Liverpool winger Bolo Zenden is facing a race against time to be fit for the Champions League final after picking up an ankle injury in training this week.
in time for Harry Kewell! hopefully he doesn't break a nail before Wednesday!
Appearently Joey Barton is looking to moving to Europe with supposedly Roma and Athletico Madrid among other European powerhouses looking at him.
According to the Sun, the idea of heading overseas appeals to Barton
because it would take him away from the media microscope and potentially help
him to resurrect his international career Sources close to the player claim he has been inspired by Bayern Munich midfielder Owen Hargreaves as an example of how playing in Europe is not a hindrance to getting into England boss Steve McClaren's plans.
Footiebird stopped out at FootieGeeza's last night and had to use a Liverpool FC towel to dry off after a shower.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I got "hip" to ChickenDinner when Who Ate All the Pies gave them a name check a couple months back. I'm not a betting person, but their daily wager email has a broad appeal, is almost always interesting, and hillarious. Today's featured the following about the FA Cup:
* Old wounds alert: This match is a repeat of the 1994 final in which United won 4-0, a game best remembered for David Elleray awarding two soft penalties against the Londoners. How many iffy penalties has Steve Bennett got in him?
* Only twice before have the top two met in the FA Cup Final. In 1913, runners-up Aston Villa exacted revenge on Sunderland. In 1986, Liverpool did the double and in both competitions Everton were runners-up.
* On ten occasions, the runners-up have won the FA Cup, and in all but one of those finals they scored first. The exception was Blackpool taking the lead against Manchester United in 1948. On a further eight occasions, the runners-up in the league have also finished runner-up in the cup.
* The league champions have competed in the FA Cup Final on fifteen occasions and won ten, including their last five appearances.
* United have won three doubles (1994,1996 and 1999) and been denied just once, by Aston Villa a spooky fifty years ago.
* chickendinner superfact: Only twice in the past hundred years has the top scorer in the league netted in the FA Cup Final. Gary Lineker scored for Everton in 1986 and Clive Allen did the same for Spurs a year later. Both were the first goals of the game and both men ended up on the losing team.
* A British manager has only beaten Johnny Foreigner once in FA Cup finals - that was Sir Alex Ferguson himself, dispatching Ruud Gullit's Newcastle on the way to a treble in 1999.
* In the last twenty years, nine PFA Players of the Year have played in the final. Only one has lost: John Barnes in 1988.
* John Terry becomes the sixth post-war England captain to lead a team out in an FA Cup Final. Alan Shearer was the last man to do so, and ominously, his team lost 2-0 to Manchester United.
* The South currently lead the North 13-11 in North-South Wembley clashes. (ed Because I'm a northern burd at heart does that mean I have to chear on scum??)
* chickendinner superfact: Drogba has never scored against United, Ronaldo has never scored against Chelsea.
* Chelsea and United have met ten times in FA Cup games. Chelsea have only won once and that was back in 1950. Chelsea have only scored in four of those matches.
* In all cup competitions, United have scored 26 goals in matches between them, compared to Chelsea's 13.
I just got in from work (it's 9 pm my time). I don't have the energy to go into psycho getting sacked. I will however, post my letters to football365 that I sent this morning. Let's hope they get in the mailbag tomorrow.
I'm not going to say that Psycho didn't make some bad choices.
(Signing Mpenza, Ball, and Beasley was friggin inspired though). But
they were by the fact that Wardle didn't give enough of a fuck to give
Psycho the transfer kitty he needed to make good buys. Give him crap
money, you get gambles and crap players. Morientes scored 5 goals for
Liverpool last year, just one more than our useless greek striker, and
Rafa had the existing Talent and more money than Psycho did to make it
work.
If you look at the transfer windows for the teams in the premiership
at the beginning of this season, over the last 2 years, city turned
the biggest profit.
WHAT? This is not time to make profit! Fuck off.
Big Sam supposedly wants to come to City, but that's not going to
happen without transfer Money. Jewell's resignation does point to him
coming to the Blues, but it's going to be the same shit different
manager unless we get new owners.
City should buck the trend and have our new owner be *gasp* English.
(Oh ok British and Irish are ok too). Ranson needs to do a Glazer
like hostile take over. I do not trust that Thai baby killer. Ranson
will stick with City and not get bored if we're not top 4 in a year.
Out of 20 teams in the League-they can't all finish top 4. We need an
owner who understands that and I don't think Asian and North American
owners do...
HAHA Can you imagine City being in the top 4?!?! Jesus...
