Easy win yesterday, 3 points, a comfortable and goal scoring performance, all much needed and accomplished. Verminator is our top scorer and not a bad defender either. His partnership with Gallas is something we've been missing for a long time. **I just looked at the TV and AC Milan have a ginger guy playing for them. I don't think I've ever seen anyone with ginger hair play in Italy before, it's hilarious.**Right, anyway, Vermaelen got 2 good goals and played very well all around. Gallas had a very good game, as did Eboue and Clichy. Song and Cesc were OK, showing moments of magic and moments of lethargy. Eduardo wasn't at his best but chipped in with a goal, sort of, and van Persie is getting there. He missed a few chances but his form is on it's way.
If we score 5 against Fulham we'll be averaging 4 goals per game in the league after 6 games. I have a feeling the league will be tight at the top and all these goals may make a difference come the end of May. So, so far this week we've made a spirited come back from 2 nil down in the Champions' League and put Wigan to the sword at home, banging in 4 goals and could have had 6/7. I'd say that's defining getting on track. We've got a Carling Cup game mid week, our youngsters will be playing West Brom, it'll be a tough fixture but I think I'll put a quick 5er on our boys to win 3-1. Our big boys have a sterner test against Fulham at the weekend. If we can get a good win there we can really get rolling on our season.
Adebayor was given a 3 match ban for his stamp on van Persie. It's a frustrating situation, I'm glad he's been banned but what does it matter to us. I suppose his absence will hamper Man City and as they're sort of our rivals for league place it could benefit us that way, but he shouldn't have been on the park for that goal that ultimately beat us. He's likely to be banned again for his celebration but I can't imagine that being for more than 1 game.
Speaking of Man City, what a game today. I watched it streaming online and had a little trouble with the feed so I saw it up until 3-3 and figured that it ended that way. I've just seen the result and Michael Owen of all people finished off City after Ferdinand and Foster seemed to have given the game away.
While I watched that game I just fumed and hated Bellamy more and more, his constant crying to the ref while he fouls dirty and freely and then screams in the faces of those he's injured. He's ludicrous. I thought, 'I hope that Bellamy and Adebayor get killed in a car crash together'. I thought this very seriously as they're professional footballers and they have an important influence on kids who play the game. I thought, 'And if they killed Drogba and Ballack at the same time all the better'. Again, a serious thought. I took a breath and realized it was a little dramatic and maybe I'm just an angry guy. I came to a sense and realize that while they don't deserve to die, they certainly don't deserve to play football either. What's really horrifying is that 3 of those guys are the highest paid players in England. It's consistent with the rest of the world of business. It's often business masquerading as something else, something positive when most of what it is is price fixing and lack of quality, often dangerous lack of quality, being peddled and earned for. It's like really shitty movies that make billions, really shitty music that makes billions, really unhealthy and outright dangerous foods that make billions. It's like the government passing the patriot act and saying that it'll benefit the country's citizens, the fact that they've had the gall to call it the Patriot Act when it cuts out 4/5 constitutional rights is in congress with all that horrible shit. Control of the masses, their mindsets, their freedoms and their money, by the very few.
Now it's a slippery slope and I fear for football as it's one of the few things that remains a hope for integrity, endeavor, fight, passion, something for something's sake and having thought about it, it still is. No matter how much business you put into football, no matter how many pros dive and wine and complain and feign injury and fight the refs and stamp on faces and celebrate in front of their old fans and then make up stories in the press about how they've been abused, you can't avoid the fact that there is no football without the football. There is no business or scumbags without the honest boys, without the 11 on 11, man v man, team v team, tactics v tactics, talent v talent. And you'll never have pros without the kids in the streets, without kick ups in the living room, without dad's taking out their boys and girls, without parks, without balls without fun. We may not be able to take the pre madonnas and business out of football but they definitely can't take the football out of football.
If we score 5 against Fulham we'll be averaging 4 goals per game in the league after 6 games. I have a feeling the league will be tight at the top and all these goals may make a difference come the end of May. So, so far this week we've made a spirited come back from 2 nil down in the Champions' League and put Wigan to the sword at home, banging in 4 goals and could have had 6/7. I'd say that's defining getting on track. We've got a Carling Cup game mid week, our youngsters will be playing West Brom, it'll be a tough fixture but I think I'll put a quick 5er on our boys to win 3-1. Our big boys have a sterner test against Fulham at the weekend. If we can get a good win there we can really get rolling on our season.
Adebayor was given a 3 match ban for his stamp on van Persie. It's a frustrating situation, I'm glad he's been banned but what does it matter to us. I suppose his absence will hamper Man City and as they're sort of our rivals for league place it could benefit us that way, but he shouldn't have been on the park for that goal that ultimately beat us. He's likely to be banned again for his celebration but I can't imagine that being for more than 1 game.
Speaking of Man City, what a game today. I watched it streaming online and had a little trouble with the feed so I saw it up until 3-3 and figured that it ended that way. I've just seen the result and Michael Owen of all people finished off City after Ferdinand and Foster seemed to have given the game away.
While I watched that game I just fumed and hated Bellamy more and more, his constant crying to the ref while he fouls dirty and freely and then screams in the faces of those he's injured. He's ludicrous. I thought, 'I hope that Bellamy and Adebayor get killed in a car crash together'. I thought this very seriously as they're professional footballers and they have an important influence on kids who play the game. I thought, 'And if they killed Drogba and Ballack at the same time all the better'. Again, a serious thought. I took a breath and realized it was a little dramatic and maybe I'm just an angry guy. I came to a sense and realize that while they don't deserve to die, they certainly don't deserve to play football either. What's really horrifying is that 3 of those guys are the highest paid players in England. It's consistent with the rest of the world of business. It's often business masquerading as something else, something positive when most of what it is is price fixing and lack of quality, often dangerous lack of quality, being peddled and earned for. It's like really shitty movies that make billions, really shitty music that makes billions, really unhealthy and outright dangerous foods that make billions. It's like the government passing the patriot act and saying that it'll benefit the country's citizens, the fact that they've had the gall to call it the Patriot Act when it cuts out 4/5 constitutional rights is in congress with all that horrible shit. Control of the masses, their mindsets, their freedoms and their money, by the very few.
Now it's a slippery slope and I fear for football as it's one of the few things that remains a hope for integrity, endeavor, fight, passion, something for something's sake and having thought about it, it still is. No matter how much business you put into football, no matter how many pros dive and wine and complain and feign injury and fight the refs and stamp on faces and celebrate in front of their old fans and then make up stories in the press about how they've been abused, you can't avoid the fact that there is no football without the football. There is no business or scumbags without the honest boys, without the 11 on 11, man v man, team v team, tactics v tactics, talent v talent. And you'll never have pros without the kids in the streets, without kick ups in the living room, without dad's taking out their boys and girls, without parks, without balls without fun. We may not be able to take the pre madonnas and business out of football but they definitely can't take the football out of football.
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