Keepy Ups

I only caught the second half of two champions' league matches yesterday.

Olypiacos v Chelsea -- YAWNNNNNN There were so few chances during this game, that at one point I just stopped watching it and only looked when the Chelsea fan sat accross from me made some sort of reaction. That barely happened.

Liverpool v Inter -- A lot of people are giving Liverpool a lot of credit today. The truth of the matter is they still have one tactic and have done for the past couple yester: "Wait til the 89th minute when Stevie G will knick us something after running around like an idiot". Of course they'll win the European cup.

Who Ate All the Pies has a rundown on who should be kept and who chucked at Liverpool over the summer. I agree 99% (I think Masch is a lot better than Anderson for example)

I wish I watched Roma that looked like a good match.

Posted by Chrissy at 8:31 AM 0 comments    

Labels: Champions League, CSKA Chelski, Liverpool FC, Teams that will surely beat Liverpool

Posted by Chrissy at 6:37 AM 0 comments    

Labels: CSKA Chelski, Jews, Racist

I've never seen three more boring stories back to back to back (and the 4th on the bottom isn't terribly exciting either). Together their horrendous boredom is almost exciting.

Yes, as you can see from the picture, I use google reader to keep up with all of the blogs on the right and some of the major news websites.

Posted by Chrissy at 2:51 PM 3 comments    

Labels: things that make me yawn

Just a quick FYI boys, read Pitch Invasion's scarily realistic proposal of the 39th game being a playoff round.

It makes sense in one way that it wouldn't be ruining the league and making it unfair, but it reeks of American sports so no one would like it even if it is the least assy way to have matches abroad.

I am against matches being played outside of England (well and Wales) by the way. I live in the US, but I realize that the club I love is ENGLISH. Maybe because I've actually lived in and have ties to Manchester that I don't have this ridiculous sense of entitlement that I've seen people living in the US have around these interwebs. I've seen people say "you don't realize your club belongs to the WORLD now" and "well there are fans here too!" and that's just a load of bullshit.

The other thing I really don't understand is for the most part, association football fans in the US tend to be latte liberals: middle class and upper middle class white (and asian) types with enough money to at least save up for a trip once a year. January flights to the UK from the US are pretty cheap and if you've not noticed there's a metric fuckload of fixtures in January. You just have no right to other people's heritage and take it away from them.

The other explanation could be because most American are United fans and therefore have their head and their rectum in reverse positions than the rest of us.

ps, boys the picture of my teets is gone to be replaced by my only friend. soz

Posted by Chrissy at 2:02 PM 0 comments    

Labels: 39th Game, Ideas to Blow up in one's Face, rants

Sky Sports | Football | News | Robson leaves Blades

Bryan Robson has left Sheffield United after turning down the opportunity to become a director of football, with Kevin Blackwell named as his successor.

Wow... you've been sacked from how many jobs recently and then decide a cushy recruiting job isn't for you?

What a fucking maroon!

Posted by Chrissy at 2:24 AM 1 comments    

Labels: Championship, England, Sheffield United, Things that make me laugh

Posted by Chrissy at 6:37 AM 0 comments    

Labels: SWP is short get it, Things that make me laugh, You tube

I am guessing by this picture that Norway is like France and you can't have alcoholic beverages on your kit. I'm just laughing because Norwegians love their alcoholic beverages if the guys down the pub are any indication. Also, I am not paying attention to the Tippeligaen since IK Start was relegated.


ps I swore i was making posts but they're not here nor in my drafts :( must look in another blog

Posted by Chrissy at 6:30 AM 0 comments    

Labels: Everton, Norway, Norwegian Tippeligaen, pictures

At the pub soaking the first City DOUBLE over United in almost 40
years. Love it

Posted by Chrissy at 12:43 PM 7 comments    

From the Kickette
You do not have to sell things to be marketing. How is this not taking advantage of the Munich Air Disaster? What a fucking awful image.












City is not without its own fault in taking advantage of some slick marketing, but they've not eploited one of the symbols of the event. Look at this picture too, it's like a snapshot. Very understated and that's what United should have done.



Sunday's tomorrow and I know this is wearing thin. :) In the meantime, DO check out this post from the Philadelphia Weekly's blog Philadelphia Will Do about how even Americans got offended and join in in the shared tragedy, over a use of the Munich Memorial in a contest in the US version of Metro. (I'm not linking to this just because I'm mentioned in it either btw)

Posted by Chrissy at 10:52 AM 1 comments    

Labels: ANGER, Manchester Derby, Munich Air Disaster

Posted by Chrissy at 4:53 PM 0 comments    

Labels: Football Culture, Ideas to Blow up in one's Face

US Sports should do this. They used to in the 80s, if you remember "Buddy's watching you" by the Philadelphia Eagles etc. They need more Super Bowl and World Series Singles.

