honouring highbury

next season is the end for the great london park, and arsenal is honouring their old stadium with a retro jersey. back to the old blackcurrant colours of the past.


henry -- the new strip 

i think it's a beaut.

the best team lost

liverpool earned their victory over chelsea with spirited, wholehearted play. milan did nothing of the sort in their victory over psv eindhoven.

in fact, psv played better than them in both legs, despite going down 2 - nil at the san siro. and today's game at teh phillip's stadium in eindhoven was a masterful performance, wherein psv crushed the italian giants with a 3-1 victory. sadly, it wasn't enough to go through. milan squeaked by on away goals.


agony of defeat 

the best player for psv, in both legs, was ji-sung park, the south korean international who guus hiddink brought back with him from asia after the 2002 world cup. park dominated the midfield, caused no end of trouble for the usually solid japp stam and scored a scorcher of a goal to psv up 1 - nil in today's second leg. yp lee, park's countryman, and psv's ultra-talented left back, provided a beautiful cross that cocu slammed into the back of the net.

but milan, in the 90th minute, snuck in a header by ambrossini to get that crucial away goal. for the first time in the game no one was marking a milan player in the penalty area and that was all milan needed to finish off psv.

to their credit, however, psv did not give up. back came cocu with one of the goals of the tournament, volleying a long pass over his shoulder and into the upper right corner of the net -- beautiful, but not enough.

so it's going to be ac milan v. liverpool in instanbul. that should be a match to remember.

and just like that...

the mighty have fallen. chelsea lose to liverpool in the champs league semi-final and moanhinho and crew see their treble chances slip away for this year.


go pool 

right now i love liverpool very much -- especially luis garcia and hyppia. what a nail biter of a game.