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"The trip to Highbury will be the real
acid test of Chelsea's Premiership ambitions, and
they are fancied to come way with maximum points on
Sunday. A draw for Chelsea would be an acceptable
result, but expect Mourinho's men to go for the win,
knowing what impact that would have on the morale
of their London rivals.
An eight-point lead at the half-way stage of the
season would be a huge advantage. Arsenal have an
incredible 15-4-1 domestic record in this tie, but
that could count for nothing on Sunday. Their current
sick list makes depressing reading for Gunners fans,
while their well-documented problems in goal remain.
Arsenal may have regained some of their momentum with
comfortable victories against Birmingham and Rosenborg,
but the league leaders will pose a far more serious
test to their ambitions. would guess hes
talking about shirt numbers to what position they
play, if he said he was a number 3 then that
suggests a defender, 10 suggests a goal scorer, no 8
a attacking-midfielder in the gap between frowards &
midfield. Then again I could be talking b0ll0cks.
10 is not a goalscorer ala Ian Rush, Diego Maradona
was what johnny foreigner would call a "number 10"
as is roberto baggio and Totti, this is what you
thinka number 8 is. Cruyff was also a number 10.
this is an attacking playmaker, who wants the ball
all the time and makes things happen number 8, not
sure what this. Rooney (who i think is a very
similar player to Tevez) has the shirt number 8 -
coincidence? maybe number 8 is like a creative
striker, as opposed to a number 10 who is more of a
creative midfielder / playmaker ? someone from south
america or spain could probably this. One of the
"inside-forwards" numbered either 8 or 10 dropped
into a midfield position to join the remaining half
back in central midfield; with the "Outside-right"
(7) and the "Outside- left" (11) forming the new
midfield.
This left the other "inside-forward" to join the
traditional centre forward (9) in forming the strike
force. The old W-M formation meant that each
poistion had a unique name and number. However when
half backs and inside forwards were redeployed into
defensive, midfield and striking positions, the
actual numbers worn by these players became less
well defined. A number 8 in the old system would
have been an "Inside right forward" and the number
10 an "Inside left forward". I'm on
Chelsea @ 3.1 with Betfair [£20
Free Bet]- tood with my dad (an arsenal
fan) in the away end at VP. He sat me on the barrier
in my villa bobble hat and scarf, and didn't tell me
that everyone else around us supporrted arsenal.
Everton 1 Spurs 0 October (I think) 1963. Dennis
Stevens scored in the Street End. We'd beaten Spurs
earlier that year (but previous season) with the
legendary Alex "Golden Vision" Young scoring the
winner.A result that ,effectively,won us the League
(though of course it doesn't count as it was pre-SkyBarclays
Premiership) .
Mind you we paid for that as ,other than the Elland
Road semi-Final in 1995, we've hardly beaten them
since!
anyone earlier than '63 thenI
just remember looking at the Holte end terrace all
match, to me it looked enormous.
The Blues are simply playing
awesome stuff at the moment, and there are major doubts
in goal for Arsenal. Blue is the colour!uot;
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