The beautiful game
Alright guys, something I haven’t done in a long time- soccer ramblings. (Ok Kelv and Mich, I think you can stop reading now.)
1) England lost to Holland yesterday on penalties in the U-21 (strangely reminds me of the German U-boats in World War 2. How ironic) Championships. So, yet again the penalty curse falls upon the young lads of the three lions. When will it be lifted? Seems like it even extends to the youth squad as well. I was thinking (oh wow) about it for some time, and I realised that the shaping, dynamics and fortunes of the English squad are very much like that of Manchester United’s.
• Both suck at penalties. (After Dennis Irwin and Roy Keane left Man Utd)
• Both suck at knock out competitions. (Champions League, World Cup, enough said)
• Rock at everything else.
• Both have to, HAVE TO, play 4-4-2, or die miserably.
2) You can’t have such an influential player of the England Squad (not to mention, ex-captain) like David Beckham playing in some weird ass capitalist club far, far away from the arenas of Europe, on club level. I would rather him continue to play in Real Madrid than in MLS Galaxy whatever. At least Spain’s still in the scene, if you get my drift (at this point in time, the song from Tokyo Drift comes into my head, and for some spastic reason, Geylang). But of course, the ideal situation would be him returning to EPL, although I don’t think we’ll see him back at Old Trafford. Probably Newcastle, or Sunderland (where Roy Keane is doing wonders as a manager, and probably wants to buy the whole Manchester United squad eventually), or maybe even Boro.
3) Ole Gunner Solskjaer is still the best player in the world. (Full page spread in the New Paper today!!)
4) I have no idea how Sir Alex is gonna fit all the new signings into the squad. Well okay, he did mention that Anderson and Nani will start off in the youth squad first, but what about the Hargreaves? And now they’re in talks for Eidur Gudjohnsen (I honestly didn’t know how to spell his name so after 8 failed attempts I went to look it up on soccernet) and Fabio Quagliarella! And we haven’t even started talking about Mr Invaluable, Louis Saha (who…does nothing), Solskjaer (refer to point 3), Alan Smith. And the midfielders cum strikers, Ronaldo, Giggs, Scholes, Carrick, Park. Ok seriously, I hope it doesn’t become a crop rotation, like what Benitez did (no matter how you argue, you can’t possibly believe that that brought him to the Champions League Finals, can you now?). If I had it my way, I would have stopped at Hargreaves, and continue to work on the current squad. But who am I, definetely no Sir Alex Ferguson.
5) Gabriel Heinze (Manchester United defender) is the hottest guy in the EPL right now. Notice I said EPL, because I know that 2907594 fans will raid my blog, protesting that Kaka is the hottest footballer alive. Well, yes okay Kaka is hot too. Anyway, for those of you who do not know how Heinze looks like, think of the guy in ‘300’ with the patched eye. Hot right? If he leaves Man Utd for Barcelona, I’ll be very sad.
6) Am I the only person who notices that there are SO MANY similarities between Cristiano Ronaldo and David Beckham!?
• Both wore the number 7 in Man Utd.
• Both became hated by the English faithful after two respective World Cups.
• Both are the most commercialised and media and sponser friendly players in the Man Utd Squad.
• Yes, the media loves them!
• Beckham reached the climax of his career after the disappointment at the 98 World Cup. So did Ronaldo, after the retarded wink at the 06 World Cup.
• For Beckham, it all went downhill from the time of the hairdryer treatment from Sir Alex, leading towards the flying boot and so on so forth. So for Ronaldo, “we shall see if power change purpose, what our seemers be.” (Go on, call me a freak for remembering Shakespeare, “I know my price, I am worth no worse a place.”)
• Beckham shaved his head. Ronaldo cut off the yellow shit hanging from his hair.
7) Last but not least, Manchester United will win the treble next season.
1) England lost to Holland yesterday on penalties in the U-21 (strangely reminds me of the German U-boats in World War 2. How ironic) Championships. So, yet again the penalty curse falls upon the young lads of the three lions. When will it be lifted? Seems like it even extends to the youth squad as well. I was thinking (oh wow) about it for some time, and I realised that the shaping, dynamics and fortunes of the English squad are very much like that of Manchester United’s.
• Both suck at penalties. (After Dennis Irwin and Roy Keane left Man Utd)
• Both suck at knock out competitions. (Champions League, World Cup, enough said)
• Rock at everything else.
• Both have to, HAVE TO, play 4-4-2, or die miserably.
2) You can’t have such an influential player of the England Squad (not to mention, ex-captain) like David Beckham playing in some weird ass capitalist club far, far away from the arenas of Europe, on club level. I would rather him continue to play in Real Madrid than in MLS Galaxy whatever. At least Spain’s still in the scene, if you get my drift (at this point in time, the song from Tokyo Drift comes into my head, and for some spastic reason, Geylang). But of course, the ideal situation would be him returning to EPL, although I don’t think we’ll see him back at Old Trafford. Probably Newcastle, or Sunderland (where Roy Keane is doing wonders as a manager, and probably wants to buy the whole Manchester United squad eventually), or maybe even Boro.
3) Ole Gunner Solskjaer is still the best player in the world. (Full page spread in the New Paper today!!)
4) I have no idea how Sir Alex is gonna fit all the new signings into the squad. Well okay, he did mention that Anderson and Nani will start off in the youth squad first, but what about the Hargreaves? And now they’re in talks for Eidur Gudjohnsen (I honestly didn’t know how to spell his name so after 8 failed attempts I went to look it up on soccernet) and Fabio Quagliarella! And we haven’t even started talking about Mr Invaluable, Louis Saha (who…does nothing), Solskjaer (refer to point 3), Alan Smith. And the midfielders cum strikers, Ronaldo, Giggs, Scholes, Carrick, Park. Ok seriously, I hope it doesn’t become a crop rotation, like what Benitez did (no matter how you argue, you can’t possibly believe that that brought him to the Champions League Finals, can you now?). If I had it my way, I would have stopped at Hargreaves, and continue to work on the current squad. But who am I, definetely no Sir Alex Ferguson.
5) Gabriel Heinze (Manchester United defender) is the hottest guy in the EPL right now. Notice I said EPL, because I know that 2907594 fans will raid my blog, protesting that Kaka is the hottest footballer alive. Well, yes okay Kaka is hot too. Anyway, for those of you who do not know how Heinze looks like, think of the guy in ‘300’ with the patched eye. Hot right? If he leaves Man Utd for Barcelona, I’ll be very sad.
6) Am I the only person who notices that there are SO MANY similarities between Cristiano Ronaldo and David Beckham!?
• Both wore the number 7 in Man Utd.
• Both became hated by the English faithful after two respective World Cups.
• Both are the most commercialised and media and sponser friendly players in the Man Utd Squad.
• Yes, the media loves them!
• Beckham reached the climax of his career after the disappointment at the 98 World Cup. So did Ronaldo, after the retarded wink at the 06 World Cup.
• For Beckham, it all went downhill from the time of the hairdryer treatment from Sir Alex, leading towards the flying boot and so on so forth. So for Ronaldo, “we shall see if power change purpose, what our seemers be.” (Go on, call me a freak for remembering Shakespeare, “I know my price, I am worth no worse a place.”)
• Beckham shaved his head. Ronaldo cut off the yellow shit hanging from his hair.
7) Last but not least, Manchester United will win the treble next season.
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