The United v Chelsea game was really quite entertaining. Chelsea seemed to raise their game pretty well and had some decent chances...although their creaky defence creaked and leaked and United took full advantage. Both Smalling and Jones seem to have some kind of positional schizophrenia, which makes them think they are both defenders and strikers/wingers all at once. Whats great is they seem to be able to do both at once pretty brilliantly too. Nani also decided to have one of his good days, scoring a quite amazing goal and generally showing why it makes it so frustrating when he inevitably then falls over or puts a free kick into the car-park or turns up with his boots on the wrong feet. Hopefully those days are behind him, and he seems to have developed nicely. Still looks like a shit Thriller-era MJ impersonator though. The best entertainment in this game though, came in the second half when Fernando Torres showed where the millions went, by not just missing an open goal from about 2 yards, but putting it about 8 miles wide of the post. I have honestly never heard a whole pub full of people (supporters of several different clubs as well) applaud and cheer a fuck-up before during a game and it would have been made even sweeter had he not scored quite a good goal earlier in the half.
City had earlier dropped points by throwing away a two goal lead at Fulham, provided of course by Aguero, who, along with Silva, seems to be the sole reason City have had the start they've had. It seems to have been overlooked that these two have been responsible for nearly everything good the team has done so far. And also, every time I watch City, its striking just how many really really boring players they have. Barry, Milner, Lescott et al are all talented, perfectly good players, but they're just so fucking mundane and dull looking that its impossible to imagine them ever having any real success. They've even dragged Adam Johnson down with them, at Middlesbrough he looked genuinely exciting, and in his first few England games too. Now he's just another bland City midfielder, who looks like a composite of every man you've ever seen. Oh well, fair play to Fulham for getting a point though, they must have been expecting an arse-kicking and had a game last Thursday in the Nohoper League.
Elsewhere, Spurs also shrugged off any lethargy and stuck four past what was left of Liverpool's team after Adam and Skrtel decided they couldn't be doing with trying to keep Bale and Modric at bay and fancied a pint or something instead, so tried to take a big chunk out of some Spurs players' legs.
Also, on Saturday, Neil Warnock's hastily assembled team of rejects and misfits seemed to finally come good and won 3-0. Now, as much as i dislike Warnock, and the way QPR have thrown cash about, they are, or were, a pretty big team and boasted some great, and interesting players. Wright-Phillips, the other Ferdinand, and of course Barton seem to fit there, especially Joey Barton, who now sports a haircut that makes him look like he should be on death row in Louisiana for doing something nasty and racist (ironic really) But good luck to them, and i'm starting to hope they stay up. Barton's not a patch on Stan Bowles though. A good result too for David Mo(y)eSyslazk's remnants of a football team, and a very very bad one for Arsene Wenger (look out for that name on the appointments list at your local job centre pretty soon), as ArsenLOL shipped 4 goals, mainly due to their own flailing limbs and lack of any co-ordination whatsoever.This week sees the competition we've all been waiting for kick into gear with the third round of the Carling Cup. My money's on Brighton to pull off not-much-of-a-shock and dump Liverpool out, if the Scousers can finish the game with the required amount of players on the pitch.
This week's football-based reading: 'The Greatest Footballer You Never Saw" all about Robin Friday, who is quite possibly my new hero...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Friday
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