I haven't given up on Arsenal making the top four because I can't.
Despite Arsenal appearing to want to make it as difficult as possible to get there, something inside me makes it hard for me to believe we won't make it. And that something inside me is certainly not wind.
Perhaps its the season when we needed a Lasagna to make it happen gives me belief.

United legends divided Manchester United's Champions League exit has created a bit of a rift between Sir Alex Ferguson and Roy Keane. Fergie is obviously not overly pleased to see his former fledglings now giving honest appraisals of United performances as TV pundits. He turned on Keane after being asked about his former skipper's views [.

BUKIT JALIL: Barely four days after the country celebrated a scintillating victory in the final of the Sea Games football final in Jakarta, the Tigers suffered a reality check.

Last night at the Bukit Jalil National Stadium, the message was chilling, and yet loud and clear — that though the Sea Games gold signaled a triumph, Malaysian are still minnows when they step out of the boundaries of Southeast Asia.

You'll Never Walk and Moan

Like many of you, I have spent this season constantly screaming at the telly, swearing at the woodwork and tearing my hair out at every missed opportunity. Draws against newly promoted teams, a thrashing at Spurs, poor finishing and lucky wins through penalties and opposition red cards have defined the past 4 months as a LFC supporter.

Branislav Ivanovic took centre stage with AVB in yesterdays pre match press conference ahead of our Champions League tie against Genk and spoke out about our performance on Saturday and the fact we have been shipping goals lately. Respect is due to Ivanovic as he pulled no punches. It could have been easy to let the manager do all the talking about Saturday and moving on but Ivanovic shed light on what happened in that dressing room after the game and since then.

Mrs. & Mr. vdV outside the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam early last week. Image Credit: Celebrity Paradise via TFS.

We're obsessed with happy couples these days, along with wedding dresses, wedding themes and wedding rings. And obviously gigantic engagement rings too. This theme is probably occuring because A) it's that collective time of the month and B) one of us is hoping she will be gifted a +2.

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I think a reality check is needed and between us we should try to fathom out what is going wrong at the club. Figures don't lie and we have won just 2 of our last 13 PL games, which would have been inconceivable in February. Fabregas leaving is going to be a huge miss, and though not replaceable like for like we have had the best part of this year knowing he would leave to find another player as a world-class playmaker.

Sporting Defeat for Reds Youngsters

Liverpool last night suffered defeat in their opening game of the NextGen series – an unofficial U-19 ‘Champions League' – at Anfield against Portuguese side, Sporting Clube de Portugal. Two goals in the first half and one late on in the second condemned Rodolfo Borrell's side, and though there were certainly signs of improvement throughout the second half, it was perhaps something of a reality check to the much lauded Liverpool players as to how far they still have to go.

Liverpool Premier League 2011-12 team guide

After a huge outlay on new players this summer, Kenny Dalglish is hopeful of a Champions League place The club We are Liverpool Still the most successful club in the country, la, although they're having to jump through increasingly elaborate mathematical hoops, and the margin for error is getting tighter by the season.

Mr. Tevez married upHere's another edition of Random Thoughts; no I don't have anything else to write about. Deal with it.

• Um Carlos Tevez, please go away. Go play in Brazil. Go play in Italy. Go play in Argentina. Go play with yourself. You've become tiresome and a punchline. Your wife and kids don't like England, then make a call for chrissakes.

Chelsea made a winning start yesterday in Malaysia and looking at Twitter I cannot understand for the life of me the mentality of some Chelsea fans at the moment. People moaning and complaining about the performance, about the way we are playing, what we are lacking and all I can say is just listen to yourselves at the moment.

We'd like to thank Rob Kirby, one of our many Arsenal-supporting field agents, for the following take on Arsenal's "imminent" demise.

Don't look back.

The football media establishment says that Arsenal is out of the title race even before anything's begun. With the imminent exits of Cesc Fabregas and Samir Nasri (on the heels of the £7M Manchester City signing of left back Gael Clichy), pundits have already decided the Arsenal season is done, dead and buried.

The 2011 NBA Draft will be remembered as a sluggish event with unrecognizable athletes being celebrated and then ushered into a league headed towards a lockout. This draft was filled with fanfare, but not anybody worthy of it.
Was this the beginning of something bigger and scarier for the NBA?

A busy soccer weekend just passed and it's leading into more football goodness all week with the start of the Gold Cup.
But first off, some of the American Outlaws decided to meet up at Fox & Hound close to Lockhart Stadium stadium to watch the USA vs Spain game. this was a pinful game to watch as the American's were schooled by a much better Spanish side.

I have to get this off my chest: on my DVR sits the New England Revolution game versus FC Dallas from this Saturday night, and I have no plans to watch it. Ever.

On Soccer Soap Box, I don't attempt to capture news before other blogs. I don't analyze every game and every touch. If you are looking for a scoop or play by play coverage, you are unlikely to get it here.

A disgruntled Dalglish... Spurs gave Liverpool a reality check yesterday at Anfield in a 2-0 defeat for the Reds. A slow start for Liverpool meant they never really got out of the blocks, with 5th place still not settled it was in Dalglish's interest to see his side to another victory, unfortunately Redknapp was also up for that last European spot.

Even for an Arsenal fan supposedly immune to wildly oscillating emotions (see: the second-half meltdown at St. James' Park), the Mood Swing-O-Meter has been off the charts this past week. From storming back to beat "the best team in history" to tying a squad more than 50 places below them in the English league hierarchy.

Kenny Dalglish can't propel Liverpool to a dream top-four Premier League finish – despite turning the Reds' season around.
That's according to Kop legend Ian Rush, who says Champions League qualification is beyond the Merseysiders this term.
But he insists that the appointment of Dalglish WILL ultimately lead to glory.

Three games into his miraculous return to Liverpool, "King" Kenny Dalgish is yet to taste victory. His record stands at two defeats and one draw and, but for the clumsiness of Tim Howard in giving away a stonewall penalty yesterday, it might well be three losses on the trot.

For those who thought the Scot's biggest asset in being appointed was the ability to give the players and Anfield faithful a lift thus ensuring a short-team bounce in results the past week has truly been a reality check.

DOHA, Qatar — Qatar stormed into the Asian Cup quarter-finals for only the second time in their history on Sunday with a commanding 3-0 victory over Gulf champions Kuwait, who were eliminated from the tournament. They went through after Uzbekistan drew 2-2 with China to top Group A, allowing Qatar to finish second and make [.

Lets get this straight, its a bad result. We don't really need any extra games right now and we certainly can't be doing with those types of performances against anyone. We so nearly lost.

However, it may just give the squad a reality check ahead of the game against Ipswich. A lesson that they can't just turn up to win because that is what I fear, this team has done that so often over the past few years where the attitude has been that they can just turn up and the opponents would give them the three points on a silver platter.