Archive for January, 2009

Premiership Highlights

Posted by Trix @ 12:00 AM, Friday Jan 30th, 2009

The Premiership is now starting to really hot up with Liverpool, Chelsea and Man Utd all now locked in a 3 way battle to take the championship after another weekend of high drama in the Premiership.

The big game of the weekend came at Old Trafford with Man Utd hosting there latest arch enemy in Chelsea. The game started with both defences well on top until centre half Vidic headed United into a half time lead right on the stroke of the interval (45) then in the 2nd half United really upped the gears and further strikes from Rooney and Berbatov gave Man Utd a comfortable 3-0 win and sent out a deadly warning to their rivals that they are now bang on form and are after the trophy once again.

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Liverpool threw away another two points in their quest for the title for the 1st time in nearly two decades after only drawing 0-0 with relegation battlers Stoke City and it could have been much worse if Stoke City’s strikers remembered where the goal was.
Arsenal got them back in with an outside chance of the title race after a late Bendtner goal gave them all the points over a resolute Bolton Wanderers outfit that if truth be known came here for a point and played like it.

Surprise package Aston Villa carried on their great form this season with a 2-1 derby win over bottom of the table West Brom with both local boy Davies and an own goal from Baggies keeper Carson doing the trick.
Tottenham found themselves back in the relegation places after losing 1-0 to an injury time goal away at Wigan, Hull City carried on their alarming drop down the table going down 2-0 away at Everton and the other two games both ended score draws with Newcastle and West Ham ending 2-2 and Boro and Sunderland finishing their north east derby 1-1.

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Tennis Season (Men)

Posted by Trix @ 12:00 AM, Thursday Jan 15th, 2009

With the Australian open back on our Television sets next month now would be a good time to give the players I think will have a big say in where the silverware will end up this season.

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Australian open
With the start of the Grand slam season due to start on the 4th of January I think this year the title will be fought out on the hard courts at Brisbane between either Nadal, last year’s winner Djokovic and Britain’s Andy Murray. If Nadal is anything like he was last season where he racked up an impressive eight titles including 2 Grand slams and an Olympic Gold then I feel he will add the Australian Open to his already filled up Trophy cabinet.

French Open (Roland Garros)
With Nadal looking unbeatable in Paris over the last few years after collecting title after title I think this will be the year where somebody else gets their hands on the Trophy, but they won’t be any strange hands around the Prize I really do think Roger Federer will win the final over Nadal and reclaim the king of the slow court title.

Wimbledon
With all the British fans hoping Mr Murray can collect his 1st Grand Slam I have a feeling Mr Federer will carry on his form from France and take the biggest prize on the Tennis calendar and once again reclaim the 1st ranked man in the World. Watch this space.

US Open
This could be the one Mr Murray wins, after enjoying his 1st final appearance last year I think he could win this and end all those painful years of not seeing a Brit win anything.

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Foreign Players Good or Bad?

Posted by Trix @ 12:00 AM, Sunday Jan 11th, 2009

With so many foreign players joining clubs up and down the English premiership I ask myself if it really is damaging the English national teams chance at major tournaments like the European Championships or the World Cup.

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World governing body Fifa together with Uefa are both looking at the prospect of having quotas on foreign nationals and are looking to push it through pretty quickly giving the less fashionable clubs a bigger chance of winning trophies and on the whole I think can only be good for the beautiful game of Football.
When you consider the amount of Trophies the top teams in England, Spain and Italy have won in the past 10-20 years due to them being able to outbid all the smaller clubs for the better players it really does make you wonder why the rule was changed in the first place. When we had a maximum of 5 foreigners per side you really did see many teams being able to challenge for honours unlike today where you have the same 3 or 4 clubs battling it out for the major cups year in year out.

Another negative I think it has caused is the amount of lower league teams struggling to stay in the game largely due to financial difficulty and because any good teenager they bring through is immediately pinched for a meagre fee by a bigger club which I think should never be allowed to happen.
So let’s just hope the men at the top get this one right because if they don’t I feel clubs will be going out of existence at an alarming rate.

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