CHAMPIONS: CHELSEA, because of the “Phil-good” factor and balanced, experienced squad.
RUNNERS UP: ARSENAL, because they now have more experience and an even deeper hunger than last year.
THIRD PLACE: MANCHESTER UNITED, because their two key people, the Portuguese, are out: one, to coach Portugal; the other, a modern slave, injured in ankle and spirit.
FOURTH PLACE: LIVERPOOL, because they still don’t get it: not enough black players in their team. You can’t win the league without them. Maybe in the good old days, but not any more.
Last year, someone named Jas gave the correct prediction:
My predictions:
1.Man U(depth of squad and quality of players) 2.Chelsea(quality of players and their resilience -yea, all those late min strikes) 3.Arsenal(i still feel they need 1-2 highly experienced and quality players. Current squad have lots of speed and technical skills) 4.Liverpool(Benitez is still pretty much a master tactician in European games. New big signings unproven in EPL)
What’s yours? Have some fun and give us your predictions.
“I think in football there is too much modern slavery, transferring players or buying players here and there, and putting them somewhere. And we are trying now to intervene in such cases.” -Sepp Blatter .
“It’s true. I agree with what the president of Fifa said. I know what I want and what I would like. We have to see what happens. I do not know where I will begin next season.”-Ronaldo.
Since then all hell has broken loose in the football world. Sepp Blatter, President of FIFA, has a notable penchant of making controversial statements to generate discussion or obtain attention, and usually gets both. Remember his remark that woman footballers should wear tighter shorts, like women volleyball players, so that it will be a more popular sport? That’s vintage Blatter.
So is Ronaldo, likely to be World Footballer of the Year, a modern day slave together with all modern footballers trapped in their contractual employment terms?
It was a father’s day gift and I was delighted when my son bought an Arsenal jersey (the real thing) even though it was last season’s. Yes, I wonder if I will get to wear this with pride at the end of the coming season. It looks like good players are leaving beloved Arsenal and being hunted by huge clubs with offers of huge pay rises, while hardly any exciting players are being bought by Arsene Wenger. The comforting news is that Ronaldo is a big transfer target of Real Madrid, as we all know the cliche’: Real always gets what it wants! Is it better for Ronaldo to move from Man U to Real Madrid? My opinion is yes! yes! yes! yes!yes! why so? Let me give you ten good reasons:
1. He has won everything with Manchester United already: the elusive double of EPL Championship and UEFA Championship. He’s reached the mountaintop. Next challenge is to win the double with another club.
2. Arsenal will have a better chance to win the EPL championship.
3. He gets to leave dreary and damp Manchester and see the sun again.
4. He will save his legs from the English leg-choppers: remember Eduardo!
5. It gives Arsenal a better chance of winning the EPL Championship in the coming season. Manchester United without Ronaldo’s 40 plus goals means second or third.
6. Real Madrid will pay him for what he is really worth.
7. His legs will be fresher for Portugal in the next World Cup because the Spanish league plays less games than the EPL.
8. He can avoid the notorious “hair dryer” treatment of Ferguson. In Real Madrid they will assign him a personal hairdstylist.
9. Rooney will look a better player.
10. Arsenal will have a better chance to clinch the EPL Championship next year.
So Manchester United has won the double…….again. It just doesn’t go down well for the majority of football fans, including me. Fans with Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea. I thought the two Jews at Chelsea would tip the odds in their favor with two equally matched teams. Manchester again. Even with that 1billion pounds debt, we have to admit they were deserving winners and had showcased good attacking play in most of their matches. Hmmm….I wonder when Ferguson will retire. Because it doesn’t look like monsieur Wenger is going to break his budget to put together a championship team next season. So the only hope of Arsenal winning in the next season is for Ferguson to be promoted up to the boardroom, and Chelsea to have three of their star players leave in summer or a new manager appointed.
My fun predictions were right on only one count: Man U to win the Premier League! Its easy to guess who’ll be in the top four. The order is much more difficult. Well, we will have to wait till next season. Meanwhile the only thing interesting enough to get my attention would be transfer news because the European Championship just doesn’t appeal to me without England in it.
The Straits Times featured this piece of news which I thought was a crude and gruesome image of the Barisan Nasional and its ‘unexplained baggages’ that it is carrying into the elections.
The body of a man, suspected to have been murdered, was found in the luggage compartment of a bus carrying a Puteri Umno team to the nomination centre in Semenyih yesterday. The bus driver stumbled upon the unidentified man’s body, bundled in a thin mattress and stuffed into a bag, around 10am when he was checking the luggage compartment after the Puteri delegation had alighted at the Kajang Stadium to join Barisan Nasional supporters accompanying the candidates to the nomination centre. Judging from the injuries on his body, the man could have been murdered more than 48 hours ago, Kajang police said. They believe the death was not connected to the elections.
The painful reality is that despite the skeletons in the BN closet, they will still gain the majority and form the next government. Talk about disenfranchisement and despair! In moments like these I feel grateful for what we have here in this little red dot.
It was sad to hear about what happened in the game at Birmingham. Arsenal should properly grieve over Eduardo’s broken leg, and then channel their anger, shock and sorrow for their Brazilian striker into the remaining games and win the EPL championship for Eduardo. Make this a turning point for their season. They are capable of reprising what Dennis Bergkamp did for them during the recent memorable years.
“The Chinese people were from Akkadia in Mesopotamia and migrated to China overland after the Tower of Babel incident in the Bible.” This fascinating hypothesis or postulation about our Chinese origins is deduced from the Chinese pakua, the circular eight-side diagram, often with a central mirror (or yin-yang symbol) hung over doors of Chinese homes to ward off evil. Read Random Musing post about it HERE.
I still find it hard to believe you can deduce that from the pakua.
Wishing everyone a happy lunar new year and may the mouse, the humble relative of the rat, have its wish fulfilled this year. It is tired of being pushed around!
It was a father’s day gift and I was delighted when my son bought an Arsenal jersey (the real thing) even though it was last season’s. Yes, I wonder if I will get to wear this with pride at the end of the coming season. It looks like good players are leaving beloved Arsenal and being hunted by huge clubs with offers of huge pay rises, while hardly any exciting players are being bought by Arsene Wenger. The comforting news is that Ronaldo is a big transfer target of Real Madrid, as we all
know the cliche’: Real always gets what it wants! Is it better for Ronaldo to move from Man U to Real Madrid? My opinion is yes! yes! yes! yes!yes! why so? Let me give you ten good reasons:
So Manchester United has won the double…….again. It just doesn’t go down well for the majority of football fans, including me. Fans with Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea. I thought the two Jews at Chelsea would tip the odds in their favor with two equally matched teams. Manchester again. Even with that 1billion pounds debt, we have to admit they were deserving winners and had showcased good attacking play in most of their matches. Hmmm….I wonder when Ferguson will retire. Because it doesn’t look like monsieur Wenger is going to break his budget to put together a championship team next season. So the only hope of Arsenal winning in the next season is for Ferguson to be promoted up to the boardroom, and Chelsea to have three of their star players leave in summer or a new manager appointed.
