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All good things must come to an end. The Red Devils crashed and burn at home against Bayern Munich.

Man U won the match 3-2 but lost the war on away goals.

The mighty boys from Old Trafford gave up two goals after jumping out to a 3-nil lead.

Ivica Olic scored in the 43^rd minute.

The away winner was knocked home by Arjen Robben in the 74^th minute to send the Old Trafford crowd home in a shower of tears.

Another mighty EPL club bites the dust.

This was not a good day at Black Rock for the EPL.

Man U jumped out a huge 3-nil lead.

Darren Gibson ripped the twines in the 3^rd minute. The Wayne Man set up this goal. He made a perfect pass to mate Gibson who dialed up long distance.

Nani flicked a shot past the keeper Jorg Butt in the 7^th minute to give Man U a 2-nil lead.

Valencia fired a sublime cross into the teeth of Bayern Munich’s goal line “D”.

Nani added another goal in the 41^st minute. Rooney fired a weak shot on goal. Nani gathered the rebound and hit pay dirt.

After Munich score in the 43^rd minute, Man U’s Rafael committed a dumb play when he pulled down Ribery in the 50^th minute. This was Rafael’s second booking so you’re outta here.

Game, set and match to Bayern.

This will be the first time in four years that no EPL club will make it into the Champions League semifinals.  Chelsea, Man U, Arsenal, and Liverpool have all crashed and burned out of the Champions League.

The run is over.

Now the big three can concentrate on the EPL race.

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Man U held serve at Old Trafford. The Red Devils thrashed Fulham 3-0. The Rooney man hit the daily double.

He ripped the twines in the 46^th and 84^th minute.

Rooney has 32 goals on season. Rooney is ten goals behind Cristiano Ronaldo’s record setting 42 goals.

There are eight matches left. 

Dimitar Berbatov added a strike in the 89^th minute for some more icing on the cake.

Man U leap fogged into first place with the EPL with the win.

The mighty men from Old Trafford had numerous opportunities to find the back of the net but the Red Devils wasted them

Berbatov was the main culprit.

The return of Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic has stopped the leaky Man U defense.

The Man U “D” is at full strength for the first time all season.

Nani had a great match as well.

He is the set up man.

Nani fired a dead on pass to Rooney to set up the first goal.

Man U has 66 points. Chelsea and Arsenal both have 64 points.

The race is one.

It sure looks like the title race will come down to the last match of the season.

Man U, Chelsea and Arsenal are firing on all cylinders.

I love it.

Man City may have saved their Champions League aspirations. City fell behind in 9^th minute when Sunderland’s Kenwyne Jones ripped the twines.

City fought back to salvage a tie in the 90^th minute.

Adam Johnson lofted a brilliant shot into the far left post to allow City to escape with a one all tie.

Wow. What a great match,

Way to snatch a tie from the jaws of victory.

The race for the final Champions League spot shakes out this way.

Tottenham is in fourth place with 52 points.

City is in fifth place with 50 points.

Liverpool is in sixth place with 48 points.

The Reds have a hot date on Monday with Pompey.

Aston Villa is in seventh place with 46 points.

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Manchester United came out breathing fire. Wayne Rooney hit for the daily double in this flat out rout. The Wayne Man ripped the twines off a wicked rocket header in the 13^th minute.

His mate Gary Neville set this baby up with a deadly cross right into the teeth of AC Milan’s “D”.

Milan keeper Christian Abbiati never had a prayer to stop the shot.

Wayne Rooney once again discovered the back of the net in the 46^th minute. Nani took off like a bat outta hell down left side of the pitch. He fired perfect pass to Rooney. Rooney had an easy tap in goal.

Abbiati was hung out to dry.

Paul Scholes was outside the box. The crowd cried out “Shoot.” Scholes faked a shot and then passed to Ji-Sung Park. Ac Milan’s “D” fell for the deception. Park slides a shot from a tight angle into the net in the 59^th minute.

Stick a fork in AC Milan.

It is 3-nil Man U.

This baby is over. Darren Fletcher nailed a perfect bounce header past the keeper. Fletcher put it dead center of the goal in the 88^th minute.

Rafael made a brilliant long pass into the left side of the box.

This sucker is all over.

Man U destroyed AC Milan 4-0.

It is on to the next round of the Champions League for the mighty men of Old Trafford.

