Sport 27-11-2000 Arsenal Without A Chance who: Arsenal what: Have no hope of winning premiership after 1-0 defeat at Leeds where: Elland Road, LEEDS when: Yesterday snippet: "On the day that Leeds United invested £18 million in Rio Ferdinand to try to close the quality gap with Manchester United," comments Henry Winter in The Telegraph today, "they gave the team they loathe most a passport to another Premiership title". Yesterday Leeds beat Arsenal 1-0 in a very physical contest at Elland Road with a screaming 22 yard free kick by Olivier Dacourt and thereby widened the gap at the top of the Premiership to a seemingly unassailable eight points. "Arsène Wenger, comme toujours, felt Arsenal were unfairly treated," reports Phil Shaw in The Independent from a game where Arsenal received seven yellow cards from twenty fouls for which they will receive an automatic £25,000 fine from the FA. "I`m not conceding anything yet, but you have to be realistic," says Wenger, who was reportedly involved in an altercation with referee Dermot Gallagher in the tunnel afterwards. "I just think it is a shame for the rest of the Premiership if United keep on winning it every year. It`s not a shame for them, of course, but if they carry on doing it the League will lose its interest." [... more]

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