Arsenal’s Under-19s also beat Bayern Munich 2-0 on Tuesday and are setting the pace in the youth version of the European Champion’s League.
Wenger has presided over 177 games in Europe’s elite competition yet Arsenal keep slipping on the banana skins put before them.
Stability has been the watchword at Arsenal and Arsène Wenger believes his squad has the hunger, quality and togetherness to succeed.
Seven goals conceded in 135 minutes of tournament football for Spain? How was that even possible?
It’s crowded at the top of the table – and that’s without a challenge from Manchester United.
With a derided coach and a grim Euro 2008, France have had it rough since the previous World Cup final, as Florent Malouda admits.
There is only one man in the history of football who has achieved what Diego Maradona craves from the weeks ahead in South Africa.
With France far from certain to qualify for next year’s World Cup, attention focuses on the poker-faced French coach’s strategies.
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/ 2 February 2007
”Sometimes I’m amazed with European clubs — they spend fortunes on ordinary players just because they’re Brazilian.” This wry observation, from Tostao, a World Cup winner and one of today’s most-respected commentators on Brazilian football, might well apply to many talent-hungry European nations, but England is not one of them.
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/ 26 January 2007
The ability to win gracefully ought to be less troublesome a skill than losing with dignity. Recently, however, we witnessed an act of spectacular smugness from the Birmingham City chairperson, David Gold. The morning after his team’s outstanding demolition of Newcastle United in the FA Cup he thumped himself on the back so hard it was a surprise he didn’t knock himself over.