I watched Marcus Trescothick smash a fantasic 50 from 20something balls yesterday for Somerset against Worcestershire. Such clean hitting, all round the wicket, with the minimum of bodily economy. Its such a shame he’s completely mental, because he is one of the best one day openers in the world. This on the back of a [...]
Liverpool (just) and Arsenal (comfortably) qualified for the Champions league proper last night. Liverpool scraped a 1-0 AET victory thanks to a 118th minute Dirk Kuyt goal, while Arsenal coasted through on the back of a possible ‘coming of age’ performance from Theo Walcott. Newcastle and Everton remain the only clubs to suffer the humiliation [...]
From the excellent Football 365: Hull City Last season it was possible to retain Premier League status with 36 points. The year before, 38 was the magic number. So let’s say that 37 ought to do it this year. In which case, Hull already possess 11% of the points required to stay up after playing [...]
Monday, 25 August 2008 Portsmouth 0-1 (HT 0-1) Man Utd Fletcher 32 Bookings: Diop 18 Defoe 80 Bookings: Brown 44 Fletcher 90+3 Sunday, 24 August 2008 Man City 3-0 (HT 0-0) West Ham Sturridge 65 Elano 70 Elano 76 Bookings: Behrami 23 Noble 33 Sent off: Noble 38 Wigan 0-1 (HT 0-1) Chelsea Deco 4 [...]
Chelsea are just the wrong side of evens for the Premiership titles. Two games, two wins. Five for, none conceded. Rock solid defence and keeper, Deco an artiste in centre mid, Lampard and Ballack either side of him, two world class strikers, not to mention Essien, Joe Cole, and the possible acquisition of Robinho – [...]
Prior, Bell, Shah, Pietersen (c), Flintoff, Bopara, Wright, Patel, Broad, S Harmison, Anderson Was the team for the last one-dayer, and is likely to be so for tomorrow after the excellent performance in the first. Can England kick on and take a 2-0 lead? The team looks balanced, with a very strgon batting line up [...]
Bad week. 40 points. No clean sheet for Arsenal or points for my captain Adebayor, Bentley disappointing, Elmander forced off injured… Lescott, Young and Yakubu my only real points scorers. Just to revisit my ‘tips’: Deco 9.1m – Looked good last week, plus Ballack is out so he’s almost certain to start Bentley 8.0m – [...]
Fantasy Premier League is amazing. Its by far and away the best Fantasy Football game I’ve played. If you haven’t already, get a team in now. In the first week I got a respectable 58 points. Just the one change this week, Ballack out for Bentley. I was considering Deco but irritatingly he’s gone up [...]
Dear oh dear. So much for a brave new world under Capello. England were as boring and disappointing as ever last night, completely underwhelming and totally underperforming. Rooney dropped off too much, Defoe looked short of international class, Gerrard didn’t play like he does for Liverpool, David James raised the same old questions, etc etc [...]
England’s Twenty Twenty Game against South Africa tomorrow has been cancelled . Good use of my first non-football post.
