This week in football

Good day eh? This week in football, Chelsea lose to Corinthians, Ferguson strikes back, and Falcao faces off with Messi.

Well, the hope for Torres is gone. Wasn't that gone a lone time ago?, you might ask. Yea, I probably should've given up, but after scoring 5 goals in 3 games, I thought maybe... just maybe? But no. I should've known. It's one thing to score against Nordsjaelland, Sunderland and Monterrey. But he can't score in the big games. He is not a quality striker. However thin our midfield is, and inexperienced or old our back line is, Torres is the only reason why we aren't at the top of the table, and why today we weren't hoisting the trophy. He needs to go. That is the number one priority in the transfer window. Not to buy Falcao, but to find someone stupid enough to buy Torres. Although buying Falcao would be very nice. More about him latter. I was pleased however, because Benitez is trying David Luiz in the midfield. It makes sense. He provides the long balls that Torres loves, and also brings a more defensive, physical presence. He would be great there. So why didn't he play there today, against a physical Corinthians? Sometimes these decisions that the managers make baffle me.

While I speak of Falcao, I have the t.v. turned to the Atletico and Barca game. Radamael just hit a beautiful header of the post, and I have begun to think of how wonderful he could be at Chelsea. Then I think of how good Torres was at Liverpool. Maybe instead of setting record transfer and wages fees, Abrahomvic should take some advice from my favorite baseball-turned-soccer expert, Billy Beane, and play the so called "Moneyball". Save the expenses and buy a player of just as good quality for half the price. Maybe you won't have a man called the plain "50 million pound man." Not a bad idea uh?

Sick Goals

I will not be posting about the premier league weekend today, as I am recovering from a shocking loss by Chelsea at the hands of the traitor Steve Clarke and West Brom. Instead, let's watch some sublime goals.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic. That's all that needs to be said.

See the above post.

I, after watching the above video in total awe, realized how stinking incredible Ronaldinho was, or should I say is, because he does play for Atletico Mineiro. He was both a scorer of great goals and a great goal scorer. Besides that, it's so much fun to watch him show up his opponents, going back to his old futsal and street ball days in Brazil.

  It's so much fun just to watch all these classic, career defining goals. And these are just the tip of the iceberg, with each of the persons included on the video have many more great goals that are just waiting to be shown off.

I just had to include a Didier Drogba video. You know me by now.

Never grow up my friends.

The video is good. The background music that sounds like the nyan cat is not good.

Have fun watching the video's.

Chelsea vs. Manchester United recap

The Blues and Reds again faced off this weekend, with many Chelsea fans coming out of the game with many complaints. The refereeing overshadowed some beautiful goals by Robin Van Persie and Juan Mata; in other places, the scene was repeated, with Luis Suarez robbed of a winner in the Merseyside Darby and QPR losing points because of a clearly offside Mikel Arteta goal.

The game started bad early for Chelsea, with Robin Van Persie scoring a pair of goals withing the first fifteen minutes. The last fifteen minutes of the first half were dominated by Chelsea, and finally Juan Mata drained a beautiful free kick in the 44th minute to half the deficit. Fernando Torres caught a break just seconds later when he came in high on Tom Cleverly, getting only a yellow card. In the 53rd minute, Oscar put a cross back into the box for Ramires to head home the equaliser. Then, in the 63rd minute, the fun, or robbery of Blues fans, began. Ivanovic brought down an on goal Ashley Young, and was sent off for stopping a clear goal scoring opportunity. But that wasn't were the injustice started. When Torres was sent off for his second yellow for diving in the 69th minute. Getting sent off for diving is weak to start, but it was especially weak. It just didn't seem like it could even be worthy for a first yellow card, much less a match ending one. Now, with the West Londoners down two men, the Red Devils took the offensive. Only 6 minutes later, Javier Hernandez redirected a Rafael shot to score what eventually would be the game winner. But the key was that he was offside; he was even behind Petr Cech. The injustice was too great even for me; if there hadn't been other people watching the game with me, I would have turned the t.v. off. The game really ended there, as a 9 mine Chelsea couldn't hope to score against a 11 man United.

Now, a day after the game, Chelsea has filed complaints against referee Mark Clattenburg on the grounds that he racially abused John Obi Mikel and Juan Mata. It may seem like a bunch of vengance, but you can never know. See you next time.