Man Utd.. Champions Again!!

Sorry Folks! for the late update. has been real busy with work and stuffs and really tired to update. However as tomorrow is a public holiday, so here am I to roundup the EPL season.

To not many surprises, my beloved Red Devils are Champions in England again, but with some heart-stopping moments such as the Ferdinand’s handball and Scholes almost red carded. Perhaps it was fated, Man Utd won 2-0 to cap a fantastic season with Giggs scoring the second goal on the day he become the equals Sir Bobby Charlton’s record for most number of appearance for Man Utd. Great job guys and now march on to Moscow!

Well, I had most on my money on Chelsea winning comfortably and they made me red-faced. I cant blame them though. They had put up a good fight to bring the title chase to the final day of the season. So good job too Chelsea! You deserved a pat and cheers from all soccer fans.

I learnt one important lesson though- never bet on the last day of the EPL season. You never know what’s going to happen. Who could predict that Boro would thrash Man City 8-1?? Unless the team are fighting for something, never bet on those with nothing to play for. Well I will keep that in mind for next season. Nonetheless, its heartening to see  pull out a major escape. They need to maintain their end of season performance or else they will be in trouble again. I like Birmingham and reading though but they really have themselves to blame. They could have stay out of trouble with Fulham and Bolton seemingly going down, perhaps complacency played a major part. If they can keep their squad together i think they can get back top again.

Hence the EPL concluded with Man Utd players celebrating yet another title, I could see a totally different season come this August to next May. The title race could be closer, some players will leave, some will arrive but i hope the Cup stays in Old Trafford.    

EPL weekly roundup-06/05/2008

Time for the weekly roundup for this week EPL matches. There are a fewresults which surprised most of us and what a suay week for me at the betting shop, shall talk more about it later.

The biggest shock of this week results was no doubt Aston Villa vs Wigan. Villa was chasing Everton’s tail for 5th spot but they lost shockingly to a Wigan side who has the 2nd poorest attack in the EPL behind you-know-who. Villa lost not only by 1 but by 2 clear goals. Many punters have gone for a 2-0 win but they did not expect the reverse result. However they could collect on the total goal ticket.

He could score with his right foot, left foot, head, backheel and his tigh(some said stomach). He is of course Cristiano Ronaldo! He took his goal tally to a whoppering 40 goals and he has 2 more matches to add to that. ’ bet against him doing that but the goal of the week must belong to Carlos Tevez. He showed that he can do better than Scholes, the strike was quite similiar dont you guys think so. And where the heck was the West Ham defence when Carrick”walk with the ball” and shoot, not that i’m complaining though. What a lousey actor Nani was too. He dontdeserved to play in the Champions league finals which that kind of display. Go home and watch more movies on tv!

Reading did themselves no favour too with the lose against spurs. I though they would be able to score once against the king-missing spurs defence but how wrong am i. Reading had not score in 5 matches now i think andi think they are going down. They might as well go down withpride with a any-other-score results against the boys from pride park on survival sunday.

No surprises for other results as Arsenal, Liverpool won in front of their own fans for the last time this season. Bolton escaped from the relegation battle with a  2-0 home win against Sunderland. I hope they can take something out of their last game against Chelsea although they are almost guarantee preimer league status due to their superior goal diffenence. Seems that goal difference are making a big diffence this season. Aston Villa could yet overtake Everton for 5th spot on goal diffence you know that. 

How did the hell Derby managed to score against Blackburn i don’t know but there is never a doubt Blackburn would pick up all 3 points. Santa Cruz scored again, with a brace. He is definitely the best buy of the season. If Chelsea had picked up a different player from Bayern Munich at the start of the season, I think they would be champion already. What a pick from Mark Hughes!

Chelsea won at St James to take the title challenge to the last day. Ballack is on hot form now. Man Utd better watch out for him at Moscow! This match also showed that Chelsea can dictate play at their own will. The first half they are just happy to defend and in the 2nd half, they came out all guns firing. I thought they look good when playing 4-4-2 with Drogba and Anelka upfront. 

Oh yah how could I forget about the big match of the week! Fulham absolutely deserved the win but i think both fulham and Brimingham are going down. Reading has the easiest fixture. Blackburn and Porstmouth are not easy oppenent but with pomey distracted by the FA cup final, Fulham has a chance. Anything can happen, remember the saying,” the ball is round”? Man utd beware!