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| Tuesday, February 28, 2006 |
| Footie rambles |
"Can Messi be suspended for acting? Barcelona is a very cultural city. You know all about theatre. You have theatres of high quality" - Jose Mourinho accusing Lionel Messi of play acting to get Asier del Horno sent off.
My goodness, wot a laugh. That Mourinho dude's really got his extremely oversized head up in the clouds. Have you ever seen a worse loser? He sounds like an angry little kid who just broke his favourite toy and is accusing someone else of doing it. Don't get me wrong, I think Chelsea are playing some really er... effective football at the moment thanks to Mourinho, but the guy's just plain irritating sometimes.
In my opinion though del Horno deserved to be sent off. He had already sank his studs into Messi's thigh a few minutes earlier, an offence that should have produced a yellow card, but escaped with nothing. He was getting turned inside out by Messi's dribbling brilliance and was constantly cutting down the Argentinian with ugly, badly timed tackles. A red card is all he deserved.
Everyone's a critic.
So Manchester United wins the Carling cup. 4-0, nonetheless.
 Wayne Rooney, that wunderkid, scores his second against Wigan. John O'Shea does a jig in the background as two Wigan players look dejected.
 The traditional wasting of perfectly good champagne!!
I've supported them since before Cantona, but to see the former champions of Europe reduced to chasing a single, and shall we say, less important trophy is a distinct downturn from the glories of 1999. We should be playing against the likes of Barcelona and Juventus, not competing with Wigan Athletic (all due respect to them) for a tournament that we used to field 17-year-olds in. Even the trophy looks small and insignificant. Ever seen the Champion's League trophy? You could hide a two-year-old kid in it. The size of a trophy seems to be directly corelated to the glory of the tournament .
How times have changed. I used to laugh at my Chelsea-supporting friends whenever they lost in the league, way back in highschool. Good thing I've lost contact with them, or they'd be gloating my eyes out at the recent rouble-funded Stamford Bridge success.
 I do so hope that these two will catalyse a new generation of red devil success. Oh, the shirts say "for you smudge" in reference to winning this trophy for Alan Smith, who had incured a nightmare of an injury the week before. Such team spirit.
Makes me wonder. Remember Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, the baby-faced assasin? The poor guy who scored the winner against Bayern Munich in that epic 1999 Champions League final (sealing his place in Man U folklore) has been injured for two years plus with a long-standing knee injury. Why can't we win the Champions League or Premiership for him? That's probably what was going on in his head as everyone pulled on the t-shirts at the end of the match, and could explain his somewhat bemused/dejected look as he ambled around the pitch, thinking "vinner noe for meg dum..." which is Norwegian for "win something for me ler pan..." |
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