Hark, Doest Football Calleth Me?

Friends and neighbors, gather round!! The football season is drawing nigh. This Sunday past, scousers rejoiced as John Arne Riise’d to the occasion and slotted home a cracker of a shot while Peter the Bean Stalk chopped down the Chav giants and brought Liverpool the win. If you failed to follow all of that, last Sunday was the Community Shield, which is a charity pre-season match between League champs (Chelsea) and FA Cup winners (Liverpool). For the first time in many years, Arsenal was not featured in the match, but I watched it anyway as it is a sign that the season is about to start.


Before the match even began, Mourinho was getting in his excuses early by stating that the team wasn’t really ready or fit. True or not, ‘pool came out and were all over the ball. In the 9th minute, Riise collected the ball from a Chelsea kick near his own 18 yard box and sprinted the length of the pitch before unloading a powerful shot that skipped below Cudicini. Sheva leveled for the Chavs just before the half on a nice 1v1 with GK Reina. The Reds continued to dominate the match and got a goal from Crouch who headed in the cross from new signing Craig Bellamy. As an Arsenal man, I can only get so excited, but it was great to see the billionaire’s boys lose.

On Saturday in the Championship, Plymouth won (3-2) on the road again as they defeated Sunderpants in the Stadium of Blight. Niall Quinn is not having much luck and the Black Cats are 0-0-3. But Plymouth with this win are currently in 3rd position with 7 points (2-1-0). Not a bad start and Holloway reflected on Sunderpants poor performance:

"I said at half-time that I wouldn't want to be in the other dressing room. The fans weren't happy and there was a lot of negativity out there."


Gaelic Football quarterfinals were shown last night on the good old Setanta, though they cut off the last minute of the Mayo v. Laois match! Arggh! The match was close the entire time and when the nitwit in charge of programming switched to an advert for the upcoming Prem season, Laois was up 0-15 to 0-14 with Mayo in possession of the ball and heading to score. And score they did, tying the match and forcing a replay. The other match was Dublin v. Westmeath and the Dubs had a fairly easy win scoring 1-12 to Westmeath’s 0-5. The semifinals are coming up soon.

In hurling, the season is almost over (timing was never my strong point) with Kilkenny and Cork preparing to go head to head for the third time in four seasons in Croke Park on September 3rd. I’ll be pulling for Kilkenny only because some friends of mine who own a pub in Miami Beach are from there and they gave me lots of free pints!!

Adios for today