This World Cup will feature most games at unearthly hours. Sleep is the preferred choice everytime. However that does not deter me from using my analytical skills for fun. So one evening, with a New Straits Times centerfold, and with a leg over the armchair in Hilton Hotel Petaling Jaya, I figured out who will [...]
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My thoughts about Arsenal this season
(source: dailymail.co.uk)
“Dear, don’t bother to come home”
I have followed English football since I was in secondary school. I was even in Bolton, England. The closest I got to a football match was shopping at Tesco under the Reebok Stadium. My daughter Elaine does not follow football. She asks the odd question and get answers from me (Arsenal fan), Joshua (Chelsea fan), [...]
Off to Manchester for a semester
My daughter Elaine went to stay with my wife’s sister and husband, Amy and Mike in Bolton, England. This is the coldest in England in perhaps two decades. All of us are going to miss her but she is all wrapped up in warm comfort and care.
She will be an exchange student in the University [...]
Arsenal’s search for new striker can end here!
Arsene Wenger says he is shopping for a striker in the January window. They have to buy because Van Persie is injured and will be out for several months. They need a central striker who is able to hold the ball with his back to the goal. I have found the striker that Arsenal needs [...]
How will this EPL season pan out?
My prediction has gone awry. In August my prediction of the English Premier League 09/10 was: first, Chelsea; second, Liverpool; third, Manchester United; and fourth, Arsenal.
My prediction of champions still look formidable: physically, technically, tactically and as a team. Best in Europe right now: Chelsea.
Liverpool has surprisingly unravelled quicker than expected. Who would have known [...]
How I became an Arsenal fan
I have been an Arsenal fan for ten years now. But it was not so before. When I was in Swiss Cottage Secondary School, I was a Derby County fan and then a Nottingham Forest fan. I liked manager Brian Clough and followed wherever he went except for his Leeds blip. He brought the [...]
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