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Spurs must be thinking that Harry Redknapp is the messiah, he has to be. They’d gone all season without a win and with his first game on the weekend Tottenham managed to win against Bolton, putting them within touching distance of getting off the bottom.
Then, tonight, they played their bitter North London rivals Arsenal at the Emirates, where they hadn’t won for over ten years. Surely Harry wouldn’t pull a miracle there as well?
After David Bentley’s opener from forty yards it looked as though Harry may just do that, with an unlikely, nay impossible, win. However Arsenal are a formidable side, and they really don’t like losing to Spurs, so 1-0 to Tottenham quickly became 1-1, then 2-1, then 3-1.
Spurs were getting that sinking feeling, and Harry needed to work his magic. In a mad two minute spell the score became 3-2 then 4-2, which looked like Arsenal would put the game to bed. As the game entered the last 10 minutes it’s as if the writing was on the wall for a typical, yet unlikely finish. The Redknapp magic was cast and Spurs made it 4-3, before an Aaron Lennon last minute equalizer capped the game of the season so far, giving Spurs a 4-4 draw.
He is the messiah!
Every English football fan remembers Diego Maradona for one thing, and one thing only; his cheating ‘hand of god’ goal against England in the quarter final of the World Cup in 1986.
Yes he was a great player, possibly the best ever, and yes he also scored arguably the greatest ever goal in that very same match when he ran past the entire England team and slotted in under Peter Shilton… BUT, none of that matters. He also jumped up with Shilton and smacked the ball into the net with his hand, knocking England out of the World Cup in a dirty, cheating fashion.
Well, the dirty cheating Maradona could now be going to ply his trade as the coach of Argentina, so he may get to do it to England again in the 2010 World Cup.
Despite only having two managing jobs in his career, but the Argentinean FA look set to gamble on the cheat.
The offer attracted me a lot. As soon as it is confirmed I will start working.
The idea is to start working immediately after the official announcement, with the players who are in Argentina and then take the first plane to talk to the ones in Europe.
Good luck Diego, we’re all counting on you!
It’s been the same every week for the past four years, almost five in fact, whenever Chelsea play at the Bridge, they don’t lose. In fact their last home league defeat was way back in February 2004 when Claudio Ranieri was in charge and Neil Sullivan was the goalkeeper, when Chelsea lost at home to Arsenal.
Ever since then, almost five years, Chelsea haven’t been beaten at home in the league. All through the reigns of Jose Mourinho and Avram Grant, Chelsea were unstoppable at the Bridge. Now that Big Phil is in charge, that run looked like continuing, until today. Until Liverpool came to town.
The top two in the Premiership (if you don’t count Hull City, who are level on points with both sides) met for the first time this season at the Bridge, and it was Liverpool who came out on top, putting an end to Chelsea’s five year unbeaten run.
It was a scrappy goal to be fair, scored by Xabi Alonso, but it could have been more with Gerrard and Alonso again coming close. Chelsea didn’t even force a save from Reina, despite their free scoring so far this season.
Are Liverpool genuine title contenders now? With Manchester United and Chelsea already dispatched, you better believe it. Bring on Arsenal (and of course Hull, but we still don’t count them).
Just what is it with Andy Murray? He showed loads of promise, looked like he might break into the top ten tennis players in the world and might actually win some tournaments.
That’s all well and good, but being British, looking like you’re going to win and ‘actually’ winning are two completely different things. British sportsmen are supposed to have promise, show skill and effort, but eventually bravely lose and fail to live up to their potential.
It’s the British way, but it’s not the Andy Murray way it seems. No, not content with showing promise, Murray has thrown away what it means to be British and has callously won his fourth, that’s FOURTH, tennis title this year!
You’d never get Tim Henman do that, Tim would have lost in four semi-finals, like a proper Brit.
Not our Andy, he won the Madrid Masters yesterday beating Gilles Simon in straight sets in the final… straight sets? A British player winning a final in straight sets?
It’s just not cricket, or tennis for that matter.
If Murray goes on and wins a grand slam next year he may as well surrender his British passport. We don’t want him anymore, we want someone we can depend on to lose gracefully. Bring back Tiger Tim!
Fancy buying your own football club? They say the best way to make a million in football is to start out with ten million, Mike Ashley bought Newcastle for £133 million then paying off all of their debts, he needs to sell the club for £250 million to break even… he may be out of luck.
With the club languishing near the bottom of the league (only just above the hapless Tottenham Hotspur) Newcastle are a club in freefall. Ashley sold the team’s best players from under King Kev’s nose, then sacked the manager and couldn’t find anyone to take over the reins, other than a guy who hasn’t managed at any level for five years.
Newcastle are the joke of the Premiership right, and their only decent player left, Michael Owen, is expected to leave in January as he hasn’t signed a new contract yet.
£450 million price tag? You’re having a laugh!
Now Ashley has cut the price he’s asking for the club to £280m - £300m, and he’ll struggle at that. They’ll be worth a lot less as a Championship club, and by Christmas they may be as good as down.
Incredibly, there appear to be bidders looking to take over the club, with a Nigerian consortium leading the way. The problem is, no one as yet has come forward who actually has the money, and Newcastle (more like Mike Ashley) need money.
As bad as it seems, Newcastle may not be the worst investment opportunity in the world as their stadium can hold 52,000 and they have 35,000 season ticket holders. The squad itself is valued at £100m, though Michael Owen may be a large chunk of that, and he’ll be walking out come January.
If you are looking to pick up a cheap Premier League football team, buy Newcastle before then!
