relegation
Sunday, February 25, 2007
The difference in class. This could see who actually gets relegated from the English Premier League. Yesterday's match that saw Charlton host West Ham told us about both situation and desire to stay in the Premiership. Charlton thrashed West Ham 4-0. This really suggested that Charlton had much more desire to win than West Ham. They might not have the edge over the player-to-player quality difference, but they had a team that was ready to fight for everything. Charlton had the desire to go for every ball. West Ham have great individual talents in Carlos Tevez, Yossi Benayoun and Anton Ferdinand, but they did not have a good enough team, and good enough team play to grind out the result.
Sheffield United are another team down near the bottom. They battled hard for most of the season, unlucky not to move up the table. They won Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 a week or so back, after going a goal behind. They have battling players who would scrap everything. Even though they lost 4-0 to Liverpool yesterday night, they showed that they would compete even when they were losing.
West Ham, contrary, cannot buy a win at the moment. Losing 1-0 to Watford was not bad enough, losing 4-0 to Charlton was worse. A 4-0 lost to Arsenal for any of the bottom 5 teams would not be a bad result, but to Charlton? It's very bad and tells you how bad their position is.
West Ham have to buck up and play as a battling team, not a talented creative attacking force.
Bye~!
my thoughts at 11:56 am
smart
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Damn smart... Really! Damn smart. CHS is just so smart... That I'll probably get owned during examinations if CHS was actually a student... If you got what I meant. Well here's the thing. CHS is situated in Bishan. The majority of students, in "theory", lives near the school and maybe around Bishan, with a minority living through the far reaches of Singapore, taking so much time to get to school. Back to the point, so here's the real deal, for the past 2 years CHS's Cross-Country had been held at MacRitchie Reservoir. Not a bad place to held some running event, easy to get there and come back for most... If "theory" is true.
This year they happily come and say it is going to be held at Bishan Park. Well it just made most of us very much happier cost its relatively much nearer than MacRitchie Reservoir. So then suddenly, the Cross-Country goes to Turf City. What a pleasant place for some mass runs and competitions! Nice place remote from most of where the majority live in, for us to run and sweat out everything. Nice... Very good idea.
Why can't the Cross-Country stay at MacRitchie Reservoir? Why must they force all of us to go down to Turf City to run? And we must get there ourselves... How cheap not to even have buses to get us there. It's not like I'm criticizing or anything, but it should have been sorted out much better. Going to Turf City just turns everyone off, so if some do not turn up, don't fully blame them, blame ...-else.
Bring it back somewhere closer to Bishan, where the school is situated... Joke.
Bye~!
my thoughts at 7:19 pm
yay
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Yay!!! Happy Chinese New Year!!! Well it's a little early, like around less than 15 more minutes to go before the clock strikes midnight. But... You'll probably read this only around next morning or after midnight.
Have a nice Chinese New Year... And that collect lots of
angbao.
Haha...Bye~!
my thoughts at 11:43 pm
money
Friday, February 09, 2007
Well I was reading on Wikipedia on the 2005 Champions League final, where Liverpool won 4-2 on penalties after coming back from 3-0 down at half time to 3-3. I just realised that the amount spent on that Liverpool squad was very little, compared to the amount spent these days, by the likes of ... and the rest. You should know which team I'm talking about. Here's the Liverpool squad.:
First XI:
1. Jerzy Dudek (GK)
3. Steve Finnan
4. Sami Hyypia
23. Jamie Carragher
21. Djimi Traore
6. John Arne Riise
14. Xabi Alonso
8. Steven Gerrard
10. Luis Garcia
7. Harry Kewell
5. Milan Baros
Substitutions:
11. Vladimir Smicer (on 23')
16. Dietmar Hamann (on 46')
9. Djibril Cisse (on 85')
Unused Substitutes:
20. Scott Carson (GK)
17. Josemi
18. Antonio Nunez
25. Igor Biscan
Here's the thing... You see the amount spend on these players. Jerzy Dudek cost a little more than £3 million. Right-back Steve Finnan and John Arne Riise costs only about more than £7 million. Jamie Carragher was a youth academy product, Sami Hyypia and Djimi Traore combined cost is around £1 million. The much more expensive ones, Spaniards Xabi Alonso and Luis Garcia, combined cost were £18 million. Steven Gerrard was another youth academy product. Harry Kewell and Milan Baros combined cost was a little more than £6 million.
