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The special one Jose Mourinho did at Internazionale what he couldn’t do at Chelsea win the Champions League.

Internazionale took it to Bayern Munich 2-0.

The Italian side scored two second half goals to win going away.

Bayern had most of the possessions but Internazionale played steel curtain defense.

This was like the Pittsburgh Steelers Super Bowl Champs Mean Joe Green and the steel curtain “D”. 

Kick ass baby.

The crowned champion by the media Barcelona was knocked out in the round of 16.

So was Real Madrid the other paper champion in the round of 16 too.

Real Madrid had all this firepower. Little good this did. The fake Ronaldo fired blanks.

Internazionale was led by Alberto Diego Milito daily double-34^th and 70^th minutes.

Jose Mourinho has led FC Porto and Internazionale to Champions League titles.

This is good but the special one is a carpetbagger.

He is good at taking others peoples talent and winning but I would love to see the Mourinho man start from scratch and build a championship side.

Sir Alex and my main man Arsene Wenger are the master architects at taking nothing and building them into champions.

The rumor mills are talking that Mourinho is headed to Real Madrid.

What did I tell ya?

This is still a huge milestone for Jose Mourinho.

He joins Ernst Happel and Ottmar Hitzfeld as the only other two managers to achieve this feat.

Bayern’s manager Luis Van Gaal led Ajax to the Champions League title in 1995 and he was seeking to accomplish the same feat.

Not on this day.

We two managers to join an elite group men.

This marks the first time in five years that an EPL side has not made to the finals.

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Liverpool kept their slim Champions League hopes alive. The Reds 3-0 whitewash of West Ham moved Liverpool within striking distance of Spurs.

Spurs have 64 points. City has 62 points. The Reds have 59 points.

Liverpool has three bad boys left to play while both Tottenham and Man City have four matches left.

Yossi Benayoun led off the hit parade with a strike in the 19^th minute.

David Ngog added a marker in the 29^th minute.

The Hammers Robert Green own goal added insult to injury in the 59^th minute sealed the deal for the Reds.

What has killed Liverpool’s chances of returning to the Champions League is the injury to super striker Fernando Torres. He will miss the reminder of the season. Torres bum knee may cost Spain a shot at the World Cup title as well.

We will see.

Yet, Rafa Benitez was the idiot who choose this team. He didn’t plan for the future instead he played the future is now game. Too bad Bozo you lose. The great managers always have several game plans. Not Rafa though. This is why I call him the idiot.

Sir Alex is a prime example of this. He knew he was going to lose the fake Ronaldo so Sir Alex kept in the wings such players as Nani and Darron Gibson. These players are keeping Man U in the hunt for their four-peat.

My man Arsene Wenger is another manager who keeps younger players in the system so that when the stars go down he has top-notch players to plug into the system.

The real test of a manager is how well they can perform in the long haul.

Sir Alex and Wenger are two excellent examples.

Before you have a cow and tell me, I don’t know what I am talking about. I know Jose Mourinho. He is good in the short run. He is good for a few years then his act gets old. The players and management rebel against him and then Mourinho exits stage left.

The “Special One” is good only for a few years.

Yes, he can win titles but when Mourinho leaves, the club is in a shambles. Chelsea is an excellent example of this. The Blues are good now but age is setting in. Chelsea maybe has a year or two left before the window of opportunity closes. The Blues don’t have younger talent waiting in the wings.

Trust me on this

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This is the hodge podge day for us. We will talk about Flamengo, Champions League, and Monday’s Liverpool-Wigan match.

Adriano has returned to Flamengo after missing eleven days. Most of this time was due to the Emperor playing in the World Cup friendly against Ireland on Tuesday March 2^nd.

Adriano will work out to test his physical condition while the rest of Mengao travels to Caracas for their match on Tuesday in the Copa Libertadores. Globo Esporte this to say-  O atacante Adriano se reapresentou ao Flamengo nesta segunda-feira, no Ninho do Urubu, em seu primeiro trabalho após a polêmica causada pela briga que ele teve com a namorada, Joana Machado, na noite de quinta para sexta-feira na entrada de um baile funk, na favela da Chatuba (Zona Norte do Rio). Como foi programado pela diretoria rubro-negra, Adriano, que chegou por volta das 15h20m ao local do treino e realizou um trabalho físico na academia, separado do grupo que viaja para Caracas na manhã desta terça-feira para enfrentar o time da capital venezuelana, quarta, às 21h50m (de Brasília), pela Libertadores.

Vagner Love was hurt in Mengao’s match against Resende. Globo Esporte reported that Love has a thigh bruise. He will miss Monday’s workout- Vagner Love foi poupado do treino desta segunda, ainda sentindo dores por causa da pancada que recebeu na coxa durante a goleada por 4 a 0 sobre o Resende, sábado, em Volta Redonda, pela terceira rodada da Taça Rio. O artilheiro do Carioca com dez gols chegou a entrar no campo, uniformizado, mas calçando meia e chinelos. Depois de uma conversa com o gerente de futebol Isaías Tinoco e o auxiliar de preparação física Daniel Jouvin, retornou para a musculação.

The return leg in the Champions League first round knockout stage resumes on Tuesday March 8.

Arsenal has a hot date with FC Porto. The Gunners lost 2-1 on a late goal. 

We have the all important away goal.

Arsenal has to shut em out at Emirates.

We cannot afford to give up a cheap goal.

The bad news for the Gunners is this. Cesc Fabregas will be out with a pulled hammie.

An MRI was run on Fabregas on Monday. Wenger thinks he will miss a minimum amount of time.

With that said the Arshavin, Eduardo, and the rest are going to have to step up big time.

