March 4, 2008 1:35 PM PST

Off-topic: AC Milan 0 Arsenal 2 (Champions League) - Arsenal4ever

by Matt Asay
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It had to be Fabregas. Fabregas, who has stalled in the past few games reclaimed his claim to the throne with a brilliant last-ditch solo effort to blast the ball into the net from distance. Walcott then followed up in extra time to square the ball to Adebayor to put the match beyond doubt. Arsenal, the first English team to ever beat AC Milan at the San Siro.

About time. Arsenal dominated the game, only looking exposed in the first 15 minutes when Milan threatened. The ref, appropriately enough, was wearing Milanese colors, making a series of terrible calls against Arsenal. The most egregious was giving Hleb a yellow card for diving, which apparently translates to "falling down under a tackle that took out his legs but none of the ball." Shocking.

At any rate, Arsenal are threw to the last eight. I hope we get another "big team." We seem to do better against the big guns.

Matt Asay brings a decade of in-the-trenches open-source business and legal experience to The Open Road, with an emphasis on emerging open-source business strategies and opportunities. Matt is vice president of business development at Alfresco, a company that develops open-source software for content management. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure. You can follow Matt on Twitter @mjasay.
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by intoitoti March 4, 2008 4:23 PM PST
I hope we don't face man utd.... we will probably lose.
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by foxtom March 5, 2008 2:20 AM PST
If we played like we did last night, as opposed to our no-show at Old Trafford, we would trounce those whinnying prancing show ponies.
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