Archive for January 1st, 2010

Welcome to the New Year. Oh, yes, you gotta love it. With the New Year brings all kinds of hope and joy for us futebol fans. I can’t wait to get back into action. Please don’t wish me a happy new decade. The new decade starts at the end of 2010 not 2009. Do the math.

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The Blues sit atop the table with the slimmest of leads. Chelsea has 45 points. Man U is in second place with 43 points. Arsenal is third with 41 points. Tottenham is fourth with 37 points. In the fifth position is Man City with 35 big boys. Aston Villa is sixth with 35 points as well but City has a game in hand.

We’re going to be all over the lot today.

This is sure different.

The Gunners play their make up game on January 6^th. If the Gunners win, they will leap frog into second place.

You gotta love it.

For you all Arsenal fans, I do have a very warm spot in my heart the Gunners. I am a fan of Man U too. So, deal with it.

I have been saying this since the very beginning. You really need to start listening to me. I know this game.  I may not all the X’s and O’s but I have a very good working knowledge of the game. Trust me when I say this. God gave me this ability to analyze futebol, football, hoops, and baseball. 

The basic principles are all the same.

The only difference is the way the sport is played.

I drive coaches nuts. I know what questions to ask to get them to tell me exactly what is going on.

My old sportswriter friends said,” There’s Bobby Gee asking seventeen part questions.”

I can get to the heart of an issue very fast.

Games are won or lost on one or two key plays. These key plays separate the winners from the losers.

I call these matcher changers or game changers.

This has always been this way.

I like to study the game.

In my old days, I used to coach high school football and basketball.

I used to do play-by–play for well over twenty years too. I did football, basketball, UNM volleyball, NCAA  Championship Volleyball, high school volleyball, baseball, soccer, UNM softball and Little League Baseball.

I used to drive UNM football and basketball coaches nuts.

I was always asking questions about coverage’s and player assignments.

God also gave me this gift to crawl inside people’s heads to see the world through their eyes.

All gifts come from God.

I love the beautiful game. My old PE teacher Mister Maloof taught us to play futebol when I was in the sixth grade. That was 1962.  

So here’s the truth.

I am a Flamenguista first. Why? I have a Brasileiro heart. I am both a fan of Man U and Arsenal. Why Arsenal? I saw the movie Fever Pitch starring Colin Firth. I identified with him. I am the same way. I can’t watch my Eagles play when they take on the Dallas Cowboys. The Bums always lose.

The Eagles can find a way to screw up a wet dream. 

I am a Philly kid.

I was raised in North Brunswick, New Jersey.

We lose. That’s who we are.

But, we keep on showing up to cheer them on.

This is what Colin Firths character did in Fever Pitch.

Thanks for reading.

Happy New Year. 

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