Let the season truly begin!!

Even though the season has begun long back and teams have played 3/4 matches each, the real season cannot begin till the transfer window closes and the shape of the teams becomes crystallized. This especially goes for the teams like Portsmouth who bought around 13 players in the window and sold around 11. So after major [...]

Man Utd 1 Arsenal 0

Another lame match at display in the first leg of the second semi finals of the Champions league.
Man utd started out all attacking and had a chance just after 2 minutes as Almunia was forced to make a fully stretched save.
Man Utd took the lead from a somewhat unlikely scorer in John O’Shea as he [...]

Arsenal v Manchester United Semi Final no. 2!!!

A wonder strike from the World’s best footballer helped Manchester United become the first English side to beat Porto at home and go through to the Semi Final of the Champions league.
The Red devils slayed the dragons in their own home ground after Ronaldo scored a stunning strike from all of 40 yards to give [...]

Barcelona v Chelsea semifinal it is then!!!

What an amazing game of football did we see last night… Chelsea were caught napping in the first half to go down by 2 goals and almost give the Kops a chance to go through…
Gus Hiddink must have had some magic words to say to his team at half time coz the chelsea that turned [...]

Barcelona v Chelsea Semi Final!!!

Another Splendid night of European Football…
Barcelona – Bayern Munich:  4-0
Barcelona thrashed Bayern for 4-0 at home..That went right with my prediction… The tie is all done now and beyond Bayern’s reach.
Bayern were caught napping in the first half as Barca started scoring for fun.  It was as if Bayern defense did not do any homework [...]

Champions League Quarter finals: – Arsenal 1-1 :-), Manchester United 2-2 :-(

Well. What a night of football we have seen…
Arsenal looked out of sorts in the first half and conceded the lead to Villareal through a great Marcos Senna goal. They then lost their Goal-Keeper Almunia and Centre half Gallas too. How do they respond to this? In an all out attacking strategy for the [...]

Marouane Fellaini: proving to be one hell of a good signing for Everton

More has been written about his poor disciplinary record and his weird hair-do’s.

Weird Hair-do’s of Fellaini

But people seem to forget the immediate impact the youngster has made on Everton and the premiership in general.
I was wondering what to write about when it struck me that more bad has been written about this poor lad who [...]

Football Manager 09: – second coming continued

 To continue with more on the team I am currently managing in the FM 09 series. I have attached some pics of the various aspects of the game. Hope the same are helpful to you all… 

Secured job as of now…and why not with 5 titles each in the last 2 seasons…

Great potential coming [...]

Football Manager 09: – Second Coming

Since my earlier post on FM 09 received such positive response, I have decided to write more Football Manager 2009 related posts on my blog…
So here’s an update on the game I have been playing. I had chosen to Manage Manchester United at the start of the 2008-09 season. Been two seasons at the club [...]

Champions League Quarter Final draws are out!!!

Arsenal and Manchester United were handed relatively easy ties against Villareal and Porto while Liverpool face off Chelsea and Barcelona go against German giants Bayern Munich.
Below is a table depicting the dates and the home and away teams from the UEFA website:

UEFA Champions League quarter-finals

1st leg: 07/08 April; 2nd leg: 14/15 April 

1
Villarreal CF (ESP)
v
Arsenal FC [...]

Things seem to be looking bright for Arsenal…Finally!!!

Arsenal defeated Hull city 2-1 yesterday night to go through to the FA cup semi final. Before that they defeated Blackburn comprehensively to regain the coveted 4th place and qualification for the Champions League. Also just a few days earlier they defeated FC Roma on penalties in the knock out stages of the Champions league [...]

Vidic & co. let the devils down

It was a sorry scoreline and a sorry performance for Manchester United against Liverpool. I mean this is a team that might have had the most 1-0 victories of the last two seasons. And after scoring the first goal off a Ronaldo penalty I was sure they’d seal the match off even if they didnt score [...]

Manchester United manage to keep cool “Heads”

It was a typical European night of Football. The match kept dilly dallying from one end of the pitch to another. Manchester United settled the initial nerves when Vidic scored the opening goal. Despite the first goal Man united looked far from the convincing side which outplayed Mourinho’s Inter all over the pitch in the [...]

Whether Manchester United should buy Tevez or not?

This question would have come in Sir Alex Fergusons mind many a times this season especially after spending more than 30 million pounds on Berbatev in the summer who essentially plays at the same position.
Well if someone were to ask me, i would say, yes definitely.
Tevez was stupendous for Manchester United in their double last [...]

EPL Results & Review (4th & 5th October 2008)

Like i had told in my preview to the weekends big 4 clashes none of the matches was a cakewalk for either of the big 4’s.
One had a easy victory, one needed a slice of luck (liberal refreeing), one needed to fight back with all they had till the very last minutes of the game [...]

EPL weekend Preview 04th October 2008

This is going to be a crucial weekend for a lot of EPL teams more so for Arsenal and Manchester United who are trailing behind in the league of Big four than Liverpool and Chelsea who are sitting comfortably at the top of the table.
Chelsea though face an injury crisis before the tie agaisnt their [...]

Champions League Matches (30th Sep 2008)

Arsenal came back to their goal-scoring form by defeating Porto by a solid 4 goals. Arsenal opened the match in a state which can best be called nervousness with the Porto players hitting the bar and being denied by a clearance off the line. This could have been attributed to Arsenal’s defeat last weekend to [...]