing resources and now, they hope, the right manager to win major honours again. But much will also depend on United, Arsenal and Liverpool, at least, so how Scolari reacts to the Big Four challenge, and how he plots his tactics in the head-to-heads, could prove decisive.

I expect the Blues to be challenging on all fronts until the latter stages, and possibly collecting a cup; but winning the Premier League title at Scolari’s first attempt, after being out of the club game for a long time, might just prove a bridge too far. A top-three finish then, but not first place.

Coach: Luiz Felipe Scolari

Stadium: Stamford Bridge (42,055)

2007-08 Position: 2nd

2007-08 Record: P-38 W-25 D-10 L-3 GF-65 GA-26 GD-39 Pts-85

Players In:

Jose Bosingwa (FC Porto, £16.2m), Deco (Barcelona, £8m).

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Five Champions’ League semi-finals in the past six years. As Chelsea’s newly appointed manager, Carlo Ancelotti, pointed out in his first interview, that is a wonderful achievement. However, it clearly isn’t quite good enough. The fact that those five semi-finals have only resulted in one ill-fated final appearance must be a source of incredible frustration for Chelsea’s billionaire owner, Roman Abramovich, and the club’s supporters – although a little less so for them, perhaps.

The reason the long-standing Chelsea fans might be a little more philosophical about ‘only’ reaching one final in five attempts is that many of them are probably still only just getting used to challenging for honours at all. Until 1997, when Chelsea won the F.A. Cup, the club had won nothing for 26 years – unless you include the old Second Division title. Chelsea’s fortunes in the 1980s, after they had been bought by Ken Bates for the princely sum of £1, slumped to such an extent that they almost found themselves in English football’s third tier.

But how it turned around during the last decade of the century. Even before Abramovich’s arrival in 2003, the process of recovery had started. Managers of the international pedigree of Glenn Hoddle, Ruud Gulli, Gianluca Vialli and Claudio Ranieri all helped establish the club as one of England’s leading outfits and the F.A. Cup was won in 1997 and 2000 and the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup in 1998. The Chelsea of this time were ground breakers in so many ways – with their continental managers and their overseas players particularly – becoming the first club to take the field with a team without a single British or Irish player in a fixture against Southampton in 1999.

So, when the Russian oil magnate brought in Champions’ League winner José Mourinho to take over the team in 2004, almost everyone suspected that ‘the special one’ would produce a special team.

And so it proved. The Premier League was won on two consecutive occasions, as well as the F.A. Cup again and the League Cup (twice). From March 2004, the team embarked on a record-breaking run of 86 matches in which they remained unbeaten at their Stamford Bridge ground.

With some of England’s finest players – John Terry, Frank Lampard, Ashley and Joe Cole – and with some outstanding foreign imports – Didier Drogba, Michael Essien, Michael Ballack and Nicholas Anelka – the world sat and waited for the trophies to continue. And especially for the ‘holy grail’ that Abramovich wanted so much; that Champions’ League.

And yet for the past two seasons Chelsea have flattered to deceive – and frustrated their supporters so much. There are occasions when they are so powerful they overwhelm even the strongest opponents; almost bullying them into submission because of their physical, and mental, superiority. But there seems to have been some fatal flaw in the club’s make-up that has stopped them making that ultimate breakthrough.

Some have said that it’s because some of the overseas players have not been committed enough; but then when they showed their passion and commitment after losing controversially to Barcelona in 2009 those same players were criticised for their lack of sportsmanship.

Some have blamed successive managers for not being able to control ‘big’ players – as if that was ever a problem for someone like Luiz Felipe Scolari.

Some have even blamed Abramovich for either losing patience with Mourinho too quickly in 2007 or apparently losing some of his enthusiasm for the club for a while.

But now, having failed to persuade the admirable Guus Hiddink to remain at the club after his rejuvenation of the team in his short spell in charge, Chelsea have appointed someone who has won the Champions’ League Trophy twice as a player and twice as a manager. Surely, Stamford Bridge – a wonderfully atmospheric ground to watch your football compared to some of the other more ‘soul-less’ stadiums around – is going to be able to witness something only the most optimistic of fans would have dreamed possible twenty short years ago; a team capable of winning the Champions’ League.

If Carlo Ancelotti can’t bring the trophy in, where on earth will they turn next?

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An epic domestic season reaches its climax this Saturday with the FA Cup final between Everton and Chelsea. Buyers of Chelsea’s outright index spread at the start of the tournament will be pleased to see the current outright spread at 89-91 pts (100 pts for winner, 70 pts for runner-up), and would love to see Hiddink rewarded with a victory for his part in turning the Blues’ season around. With Chelsea’s match win index spread at 16-17.5 pts (25 pts for match win, 10 pts for draw) and Everton’s at just 6-7.5 pts, spread bettors are left in no doubt as to which team is favourite for the match. Buyers of Everton’s win index spread will be pleased that Steven Pienaar and Phil Neville have both been passed fit, while buyers of Chelsea’s spread will be happy to see Frank Lampard rested and back in the team.

Both buyers and sellers of the supremacy spread, set at 0.7-0.9 in favour of Chelsea, should remember that just two of the ten previous finals have been settled by penalties, although these were both in the last four years (2005 and 2006). Supremacy spread bettors will also like to know that since 1999, a single goal or less has separated the teams in seven of the last ten finals. The largest winning margin in this time is three goals, in 2004; the largest winning margin ever in an FA Cup final is four goals. Sellers of the supremacy spread might like to know who was on the receiving end of that rout – none other than Chelsea, against Manchester United in 1994.