It is a must that Walcott, Arshavin, and Eduardo find the back of the net.

Samie Nasri will take Fabregas’s place.

Alex Song will need to have a great match as well.

If not we could get 86 outta the joint.

Wigan’s Hugo Rodallegas well placed volley into the back of the net sent Liverpool packing with a 1-0 defeat at DW Stadium.

This loss by the Reds will surely put a dent in their aspirations for the final Champions League berth.

This was Wigan’s first win EPL win against Liverpool.

This is the Reds nineth loss of the season.

Liverpool drops to sixth place.

Tottenham is in fourth place with 49 points.

Manchester City is in fifth place with 49 points as well but City is a plus 17 while Spurs are a plus 23.

Man City has a game in hand.

Tottenham has played 28 matches will City has played 27.

Let the games begin.

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Mengao can blame the ref for not showing the exit to Botafogo’s Fahel but it all comes down to this. If you waste scoring chances and you play defense like a little old lady you will surely lose.

This is exactly what happened to Flamengo in the semifinals of the Taça Guanabara Wednesday night at Maracana.

Flamengo lost to hated foe Botafogo 2-1. Am I sad?  Does a chicken have lips? Does the Pope shit in the woods?

Give me a break. In a span of ten hours on Wednesday, both of my teams have stunk the joint out.

Arsenal decided to play like Monty Hall and Let’s Make a Deal.  Maybe the Gunners were trying to out do Arsenio Hall. This is what I know for sure. This Keystone Cop routine has to stop.

Maybe Arsenal and the Philadelphia Eagles should join forces and shoot themselves in the foot.

Mengao jumped out to an early 1-0 lead. Rubro-Negro made a great steal in their defensive end of the pitch. In flash Flamengo rammed the ball down the pitch. In a matter of moments, Pacheco beat two defenders. He walked the ball into the back of the net in the 25^thminute to give us Flamenguistas a 1-0 lead.

I thought Jeez, Mengao is sure looking good.

This was not the case. Adriano and Vagner Love wasted at last six scoring opportunities between them.

Waste not want not was what my mother always told me. For if, you waste scoring chances this will come back and bite you in the butt.

This sure did.

Fogao fired a great long ball into the far edge of the box. A header into the goalmouth.  A shot on goal. Blocked by Bruno. Rebound. One timer by Cordeiro into the back of the net. We are all even at one all in the 34^th minute.

Bruno looked like he was making windmills on the rebound shot.

Mengao decided to take a siesta in the long free kick by Botafogo. The ball is perfectly placed near the top edge of the box. A header to Canedo. He literally walks past two Flamengo defenders and a dumb struck Bruno in the 84^thminute to salt this baby away for Botafogo.

Fogao wins 2-1.

Mengao is sent home packing

What a way to ruin a perfectly good Wednesday for me.

It could have been worse.

A sportswriter once asked former Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach John McKay,” How about your teams execution?” McKay replied, “ I am in favor of it.”

Maybe Arsenal’s Arsene Wenger and Flamengo’s Andrade are in favor of their team’s execution as well too.

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What a way to start off the match between Arsenal and Porto. Disaster right from the outset almost killed us.

Give me a heart attack why don’t you Arsenal.

Porto drew first blood in one of the dumbest plays I have ever seen. Gunners keeper Lukasz Fabianski should be shot and quartered for giving up such a cheap goal. Porto sniper Varala fired one of the easiest balls to defend. Jeez, my grandmother could have stopped that shot. She has been dead since 1976.

No, Fabianski lets the ball roll right off his hands and into the back of the next. El dumbo dude.  At the 11^th minute Porto is up 1-0.

I don’t how this goal will be recorded. It could be an own goal by Fabianski or a goal for Varala. We will find out later. However, you score it Fabianski needs his head and hands examined.

I thought here we go again. Not so, fast bucko. Arsenal gets a reprieve.

Fabregas fired a great corner kick near the left post. Rosicky was camped near the right post. The ball went through the goal crease off a deflection. Rosicky one timed the header pass to mate Sol Campbell. Buda Bing. Buda boom. Campbell used his noggin to ram this sucker into the back of the net in the 18^th minute.

We are tied at one all.

Thank God for small favors.

We are at half. It is one all.

Arsene Wenger needs to crawl up Fabianski’s butt and tear him a new one for letting in such a cheap goal.

The guys didn’t quit. We fought back to get the equalizer.

This is huge.

This shows what we are made of.

Arsenal has done it again. Another stupid play by the Gunners has given Porto a 2-1 lead in the 51^st minute. Sol Campbell makes a back pass to keeper Fabianski. This is a no-no. Fabianski flips on the ground. Fabianski turns his back on the play. Porto quickly takes the free kick. Radamel Falco slips the ball into the back of the open net.

Sol Campbell and Fabianski need to shot at dusk for dumb play.

Now do you see what I mean when I say Arsenal is like my loveable Philadelphia Eagles. We find a way to screw up a wet dream.

Way to snatch defeat from jaws of victory guys.

The pain is finally over. Porto wins 2-1 over Arsenal.

It could be worse. It could have been 3-0 or 3-1.

The good news is that we scored the all-important away goal.

The bad news is this. We really need to work on the comedy of errors we committed on the defensive end of the pitch.

The Gunners made the Keystone Cops look a ballet company.

The Gunners Rocky Horror Picture Show will continue at Emirates in two weeks.

Let’s hope we can put the screws down on the defense.

Two goals are all we need and it is on to the quarterfinals.

Please what ever you do don’t, and I repeat don’t give up a goal at home.

I know, as soon as I say it will happen.

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