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Watching Tottenham draw with Aston Villa today and I think Shawn Bradley has come out of retirement from basketball to give English football a shot. Holy cow Crouch looks awkward.
Yes, United beat Pompey at Fratton Park this morning, but really, was there any doubt. So I will jump straight to the milestone that was reached today.
Ryan Giggs scored his 100th career Premier League goal today in typical smooth, silky, Giggs fashion. On the eve of his 36th birthday, Giggs has found a second life as the United playmaker and is going to be vital to our campaign. If you are a fan of English football, and do not know much about Ryan Giggs, I suggest you read about him here, because you will surely hear his name for the rest of your life.
To celebrate this occasion, here is probably the best one of those hundred:
Happy Birthday Ryan, here’s to you! Glory, glory, Man United!
How badly do you have to be embarrassed for you to feel the need to reimburse your fans for attending a match? Apparently a 9-1 thrashing is enough.
Tottenham crushed, destroyed, humiliated a pathetic Wigan side. The embarrassing performance has lead the players, not the club, but the players, to personally refund the fans who bought a ticket and made the trip to North London.
Wigan captain Mario Melchiot stated, “We feel that as a group of players we badly let down our supporters yesterday, and this is a gesture we HAVE TO make and pay them back for their tremendous loyalty. There is not a lot else to say, just that as a group of professionals we were embarrassed by the way we performed, we feel it was below our standards and this is something we feel we owe to the fans.”
This is a very noble step for the Wigan players to take, but could also set a very dangerous precedent for refunding fans due to “embarrassing” circumstances. The newest claims to be made by fans:
Arsenal fans are requesting refunds for every match where van Persie has scored and screamed like a girl while flailing his hands about in front of his mouth.
Chelsea fans are looking for refunds for any time that they sat close enough to get sprayed by Drogba’s Soul Glow. Rumor has it that the “splash zone” includes anyone in the first 6 rows of any stadium.
Liverpool fans would like to be refunded for any game either Torres or Gerrrard did not play in, which may be about every game.
Aston Villa fans are looking for a refund for any jersey purchased due to the fact that the color “Claret” just sounds gay.
Newcastle fans would like a refund for all of last season.
Manchester United fans are perfect.
Sir Alex Ferguson went all fitness guru on referee Alan Wiley and is now banned from his bench for 2 games this season, plus 2 more next season, for saying Wiley was unfit… aka ‘a fat lump o shite’… after Man U’s Oct. 3rd draw with Sunderland. Ferguson said that he was convinced after he saw Wiley sneaking bites of a Luther Burger from inside his uniform. It was further confirmed when Wiley was twenty minutes late for the second half because, as he said, “Blimey, the line at concession was bloody long.”
I want to give some serious respect to Sir Alex, or as Sean calls him “Big Daddy”, for this honest reproach of Wiley. I hate a culture that demands pc behavior, so if a ref is fat you should be able to call him fat… regardless of whether the Queen has knighted you or not. Cheers to you Sir Alex.
What do you mean we're out of chips?!?!!
Since Mark was so gracious in victory, I should return the same courtesy. After the final whistle, Mark stood up like a proud father, strode across the room, and gave me a firm handshake with a soft “good match”. Not what I would have done in the slightest. If the result were reversed, I think my dramatic finale would include me being semi-clothed and rolling on the floor draped in my United flag. Maybe I should mature like Mark, but, sorry man, I just can’t.
As soon as Mark left, Jacob stayed to console me. I had to get outside immediately, breathe some fresh air and realize that life will go on. I brought my 20-month old daughter outside with me so I had another shoulder to cry on. As she was standing there, dressed in her full kit (socks and all) she pointed to the dog poop in the yard, looked at me and said “yuckies”, her word for anything that is, well, yucky.
I did what any good father would do in this exact situation. I looked at her and said, “No sweetie, those are not yuckies, those are Chelseas”. She looked back at me, and as Jacob as my witness she pointed again and said, “clessies”. We celebrated as if United had just won. We still have a lot of practice, but that day now marks the day where the dog poop will now be known as “Chelseas”.
How’s that for gracious?
Mes maux de coffre!
Didier Drogba took a full force cleat to the chest and will be feeling the effects this week… but the one nil victory Chelsea secured over Man U at Stamford Bridge should help ease the pain. In a fiercely fought battle that featured many contested calls, and many fouls uncalled (ie. cleat to Drogba that drew a yellow card for him instead), it was a late goal by John Terry that gave the Blues the W.
That makes it twice this year that Chelsea has come out ahead against Man U, but is most important for the 5-point lead it has now created for the Pensioners at the top of the premier league, with Man U now having to share second place with Arsenal.
It was a sloppily called game by the refs and the free kick that Frank Lampard sent Terry’s way was the benefit of a suspect call. Overall, not the way you’d want to see a game won, but one that will be accepted nonetheless.
I believe this is more difficult than the circus act (and yes, that is Newcastle)…
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