Champagne football, ginger-ale finishing

04:21 PM, Thursday, 02 November 2006

Well, what can you really say about that? We played some fantastic football but we couldn't finish for toffee or any other kind of sticky sweet. We should have won, we didn't and now we've made qualification a little bit more complicated than it should have been. We have to beat Hamburg and even... Posted by arseblog · Comments (555) Topics: Arsenal,Premier League

The all-new flexible Chelsea

04:01 PM, Thursday, 02 November 2006

Kevin McCarra writes in today's Guardian about the emergence of a new, more flexible Chelsea side in the aftermath of Tuesday night's epic encounter with Barcelona. Read the full article here. Posted by cbjonathan · Comments (0) Topics: Chelsea,Premier League

Keep Those Entries Coming!

06:16 AM, Thursday, 02 November 2006

Well, we've had a great response to the launch of our website. Thanks to all our visitors for taking the time to come and check the site out, and we encourage more of you to enter the contest - it's a great opportunity. I've also been disappointed by the lack of comments! Loads of hits, but no... Posted by SM · Comments (3) Topics: England,Premier League,Chelsea,Spain,Champions League 2008,La Liga,Barcelona

Champions League: Barcelona 2-2 Chelsea

06:17 PM, Wednesday, 01 November 2006

Match reports The Times, Matt Dickinson: "If talent prevails ”” and the gods of football are feeling truly mischievous ”” these teams will meet in Athens in May for a Champions League final of such explosive possibility that it might shake the ancient columns of the... Posted by cbjonathan · Comments (19) Topics: Chelsea,Premier League

News round-up, win Perry's book

05:23 PM, Wednesday, 01 November 2006

Lots of stories ahead of tonight's CL game against CSKA Moscow so this blog will be a linkathon. We'll start with team news and it's possible that Justin Hoyte might recover in time but there's no Adebayor. If Hoyte doesn't recover it'll be interesting to see who he plays at right back. With... Posted by arseblog · Comments (708) Topics: Arsenal,Premier League

Champions League preview: FC Barcelona v. Chelsea FC

07:52 PM, Tuesday, 31 October 2006

Tuesday. It must Barcelona then. Some eight hundred miles and several stratospheres in football terms separate the cities of Sheffield and tonight’s destination: while the gung-ho graft of Jagielka and Montgomery presented one kind of test, the guile of Deco and Messi will pose another... Posted by cbjonathan · Comments (18) Topics: Chelsea,Premier League

Where the 'Henry was booed' story came from

03:53 PM, Tuesday, 31 October 2006

On the forums and on the arses and I'm sure on other sites too people who hadn't been at the Everton game reacted to stories about Thierry Henry being booed. Understandably they were upset by it. I'm not sure about elsewhere but on Arseblog people who had been at the game were quick to dispel the... Posted by arseblog · Comments (602) Topics: Arsenal,Premier League

Premiership: Sheffield United 0 - 2 Chelsea

08:10 PM, Monday, 30 October 2006

Match reports The Observer, Jamie Jackson: "'We played last time against Barcelona without two keepers. Maybe on Tuesday we play without any strikers. So I take the bus there,' joked Jose Mourinho, after what were, ultimately, three regulation points for Chelsea. There are, though, signs that... Posted by chelseablog · Comments (3) Topics: Chelsea,Premier League

Sshhhhhhhh....

05:24 PM, Monday, 30 October 2006

There has been, in the 4 1/2 year history of Arseblog, only ever been one single syllable blog entry. It is the one syllable, the one word, that defines this blog. It is *boilk*, has been *boilk* and will be *boilk* ever after. This morning, my dear chums, it is *boilk* to the max and there is... Posted by arseblog · Comments (446) Topics: Arsenal,Premier League

Everton's anti-football wins them a point

05:27 PM, Sunday, 29 October 2006

The good - Robin van Persie's free kick. The bad - defensive error gifts Everton a goal. The ugly - Everton's football. And that about sums it up. We did exactly what we didn't want to do against a team that has suffered some heavy defeats at our place in recent season and that was to concede... Posted by arseblog · Comments (319) Topics: Arsenal,Premier League