Regarding experience in an FA Cup final, The Toffees have made an impressive 12 appearances compared to Chelsea’s eight since the tournament began. Chelsea last won just two years ago, and sellers of the total goals spread at 2.1 might remember they only grabbed the trophy in extra-time, after finishing normal time without a goal. The same spread sellers will be gladly aware that Chelsea and Everton’s two meetings in the league this season were both goalless, but buyers of the spread need not panic – the last time they met in the FA Cup, in a fourth round replay at Stamford Bridge, the outcome was 4-1 to Chelsea. Those spread bettors looking to get involved in the goals market should also note the highest scoring game ever, back in 1953, where Blackpool defeated Bolton 4-3.

During the last ten FA Cup finals there have been a total of 19 goals scored in normal time, with an average of 1.9 goals per game, which should suggest a sell of total goals to spread punters. But maybe buyers will be impressed that only two finals have failed to produce a goal and the most goals to be scored is six, in that extraordinary final three years ago when Steven Gerrard scored in injury time to level at 3-3 with West Ham. For the interest of any football spread bettors [http://www.sportingindex.com/spread-betting/football-uk-roi] looking at the total goal minutes spread, at 108-118 for Saturday’s tie, the goal minutes make-up in the 2006 final was a jaw dropping 291. Sporting Index’s traders were even more upset than the Hammers’ then manager Alan Pardew.

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Arsenal beat Chelsea for the first time in over two years to climb up to second place in the Premier League, while Chelsea’s poor run of form continues.

Chelsea had won the five previous encounters between to the two teams, while Arsenal were developing a reputation for capitulating every time they played another top team. Arsenal’s poor form against their title rivals has cost them dearly in recent seasons, and having recently lost against Manchester United, the Gunners looked to put yet another insipid performance behind them, as they strive to mount a serious title challenge this season.

Chelsea have now taken just 6 points, from a possible 24, in their last eight league games, which is their worst performance in the league since 1998. Manager Carlo Ancelotti may come under renewed pressure following another defeat. Chelsea’s chance of retaining their Premier League trophy now looks to be very slim.

Arsenal started the game brightly and continued to press the Chelsea defence, Chelsea’s only effort during the early stages of the game came from nemesis Didier Drogba, who had scored 13 goals in the previous 13 games against the Gunners, but his shot from some distance was wide of the goal.

As the Blues looked a shadow of free scoring the team who started the season, the Gunners increased the pressure, and it was no surprise when Alex Song scored after 43 minutes to give the home side a deserved lead.

Chelsea made a half time substitution, with Ramires replacing John Obi Mikel, but not for the first time this season, he failed to bring any inspiration to the Chelsea team. Fabregas put Arsenal 2-0 in front after 51 minutes and 90 seconds later Theo Walcott compounded Chelsea’s misery by adding a third goal.

With the game now effectively over as a contest, Chelsea made a an attempt to salvage the game, and Ivanovic headed a goal for Chelsea. With Arsenal’s recent poor record of maintaining a lead, the Blues looked for a second goal, but this time the Gunners weathered the storm and actually finished the game stronger.

Chelsea provided little in the way of inspiration and must surely now have relinquished their title, while Arsenal moved within two points of Manchester United, although they have played a game more.

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As covered in fanzines and news organisations for some considerable time, the takeover of Hull City Football Club has been at the forefront of news coming out of the Tigers. Now, tied in with this topic up for debate amongst fans, a formal statement from the Allam Family – the prospective new owners in charge of the club – has been released ahead of the legal formalities being processed.

Earlier, media outlets across the international stage backed up a news story that had been circulating amongst fanzines that exclusively revealed a deal would be struck ‘during the middle of the week’ between Hull City Football Club owner Russell Bartlett and the Allam Family for control of the football club.

And now, with widespread reports in the local, national and international media confirming a deal has been agreed between the Allam Family and Tigers chief Russell Bartlett, a formal statement from the new buyers on the purchase of the club is provided in the extract below.

The statement reads:

«We are delighted to have reached agreement with Russell Bartlett to take a controlling stake in Hull City.

The financial stability of the club and its long-term success is of paramount importance to us both.»

The news should be welcomed by Tigers fans everywhere. Long have the financial troubles at the club blighted progress since relegation from the Premier League. With the current owner not making his intentions clear on what the future holds for Hull City Football Club, it is undoubtedly better served in the hands of ownership with clear ambitions and objective goals to strive for.

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It appears that Phil Brown is set to make 25 year old Leon Clarke his third signing as Preston manager tomorrow.

Sky Sports News have reported that QPR boss Neil Warnock is willing to let the former Sheffield Wednesday striker go out on loan until the end of the season in order to get some first team action having slipped down the pecking order at Loftus Road.

Clarke has been linked with a number of Championship clubs over the past couple of days but it now seems as though Preston are the frontrunners to secure his signature. This news couldn’t have come at a better time with the six pointer against Scunthorpe moving ever closer. The extra fire power will surely help increase our threat levels in the final third; something that has been somewhat lacking in recent months.

However, with Leon having yet to hit the back of the net for the Championship leaders since his summer move, some Preston fans might be sceptical as to whether he is the right man to get the much needed goals that will help us avoid the drop.

Throughout his career he has never been renowned for his prolific goalscoring, but it is what he will bring to the team as a whole that is the most attractive part of this loan deal taking place. His physical strength and stature will cause opposition defences problems, it will give us another dimension up front and I’m sure he can be a huge success at Deepdale; players like Hume and Ellington will surely benefit from playing alongside him.

Only time will tell if he is up for the challenge; I for one think that everyone deserves a chance when moving to a new club, and who knows, the relegation scrap might bring out the best in Leon and we could be sat here in four months time, still a Championship club, saying «Sign him up». Lets hope that this is the case.

So let’s all get behind the lad and wish him all the best if he does put on the Preston Shirt. Come on you whites!

Thank you for reading. Would you be happy with Leon Clarke signing on loan from QPR?

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