The executive box at Premiership football matches is always filled with the most placid of football fans, fans who not only could care less who wins, they probably don’t even know who’s playing. What you could call typical Manchester United fans.
One such fan was Hollywood actress and quite fit bird (even though she’s ginger) Nicole Kidman. She was seen haplessly clapping along during United’s 1-1 draw with Chelsea at the Bridge on Sunday afternoon, in one of Roman’s VIP boxes.
Which team was she supporting? Who was she getting venomously behind? Well, she didn’t seem to know, as she cheered both teams and celebrated both goals. This is why women shouldn’t be allowed to watch football, they’ve no idea who they’re watching or why.
You take a woman, a Hollywood actress at that, and you stick her in a VIP box watching Chelsea v Man UTD and she’s going to be utterly clueless as to what is happening, much like most of the United fans in truth.
The actress is in London filming her new movie with Daniel Day-Lewis, perhaps he could educate her in the ways of not cheering both sides in a football match.
Who thinks that the nation’s national sport should be shown to the nation? It makes sense doesn’t it? Showing England’s World Cup Qualifiers on a channel that people in England can watch would seem like an obvious thing to happen, but when scarcely seen channel Setanta landed England’s away qualifiers, the nation mourned. Nobody watches, no one will see the games.
Fear not, because ITV have struck a deal with Setanta to screen the highlights of the away games, to go alongside their live coverage of the home games.
When England beat Croatia 4-1 away last week, screened on Setanta, just 1.5 million viewers watched the game. This is because the channel’s viewing audience is so low.
Less than 300,000 viewers bothered to watch the highlights of the game on Setanta, who had forked out a whopping £5 million for the rights. Setanta complained that no channel was willing to pay what they wanted for the rights to the highlights, meaning very few people in the country actually saw their team’s best performance away since the 5-1 mauling of Germany in 2001.
As a result, Gordon Brown waded in with his rather ample weight and has admitted that the nation not being able watch their own team was unfortunate.
How observant of him.
Now ITV have struck a deal with Setanta allowing them to show delayed highlights of the away games. Mark Sharman, the News and Sport director for ITV stated:
We’re pleased to have secured highlights of England’s crucial World Cup qualifiers for free-to-air television. We know there is huge demand from fans to watch their qualification journey and we’re delighted that every match will now be shown on ITV1.
It’s not rocket science is it!
Cheating footballer, or Ashley Cole as some people like to call him, is back with his long suffering wife Cheryl after he’d cheated on her with half of London. Will some girls never learn? Cheryl said they’re back together in an interview with overpaid BBC presenter Jonathan Ross, where she flashed her wedding ring.
I was tempted to put it back on his head!
She says that by sticking together she’s able to show to the public that celebrities are human and have their own problems in life. They sure do Sheryl, you’re blind if you think he’s not going to sleep with more hookers, but that’s your business.
Sheryl also talked about her spat with talentless (but attractive, so she’ll do) Danii Minogue.
We just didn’t talk about it, it’s all water under the bridge, we’re both grown women.
There’s more arguing going on with Simon and Louis.
She also reveals how she calls Simon Cowell ‘Mr Potato Head’. It’s probably one of the nicest things he’s been called in truth.
His hair reminds me of one of those potato heads, I started giving him a complex.
The saddest thing about the interview is when talks about the press and all of the stories they’d make up about her and her Ashley.
Lies would really get to me at one point, it really hurt, but now I think, whatever.
Yes Cheryl, lies must really get to you. Shame you married a lying cheat then eh?
No matter how bad your team does in a any sporting event, it can’t be as downright embarrassing as the dismal display by Bulgaria’s female Ice Hockey team in their qualifying game for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.
Think of the worst sporting performance you’ve ever seen… are you thinking of England losing at Wembley to Croatia last year? Maybe you’re thinking of England’s cricket team in one of their MANY embarrassing collapses.
Perhaps even you’re thinking of Amir Khan, amid all of the hype and promise, and still getting knocked spark out in the first minute of his bout on the weekend?
Think not of these sporting calamities, for the Bulgarian women’s Ice Hockey team have put on the worst sporting performance in history, losing a mind blowing 82-0 to fellow European side Slovakia!
Now I’ve seen Ice Hockey, I’ve been to a number of matches in the UK. I know that when a team concedes 10 they should hang their heads in shame. Losing 82-0… now that’s the point in life you should throw in the towel and never set foot on the ice again.
I mean, an Ice Hockey game is only 60 minutes long… how did they manage to concede 82 goals in that time?
Bulgaria didn’t even get a single shot on goal, compared to Slovakia’s 139 efforts on the Bulgarian net minder.
Suffice to say Bulgaria will not be appearing at the Olympics in two years time.
That’s what the crap kid in school would always say when he lost a race. It was an excuse, obviously, to hide the fact that he was rubbish. It’s not something you expect to hear in the Olympics, or even the Paralympics. You’d be wrong though, because the women’s wheelchair 5,000 metre race is to be rerun due to a crash involving some of the competitors.
The fact that the race was completed, and the medals were handed out (including a silver for Britain’s Shelly Woods) doesn’t seem to matter. The winners have been told to hand back their medals, and re compete in the race, all because some rubbish athletes fell over.
What a disgrace. Can you imagine if other sports were like that? Amir Khan could demand a rematch, using the old ‘I wasn’t looking’ excuse. Football teams could complain they weren’t feeling well and insist on the game being replayed… ah, didn’t Spurs actually do that a few years ago?
So they did, forget that example.
The point is by rerunning a race because someone fell over you’re completely devaluing the whole thing. What if someone says they weren’t ready when it is rerun? We could be having the same race over and over again.
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