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Published: 3 May 2007

Cole’s a little blue over Greek tragedy

NOBODY wants to hear Liverpool – 3-0, 3-1, 6-3 – crowing about how great they are for reaching the Champions League final again.
But, come on folks, they did everybody a big favour on Tuesday night.

No need to pack the sunglasses, Cheryl. No need for sun lotion. You are not going to Athens next month. The trip is off. The quadruple is off. Ashley messed up. In Ashley Cole’s ugly, gurning face, there is a tragic lesson for all of us. He chased money and medals, thought he could win the Premiership and Champions League and won neither. Nobody could have any sympathy for this traitor as he trudged off at Anfield.

The beauty in Liverpool’s victory is that it was a win for football as a whole against a club that has cynically tried to buy success. I don’t know anybody who has a nice word to say about Chelsea. The final indictment would be an Arsenal win on Sunday and Chelsea sent packing without a Premiership medal. Welcome back, Ash.

SO Arsene Wenger was so impressed by Arsenal’s Uefa Cup-winning ladies he’s thinking of playing them against Chelsea on Sunday.
How ridiculous. Doesn’t Arsene know the girls haven’t got what it takes to play in the men’s game, namely stupid haircuts and daft dances.

No, let’s leave the bore draws, mind games and play-acting to the boys and let the ladies get on with chasing the quadruple.
You know the quadruple, it’s that thing that would have put the men on the front pages of every newspaper in the country and earned them an open-topped bus tour.
Should the Gunner Gals achieve it, they’ll probably do well to get a ride around the Emirates car park on Theo Walcott’s moped.
Still, even John Terry would settle for that. Having the lads use your head as a bog brush every weekend is bad enough. But it’s even harder to take when you’ve just watched them flush two titles down there too.

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