Unbelievable – Chelsea have had just once convincing performance and that too against the “mighty” West Brom and still they have full 12 points. First the game against Wigan when the newly promoted side had the champs on the mat only for a stroke of genius by Hernan Cresp to give the Blues full points with virtually last kick of the game. I’ve never felt sadder at a non-Liverpool loss considering the effort the newbies had put in that day. Then Drogba with that flukest of all flukes (whatever that means) to win the game against Arsenal. And Duff’s goal against Spurs today – a complete mis-kick going in when Spurs had Chelski under a lot of pressure and threatened to equalize. Does the bucketful of oil money come with truckloads of luck as well? Argh whatever.
Meanwhile we’ve played two “thankless” games. First the CSKA Sofia game at Anfield in which the finishing was awful from what I read. Anyways the tie was in the bag and it’s just like last season, losing at that stage and, like Rafa pointed out, we all know where our Champions League journey finished last year. So it’s a bit of an omen – of course I’m being optimistic but that’s just because:
a) I didn’t see the game.
b) I don’t like to be overly critical of anyone related to LFC.
Then the meaningless Super Cup – all we got out of the game was see Carra lift his first trophy as a captain and 1 game suspensions for a couple of our guys – if I heard the guy(s?) on the telly correctly late last night. Man I need to get my TV connection fixed – I had to concentrate so darn hard to make sense of the proceedings – the reception was (is) that bad – nothing wrong with the set itself (I hope!). Damn you cable guy. Been flirting with thoughts of getting DTH installed but until they get the Star package (Zee owns DishTV so no Star channels) it makes little sense – no it isn’t for the daily dose of Baas and Bahus but for Monday night comedies (it’s been ages since I watched them – are you still on the telly Doctors Becker and Crane?) and Movies. Anyways word on the street is Star (Hathway) and Tata are about to launch their own DTH service as well. We should see them reach an agreement about carrying each other’s channels then. So I’m at the cable guy’s mercy till then.
Back to the game, looked like I was watching what I’d read about the previous game, happen for real. Despite being the better side we never looked like scoring – until Cisse came on. Got a lucky break with the first one (finally some luck coming our way!!) but did well to finish the second off the rebound and then set up Garcia for the third with a pin-point cross. There were some cold vibes between him and Rafa during the match from what I read today – much worse than what I’d noticed during the match myself (TV to be blamed again?). As much as I would like to see Owen back there’s no way in hell should we have to sell Cisse to see that happen – where the heck is all the money for the CL win if it’s come to selling Cisse for financial reasons. Set aside for the new stadium? Used to pay off old debts? Questions that’ll be answered in the next 5 days for sure. I’m hoping for 3 arrivals during that time and if any striker has to depart it shouldn’t be Cisse. Enough said.
PS – There were chants of “There’s only one Michael Owen” at the game last night during the time it looked we couldn’t get a goal for money or luck (yes luck). Until the Lord of the Manor of Frodsham came to the party.
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