*real name* CTID
Actually what's worse than finishing 14th with 2 less points than last
year and losing our Manager etc etc is the new FUCKING HIDEOUS kits
that Citeh launched today.
I wonder if they fired psycho today to distract everyone from the
worst kits in premier league history.
Seriously, check them out at the club website. They suck Le Coq (Sportif)
*real name* CTID (still buying a shirt though because they are so
ugly I need that bit of history)
I really enjoyed the Oldham, Blackpool playoff match yesterday. 1) It's not often you get to see the not-as-mighty-as-man-city-but-still-mighty Latics on television in the US so I took advantage and 2) Boundary park gets me nostalgic.
The pitch was shit, and I wonder why they didn't move the fixture to CoMS or even friggin Rochdale or another venue without a reputation for puddling lakes in midfield.
I'm not going to pretend that's the reason Oldham lost, in fact, the reason Oldham scored at all was because of a spot kick that was justifiably awarded, but the foul wouldn't have happened if there weren't mud and rain anywhere. It's hard to believe the pitch was suitable for top flight football not even 20 years ago. Though, standards were different back then.
Anyway, Blackpool have been the most onform side in the whole of the football league going into this match, so it's no wonder they played well.
Yesterday's result does not bode well for my dream of Paul Scholes being the man to bring Oldham back to the Premiership though.
Think about it, if they get promoted this year, and the ginga ninja is just around retiring age, and he's said before he'd love to retire on Oldham if he could.... how fucking fitting/awesome would that be? Their most famous supporter bringing them to top flight football, promptly to get relegated... or oooh wait wait. Maybe if they don't get to the championship while he's still playing he can manage them and lead them back up!!! Playing would be too awesome though. Especially since there's never been a "NorthEast" Manc Derby; since City have been top flight since they moved to Bradford/Eastlands and Oldham have...well not. The Rochdale Road Derby lol!
Big dreams for a little girl--it won't happen.
Footiebird wants to point out the fact that she may be the only City supporter with a softspot in her heart for Oldham. It's not cool or authentic to have second teams but if I were to have a second team and be "uncool" that second team would be Oldham.
The new Man City Homekit was launched today. Going back to Le Coq Sportif, because you know Reebok and Adidas and other companies that are actually heard of outside of western europe were just too *serious* for a club heading to get their record 8th 2nd tier championship in 2 years time. And what the hell happens to Reebok City? Fucking Wardle and his ever growing pile of debt! ok... breathe....
At least it's not puma with fucking cats on the shoulder and the front. It makes room for that huge badge to be right in the center!!!
I wasn't a fan of white sleeves but this shit just isn't pleasing to the eye. 
On Micah Richard's large shoulders on the mcfc website the long sleeve shrit looks a big like a sweatshirt and the collar looks as if there's a hood in the back. 
But I mean...look at it. It's a training shirt!! Badge is much too big in the center. Fuck off, it should be on the left side! The thomascook .com is off center. If someone wants to book a holiday, do they need to be told to go to the website? If they have half a brain they'll google it. Or use expedia :P The pinstripes only on the front bit is annoying as fuck.
I mentioned the colar above. it just looks like nothing fits very well.
Ugly ugly ugly.
I will be buying one however, because it's so fucking ugly. So I guess they've achieved their purpose.
Can't wait to see the away shirt. Fake sixpack?!!?
This failed experiment in blogging about football will have to pick up next year I suppose--I'm not blogging much in my personal blog either.
There will be a shit load to write about when my beloved Manchester City get relegated next year.
