football review

These past 2 weeks have been huge for football fans all over the world with the double header in england,the milan derby in italy and the el derby in spain.This is the stuff that football paradise is made of!

As a Chelsea fan,it wasn't particularly a joy for me to watch as the guys lost to wenger's side somewhat undeservedly but lost all the pity they deserved with a shockingly anemic display at ewood park.

From the neutral perspective however,some great football was on display with deep strategic battles all over the pitch at anfield and the emirates in both double header games.It goes without saying that the 3 points were massive in both situations, what with liverpool dropping off the pace 10 points adrift of leaders arsenal.
It's all a strange feeling of deja vu as i see both man-utd and arsenal churning out victories even when they were not playing that well...an oft cited mark of champions in this league.

We all know that the African cup of nations will play a big part in the coming weeks...but just how much arsenal and chelsea would be affected remains to be seen...fergie will certainly be rubbing his hands with glee.One thing that's certain is that pompey are bound to head straight for the mid-table anonimity they are better acquainted with after what amounts to 1/2 of the 1st team head to ghana.

The milan derby did not throw up much surprise in the final result since most watchers expect inter to stroll to the scudetto again this season...what was surprising was how balanced the game itself appeared to be.I frankly expected the agility and youth of inter to overwhelm an aged rossoneri well past its sell-by date...at least liverpool will take some solace in this fact as they prepare to upstage the nerazurri in the knock-out stages of the champs lge.(ancelloti may wanna investigate how dida conveniently misjudged that 2nd goal though)

The el derby was the grandest surprise of them all.Just how Baptista managed to wreck catalan festive celebration is still beyond me.Look at this barca team...with more household names than any other team in the world,yet they've been turning out some dismal results of late.All is not well at the Nou camp and they need to call an inquest.Ronaldinho was not even going to start this one...and what was yaya toure doing in the starting line up??If he's that good then it may confirm a popular notion that other african teams are merely going to accra to watch the ivoreans crowned african champs in february.

I wish y'all a merry xmas and a prosperous,happy new year.For football fans,it promises to be a bumper package of african cup of nations,knock-out stages of champs lge,premiership photo finish and the european cup (minus england!).

Bring it on.