May 12, 2008

Premier League Drama

As per usual on a sunday night trying to cram some work b4 the next week starts, I proscrastinated.
Browsing through soccernet.com has never intrigued me as much as it did tonight for I witnessed an incredible english soccer drama in front of computer screen on what its called a Premier League D-Day...no visual...no sound...just some random narrator's frequent comments (which I found funny at times)

While there was a prestigious battle of Man U and Chelsea fighting for the crown; Fulham, Reading and Birmingham were going all out to stay in the league next season

Man U was sitting on 84 pt, equaled to Chelsea. They needed a win to secure the cup or anything that basically matches Chelsea, a draw for a draw or a lost for a lost but u know how Chelsea stat goes at Stamford Bridge.

Fulham, Reading and Birmingham were on 33, 33, 32 pt respectively with Fulham a few goal diff ahead of Reading

I started following the log at half time. To my comfort, Man U was leading 1-0 from Ronaldo's penalty and John Terry got injured which is a ++ for Champions League
but hey... things didnt look too good at times...Scholes with near chance of getting sent off and more shots firing at United's net in first half and u know how Man U normally reacts to that...Rio do stupid moves, Brown gives away penalty, Vidic forgets to mark someone...something of that sort (Evra is alright...hes cool)

Second half went better for Man U, increasing their ball possession to 66% and fired crap load of shots in the middle of the game.
Wigan's boys picked up more yellow cards and Fergie secured 11 players by subbing Schole off for Hargreaves which was relieving.
Giggs also came on for his record 758 appearances for Man U (equals to #1 Sir Bobby Charlton)

62 mins...Shevchenko scored... what a pest...I hate Ballack and Shevchenko so much. They just keep coming back to haunt Man U lately
See things can go either way now

On the sideline, Man city match kept feeding comments through...goal...goal...goal...goal......goal again.
Man City just got totally pawned. The commentator said "byebye Eriksson"
I realised later that they were running on 10 players. Poor them but they did managed to score 1 around finishing time to the commentator's "only 6 more". They finished 1-8

In the mean time, Giggs scored in his milestone match to secure the win and the cup... byebye Chelsea
I clicked to the main page. The headline was Shevchenko scoring and making a winning face...poor him didnt know what was coming.
To add to the victory, Chelsea score got levelled (GG) by Bolton in injury time...
Chelsea and Premier league cup...just wasnt meant to be

On the other side of the ladder, Reading and Birmingham blasted their opponents 3 or 4 goals each but it was all useless when Fulham scored a late goal to win 1-0 and stayed out of the bottom 3 on goal difference too

Liverpool and Arsenal won...insignificant

Moral of the story: Good guys win. Champions win more

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