Substitutes Vladimir Smicer, Dietmar Hamann and Djibril Cisse all cost £16 million. Dietmar Hamann was crucial and changed the complexity of the game completely when he came on. Unused substitutes Scott Carson costs £1million. Josemi and Igor Biscan combined cost was £7 million. Antonio Nunez was part-exchange when Michael Owen went to Real Madrid.
The total cost of this squad was £59 million. Chelsea used that much money to acquire only two players, Portuguese defender Ricardo Carvalho and current misfiring Ukrainian striker Andriy Shevchenko. Two players' cost now was the cost of 18 players. I know that now since two billionaires have taken over Liverpool, the club might spend a lot in the transfer market in the future. But think about it, is
too much money ruining the beautiful game?
Bye~!
my thoughts at 7:57 pm
embarrasing
Thursday, February 08, 2007
England losing again to Spain, 1-0 this time. Well I have to say that Andres Iniesta goal was superb, but what was the England defence doing at the goal. More puzzling is that, Jamie Carragher was brought on for the long-untested Jonathan Woodgate... after the goal!
See... England should just drop... Frank Lampard and Peter Crouch. Frank Lampard can only shoot so hard and pass normally. Any midfielder can do that, Joey Barton can, Kieron Dyer can. Steven Gerrard is much more dynamic... He at least is
MUCH MUCH more versatile. He can play left, right, or center of midfield; or left or right full-back. Frank Lampard can only play
ONE position, center midfield, such a hassle for any England manager. Drop Frank, get Joey or Owen to fill in behind Steven Gerrard and get Aaron Lennon to play on the right flank.
Drop Peter Crouch. Wayne Rooney should have a better partner in maybe Jermaine Defoe, Andy Johnson or Darren Bent, all have pace and Bent have a little extra, which is the dynamic nature of his play. Theo Walcott can also play with his
uber pace. With so much pace with Wayne Rooney, he can play around the pacey strike partner.
Get better England! Or bye bye Euro 2008 for you!
Bye~!
my thoughts at 4:54 pm
jokes
Friday, February 02, 2007
Well... What an eventful last supposedly 10 minutes, or should I say 30 minutes delay time??? Singapore vs Thailand game showed the lack of professionalism in ASEAN football. The Thais walked off in protest over a controversial decision by the Malaysian referee. Some might think the Thais were rightfully so to do such a thing. But I pose you this question.:
For all the games you have seen in the English Premier League or other leagues, when a penalty had been given wrongly, do you see players like Jordan Stewart of Watford, their captain, asking his players to walk off? Or do you see in the past Lucas Neill captaining his Blackburn side, to protest by walking off the pitch? Would you have seen Singapore walk off if the situation had happened at Singapore's penalty area? All the answers... N-O No.
The lack of professionalism and character "shone" through Singapore's opponents in that Final First Leg and utterly disgraced not only ASEAN but Asian football on the whole. Everyone else in the world who had bothered to watch the match would have looked away in disguise. So please, get your act together and stop walking off the field over a controversial decision, and thus stalling the game for 20 minutes. It was not like Thailand were 4-0 down and could have gone 5-0 if Singapore had their penalty scored. It was only 2-1 and there was a return leg!
Well next week's the common test and we would all be busy
mugging and studying for these tests. Hopefully we'll all do well for it.
Liverpool, I hope, will have revenge against Everton by winning them by a huge margin like how the Blue side of Merseyside embarrassed Liverpool earlier in the season. So hopefully Dirk Kuyt, Steven Gerrard, Craig Bellamy, Peter Crouch and a 40-yard Xabi Alonso specialty would seal a revengeful 5-0 win for Liverpool.
Haha... Hopefully
lor.
Bye~!
my thoughts at 11:36 pm