At half-time in this game, I have to admit that I was struggling to think about what I would write in my post-match report. However, and thankfully, the game came alive in the second-half, and will probably live long in the memory of Arsenal fans for years to come. My thoughts as follows:
* As I said, it didn't look like it was shaping up to be a classic in the first-half.

"It only took nine years" was the cry from South-West London last summer, when AFC Wimbledon won promotion back to the Football League after a dramatic penalty-shoot-out win as if there is any other sort against Luton Town at The City of Manchester Stadium in the Blue Square Premier play-off final.

Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini was involved in an angry tunnel exchange with Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard after Wednesday night's 1-0 Carling Cup defeat at the Etihad Stadium.
The pair clashed twice, the second particularly fractious, with Gerrard annoyed at Mancini's response to a late tackle by Glen Johnson on Joleon Lescott.

Guardian: Fare chief slams Liverpool 'tribal fervour' after Luis Suárez affair

• Piara Powar criticises club for attitude to FA • Supporter arrested after Oldham FA Cup tie The head of European football's anti-racism group believes Liverpool's reaction to the Luis Suárez affair has whipped up "a tribal fervour" at Anfield.

Mirror: Never mind your fine, Rooney... this is real injustice

Wayne Rooney didn't look his old self at Newcastle on Wednesday (and I'm not just talking about his comical tufty tuft). He looked petulant, weary and distracted. Which may back up reports that he was fuming at the injustice of being dropped and fined £200,000 by Manchester United for breaking club rules after spending Boxing Night in a restaurant.

Anfield Rd: Kick It Out: Allegations should be proven "beyond reasonable doubt"

When Liverpool announced they were not going to appeal the Luis Suárez verdict they did so after coming under a huge weight of pressure from various individuals and organisations. One of Liverpool's main objections to the decision was the way it was reached and in particular the burden of proof considered adequate.

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Got, Not Got: the unholy horror of the Frankenstein's monster football sticker

There aren't many things in life that can cause man or boy as much alarm as a hastily recoloured kit on a football card or sticker. For starters, there's the creeping sense of injustice as you see through the sticker company's little ruse – spotting the iffy, last-minute airbrushing and feeling soiled by the messy evidence of a crime.

Match report

Firstly *boilk*

Secondly how fitting that on the 125th anniversary of the club we pulled out a 1-0 to the Arsenal, a result so synonymous with the club.

Thirdly the game itself was nothing much to talk about. Everton came and not only parked the bus but turned the bus sideways, then got another bus, attached that bus to the existing bus and then added another bus before placing all the buses in a row well outside the white lines of the parking space.

After the Man City game last week, I posted an article arguing (in the interests of fairness) that Lucas, Charlie Adam and Dirk Kuyt did their best to persuade the referee to send off Mario Balotelli. It was unsporting behaviour on a grand scale, and the photo evidence I provided backed this up.

OK, so I'll admit I'm not in my most cheerful of moods. I've been absent for the better part of this week, trying to see some justice done here in Hood County, Texas. But alas, what I got instead was a heavy dose of injustice in the courtroom, if I may say so myself. I won't bore you all with the painful details, but what I really needed was 12 jurors from this soccer game in Portugal a few years ago:
Hopefully I can relax and blog a bit, and find my happy place again.

I'd request the readers to allow me a small digression at the start of this post.

Background info: It had been two weeks since the birth of a pretty nondescript baby with an off-centre nose and the nascent signs of an irritating smirk on its face. The father took it awkwardly in his arms and said, ‘We shall christen him Nickspinkboots'.

On the accusations of racism against John Terry and another opinion

Let's begin with a big ‘if'. If John Terry racially abused Anton Ferdinand, then sure, open the floodgates. I don't know John Terry and given his track record I find it absolutely conceivable that he has quite a few racial slurs in his vocabulary.