This was a total butt kicking administered by Man U on AC Milan.

The key to the match was Wayne Rooney.

With Rooney in the lineup, Man U is deadly.

Without him, they stink big time.

Real Madrid everyone’s favorite to win the Champions League was knocked out by Lyon on aggregate 2-1.

Lyon and Real Madrid tied one at Real’s house.

So much for the fake Ronaldo taking Real Madrid to the Promise Land.

I am glad.

Cristiano Ronaldo is great in the regular season but when it is a Championship match, he disappears.

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What did I tell ya. The EPL champ will have the best road record. Man U’s road woes continued at Elwood Park. Everton took it to the mighty Red Devils. The Toffees whopped em good. The final tally was 3-1 Everton.

This gives the mighty men of Old Trafford five road losses. Yes, count em five road losses.

This is huge for us Arsenal fans. This loss opens up the door for Arsenal. A win today against Sunderland and we will have cut the gap to two points behind Man U.

All we need is to have Chelsea to lose to Wolverhampton.

Go ahead and make my day.

My instincts tell me that with Rio and Nani out due to suspension will really hurt the Red Devils. Add on top of that Ryan Giggs gone because of a broken forearm you have a really depleted Red Devils side ripe for the taking.

This is exactly what the Toffees did. 

Give Everton all the credit. The Toffees flat out took it Man U.

The Toffees have now beaten both Man U and Chelsea at home.

Home cooking goes a long way.

Rio Ferdinand’s absence really hurt the Man U “D”. 

With Rio in the line up, I don’t think the Toffees would have scored.

Man U opened the scoring in the 16^th minute. Berbatov one timed a great centering pass from mate Valencia for 1-0 Man U lead.

Then all hell broke loose. Everton kept applying the pressure.

The Toffees were like a pressure cooker. They kept the steam up and then the lid blew off this baby.

Everton’s Diniyar Bilyaletdinov nailed a perfect long-range ball in the 19^th minute to even this sucker up at one all. Red Devil’s keeper Van der Sar never even flinched. He had his cement shoes on.

The Toffees scored the go ahead goal in the 76^th minute. Dan Gosling back heeled a great cross from mate Steven Pienaar for a 2-1 Everton lead.

Everton put the final nail in the coffin in the 90^th minute. Jack Rodwell wove his way through the entire Man U back line. He teed up a great shot that made went flying past the sprawled out keeper Edwin Van de Sar.

Final score was 3-1 Everton.

Well Chelsea is well on their way to giving Wolves a futebol lesson. Didier Drogba has hit for the daily double.

The Blues have it in cruise control.

Chelsea is well on its way to a huge road win.

The Blues have 2-0 lead with ten minutes left.

Arsenal on the other hand is in a dogfight with Sunderland. Nicklas Bendtner rammed home a point blank gimmie shot in the 27^th minute to give us 1-0 lead.

Cesc Fabregas set this baby up with a great run into the box. He made a great pass right through the goal crease to left post. 

This created the walk in goal for Bendtner.

This is way this baby stands with about thirteen minutes remaining.

If things remain the same, Chelsea will have 61 points. Man U remains at 57 points. Arsenal is still with in striking distance with 55 points.

It is all over but the shouting as Chelsea cruised to a 2-0 win over Wolverhampton.

This gives the Blues seven road wins on the season. Chelsea is 7-3-4 on the road. Man U drops to 7-2-5. Arsenal remains at 6-3-4.

Finally, we get another goal in the dying moments of the match against Sunderland. Cesc Fabregas nailed the PK kick to put this guy out of reach.

We can all breath a huge sigh of relief. 

The Gunners are up 2-0 in the 90^th minute.

Thank God for small favors.

It is all over. We pick up the all-important three points.

The top of the table looks like this after Saturdays encounters.

Chelsea is the top gun with 61 points. Man U is second with 57 and Arsenal is third with 55.

The race is on baby.

Man U is wobbly on the road. Chelsea has their troubles as well.  It will come down to this. Beat the teams you should. Hold serve at home. Have more wins than losses or ties on the road.

Trust me on this.

Man U’s loss to Everton may have well cost them a shot at the four peat. Better yet this may have cost the Red Devils second place in the table as well.

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We have some huge fixtures on Saturday and Sunday in the EPL. Manchester United and Everton battle each other in Everton’s house Elwood Park.

