Arsenal 1 Manchester United 3
(And it's worth noting that the '1' was a consolation goal - perhaps we woke up from our lethargy thereafter, but United are far too professional a team to let a three goal lead slip.
If you want to clutch at straws, perhaps you could point out that United were due a win away at us in the League - February 2005, almost five years ago, was when they won away to us last (as long as you discount the Champions League.

Well I would have settled for a draw beforehand – that it was such a memorable, high-octane, pulsating spectacle of a game was a bonus. As against Bolton in the last round, the AANP view is that our opponents have blown their best chance of victory by failing to beat us on their own patch. Back at the Lane and under the floodlights I fancy us to come out on top, injuries permitting.

Widely heralded as the best team currently kicking a ball around on Planet Earth, the mighty FC Barcelona could end the season with as much silverware as Arsenal.

It really would be a funny old season if Real Madrid ended up with more trophies than reigning World, European and Spanish champions, FC Barcelona.

It would be unwise to draw too many conclusions from Manchester United's Community Shield victory over Chelsea on Sunday, but the game itself demonstrated reason to feel optimistic for this coming season. And history does suggest that a triumph in the traditional season curtain-raiser leads to league success.

Bolivian President Evo Morales isn't too diplomatic on the soccer pitch. In fact Morales is what we call a dirty soccer player here in the States or anywhere else in the world for that matter. The politician recently played for his minor league club in a friendly match in La Paz (a strange enough concept to begin with for a president), but the one problem was that the president wasn't being friendly at all during the meaningless match.

By Chris Wright

Both The Sun and The Daily Mail are suggesting this morning that big bad bullies Real Madrid are in the hunt for a new striker and that the new striker in question is none other than Sunderland's all-singing, all-dancing hotshot Asamoah Gyan who only moved to the Stadium of Light for a club record fee of £13 million just four short months ago.