The Asian Champions League doesn't get much pub this side of, well, Asia, especially not when playing on the same day as the European Champions League. A quick way to rectify this injustice is to start a massive brawl in a regional semifinal. The genesis is as ludicrous as the concept itself:

With two players down in the box (for genuine reasons), one for each side, Suwon was attacking the Al-Sadd goal.

Why this week could define Rooney and United's seasons

Wyanr Rooney may be crushed by the three-match ban that has ruled him out of all of England's group games at Euro 2012. But Rooney must channel all that anger and aggression at the perceived injustice of his suspension the right way in his next three games for Manchester United, which could arguably define their season.

Hillsborough documents to be released

Home secretary Theresa May agrees to hand over as many as 300,000 documents on 1989 disaster to independent panel David Cameron was urged to apologise for the police failures and government cover-up surrounding the Hillsborough disaster as MPs voted for the release of all documents relating to the tragedy.

Blast, and other unseemly vituperations. Apparently armed with a game-plan to avoid, at all costs, ever stringing together more than three passes, our heroes stuck to the drill fairly resolutely throughout, and it's two points a-begging, faster than you can say "someone track that Ba fellow, he's making a late run into the area".

Hillsborough families call on the Sun to reveal sources of disaster story

Demand comes as MPs consider e-petition calling for 'full government disclosure' over 1989 football ground disaster The chair of the Hillsborough Family Support Group has called on the Sun to reveal the identities of its sources for a notorious story which in effect blamed Liverpool fans for causing the 1989 disaster, in which 96 of the club's supporters died.

It was what I once erroneously called "the swings and roundabouts of outrageous fortune." The Republic of Ireland's international football team were ‘done' by a clear handball from France's Thierry Henry in the 2010 World Cup play-offs two years ago. And in the last group game of Euro 2012 qualifying, Ireland's opponents Armenia were ‘done' by a clear ‘not handball' from their goalkeeper Roman Berezovsky.

According to ESPNsoccernet, an agreement is in place that will see current UEFA head Michel Platini assume control of FIFA when Sepp Blatter's current four-year term as Preseident of FIFA ends. Given the fact that Platini is a self-confessed, remorseless cheat, how does that make him suitable for world football's top job?

Scotland as a nation is very peeved by the injustice suffered at the hand of Jan Rezek doing thespian things in the box at the death of their Euro qualifier on the weekend (1:40 in the video), with every right to be.

The penalty came at the end of regulation, making it harsh and 'earning' the Czechs a 2-2 draw.

Why Craig Bellamy will flourish at Liverpool and Steed brought perspective to crazy week

Craig Bellamy is not easily impressed. The Welsh international is a dangerous man with a seven iron and a sense of injustice. Fortunately, he has found ­someone, something, in which to believe.

By Andy Brunning

Now that deadline day's out the way, it's time to take a look at who's feeling smugly self-satisfied about the whole affair and who spent the small hours of last night crying into their pillow at the injustice of it all. Here, in no particular order, are the four biggest winners and losers to emerge from yesterday's dealings.

There are many problems currently afflicting football, and one of the most serious is undoubtedly the rampant cheating epidemic, which continues to devalue and destroy the heart and soul of football. What is UEFA doing to tackle this problem? Nothing. And with Michel Platini running UEFA, this is unlikely to change anytime soon.

One group of well paid men get beaten by another. We wail about the injustice of our well paid men not being paid as much as other groups of well paid men. Even though there's a group of men who aren't paid as much as our well paid men doing away just fine over there.
Such is the world of Scottish football, a sport dreamed of on the playing fields from Dumfries to Shetland but ripped asunder on the green, green grass of Slovenia and Switzerland.

If you'll forgive the indulgence, I would just like to take a moment to salute the genius of the manager of Wolverhampton Wanderers, Mr. Michael Joseph McCarthy. In the wake of his team's 2-0 victory over Fulham on Sunday, Wolves were briefly sat at the top of the Premier League table. Not that Big Mick was allowing anyone to get carried away with that.

