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THE CROW By CATHERINE ETOE & RICHARD OSLEY
Chelsea push aside Bayern who, erm, pushed aside Arsenal

I SEE Arsene Wenger has finally come up with a way of challenging Chelsea to the league title. Keep on playing until August.
Apparently, Arsenal have hit such a fantastic vein of form, their manager wants the season to run and run. Now, while I’d love to watch my stylish Spurs for a few months more, I’m not sure it’s the brightest idea the professor has come up with.
Especially given that for most fans, going to Middlesbrough v Arsenal at the weekend was about as much fun as a Saturday afternoon shopping spree with Wayne’s Coleen in Oxford Street, and almost as expensive.
You’d have thought he’d be glad to see the back of the season anyway – I know a good few Gooners who are.
And who can blame them? The dimwits have not only had to put up with watching the west-London moneybags pinch their title, they’ve also seen them shove aside a team theirs couldn’t beat to progress further than theirs ever have in the Champions League.
Bit like coming home and finding the bloke next door has not only stolen your wife, he’s wearing your underpants and taking your dog out for a walk too. Not to worry though, you Gooners can have a bash at wearing the trousers next season.
Just a shame you’ll be wearing claret coloured Chelski shirts too.


YOU won’t believe it. Spurs fans are refusing to sign this column’s ‘Tottenham for Intertoto’ petition, the high-profile campaign to get the team into this summer’s tournament.
Instead, misguided Tottenham supporters I have bumped into say the team can qualify for Europe on their own.
Ridiculous! If Spurs do make it – and it’s a major ‘if’ given they can’t remember what Wales looks like, let alone the rest of Europe – it won’t be down to them.
It will be down to Arsenal getting to the FA Cup final with Moan United.
As the Gunners and Sir Taggart’s team are heading for the Champions League, the cup place would go to a lower-placed league team – possibly Tottenham.
It all means we are left with the ridiculous but amusing situation where Spurs would benefit from Arsenal beating Blackburn Rovers in the semi-finals in Cardiff on Saturday.
I can see it now. Half of north London disappears down to Wales for a weekend beano – a nice day out, a few beers and a win against the Rovers, and yet another Cup Final date in the calendar.
The other half stays at home in their silly skin-tight Spurs shirts listening to Motson and praying for an Arsenal win. Wouldn’t it have been more dignified to have just signed the petition? There is still time for Tottenham Intertoto glory.