Aborted World Cup Experiment / Premiership & Champions League Gusto

Well who'd have thought that a little thing like The World Cup could take up so much of one's life, and Summer. So much was the excitement and the juggling of work and the beautiful game as well as competing in an albeit much tournament that the oul Blog got neglected to a dusty state of disrepair.

But it's back...

And so is the Premiership, and The Champions League. Liverpool and Arsenal have to prequalify for the Champions League and a potentially fatal banana skin awaits the Liverpudlians. They have drawn those giants of world football. Israeli team Macabi Haifa. Normally this would be a pushover but with the political situation the way it is and the spotlight of the world on Israel these things have a habit of going "NOT ACCORDING TO PLAN".

The qualifiers, are as most of you will be aware, two legged affairs. The home tie is at home in Liverpool for the reds and the away tie?..Well, nobody really knows yet. One thing's certain Israel and Lebannon are OUT!

Arsenal travel to eatern europe for their AWAY leg tonight against Dynamo Zagreb. The Arsenal are clear favourites, but without their talismanic Thierry Henry, the now Retired Dutch master Denis Bergkamp, and the 'soon-to-be-a-Chelsea-player' Ashley Cole, the trip doesn't look as straightforward now as it did before they boarded their Air Crotia Flight 999 yesterday morning.

One waits with bated breath before the kick offs tonight and tomorrow. For those of you watching on Treadmill-O-Vision the kick off times are 8:05pm GMT.