Weekend Of Sport #1
First in a new series of Monday posts on the preceding weekend's sport and in this first post I shall be giving my opinions on the two football matches of the weekend plus the weird celebrations of the British 4x100m Relay Team.
Manchester United 3 - Sevilla 0
In the last of Manchester United's pre-season matches, it was a team devoid of Scholes and Rooney as they are likely to miss the first match(es) due to bans. We were also missing Gary Neville, Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic due to injuries, so the team on display was likely to be the same, give or take the odd change, as the one that will face Fulham on Sunday.
The game was fairly boring, truth be told... United showing the more creative edge, but failing to produce solid results until the second half with Saha, Ronaldo and David Jones scoring the three goals.
The highlight for me was seeing David Jones score his first goal for United of pre-season and I am hoping he'll get his fair share of first team opportunities this year.
Liverpool 2 - Chelski 1
Obviously I'm not a fan of either side, but you have to watch the first competitive match of the year really, don't you... I wished I hadn't as it was pretty dull. Riise scoring first was most amusing and also very heartening to see the Chelski defence in the worst state I've seen it for Crouch's winner... hopefully their form will continue into the premiership season as well.
I liked the comments of Mourinho too... "oh it was only a pre-season match, so we'll be happy with that..." get out of it, Jose! Your boys were rubbish!!
European Athletics
This is my main grumble of the weekend... for years I've been griping about the state of the British sprint scene and this weekend highlighted my main grievances with them. Darren Campbell and Mark Lewis Francis are two of the biggest underachievers in athletics... all they do is big up their own abilities and fail to deliver. They demand respect they claim is due to them and yet they fail to show how. This weekend showed a new low for Campbell though... the team win the 4x100 relay and Campbell decides not to do a lap of honour as a protest at Dwain Chambers' inclusion in the squad after his doping ban. Personally, I like Chambers even after that, but I can understand his point. However, to say he's not a hypocrite and wouldn't celebrate with his team-mates, but then to go and collect his medal? To me that makes him the biggest hypocrite of all. If you want to make a point you have to stick to your guns... you can't have your cake and eat it, Darren. You should have boycotted the medal presentation as well. Instead you undermined your own argument and made yourself more of a turkey than you were before.
Manchester United 3 - Sevilla 0
In the last of Manchester United's pre-season matches, it was a team devoid of Scholes and Rooney as they are likely to miss the first match(es) due to bans. We were also missing Gary Neville, Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic due to injuries, so the team on display was likely to be the same, give or take the odd change, as the one that will face Fulham on Sunday.
The game was fairly boring, truth be told... United showing the more creative edge, but failing to produce solid results until the second half with Saha, Ronaldo and David Jones scoring the three goals.
The highlight for me was seeing David Jones score his first goal for United of pre-season and I am hoping he'll get his fair share of first team opportunities this year.
Liverpool 2 - Chelski 1
Obviously I'm not a fan of either side, but you have to watch the first competitive match of the year really, don't you... I wished I hadn't as it was pretty dull. Riise scoring first was most amusing and also very heartening to see the Chelski defence in the worst state I've seen it for Crouch's winner... hopefully their form will continue into the premiership season as well.
I liked the comments of Mourinho too... "oh it was only a pre-season match, so we'll be happy with that..." get out of it, Jose! Your boys were rubbish!!
European Athletics
This is my main grumble of the weekend... for years I've been griping about the state of the British sprint scene and this weekend highlighted my main grievances with them. Darren Campbell and Mark Lewis Francis are two of the biggest underachievers in athletics... all they do is big up their own abilities and fail to deliver. They demand respect they claim is due to them and yet they fail to show how. This weekend showed a new low for Campbell though... the team win the 4x100 relay and Campbell decides not to do a lap of honour as a protest at Dwain Chambers' inclusion in the squad after his doping ban. Personally, I like Chambers even after that, but I can understand his point. However, to say he's not a hypocrite and wouldn't celebrate with his team-mates, but then to go and collect his medal? To me that makes him the biggest hypocrite of all. If you want to make a point you have to stick to your guns... you can't have your cake and eat it, Darren. You should have boycotted the medal presentation as well. Instead you undermined your own argument and made yourself more of a turkey than you were before.
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