The Guardian websites weekly ‘Joy of Six’ feature in which they list the best six moments of a certain subject, this week looked at the best Liverpool/Arsenal moments given the two teams are set to begin their 2010/11 Premier League campaigns against one another. There was some very predictable games on the list, not least the famous game in May 1989 when Arsenal took the title at Anfield on the final day but there was also a couple left out that surprised me by their absence. To be fair it was hard to pick two that you would eliminate from the list of six, but two of the games that sprung to my mind straight away when I read the headline prior to reading the article, that didn’t make it, was the 2001 Cup Final and the second game of the 94/95 season.

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In posting this article I am submitting the 1000th blog post to PRBsports, quite a milestone for me given the short time the blog has been running and a testament to the number of fine sporting events that I’ve been witness to over the past year and a bit. While the site was born on 1 January 2009, it hasn’t offically been 1000 articles since that point. Prior to this blog being born I kept a hockey blog throughout the 2008 NHL playoffs and after closing it down I moved the 58 archived articles from that blog over to this one, so in theory 942 articles in the 584 days since going live, but 1000 articles all said.

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It’s been a relatively quiet week for sport, which isn’t always a bad thing. After a hectic first three weeks of July with the Tour de France and the World Cup it was nice to have a week of very little going on, to rest the brain and do nothing more than a few casual review articles on the Tour de France while watching the second season of 24 (I know, I’m so far behind). This weekend I’m taking off to the wilderness for a weekend away from TV sport and technology altogether to enjoy the great outdoors via a lot of bike riding, lying in a lake and a few beers round a campfire at night.

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Some people have been buying the same daily newspaper everyday now for decades, some people just go with the cheapest rag in order to get the basic information with a little gossip on the side, some people buy various papers on sporting content, news content, political writing or the classifieds, some people only get a paper weekly to see whats going on in their local town or for the job finder. Me, I fall into the category of fickle paper buyer that stays loyal to a certain paper until a rival paper puts something in its content which I have a strong liking for.

To be honest, I’d pick up almost any paper and read it if it was lying around. Tabloids are good if your stuck for time and just want the basics, broadsheets are good if you have the time and want a through insight, my only rule is never buy The Sun because I’m a Liverpool supporter.

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I’ll be first to admit that I am not the biggest fan of Alexander Vinokourov and I’m not sure there are many cycling fans who are after what he did to us and his sport in 2007, but regardless of what you think of him, he served his sentence for blood doping and is now back racing again, and we hope, racing clean. Of course, I could never fully trust that this is the case – as I’ve said before, I’m a cynical cycling fan like most after the last twelve years – but the fact remains, he picked up a wonderful victory today after a fine attack on a climb that had people split on whether it would be a serious factor or not. I felt a big break would go clear early in the day and stay away, while some felt that when this didn’t happen that the bunch would stay together over the late category three climb allowing for the sprinters to have their day. I still felt there would be a sting in the tail of that short little climb and when it arrived, so to did the attacks out of the peloton with the most effective of all coming from Vinokourov near the top, as he rode clear and held a small gap all the way into the finish unlike yesterday when his big attack was destroyed just meters from the finish when his own team-mate Alberto Contador caught him and went past him. So like they say, if at first you don’t succeed, try try again.

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Just when I thought this Tour couldn’t throw up anymore drama, Mark Renshaw goes and slams his head into the side of an opponent, while on a bike and traveling at 45 mph and then gets disqualified. With everything we have seen on this tour (Armstrong capitulation, fighting, protests, crashes and headbuts) it’s a testament to my mental strength that my head has not yet exploded. Still, we’re only through 11 stages so I’m far from safe yet. Tomorrow’s stage isn’t the big mountains but it ain’t a day for the sprinters either.

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After some tough years it’s nice to see Barca’s long suffering fans get some good news with the confirmation that they have dropped £34m, like you or I might drop £5.50 on a sausage supper, on David Villa and all but sewn up the following years Le Liga and Champions League titles. With reports that they are also set to snatch up Febrigas from Arsenal in the coming weeks it’s safe to say that the best team in the world has just got even better.

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