Posted by Chrissy at 4:35 PM 0 comments    

Labels: crap, john barnes, new order, Things that make me laugh, things that scare children at night

The Premier League went ahead and approved a 7 deep subs bench, which is something Rafa Benetiz and his overpriced rotation system was asking for ages ago. It was brought to vote by Spurs' Chairman (according to last nights 5 Live Football Daily).

Anyway, the reasoning seems to be "giving young people a shot". Old cynics like us here think it's because naming more overpaid supersubs to the bench might attract more people to a particular club and help the rich ones play "buy all the players so no one else could get them" ala CSKA Chelski.

Posted by Chrissy at 11:21 AM 0 comments    

Labels: CSKA Chelski, England, English Premiership, Ideas to Blow up in one's Face

http://www.keepyups.com/ will get you to this site. I decided I liked the name enough to spend a tenner to register it. Update your bookmarks and tell your friends!

Posted by Chrissy at 10:24 AM 0 comments    

Labels: admin stuff

There's a fantastically lollerific piece from Who Ate All the Pies on the 20 cities for Premiership Matches. A Definite must read.

A few examples of the ones that made us chuckle.

Manchester United - Calais
Closer than Old Trafford for most United fans.
Sunderland - Dublin
Everything else about the club is Irish, including the chairman and manger, so the home ground might as well be.
Wigan - Las Vegas
Titus Bramble's Travelling Slapstick Show would be the hottest ticket in town.

Posted by Chrissy at 10:12 AM 0 comments    

Labels: England, English Premiership, lulz

The 20 Premier League clubs are reported to have agreed in principle to a radical plan that would see each team playing an extra match a season abroad.



Under the proposal, cities such as Hong Kong, New York, Los Angeles, Singapore, Sydney, Johannesburg, Dubai and Beijing would stage matches between two Premier League sides.

--SkySports
As excited as I am about the prospect of getting a match in the US, I can not help but think this is just one more nail in the coffin of English Football. Tom Hicks has said that he's bought Liverpool because of the tremendous television and internet deals involved. This is for marketing and money and that can only be a bad thing. Are they going to start Bye Weeks as well? Some of those cities above are horrible distance from England.

Jesus this is such a Bad Thing (tm)

Posted by Chrissy at 10:11 AM 0 comments    

Labels: England, England Premiership, Greedy Foreign Money

Manchester United have confirmed the minute's silence will go ahead at the Manchester derby despite the jeers that were heard at Wembley. The news comes after Wednesday night's minute silence at England's friendly clash with Switzerland was cut short by 20 seconds after disrespectful fans whistled and jeered towards the end of the tribute

-- TeamTalk

I agree that it is disrespectful to boo and jeer during the moments silence. BUT WHEN YOU KNOW IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN ISN'T IT DISRESPECTFUL TO GO ALONG WITH THE PLANS. It just serves to further the Manchester United Pity Party. As I said yesterday, I am no fan of shared tragedy. If it didn't effect you there is no need to fucking commerate it. But Manchester United are setting themselves up to be "Poor Manchester United, we're so picked on because we're the best, those beastly City supporters can't even respect what animals". Nothing pisses me off more than that bullshit.

Truly respectful for those who died at Munich would be to stop trolling it out to put you all in the spotlight again. How much additional positive press has United gotten over the past 4 weeks? Don't tell me it's not marketing just because they're not selling the shirts.

Truly respectful would be to not let booing idiots ruin the moment of silence by having a moment of applause instead.

Truly respectful would not be using this as another reason to get into the fucking spotlight.

AND THAT'S finally all I have to say about it. I avoided it for a month but now you have it.

Posted by Chrissy at 10:00 AM 0 comments    

Labels: England, English Premiership, Manchester Derby, Munich Air Disaster

*moment of silence*

Olaf Melberg is the only one left, and he's going to Juve this summer.

I vote for Crouch to grow one next.

Posted by Chrissy at 9:24 AM 1 comments    

Labels: beards, England, English Premiership, nonsense

Posted by Chrissy at 7:14 PM 0 comments    

Labels: England, English Premiership, Manchester City

Posted by Chrissy at 7:10 PM 0 comments    

Labels: England, Frank Swift, Manchester United, Munich Air Disaster

Posted by Chrissy at 12:34 AM 1 comments    

Labels: Aston Villa, England, English Premeriship, Fulham, Jimmy Bullard, Video, Wigan Athletic, You tube