Ed.Note – I’m not totally in agreement with ScottyUS’s assessment of this article. I think there is some credence to the notion that the Premiership below the top four or five is fairly weak. Still, take nothing away from Arsenal’s accomplishment, there have been weak teams in the past and strong ones who won the League, but didn’t go undefeated…

I understand that belittling criticism of great feats done by great teams goes with the territory, so it comes as no surprise when I read articles attributing our historical EPL achievement to taking advantage of weak 2003-2004 league competition.

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Ed. Note – Any editorial rant that invokes the name of Thor’s Hammer is ok by me. Here’s Geoff Wessel with a good old fashioned venting of his spleen…

Well well well, lookie who’s back in England, trying to further destroy anything remotely exciting about club football.

Oh yes, once again Swingin’ Sepp Blatter, FIFA President Extraordinaire, is swingin’ the mighty Sepp Hammer like it was Mjolnir itself. As if meddling in the FA’s business during the Rio Ferdinand affair wasn’t enough, Blatter is now pushing, again, for the English Premier League to drop from 20 to 16 teams, AS WELL AS limiting the number of domestic ties played per season. Thus also cutting into the FA and League (Carling, whatever) Cups, in case you were keeping score.

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UCI
1. Paul Durkin ? Nice job on the Newcastle ? Man United match
2. Danny Mills ? Yeah, get Titi angry, that?s a good idea
3. Man United fans at BigSoccer ? If you spent as much time on your boards as you do on ours, maybe your boards wouldn?t suck
4. Man United PLC ? Stop missing drug tests; tapping up Fulham players and illegally procuring MLS goalkeepers. Allegedly of course.
5. Barcelona ? I?m a huge fan of Dutch football and Barca, but getting Davids is not the answer.