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| | Team | TOT |
| Drogba | Chelsea | 19 |
| Ronaldo | Man Utd | 16 |
| McCarthy | Blackburn | 15 |
| Rooney | Man Utd | 14 |
| Bent | Charlton | 12 |
| Doyle | Reading | 12 |
| Kuyt | Liverpool | 12 |
| Yakubu | Middlesbro' | 12 |
| Anelka | Bolton | 11 |
| Johnson | Everton | 11 |
| Lampard | Chelsea | 11 |
| Martins | Newcastle | 11 |
| Van Persie | Arsenal | 11 |
| Viduka | Middlesbro' | 11 |
| Zamora | West Ham | 11 |
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A little group I'm a part of got a write up in the Philadelphia Weekly,
Sons of Ben Tailgate Party
Sat., April 14, 4 pm. Free. Wachovia Spectrum, 3601 S. Broad St. 215.389.9543. www.myspace.com/sonsofben
Who are the most phanatical Philly sports fans? How about a bunch of relentlessly yelling, chanting and singing sons-of-bitches so hardcore the team they support doesn’t even exist? The Sons of Ben are Philly soccer fanatics with a flag, shirts, scarves, chants and a self-penned song sheet, but no major-league soccer team to support—yet. And they make more noise than all the rest of Philly’s fans put together. Tired of bland, corporate, spoon-fed, Disneyfied McFandom? So are the Sons of Ben. Join them for burgers and beer in the Wachovia parking lot, and then head to the arena proper for a jolly sing-along designed to both intimidate and amuse. At the last Kixx game the approximately 30-strong SOB attended, they were drowned out only once—by 4,000 Girl Scouts shrieking the theme from SpongeBob SquarePants. One day soon Philadelphia will once again be a major soccer city. We’ve already got the fans. Now where’s our goddamn team? (Steven Wells)
John Arne Riise's goal against PSV was shown as the 9th best highlight of the week on ESPN's SportsCenter. Of course the announcers badly butchered the pronunciation of his name, calling him both "John Arn-ee Reese" and "John Arn Reese."
An Everton supporter is walking through the streets of Liverpool when he sees a sale on at a video shop.
When he stops to look he sees a video called "Everton : The Glory Years". The guy enters the shop and asks how much the video costs.
The shop owner replies, "$300".
The Everton supporter exclaims "What! Im not paying $300 just for a video!"
The shop owner says "No, don't be silly, the video is $5 - the Beta-Max video player is $295!"
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Can I be more thrilled that Liverpool are the only club even relatively safe for advancing in the Champions League?? hah I'd be more thrilled if it were the Mighty City that's for sure..but omg. I have a soft spot for Liverpool. It could be because the Footie Geeza is a supporter. It could be because I dream of a very dirty midfield threesome between Steven Gerrard, Xabi Alonso, and myself. It's likely because Liverpool supporters hate Manchester United as much as I do--and not because they are neutral ABUs, though the second reason does weigh heavily. Sadly, I didn't get a chance to watch any of the matches this week because of work commitments.
Only two of the matches will be that interesting next week. I think that Milan and Roma might have the hardest trek ahead of them of all the teams (not including PSV lol 3 away goals). Both for the same reason: They are going into really tough stadiums to score against, and they must score and win. Even without the Ginja Ninja(the man to bring Oldham Athletic back to the Premiership), United are going to score at least once at OT, and it's going to be very difficult for Roma to score at all. If Roma can hold United to 1 goal and score they'd advance which gives them an easier time (slightly) than AC Milan
Basically, Milan have to win. A 1-1 draw does them no good (it'd give Bayren winning on AG) and it's going to be really fucking hard for them to score 2 goals in Munich. Also the fact that this is going to be a super high scoring match with Milan on the bitch end, isn't going to help either.
Valencia are going to advance--Chelsea are not going to get the quadrupile (haha), the treble (lollll), or anything else. (Up the Rovers for the FA Cup)
Predictions:
Man United 2 - 1 Roma
Bayren Munich 3 - 1 AC Milan
Chelsea 0 - 1 Valencia
LFC Reserves 15 - 0 PSV (sorry I mean 1-0 Liverpool will sleep)
One fateful weekend last year the Footie Geeza and I went to the pub to watch City play Sunderland. That day we met three crazy Norwegians. Norwegians are as insane irl as they are online. It's great fun. Anyway, since that day, we've both been following IK Start from Kristanstaad, who we were assured by our new Norveeegian friends are the best team in all of Europe.
The upcoming Norwegian league starts this Monday and they play a 26 game season. All of Scandinavia has a fucked up schedule because of all the fucking ice and blonde ladies. That's why the Patron Saint of Glasgow was able to play for Manchester United before returning to Sweden (will have to post funny Favorite Swede story later today).
Anyway, the Geeza wanted me to make some predictions on the norveeegian league. Last year, Hamar Kam and Molde FK were relegated to the second division, and Stromsgodset and Aalesund were promoted to the top flight. Onto the predictions...
1) Rosenborg
2) Lillestrom
3) Brann Bergen
4) Valerengen
5) Viking Stavanger
6) IK Start
7) Stabaek
8) Lyn SFK
9) Stromsgodset
10) Tromso
11) Fredrikstad
12) Odd Grenland
13) Sandefjord
14) Aalesund
Up The Citizens
Liverpool is fucking boring
Andy Johnson is a bald sex machine.
That's really all you needed to know about the past week in English Footie
