Archive for April 25th, 2009

Oh what a glorious Saturday morning. EPL futebol is on Fox Soccer Channel. I love this stuff. This is so much fun to watch. Yes, I can hear you screaming at me, “You’re totally nuts. True, but I have the papers to prove I am nuts. So put that in your pipe and smoke it.”

Chelsea and West Ham are engaged in a classic match-up.

Chelsea scored on a scramble ball off a corner kick. Salomon Kalou scored on a right-footed shot just inside the box in the 55^th minute to give Chelsea a 1-0 lead.

West Ham had a chance to level the match when Chelsea defender Salomon Kalou grabbed the jersey of N’Kongolo. Kalou pulled N’Kongolo to the ground,

It was a crazy foul.

West Ham’s Mark Nobel missed the penalty shot. Great save by Peter Cech.

Whew, that was close.

The clock is winding down. Tick, tick, tick, goes the clock.

It’s finally over.

Chelsea wins 1-0.

The Blues have the precious three points they needed to stay with in striking distance of the top spot in The EPL.

Chelsea has a more realistic chance of over taking Liverpool for second place and the automatic bid to The Champions League than to win The EPL.

Liverpool defeated Hull City 3-1.

Dirk Kuyt scored twice for The Reds.

This victory by Liverpool keeps the pressure squarely on first place Manchester United.

The race for the relegation zone is in full swing.

Bottom feeder West Brom killed Sunderland 3-0.

As it stands right now in the race of the bottom feeders

20. West Brom          28 points        34 games

19  Newcastle            30 points        33 games

18  Middlesbrough     31 points        33 games

17  Hull City               34 points        34 games

16  Blackburn             34 points        33 games

15  Sunderland           35 points        34 games

Middlesbrough takes on Arsenal on Sunday while Newcastle is a must situation when they take on Portsmouth on Monday.

It’s do or die for Middlesbrough and Newcastle. 

Only Newcastle has a realistic chance to win so if I were a betting man I would stick a fork in Middlesbrough. Wait a second! On second thought I’d stick one in Newcastle as well too.

Blackburn has a huge match with Wigan on Sunday April 26^th as well too.

Blackburn needs to win.

This has been a very insane and crazy match between Manchester United and Tottenham.

Do you want to talk about nuts.

Tottenham made Man U look silly in the first half.

Man U gave up two very bad first half goals.

The Red Devils defense looked like garbage in the first half.

The two first half goals were set up by stupid defending by Manchester United and brilliant passing by Tottenham.

Darren Bent’s tap in header in the 29^thminute and a few moments later Luka Modric slipped home a winner that made it 2-nil Tottenham.

I said to myself this is all over. Kiss this match good-bye. Yes, I was sad and I wanted to scream out all kinds of obscenities but I didn’t.

Little did I know that I would be screaming for joy in the second half.

Manchester United came out looking for blood in the second half.

The Red Devils found what they were looking for when Michael Carrick made a great run into the box. Tottenham keeper Gomes tried to get the ball away from Carrick but clipped him in the heels.

It was a good call.

Cristiano Ronaldo made the penalty shot to make 2-1.

Rooney scored on  power shot that bounced off the keeper into the net to level the match at 2-2.

Wayne Rooney made a great pass to Ronaldo who headed the ball home to give Manchester United the lead 3-2.

A few moments later Cristiano Ronaldo returned the favor and Rooney ripped home the winner that  bounced of the helpless Tottenham keeper Gomes and dribbled cross the line to make 4-2 Manchester United.

The rout was on.

Wayne Rooney and Dimitar Berbatov played pinball machine inside the Tottenham box. Berbatov tapped home the easy winner to make 5-2.

That’s all she wrote baby.

Manchester United played like crap in the first half.

The Red Devils turned it around in the second half and won going away 5-2 to move three points clear of Liverpool in the  race for The EPL crown.

Manchester is in first place with 77 points in 33 games.

Liverpool is in second place with 74 points in 34 games

Chelsea is in third place with 71 points in 34 games.

I can breath a lot easier now after Manchester United won.

This was rock em sock em futebol.

I love it.