Good Lord, the midweek Premier League games couldn’t have been more disappointing for me. I’m so very tired of Spurs spurning every opportunity to make a run at fourth, especially when it’s against poor opposition. I can honestly say my hopes never rose while Spurs occupied their top three/four spot, and that’s because they’ve always been, always are, and always will be vulnerable against teams like Stoke and Wolves. No matter how dire the opposition, Tottenham can find a way to be worse.
Chelski’s stumble against Everton doesn’t cheer me up either. I’m first and foremost ABA (Anyone But Ars*nal), and secondly ABU (Anybody But United). In the first part of the week I was somewhat pleased by the media rounding on Arsene Whinger, pointing out quite rightly that Ars*nal have been also-rans for many seasons now and have hardly had a whiff of silverware. Scribes all ’round the planet wrote Ars*nal out of the title race after Sunday’s capitulation to the Russians, yet the midweek catastrophe has (allegedly) kept them in the hunt. We. Shall. See.
There has been much hullabaloo this season about how me might finally see someone crack the top four, considering Liverpool’s poor form and the strengthening of Villa, Spurs, and Man Citeh. Frankly, I never really bought in to this line and figured that the top four would be the top four again only slightly shuffled (don’t believe me? look here). To add to this, I’m not sure any of these pretenders could a) qualify for the group stage of the Champions League, and b) get out of the group stage of the Champions League, which sort of makes me wonder what’s the point. Besides the millions and millions of dollars of course.
Any neutral would tell you that European leagues need a salary cap but that’s never going to happen. A European Super League, featuring the top few from each of the major leagues, seems far more likely. As the rich continue to get richer and no teams can seem to be able to break into the ranks of contenders (see the likes of Sevilla and Valencia in Spain) I feel like it’s all getting quite boring.
Or maybe I’m just old and crabby.
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Sadly, I think the only reason the media turned on Whinger is because Michael Ballack gave them cover. They could write the ‘Arsenal are shite’ pieces they’ve wanted to write for the past five years without going out on a limb.
An interesting parallel: we seem ever closer to adding a new top tier to European club football (because they need more money to continue spending at their current rate) at the same time that calls to de-professionalize League Two (because they need more money to continue spending at their current rate) have intensified.
Did you see the tackle that Landon Donovan put on Ashley Cole? Ashley broke his ankle. I didn’t see it so I don’t know if it was of the cheap shot variety or not!
Can’t say that Landon hasn’t made an impact after this incident!
That certainly isn’t going to help Chelski down the stretch!
Dad