The Red Devils are a scant one point behind league leaders Chelsea. Rooney and the guys need to come out breathing fire. In Man U’s last five road games, they have two wins, two draws, and one loss.

Man U has struggled on the road. The Red Devils are coming off a road tie with Aston Villa. This road match will be a key test to see if the Red Devils can become the first EPL team to get a four peat.

Rooney, Berbatov, and Anderson need to attack and create a ton of scoring chances. Rio Ferdinand and Nani will not play due to suspensions.

Without Rio and Nani Man U could pull a Keystone Cops routine on the defensive end of the pitch

With Giggs out due to a broken forearm this will hurt Man U a lot. How much? This depends on Berbatov.

The Toffees will be missing one of their key players too. Midfielder Tim Cahill will be out at least three weeks with a pulled calf muscle. 

We have a huge match against Sunderland at Emirates on Saturday. Let’s hope we put the fiasco of what happened in Portugal behind us.

I hope someone slapped Fabianski upside the head for his stupid and dumb play in net against Porto on Wednesday.

This bum Fabianski needs to wake up and make sure he doesn’t play stupid in goal if Arsenal is forced to use this clown in goal if Almunia is not ready to go.

Both Diaby and Gallas will be out. This is going to kill us but I am sure the return of Alex Song will help.

God please don’t let us pull another Rocky Horror Picture Show at home.

The Gunners need to take care of business at home.

Arsenal needs to take names and kick butt.

Fabregas and the guys need to torch the twines.

Chelsea has a road trip to Wolverhampton. Chelsea has a habit of losing on the road. The Blues are coming off a huge road loss to Everton. Wolves are not that good. In plain English, they stink big time.

Let’s hope the Blues have a brain fart and lose big time.

Over the past few weeks, the big boys have stubbed their toes big time on the road.

The EPL winner will have the best road record.

Chelsea is 6-3-4 on the road. Man U is 7-2-4. Arsenal is 6-3-4.

Last year Chelsea, Man U, and Arsenal had a combined nine total road losses.  Right now, they have a combined twelve losses with 12 matches left in the season.

They key is hold serve at home and win at least 55 to 60% of your road matches.

When the dust settles the EPL title race will come more into focus.

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I am sad today. Yes, that is right. I wanted Arsenal to win but just like my Philadelphia Eagles, the Gunners break your heart. Manchester United out gunned the Gunners 3-1.

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Nani was the key to the Red Devils attack. I said take Rooney out and force Nani to beat you. This is exactly what happened. I have ESPN, I mean ESP.

For most of the match, Rooney was a non-factor. The Rooney man had five shots. Four of those shots came in the second half.

Rooney scored one goal.

Nani took over the controls of the Man U attack. He ran the offense almost to perfection.

On the other hand, Fabregas had a really hard time directing the Gunners attack.

The only threat throughout the match was Arshavin. He had several great scoring opportunities.

The first one came in the 13^th minute.  Arshavin took off like a bat out of  hell down the left sideline. His shot curled just wide of the net.

A few moments later Fabregas darted through the Red Devils midfield. Fabregas fired a great pass to Arshavin. Arshavin lost his footing and this scoring chance was wasted.

Nani drew first blood for Man U. He fired a wicked ball into the goalmouth. Arsenal’s keeper Almunia missed played the chip shot and Whamo bamo the ball is into the back of the net.

Own goal. Man U is up 1-0 in the 33^rd minute.

Four minutes later Nani and Wayne Rooney played a great two man game that killed the Gunners D”.

Rooney fed Nani. Nani made a mad dash down the pitch. Nani nailed a perfect centering pass into the center of the box. Rooney killed the winner in the 37^th minute to put Man u up 2-0.

The Fat Lady began doing her pushups.

Park Ji-Sung’s goal in the 52^nd minute put the kibosh to Arsenal’s chances of mounting a comeback.

Thomas Vermaelen added a cosmetic goal in the 80^th minute to make the final score a respectable 3-1.

In a sad postmortem of the match, three things stand out.

The Gunners forced Nani to become the playmaker. This should have worked but Nani stepped up to the plate and had a hand in two of the three Red Devils goals.

Arsenal could not take advantage of Manchester United’s weak back line. Wes Brown, Evans, and Evra played well enough to stop the Arshavin and Fabregas from scoring.

