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Chelsea Comment: Blues
Seeing Red - Why Self-
Destruction Threatens Their
Premier League Dream
But Ancelotti's men still hold
the aces despite White Hart
Lane implosion
Andy Brassell | Chelsea
Correspondent
Apr 17, 2010 8:38:00 PM
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What a difference six days make -
just ask Tottenham and Chelsea. The
former were presumed to have had
their season ruined by FA Cup semi-
final defeat, while the latter were
assumed to have all but sewn up the
Premier League title after
Manchester United failed to win their
game at Blackburn Rovers.
But Saturday started badly for Carlo
Ancelotti's men, and slowly got
worse. This is the effect of a title race,
the ebb and flow of your rivals
playing before you, getting a result
and putting the ball back in your
court - "match that", if you will.
It was a day where the Blues saw red
- in so many ways.
The Red Devils
Enter Paul Scholes. The veteran
midfielder began Chelsea's
nightmare Saturday with his late, late
winner at Eastlands, with the pundits
getting ready to read the last rites on
United's Premier League challenge.
It was an easy conclusion to draw.
United had been flat in a drab derby,
with City looking the most likely as
the game drew towards a climax
before - as in the corresponding
fixture at Old Trafford - they were
shattered at the last.
The blow for Ancelotti's men was of a
dual nature. Sir Alex Ferguson's
troops were suddenly back on their
tails, and Spurs sensed an opening to
take back fourth place, like a shark
scenting blood.
Many imagined Harry Redknapp's
side would be exhausted by their
Herculean efforts in gaining a first
North London derby win since 1999
on Wednesday. After all, they had
endured two hours on a treacherous
Wembley surface just three days
before the Arsenal clash and Chelsea
even had the luxury of an extra day's
rest.
A stranger to the situation never
would have guessed this was the case
on the evidence of the opening half,
and Chelsea found it hard to cope
mentally, as well as physically, with
the onslaught from an irresistible
Tottenham. They reacted badly to
being dominated, which led to...
The Red Mist
As frustration mounted John Terry
and Didier Drogba both vented their
frustration on referee Phil Dowd,
while Frank Lampard - a usually calm
head - and Deco got involved in an
unseemly scuffle with Tom
Huddlestone.
Redknapp must have been delighted
to see his players getting such a rise
out of Chelsea's nerveless ice kings,
who are experts at riding out rough
patches in games and coming out
with the right result. Their late-
season revival under Guus Hiddink
had faltered with defeat here last
year, and Tottenham were turning
the screw again. The legend of 'Three
Point Lane', Chelsea's happy hunting
ground, is no more.
The Red Card
Then there was the red card. John
Terry has been outstanding of late,
and the recovery of his composure
has been key in Chelsea's wresting of
Premier League control from United.
He was far from his best here,
however.
Terry looked rattled by early Spurs
pressure, allowing Pavyluchenko too
much space for one chance in the
opening minutes, before conceding
the penalty from which Jermain
Defoe put Spurs in the lead. He
struggled to recover, and two yellow
cards in three second-half minutes
saw him collect his second red card
at White Hart Lane. The tackle for the
second on Bale was reckless, and
symptomatic of a side losing their
heads.
But let's not overlook...
The Red Herring
What people will forget in the fallout
from this game is this: Ancelotti and
company still have the best hand -
home games with Stoke and Wigan
sandwich a trip to Liverpool. The visit
to Anfield is not easy but Rafa
Benitez's men have shown nothing to
compare with Spurs' recent verve this
season. The question is, can the Blues
get out of the red to make their
advantage count?
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Medicine
In Islam, the human body is a source
of appreciation, as it is created by
Almighty Allah (God). How it
functions, how to keep it clean and
safe, how to prevent diseases from
attacking it or cure those diseases,
have been important issues for
Muslims.
Ibn Sina (d. 1037), better known to
the West as Avicenna, was perhaps
the greatest physician until the
modern era. His famous book, Al-
Qanun fi al-Tibb, remained a
standard textbook even in Europe, for
over 700 years. Ibn Sina's work is still
studied and built upon in the East.
Prophet Muhammad himself urged
people to "take medicines for your
diseases", as people at that time were
reluctant to do so. He also said,
"God created no illness, except that
He has established for it a cure,
except for old age. When the
antidote is applied, the patient will
recover with the permission of God."
Since the religion did not forbid it,
Muslim scholars used human
cadavers to study anatomy and
physiology and to help their students
understand how the body functions.
This empirical study enabled surgery
to develop very quickly.
Al-Razi, known in the West as
Rhazes, the famous physician and
scientist, (d. 932) was one of the
greatest physicians in the world in
the Middle Ages. He stressed
empirical observation and clinical
medicine and was unrivalled as a
diagnostician. He also wrote a
treatise on hygiene in hospitals.
Kahaf Abul-Qasim Al-Sahabi was a
very famous surgeon in the eleventh
century, known in Europe for his
work, Concession (Kitab al-Tasrif).
Other significant contributions were
made in pharmacology, such as Ibn
Sina's Kitab al-Shifa' (Book of
Healing), and in public health. Every
major city in the Islamic world had a
number of excellent hospitals, some
of them teaching hospitals, and many
of them were specialized for
particular diseases, including mental
and emotional. The Ottomans were
particularly noted for their building
of hospitals and for the high level of
hygiene practiced in them.