Game: Arsenal vs Chelsea

Venue: Emirates Stadium

Links: Skysports Arsenal.com Footytube (videos....its very very good this site)

Score: 1 -0

Competition: Barclays' English Premier League

Goals: Gallas (AFC) (45')

Report: This game was billed as the 2nd for the Grand Slam Sunday, with Manchester United (ManU or Manure) and Liverpool having played just before, the all 3 points going Manure's way courtesy of a Carlos (Shrek) Tevez goal, that meant that Manure had overtaken Arsenal to taste 1st position in the league and Liverpool stuck in 5th place. Therefore this match had a huge importance on both tems with Arsenal wantiing to regain 1st place and Chelski wanting to close the gap

The 1st half was played at a high tempo with Arsenal on the front foot for 90%, using their slick passing to try and carve out chances, not many were found as Chelski held firm. Chelski on the other hand ahd very little going forward with only long range efforts to take notice of, these both brought out good saves from Almunia who continues to keep MadJens out of the team. Cards were being given out for fairly stupid challenges to, one went Emmanuel Eboue's way for a very nasty challenge on John Terry, which according to the commentators has damaged his metartasal...BAD news for Chelski & England, On the stroke of half time, Arsenal took the lead in the most un-Arsenal fashion, an inswinging corner was badly misjudged by Chelski keeper Petr Cech leaving the skipper William Galls to guide the ball home with his awesome looking mohawk shaved head (I've got a mohawk :D:):D:P). thus the 1st half ended with Arsenal in front.

The second half started with no changes to both teams. Chelski stated to foray up front a lot more regularly and they were starting to create decent chances. One went John Obi Mikel's way which brought out a fine stop from an equally fine strike. AS the game wore on, more cards were thrashed out and the game wasopening up....BIG TIME...Avram Grant brought on Claudio Pizarro for Claude Makelele and he set up a truly golden opporutunity for Shaun Wrihgt-Phillips, with Almunia at his mercy, he skewered is shot wide from INSIDE the small box:shock:....this proved to be his last contribution as he was taken off for Salomon Kalou immediately after recovering from the shock of his miss. Robin Van Persie came on for Emmanuel Eboue who had gotten a nasty looking knock from Joe Cole's challenge. His impact was immediate, he brought out an unorthodox same from Petr Cech. A little later on, a quick counter attack move involving Rosicky, Adebayor and VanPersie ends up with the ball in the back of the net courtesy of VanPersie, but the fans celebrations are cut short due to offside from Rosicky....grrrr:evil:....Then another Arsenal move is foiled by brilliant goalkeeping from Cech who completes a double save to keep out VanP and Fabrgeas' efforts...during all this goal mouth action, cards are being given like free pizza......then Arsenal look to have sealed it, a ball over the top has Adebayor and Ben Haim contesting over it, the Arsenal forward wins the ball and cooly slots it home, but referee Alan Wiley cruelly judges the challenge on Ben Hain to be a foul....back to 1-0....then back on Arsenal's end of he pitch, Shevchenko misses a golden opportunity to level the score by making his header easy for Almunia to hold on to....a minute or so later Sheva fizzles in a free kick which Almunia makes sure that the cameramen have something to put on the back pages, lol wat a tv dive.....Arsenal then replace Adebayor with Niklas Bendtner, whom sets up Fabregas in the dying seconds of the game, but he is foiled brilliantly by ex-gunner, A.Hole...sorry Ashley Cole, this in return brings out a bad tackle from Fabregas whom is then struck by A.Hole...aargh not again Ashley Cole. Throughtout their little altercation, the ref blows for the whistle and end the game......a fantastic game ends with all 3 points staying in North London!!! YAY!!!!!