Don't Jump Off The Roof Dad
Stamford Bridge has seen Chelsea win with a regular monotony this season. The football is not fluent and flowing but it is effective. The players have a superior technical ability to most of their opponents and should therefore be capable of winning without resorting to cheating or outside assistance from the match officials. And yet this is exactly what is happening week in, week out. Yesterday saw two prime examples of this. Firstly, Didier Drogba's second goal was as a direct result of a deliberate handball and should have been disallowed. Whereas their counterparts last week at Fulham had the balls to guess correctly that Drogba had deflected the path of a pass to seek an advantage, the weak-willed Referee and his Assistant did not have suitable position to see this happen nor did they seek to guess that it had happened - mindful no doubt, of the poor publicity that Bully-Boy Mourinho will heap in their direction. To compound this, Rob Styles then gave Distain a second yellow for not giving the ball back to him at half time. What????? Surely Mr Styles is capable of handling a discussion, and it appeared that the Manchester City captain did not raise his voice to the official. Was the Referee really that upset at this attempt to usurp his authority? Surely he is man enough to deal with the failure to give him the ball in a more "manly" manner?
"Give me the ball, Sylvain"
"No - how did you miss the handball?"
"Give me the ball, please"
"No"
"Give me the ball or I'm going to f****** well twat you"
More effective as (a) he'd have got the ball back - all players know assaulting a referee is a sine die ban and (b) the players and crowd would have had more respect for him.
Drogba meanwhile was given about six feet of rope by an interviewer and proceeded to hang himself by admitting that sometimes he dives, a comment he has found particularly difficult to retract despite the best efforts of himself and his club. Whilst one applauds his honesty, it is not an earth - shattering revelation as anyone who has seen his triple salko with pike and double twist routines will attest. The part that gets my goat is the apologists who say that he either didn't understand the question - bullshit - or that he has to do it otherwise the club will suffer when they get into the European competitions - Pat Nevin. Two things - 1) it didn't do them any good in Europe as they were exposed as one dimensional by Barcelona and 2) will the FA ask him to explain his comments or have Chelsea clogged up the intrays of the Disciplinary Committee too much in recent weeks.
Bolton cocked it up today, losing 4 - 3 at 'Boro (as I predicted - smug git of an Ed). All the more galling as they came from 3 - 1 down to level the sccores at 3 - 3 with less than ten minutes to go. It will now take a Herculean effort for them to stay in touch with the race for fourth place with the sequence of games coming up for them being Manchester United (h), Birmingham (a), Liverpool (a) and Chelsea (h). Realistically, they need seven points from those games to stay in touch bearing in mind the matches their opponents face, to even stay in touch. Whilst they have done well this season, progressing well in European and Domestic Cup Competitions but the feeling is that they may have found their natural level in the Premier League at present, with the top four challenge realistically being two or three seasons away unless major investment is made.
Today's Tunes come from The Charlatans who I believe have a new album coming out in April, called Simpatico. You can check this out at their Myspace group, here. It is hard to believe that they have become the most enduring band to emerge from the baggy scene some fifteen years ago but that is testament to the strength of their songwriting and their sterling live performances, a band who I have never seen put in a bad gig in the 15 or so that I have seen over the years. These tracks are taken from their Glastonbury performance in 2002. Enjoy.
Love Is The Key
Then
One To Another
"Give me the ball, Sylvain"
"No - how did you miss the handball?"
"Give me the ball, please"
"No"
"Give me the ball or I'm going to f****** well twat you"
More effective as (a) he'd have got the ball back - all players know assaulting a referee is a sine die ban and (b) the players and crowd would have had more respect for him.
Drogba meanwhile was given about six feet of rope by an interviewer and proceeded to hang himself by admitting that sometimes he dives, a comment he has found particularly difficult to retract despite the best efforts of himself and his club. Whilst one applauds his honesty, it is not an earth - shattering revelation as anyone who has seen his triple salko with pike and double twist routines will attest. The part that gets my goat is the apologists who say that he either didn't understand the question - bullshit - or that he has to do it otherwise the club will suffer when they get into the European competitions - Pat Nevin. Two things - 1) it didn't do them any good in Europe as they were exposed as one dimensional by Barcelona and 2) will the FA ask him to explain his comments or have Chelsea clogged up the intrays of the Disciplinary Committee too much in recent weeks.
Bolton cocked it up today, losing 4 - 3 at 'Boro (as I predicted - smug git of an Ed). All the more galling as they came from 3 - 1 down to level the sccores at 3 - 3 with less than ten minutes to go. It will now take a Herculean effort for them to stay in touch with the race for fourth place with the sequence of games coming up for them being Manchester United (h), Birmingham (a), Liverpool (a) and Chelsea (h). Realistically, they need seven points from those games to stay in touch bearing in mind the matches their opponents face, to even stay in touch. Whilst they have done well this season, progressing well in European and Domestic Cup Competitions but the feeling is that they may have found their natural level in the Premier League at present, with the top four challenge realistically being two or three seasons away unless major investment is made.
Today's Tunes come from The Charlatans who I believe have a new album coming out in April, called Simpatico. You can check this out at their Myspace group, here. It is hard to believe that they have become the most enduring band to emerge from the baggy scene some fifteen years ago but that is testament to the strength of their songwriting and their sterling live performances, a band who I have never seen put in a bad gig in the 15 or so that I have seen over the years. These tracks are taken from their Glastonbury performance in 2002. Enjoy.
Love Is The Key
Then
One To Another
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