Arsenal’s attack seemed to be just a hair off. The Gunners were missing the spark and intensity they had in their previous matches.

Speaking purely as an Arsenal fan, I want to jump off the bridge, but hey, Arsenal is like Philly we expect these things to happen all the time.

If anything will go wrong, it will. This is the plight of Arsenal and the Philadelphia Eagles.

In Philly, we have a saying about our Eagles. This saying will apply to Arsenal as well. The Eagles will find a way to screw up a wet dream.

City defeated Portsmouth 2-0.

Emmanuel Adebayor and Vincent Kompany scored both City’s goals in this total whitewash of Pompey.

The dust has settled. The results are in and Chelsea is in the catbird seat with 54 points. Man U is second 53. The Gunners are third with 49. Tottenham is fourth with 42.

My final parting shot is this.       

Arsenal will win the EPL.

Where there is hope there is life.

Arsenal and Eagles fans always hope for the best and expect the worst.

Go figure.

It could be worse than five points difference between Arsenal and the Blues.

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Today will be a hodge podge of stuff. There are some disturbing reports about the financial stability concerning Manchester United.

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The Glazers who own the majority share in Manchester United have saddled the club with a mountain of debit. The Red Devils may collapse under the weight of this debit. Many owners make a habit of stripping one business of its assets and transfer the assets to another business.

I hope this is not the case. If the Glazers have done this, they will have surely destroyed an English futebol institution. This is truly bad.

These money woes are just the tip of the iceberg. The Red Devils have been playing crap all season long. Sure five loses isn’t that many but this is only halfway point of the season.

Man U can’t find the back of the net to save its life. Rooney is scoring-some. The crux of situation is this. Big bucks were spent to bring in Berbatov. This clown can’t score to save his life. Nani is a waste of time.

Neville, Giggs, and Scholes are senior citizens in futebol life yet these guys are logging a ton of minutes. These senior citizens will break down at this rate.

Add on top of this the entire back line is injured you have recipe for disaster.

The loss to Leeds is a sign that something is wrong with boys from Old Trafford. If you remember, I said this about two weeks ago. Do I have ESPN I mean ESP.

Leaky finances couple with older players with no replacements in sight means big time trouble ahead for Man U.

Do you remember when Man U received 128 million from the Cristiano Ronaldo buy out? How come not a dime of this money has been spent on bringing in more talent.

Better yet, what about spending the money developing younger talent?

Maybe there is trouble in Man U land.

Here’s a thought. Sir Alex Ferguson will quit at the end of this year. He has won all the important domestic and World futebol titles now he will call it quits at the end of this year.

This will be the scop of the year.

Another story has surfaced that Chelsea is debt free.

Maybe many of the top clubs are in heap big trouble.

The only club not in trouble is Arsenal.

The Gunners have spent their money wisely. Arsenal has no debit.

Don’t de surprised if the Gunners win the whole shooting match.

The young kids are primed and ready to step forward. Eduardo, Nasri, and Arshavin are finding their stride. Vela is playing better. Fabregas is almost ready to return.

The cupboard is filled with younger talent ready to step in.

What Wenger did was borrow an American system of supplying the main club with talent. It is called a farm system. Major Baseball teams use a farm system to train young talent to replace older stars. In the old days, the New York Yankees were kings of this. Now the Phillies, Angels, and Minnesota Twins are the best examples of how to develop younger players.

When a team buys talent to win championships this can work in the short run but in the long run, this will destroy a team. For the team will not take the time or the resources to develop talent to replace aging stars.

Man U is sadly discovering this fact.

This will bite Man City as well too.

Real Madrid is headed down the same dangerous and bad road.

It is time to give Arsene Wenger his just do. He is doing it the right way. Yes, younger players will drive you nuts. They may not win for a while but in the end, the foundation upon which the club is built will stand.

There is an old adage. What goes up must come down.

Maybe Man U and Chelsea are on the way down.

In American sports, the Dallas Cowboys, New York Yankees, New York Mets, LA Dodgers, Boston Celtics, Washington Redskins, and the Detroit Lions have all found this out the hard way.

My Philadelphia Eagles have too. For way too many years, the bums stunk the joint out.

The Birds have had a run of eight to ten years of horrible teams. Then they are good for a few years then stink for the next ten years.

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