Friday, May 28, 2004
Warning: Football related
I'm calling it now - next year's Premiership will be the most exciting in years. Arsenal are only going to get better, the boy Reyes will settle in, see you later time for dross like Wiltord and Kanu (urgh, Kanu...) and there may be a couple of new fellas coming aboard. There's also no way that Manchester United will be as poor as they were this season. Ronaldo is moving from show pony to showman and again, the squad will be strengthened. (Time for Djemba Djemba to show his class...) Chelsea... I was hoping for some Del Bosque figure who would wear a tracksuit, smoke fags and lazily perform some keepy-ups as he wandered around the training ground amongst a load of overpaid superstars nursing their hangovers. However, I'm completely converted. Instead it looks like they'll be a tightly controlled, ruthlessly efficient outfit under a manager who *already* has a feud with Ferguson and he hasn't even managed in England yet. I looking forward to them remorselessly eking out 1-0 wins over the other big teams and sticking 5 past the poorer ones. Liverpool might actually be half decent too, if they get the right coach (the right man is Benitez. Case closed.). Even that diabolical marriage of O'Leary and Aston Villa should consolidate and do well. So: a tight three (maybe four) horse race next seaon. And they could all do something in Europe too. A couple of inspired/funny signings - Carlos to Chelsea? would have been brilliant but not sure how it'd work under Mourinho - and we've got ourselves a golden year waiting to happen. And Beckham should stay at Madrid. Obviously.
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I'm calling it now - next year's Premiership will be the most exciting in years. Arsenal are only going to get better, the boy Reyes will settle in, see you later time for dross like Wiltord and Kanu (urgh, Kanu...) and there may be a couple of new fellas coming aboard. There's also no way that Manchester United will be as poor as they were this season. Ronaldo is moving from show pony to showman and again, the squad will be strengthened. (Time for Djemba Djemba to show his class...) Chelsea... I was hoping for some Del Bosque figure who would wear a tracksuit, smoke fags and lazily perform some keepy-ups as he wandered around the training ground amongst a load of overpaid superstars nursing their hangovers. However, I'm completely converted. Instead it looks like they'll be a tightly controlled, ruthlessly efficient outfit under a manager who *already* has a feud with Ferguson and he hasn't even managed in England yet. I looking forward to them remorselessly eking out 1-0 wins over the other big teams and sticking 5 past the poorer ones. Liverpool might actually be half decent too, if they get the right coach (the right man is Benitez. Case closed.). Even that diabolical marriage of O'Leary and Aston Villa should consolidate and do well. So: a tight three (maybe four) horse race next seaon. And they could all do something in Europe too. A couple of inspired/funny signings - Carlos to Chelsea? would have been brilliant but not sure how it'd work under Mourinho - and we've got ourselves a golden year waiting to happen. And Beckham should stay at Madrid. Obviously.
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