Hillsborough petition shows some wounds cannot be healed by time | Ellie Mae O'Hagan

The truth about Hillsborough is obscured by a great knot of misinformation. We should take the opportunity to untangle it Last weekend I went to Liverpool – the place that was my home for most of my adult life.

Frankly, I might as well just cut and paste different bits from match reports from last season.
Apart from better defending, everything I watched today I've seen before: Arsenal denied a perfectly good penalty; Arsenal player sent off in ridiculous refereeing injustice; Joey Barton being a Grade A tosser.

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Written by Gooner in Exile

This is a plea to all fans lucky enough to walk through the turnstiles at the Emirates this coming season. Since we moved there from our beloved Highbury, I can count on one hand the amount of times I wished I had been there rather than watching on TV or on the radio, those games are:

Liverpool 2008 when the crowd went ballistic against Howard Webb after sending off "he who shall not be named" with a second yellow, it was the first time I had heard the Emirates really rocking as the support got behind the team.

Right from ancient times, when the balls were made from pig intestines and the goal had no crossbar, to a-changin' times where crystallized tears of Arsenal supporters sell like hot cakes after each game, football has always been considered a man's game. Rugged, craggy, rumble-tumble in the mud, and certainly no place for a dignified member of the fairer sex to mingle.

Right from ancient times, when the balls were made from pig intestines and the goal had no crossbar, to a-changin' times where crystallized tears of Arsenal supporters sell like hot cakes after each game, football has always been considered a man's game. Rugged, craggy, rumble-tumble in the mud, and certainly no place for a dignified member of the fairer sex to mingle.

Today's game between England and France was an incredibly grueling experience for the players, clearly, but for viewers too. France played beautifully, but England's play was tenacious, heroic, and in it's own way epic. I left the room twice during the last minutes of the game, and again during PKs basically unable to watch.

Celtic fan Collette McCallum introduced the Celtic anthem to the Matildas side in 2007 and when the team plays like this Australians can finally say as the song says - we don't care if we win lose or draw.
Because the Matildas are playing the best football ever seen by a women's Australian side.

Mark Hughes was the victim of Manchester City chief executive Garry Cook's infamous "trajectory of results" when he was shown the door at Eastlands and replaced within a matter of minutes by Roberto Mancini.
Hughes nursed an acute sense of injustice, shared by many observers inside and outside City, and public humiliation when he took charge of the 4-3 win against Sunderland in December 2009 with the word already out that his time was up as soon as the final whistle sounded.

Well the hype surrounding tonight's Champions League final has been going full blast for hours now and I have a certain feeling nagging inside me concerning the injustice dished out to us by Barcelona and their referee in that tightly contested tie earlier on this season. We were robbed, although I feel Arsene got his tactics wrong in the second leg, Rosicky was poor and Arshavin should have

Ahead of the Champions League Final on the 28th May...

Reputation is everything in football. Sergio Busquets would rather you not talk about his, though. Not long ago, the 22-year-old was celebrated solely for his talents. Robust in the tackle, an eye for a pass and blessed with "an excellent first touch and great balance", according to Xavi Hernandez.

AFC Wimbledon play Luton Town in the Blue Square Premier play-off final in Manchester this afternoon and, setting aside concerns about the ticketing arrangements for a moment, there is a definite sense of headiness in the air this morning as supporters of the two clubs head north for the match. For both clubs, there is an obvious sense of injustice that they find themselves in this particular division in the first place.

Barcelona v Manchester United. Manchester United v Barcelona. The stage is set for Wembley Stadium to host the two best football clubs of the last decade as they go head to head on Saturday, 28 May 2011.

The records reel off the tongue effortlessly: Five league titles in seven years for Barcelona, four league titles in five years for Manchester United.

Greg, me, and all of you probably are slowly recovering from the shock of the injustice and trauma of the Chelsea game. Greg casts a wider eye on the ups and downs of the football world and is in quietly reflective mood as the seasiders visit the lane. He has no delusions that shattering the Tangerine Dream is a necessary evil if we are to give ourselves a mathematical chance of tasting the