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With the new football season kick off it is a good time to think about our hopes for the new season which is shaping up to be a cracking one. This is my top five wishes :

For the England team, I hope Capello Fabio will give the youngsters their opportunity and build a new team even if this hurts our chances of qualifying for Euro 2012 and upsets Beckham. If he stays in the team,  Frank Lampard will save his football gifts for England, if not then he needs to be one of the first old players to be kicked out to make way for the kids.

Liverpool score an example to the rest of the league by rejecting the Chinese takeover approach and show that the game is about more than just money. A foreign country owning a football club is a bad example to set  and we could end up having our own domestic World Cup.

It would be magnificent for Blackpool to beat all the odds end up in a Champions League position by getting their team of cheap players to play brilliantly and outplay all the top six teams filled with big money purchases thanks to their oversuppoly of Manchester City gifts are left with a huge excess of overpaid but unwanted players who they can’t sell. Surely we all want the Premier League to become a truly competitive league where more than one from five or six teams are able to win it and where the football scores are a surprise each Saturday.

For the mid-table clubs, at Fulham I want Mohamed Al Fayed to properly support his new manager and give him a adequate time to establish himself and make things happen. I want Newcastle to stop being an underperforming big club and finally achieve their potential. It would be nice if West Brom could stay up for more one season rather than yo-yo’ing up and down.

I have hopes for refereeing as well, television technology to be used to be sure of goals for a start and for the more silly directives to be got rid off, in particular referees booking players for taking their shirts off.

The 2009/10 was a second-rate one for Arsenal by the high standards that the fans have come to accept, but overall it was not a bad year. Arsenal achieved a 13th consecutive year in the Champions League with a young and developing team. That’s a great achievement. The Arsenal team also continued to play some exceptional football.

Arsenal went into the new season with a new facelift, two out and one in during the summer of 2009. We sold two players and only saw Thomas Vermaelen come in  Manchester City clearly had too much spending £25 million for the Adebayor. City and £16 million for an out of sorts Toure

Before the opening day of the season we were widely tipped to miss out on the top four, Liverpool were expected to go one better and win the title for the first time in ages whilst Man City had spent huge amounts from which big things were expected. It didn’t work out that way.

The first game of the season was a tricky one away at Everton, the result was something nobody expected as we handed out a 6-1 beating with Cesc Fabrefas running the show and getting one great goal. A fantastic start to the season for Arsenal football club fans.

Champions League qualification was not yet certain, we to beat over two legs. A muscular performance at Parkhead with Thomas Vermaelen looking like a pillar of strength at the back and slotting into the Arsenal side well. A deflected Cesc strike off the back of William Gallas just before half time and then a late own goal. In the return match Arsenal scored three past Celtic to put us into the Champions League proper.

We then hammered Portsmouth at home and went up north to Manchester United where a sensational Arshavin strike was canceled out by a Diaby own goal and a Wayne Rooney goal. After that we went unbeaten until the end of November in the league, pounding in the goals and looking very solid.

December was gritty, we had to grind out wins, not pretty, but it showed good spirit in the squad, and we got those results. Cesc Fabregas started coming into his own, scoring goal after goal after goal. Then game the tough run, four games – Villa (away), United (home), Chelsea (away), Liverpool (home). We needed about six points at least from those games to stay in contention, but we only got four, we had had injuries all season and they were starting to affect us, and our season started to flag.

Then came the moment that our season took a turn, Robin Van Persie had played in a meaningless friendly for his country, Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini took out Van Persie and his ankle. Persie was out for seven months.

When Barcelona came to the Emirates it was a great game  45 minutes of fantastic football, yet they still couldn’t score. Then, in the second half they scored two goals in quick succession. Arsenal had a half-fit Cesc and an injury ravaged side, Walcott equalised and we won a penalty in the last minute. Cesc, with a broken leg scored the penalty to make it 2-2. It marked the end of Aresenal’s season, with our best player out for the rest of the season with a broken leg, and Arshavin  out with a muscle injury. The chances of winning the Champions League or the Premiership disappeared.

Injuries, players that were not good enough and managerial faults… are all to blame for a disappointing season. A season that started so fantastically well had crashed in slow motion by the end of the season. A young team, hungry and ambitious had changed by the end. It is easy to forget everything that happened before the last six weeks of the season, but we had remained in touching distance with the eventual winners the whole team. Over the summer investment into the Arsenal squad looks certain. There has been progress over the past year and, should the core of this squad be improved by one or two decent signings, there is a good chance that Arsenal could overhaul the ageing Chelsea and Manchester United teams next season. Lets hope that season 2009/2010 was the last building year before winning some big trophies next season. Arsenal football club fans get ready for an exciting new season.

The 2009–10 season has been the most successful season in the clubs history. Despite disappointment in the Champions League, the Chelsea Football Club won the Premier League after a 4 gap and retained the FA Cup for the 1st time, and become only the 7th English club to complete The Double of league and cup wins.

The premier league went right down to the wire. Chelsea winning on the last day of the season by hammering Wigan. Chelsea is the best team in England, as the Premier League and FA Cup results show – and it is their togetherness, fostered by Carlo Ancelotti, their manager but ensured by the transfer ban they picked up last year which meant that this squad has stayed unaltered for longer than in previous seasons.

The manager Carlo Ancelotti speaking on the last day of the season looked back at some of the high and low points, saying ‘We lost some games and had a difficult moment after Manchester City and Inter defeats but we moved on very quickly,’ Another of the season low points was the off-field sex scandals engulfing captain John Terry and Ashley Cole which got the tabloid newspapers very crazy

Throughout the season Chelsea have been passably consistent but looking back over the season’s results, Chelsea’s worst form neatly coincides with periods of particularly bad fixture congestion. Those games played in months where there have been six fixtures or less Chelsea have done well, winning 18 of 21 games (86%). In months where Chelsea have had seven fixtures or more performance has was definitely worse, with Chelsea winning just five out of 15 games (33%). Not so good at all.

Chelsea are a well-oiled machine with a ruthless, confident man up front in Drogba. They have been criticised for years for not fielding enough English players but this year Chelsea’s English contingent formed the guts of the club’s success. Of the 28 squad players who have made an appearance so far this season, seven (25%) have been English. Five of those players (Lampard, Sturridge, Ashley Cole, Joe Cole and Terry) have scored a total of 26 of the team’s 91 goals – nearly a third (29%). English players have contributed 35% of all assists. Chelsea’s English players are a gift for the World Cup England team.

If for next season they can add one good midfield stopper and possibly a replacement centre forward with an eye for goal, Chelsea will be a threat in all competitions for a few seasons to come. Maybe next year they will win the Champions League and give owner Roman Abramovich a truly great Chelsea gift.

The English Premier League has often been synonymous with the clubs Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool – also known as the Big Four. These four clubs have often been identified as the best of English football since the top 20 teams broke off from the Football Association to form the English Premier League. The four of them have earned the right to be known as the biggest clubs in the country after consistently winning the top trophies in English football every season. However, that may be about to change in the near future.

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