sheer jubilation on the pitch

it's easy to bad mouth chelski and say they bought the title. cause they did. and i don't think roman abromovich, the great russian oil robber baron/capitalist, would be anything but proud of the fact.


bastards 

but as real madrid, the new york yankees and new york rangers can attest, money and big name players can only get you so far.

you need desire, you need to be a team, and for both those things you need a good manager. enter: jose mourinho. he is that manager, and as much as it pains me to say it, he did a fantastic job with chelski. he brought lampard's and terry's games to new heights; he brought in peter cech; and he shored up the back line with the underrated roberto carvalho.

but let's not forget the greatness of arsenal. with more injuries than any other team in the premiereship, arsenal is still in second and unlikely to budge. if they are healthy all next season and can make a couple of key moves, 2005-2006 will be one of the best title races in recent history.

enjoy your title chelski, we're not going anywhere.

brass in pocket

what a knob!


i'm special 

"I arrived here with my ego high -- and now it is even higher! I have no idea what I meant when I said I was the Special One. But at the time I had just become a European champion."

~~Chelski boss Jose Mourinho thinks he is special.

spurs 0 - gunners 1

chelski's just going to have to wait. the gunners put in a kick ass performance against a tough spurs side helmed by martin jol, the most underrated manager of the premiership season, and pulled out a 1 - nil victory against their london rivals.


toure v. defoe 

it was a jose reyes goal that put arsenal on top, but solid defending from kolo toure and phillipe senderos up the middle gave the gunners their ninth clean sheet in ten games. and it gave us the first brace against tottenham since 1992. the reports of the demise of the gunners were a little hasty methinks.

especially if we score malouda over the summer.