Hello and welcome to another IceBlog Icecast, an IceBlog.com in association, as always, with

www.olayolay.com, the football community website, coming up on this week's show. We have got you the

usual stuff. The man in the bar is here with the player history. A bouquet is here. We've got the

culture corner and we'll be getting an Italian perspective on Arsenal's performance in the San

Ciro on Tuesday night. So let us look back on what's happened between the last Icecast and this

Icecast. Well, last Saturday against Ashton Villa was the was the day everybody kind of thought we

were going to have this reaction to what happened against Birmingham, the disappointment of the last

minute equalizer for them and of course Eduardo's injury and the trauma and emotion that all that

caused and didn't quite turn out that way unfortunately as a performance as a team performance,

it was pretty poor. Manuel Almonia was certainly the busier of the goalkeepers but at the end of the

day it was only a Philippe Sanderos own goal that put Villa ahead and it did look as if we were

going to drop all three points right until the very last minute of injury time. When Adi Bior

cushioned down the header to Nicholas Bentner to score another vital goal. The winner against Spurs

and now this late lead equalizer and one one maybe maybe a little more than we deserved on the day

but you'll take it, it kept us top of the table and although it was obviously very disappointing to

lose two points you just don't know how valuable that one point could be come the end of the season.

So with that performance behind us it was a little bit I don't know nail biting I suppose going

to Milan going to play the holders of the Champions League in a stadium where they'd never lost

to English opposition. Of course we didn't have to win. Score draw would have seen this through

on the away goals rule but as we all know by now it turned out to be an awful lot better than that.

Barra I suppose in 15 minutes spell in the first half when they were a little bit dangerous

a little bit threatening. We pretty much controlled the entire game which is a remarkable achievement

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