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Poll: Classic Arsenal Liverpool games

Last night's Champions League game between Arsenal and Liverpool was a special and thrilling encounter. But was it the best ever match between the two sides? Compare with these five classic North-South head-to-heads and vote in our poll.

1.Liverpool 0 Arsenal 2
May 26, 1989

If you didn’t enjoy last night’s match, you don’t like football. If you didn’t enjoy this game, you don’t like drama. Arsenal needed to win 2-0 at Anfield in the last game of the season to snatch the league title from their opponents grasp. They did it with the last kick of the game thanks to Michael Thomas. “It’s up for grabs now,” Brian Moore, the ITV commentator, said as Thomas broke Liverpool hearts.

Don't rub 'em, count 'em

Life can’t be fun if you are called Bekim Kastrati. The Fortuna Dusseldorf striker is used to gags about his manhood but he did not expect to become a figure of fun in Germany when he was kicked in the balls during his team’s 3-2 defeat by Bayern Munich on Tuesday.

Kastrati dusted himself off and played on after rearranging his crown jewels but he felt unwell after the final whistle and he was gutted when he discovered yesterday that he needed an operation on his testicles that would keep him out of action for six weeks.

To rub salt into Kastrati’s wounds, his team second goal was scored by his team-mate, Olivier De Cock.

Why we're better off without Euro 2008 anyway

Euro 2008? Mickey Mouse competition. Call it sour grapes but do we really want to win a trophy that is sitting in the headquarters of the Greek FA in Athens? Nobody in the world thinks that Greece are the best team in Europe, so why should our players spend next summer sweating it out in Austria and Switzerland, trying to win a tournament that is a pale shadow of the one that really matters – the World Cup. Fingers crossed, an English team will lift the European Cup in Moscow in May - with a little help from some foreign players - and then John Terry and Co can put their feet up for a few months and recharge their batteries before the best league in the world kicks off again next August.